In the real man and universe there exists no disease, no hereditary penalty, no divine damnation, and no need of greed, pride, false ambitions, selfishness. We can see from the analogy that man, the reflection of God, is totally dependent on God for life, substance, and intelligence, and totally independent of the claims of a mortal, material sense of existence. We are actually forever at one with God and all the good that this eternal relationship includes. We discover that we are under no bondage to false views about man, for these have nothing to do with us or anyone. In the mirror called divine Science we see ourselves and all creation as the perfect reflection of God, divine Mind. As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God." Science and Health, pp. "Then note how true, according to Christian Science, is the reflection to its original. "Call the mirror divine Science, and call man the reflection," she writes. Eddy asks us to consider what the reflection of God would be like. To help us reason rightly about our true self, Mrs. But Christian Science offers us a flawless mirror. To the extent that we accept these human beliefs we are all looking in the wrong mirror. Before the one of mortal history, he sees himself a victim of war and hate and oppression and so on. Before the one of material theology, he sees himself a mortal separated from God, damned and fallen from grace. Before the medical mirror, our visitor sees himself as medical theories present him, a mortal either sick or going to be or having been. Our visitor to the Hall of Mirrors may be likened to mortal man our distorted mirrors may be labeled medical theories, material theology, mortal history, heredity, and so on. So we see this most fundamental spiritual reality and scientific fact expressed in terminology utilizing these words. Eddy constantly identifies man as the reflection of God. Indeed in the very first chapter of Genesis we read, "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Gen. This is the understanding we seek in our regular study of the Bible and our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. In their spiritually scientific signification the three words-image, likeness, reflection-are of the utmost importance to our understanding of the true nature and relationship of God and man. Why, it wasn't a view of himself at all! And all concern and unhappiness, originating from a belief in the accuracy of the false image, fades away. What a relief for him to see the correct view! The falsity of the first image becomes evident. Now suppose someone informs him that those particular mirrors give an untrue reflection, and then leads him to a flawless mirror. This distorted view of himself may make him quite concerned and unhappy with his lot. Not knowing better, he undoubtedly believes that what he sees in the mirror is a true likeness. But let's suppose that someone who has never before seen his own reflection stops before one of these mirrors.
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