To understand our real individuality we need to abandon material standpoints and start with God. It's logical to start there; the Scriptures tell us, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him."Gen. 1:27. Exploring the nature of God, infinite Spirit, we find this brings a radical and progressive transformation in the way we think about ourselves.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God." Science and Health, p. 258. This statement, together with its marginal heading "Infinity's reflection," is revolutionary; it opens up to us fresh views of man.
Since God is infinite—and man is His infinite reflection— such finite concepts as time, space, weakness, suffering, frustration, death, do not really belong to man. These must be only a mistaken, mortal sense of things. As we come to understand the man God has made, the evidence of man's infinite nature and spiritual being appears more clearly in our lives. Mrs. Eddy writes, "The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God."Ibid. Even though our present progress may appear to be gradual, we can prove the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement in growing degree through Christian Science.
