We Believe in the Individualization of Spirit

The second statement of belief:

WE BELIEVE in the individualization of the Spirit in us, and that all people are individualizations of the One Spirit.

If the first statement of belief described God, then the second one describes our relationship to God.

Because our consciousness is part of God’s consciousness, our individual “spirit” is part of God’s Spirit. Therefore we are an individualization of God. Not all of God, of course, but each of us is a part of Spirit. Ernest Holmes summarizes this in What Religious Science Teaches:

“Every person is an incarnation of God.  Since God is the Universal Spirit, the one and only Mind, Substance, Power and Presence that exists, and since all people are individuals, it follows that each person is an individualized center of the Consciousness of the One God.”

You might think of it similar to the way we think of the parts of our body. A hand or a foot are part of the body, but they are not the whole body. A hand or a foot cannot really be separated from the body and remain viable. Likewise, they often work together to provide service to the body as a whole. God, in a sense, works through us to get things done in the same way that our bodies use our various organs to accomplish things that benefit our whole selves.