Christian Science brings to human consciousness a wholly new concept of man's selfhood. This new sense frees one from the binding limitations that material theories have imposed upon him. It reveals man's identity as spiritual, embraced within the allness of creative Mind.
Christ Jesus, the most advanced spiritual Scientist who ever lived, understood and demonstrated this true sense of man, and he imparted this understanding to his disciples in considerable measure. They, in turn, taught it to others, until it became widely known and utilized by the early Christians.
After Paul's remarkable conversion he launched forth to heal, preach, and teach, showing all men their birthright of freedom and dominion as individual reflections of God, omnipotent, omnipresent Spirit. The apostle lived a life that appeared to be difficult, turbulent, dangerous, and wearisome; but through his clear, pure understanding of man's life in God, divine Love, he was renewed daily, strengthened and encouraged to press on in his mighty mission. Through the lens of spiritual sense Paul undoubtedly saw himself as the rested, tranquil, protected reflection of God's being —as the very expression of the one Mind, empowered and directed by divine intelligence. In his second letter to the Corinthian church he wrote, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And then he continued, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." II Cor. 3:17, 18;
