If we want enough mental elbowroom to develop our potential for completeness and true satisfaction, then we had better stop believing that even temporarily man's immortal identity is encased in flesh. It simply isn't, and the study and practice of Christian Science can start us on the way to proving this.
Man's spiritual selfhood is not a vague something that enters a physical body at birth and then later is rudely ejected by death. Christian Science takes issue with traditional theology on this all-important point. It teaches that the only Soul is God Himself, the infinite divine Mind who creates all identities in and of Himself and maintains them in unchanged perfection throughout eternity. Mrs. Eddy states with incisive brevity, "Mind is the Soul of all." Science and Health, p. 508;
The boundlessness of the one Soul, or Mind, precludes the possibility that it, or a portion of it, can be stuffed into a finite form called the human body. This body is unknown to God, who is conscious of nothing but His own infinity and the limitless nature of His universe of spiritual ideas.
