An Important
Distinction
excerpted
from a 1903 letter to A. E.
S.
MARY BAKER EDDY
In your letter to me you spoke of your
'divine self.' Where do you find such a selfhood outside of
God? Nowhere; it is an unscientific statement. You can say
your spiritual or God-like self, but divine self includes
God, and man is not God —
he is
His divine reflection, but not a divine selfhood. This
expression is one of Waldo Emerson's notions, and you
beware of m.a.m. filling your thoughts with such
anti-Christian Science!
Quoted in Mary
Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority
by Robert Peel, p. 332
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