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50 and infinity is to her the same as “allness”, as we have already quoted her as teaching; and to think of a person is to think of a being that is in some sense separate and apart from other beings or existences. A person or one person implies other persons or other beings. Then to think of God as a person is to think of him as an individual standing apart from other individuals or realities, and this we must not do, as God is identical with all realities.

Mrs. Eddy must dispose of God's individuality just as she does of his personality. “My child, let me make known to you a truth kept secret since the foundation of the world, but now imparted through a revelation of divine science. It is this greatly elevating truth, God is not an individual but he is individuality.” I would not trouble others or myself with these subtleties, concerning which we may be confident that neither Mrs. Eddy nor any one else can do more than speculate, were it not that we have undertaken to follow her where she follows others, though she and they all may fall into the ditch.

Look again at Mrs. Eddy's language: “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;” “God is individual and personal in a scientific sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense.” There are many points of interest in these two