To become comfortable with the belief that an imperfect ego which we call "I" or "me" living along in matter will someday become perfect is actually to believe in something other than Christian Science. The one I, or Ego, is God and is already perfect. Christian regeneration—our progress in spirituality and obedience—helps us to feel the truth of this metaphysical fact and to be willing to learn about our actual individuality as God's image, or spiritual reflection, already existing.
Human thought left to itself boggles at the scientific truth. It complains, "But for the moment I am me! I have likes and dislikes, a character for better or worse—and an ego! And I insist that anything which says otherwise is suspect or untrue." But Christian Science quietly persists, There really is only one I, or Ego, which is God—and not billions of little egos in matter separate from God.
Christian Science doesn't teach, of course, that we are all absorbed into some vague spiritual cloud! We certainly don't ever lose distinct identity. It is just the opposite; we find more and more of our true individual being through learning of the one God, one Ego. Christ Jesus, who knew himself to be so close to God that he said, "I and my Father are one,"1expressed the most sharply defined and unique manhood in all of history.
