Mrs. Eddy's answer to the question "What are body and Soul?" provides a thought-provoking definition of man's spiritual identity. She says: "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter." Science and Health, p.477;
What, then, is the relationship between an individual's spiritual identity and his visible, human body? How does an understanding of spiritual identity heal and regenerate the physical body? How can the increasing demonstration of one's spiritual identity transform and heal one's entire experience? Christian Science answers these questions.
Man, the image and likeness of God, is the compound idea of divine Mind. Through divine reflection each one manifests, in a unique combination, the endless range of the qualities of the one creator, God. This individual expression of God's qualities, this embodiment of the attributes of Mind, constitutes one's spiritual identity, his real body.
