Corporeal self-consciousness is generally regarded as an undesirable quality or state of mind. It continually centers thought on material personality, on limited, selfish wants and aims, and it tends to preclude the broader, less selfish thought which is concerned for the well-being and happiness of others.
A definition of "self-conscious" is "conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself." Applying this definition to Deity, we can see that God is divinely self-conscious Mind, as Christian Science teaches. In "Unity of Good," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 3): "God is All-in-all. Hence He is in Himself only, in His own nature and character, and is perfect being, or consciousness. He is all the Life and Mind there is or can be. Within Himself is every embodiment of Life and Mind.
"If He is All, He can have no consciousness of anything unlike Himself; because, if He is omnipresent, there can be nothing outside of Himself."
