0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 6 – Retrospection and Introspection – Chpt 26 – Personality

                                     PERSONALITY 

 1	    The immortal man being spiritual, individual, and
  	eternal, his mortal opposite must be material, cor-
 3	poreal, and temporal. Physical personality is finite; but
  	God is infinite. He is without materiality, without finite-
  	ness of form or Mind. 
 6	    Limitations are put off in proportion as the fleshly
  	nature disappears and man is found in the reflection of
  	Spirit. 
 9	    This great fact leads into profound depths. The mate-
  	rial human concept grew beautifully less as I floated into
  	more spiritual latitudes and purer realms of thought. 
12	    From that hour personal corporeality became less to
  	me than it is to people who fail to appreciate individual
  	character. I endeavored to lift thought above physical
15	personality, or selfhood in matter, to man's spiritual in-
  	dividuality in God, — in the true Mind, where sensible
  	evil is lost  in supersensible good. This is the only way
18	whereby the false personality is laid off. 
  	    He who clings to personality, or perpetually warns you
  	of "personality," wrongs it, or terrifies people over it,
21	and is the sure victim of his own corporeality. Constantly
  	to scrutinize physical personality, or accuse people of being
  	unduly personal, is like the sick talking sickness. Such
24	errancy betrays a violent and egotistical personality,
 
  
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 1	increases one's sense of corporeality, and begets a fear of
  	the senses and a perpetually egotistical sensibility. 
 3	    He who does this is ignorant of the meaning of the word
  	personality, and defines it by his own corpus sine pectore
  	(soulless body), and fails to distinguish the individual, or
 6	real man from the false sense of corporeality, or egotistic
  	self. 
  	    My own corporeal personality afflicteth me not wittingly;
 9	for I desire never to think of it, and it cannot think
  	of me.SHOW ALL