Christian Science answers satisfactorily such searching questions as, Who am I? or, What am I? or, Why am I here? Perhaps these questions are not as difficult to answer as they appear to be. Certainly the student of Christian Science does not find them so—at least theoretically. His grave concern is to prove fully the implications of the answers of Christian Science in his daily experience. These answers are worth investigating.
One can easily see that he is an individual consciousness and that his identity can never be exchanged for the identity of some other person. To illustrate: however one's human character may shift from good to bad to indifferent, however one's material personality may develop from infancy to maturity to old age, however spiritualized one becomes through the revelations of divine Science, the fact remains that one's identity is always his own. He is ever himself. So the answer to the question, Who am I? must be, I am myself, a conscious individual being.
Christian Science reveals that the real identity of anyone is the idea of divine Mind, Soul, or God. But God is good, as the Scriptures declare, and His creation is "very good" (Gen. 1:31). Then the evil and fearful elements of the human self, which introduce instability of character and which bring about mental and physical disturbances and even death, are not part of Mind's idea. They must be scientifically separated from the self and dropped from thought in order that the pure identity, which emanates from Mind, may be known.
