What I am is for God to declare in
His infinite mercy. As it is, I claim nothing more than what I am,
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the blessing
it has been to mankind which eternity enfolds.
"I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said aught with
intention to be thus understood, it is not what I have taught her,
and not at all as I have heard her talk.
"My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion and statement
of the Christ and the deification of mortals.
"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of divine
Love and its compound divine ideal.
"There was, is, and never can be but one God, one Christ, one
Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit
of Truth and Love, the Principle of God's idea, has most of the
spirit of Christ, of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus.
"If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, and
example a greater degree of this spirit than in others, they can
justly declare it. But to think or speak of me in any manner as a
Christ, is sacrilegious. Such a statement would not only be false,
but the absolute antipode of Christian Science, and would savor
more of heathenism than of my doctrines.
"MARY BAKER EDDY.
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