Identity: Who Art Thou? August 17, 2016 Hymns 20, 436, 19 The Bible Job 33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Rom. 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Isa. 14:27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? Matt. 16:13-17, 24 (to 1st,), 25-28 1st whosoever; 17:1-12 (to 1st.) When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore
all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Eph. 1:3, 4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Rom. 8:28, 29 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy SH 585:9 (only, to.), 9-10 spiritual (to ;), 13 ELIAS. spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Elias truly shall first come and restore all things. (Matthew xvii. 11.) SH 95:5-6 Paul said, To be spiritually minded is life. SH 333:30-31 The one Spirit includes all identities. SH 477:20-22 Identity Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. SH 550:5-7 God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men. SH 502:27 The creative Principle Life, Truth, and Love is God. The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God. SH 505:9-12 The divine Mind, not matter, creates all identities, and they are forms of Mind, the ideas of Spirit apparent only as Mind, never as mindless matter nor the so-called material senses. SH 173:20 Man is spiritual, individual, and eternal; material structure is mortal. SH 285:2-3 Man s individuality is not material.
SH 280:25-30 Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient material form, man has a sensationless body; and God, the Soul of man and of all existence, being perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, and immortality, imparts and perpetuates these qualities in man, through Mind, not matter. SH 303:10-12 (to ;) Whatever reflects Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and brought forth; SH 513:17-21 Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, existence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, who is the divinely creative Principle thereof. SH 258:13-15 God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis. SH 258:25-5 Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him belongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate. Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the generic term man. 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. SH 94:3-6 Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. The nature of man, thus understood, includes all that is implied by the terms image and likeness as used in Scripture. SH 333:28-31 Jesus referred to this unity of his spiritual identity thus: Before Abraham was, I am; I and my Father are one; My Father is greater than I. The one Spirit includes all identities. SH 325:32-2 A false sense of life, substance, and mind hides the divine possibilities, and conceals scientific demonstration. SH 191:4-7 As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God s likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element. SH 91:17-21 The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man s spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses.
SH 287:29-31 Their false evidence will finally yield to Truth, to the recognition of Spirit and of the spiritual creation. SH 287:17-18 Neither understanding nor truth accompanies error, nor is error the offshoot of Mind. SH 287:22-27 Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spiritual identity or foundation, and it has no real existence. The supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter, or of it, is an error. Matter is neither a thing nor a person, but merely the objective supposition of Spirit s opposite. SH 261:21-27 Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning of God, or good, and the nature of the immutable and immortal. Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own identity. SH 550:15-20 The, 21-23 The continual contemplation of existence as material and corporeal as beginning and ending, and with birth, decay, and dissolution as its component stages hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust. If Life is God, as the Scriptures imply, then Life is not embryonic, it is infinite. SH 281:14-17 The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things. SH 550:7 God cannot become finite, and be limited within material bounds. Spirit cannot become matter, nor can Spirit be developed through its opposite. Of what avail is it to investigate what is miscalled material life, which ends, even as it begins, in nameless nothingness? The true sense of being and its eternal perfection should appear now, even as it will hereafter. SH 282:6 The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact. SH 302:3-8 The material body and mind are temporal, but the real man is spiritual and eternal. The identity of the real man is not lost, but found through this explanation; for the conscious infinitude of existence and of all identity is thereby discerned and remains unchanged.
SH 472:30-3 We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical. SH 265:3-5 Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. SH 283:1-3 As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence apart from God. SH 242:1-3 Through repentance, spiritual baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material beliefs and false individuality. SH 115:19-5 SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF MORTAL MIND First Degree: Depravity. PHYSICAL. Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, selfjustification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death. Second Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing. MORAL. Humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance. Third Degree: Understanding. SPIRITUAL. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, spiritual power, love, health, holiness. In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as God s image appears. SH 508:13-14, 17-21, 23 God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gender is mental, not material. Gender means simply kind or sort, and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither male nor female. The intelligent individual idea, be it male or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds the infinitude of Love. SH 263:27-28 The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of persons and things is not creation. SH 491:25-26 Personality is not the individuality of man. SH 317:18-20 The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and enables him to conquer sin, disease, and death.
SH 217:1-5 The loss of man s identity through the understanding which Science confers is impossible; and the notion of such a possibility is more absurd than to conclude that individual musical tones are lost in the origin of harmony. SH 427:5-12 Man s individual being can no more die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The belief that existence is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and harmony obtained. SH 296:10-13 The The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal. SH 330:14 Neither God nor the perfect man can be discerned by the material senses. The individuality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, and thus a knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or to the revelation of divine Science. SH 117:27-28 Truth is a revelation. SH 93:10-13 Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we believe otherwise, we may be sure that either our logic is at fault or that we have misinterpreted revelation. SH 264:13-21; 265:1-3 As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness. Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being. Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit. Man is the offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind. SH 264:32-1 The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings, and its government is divine Science. SH 264:28 When we learn the way in Christian Science and recognize man s spiritual being, we shall behold and understand God s creation, all the glories of earth and heaven and man.