As the air about us is one undivided whole, so being is undivided. Division, aloneness, separateness—these represent the trickery of human belief, not the truth of being. The man God made, the real you and me, is inseparable from God. He is individual and particular, but not isolated.
Even the word "individual" hints this. A dictionary includes among its equivalents two interesting meanings: "not divisible, not to be parted" (its earliest meaning) and "existing as a ... distinct entity."
In the study of Christian Science we find out some wonderfully powerful truths, one of which is that while we never lose our distinctness, we are not separate from God or from each other. Mrs. Eddy states, "Man is not absorbed in Deity, and man cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, solitary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all substance." Science and Health, p. 259; Again she states, "As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165;
