IN the resurrection of Christ Jesus one finds the great proof of mankind's ability to break the fetters of flesh through the spiritualization of human thought. These fetters would localize men, tie them to the body, restrict their movements, and finally consign them to death. Yet it should be obvious to any thinker that flesh in no way represents man as God's likeness.
According to the revelation of Christian Science, flesh is an illusion of physical sense and has no power to confine or to destroy God's image, the real man. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261): "Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning of God, or good, and the nature of the immutable and immortal. Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own identity."
To break away from the flesh through Christian Science, one must consistently— not haphazardly—identify himself as God's spiritual son, subject neither to flesh nor to mortality. This is the true standpoint which everyone should maintain as the scientific fact of his being. But at the same time one should realize that he is under divine impulsion to prove the freedom and spirituality of his sonship with God and to press forward to this end.
