Editorial May 19, 1951 Issue

REFLECTION

Helen Wood Bauman

Reflection implies something derived, something having no independent existence, and it is in this meaning that one comes to understand the teaching of Christian Science that man is the reflection of God. The intelligence, power, purity, joy, and love that man in the likeness of his Maker reflects come from Spirit and have individualized expression in the countless identities that form the family of the one Father-Mother, God.

It is through Mind's universal family of ideas that the infinite energies, or qualities, of Spirit are released; and Mind has no other means of manifesting its divine and glorious nature than through the ideas which emanate from it. Man can never be separated from God, because Mind can never be severed from its individualized expression of divine qualities.

Mary Baker Eddy says in her book "Unity of Good" (p. 51), "The Ego is divine consciousness, eternally radiating throughout all space in the idea of God, good, and not of His opposite, evil." And then she says, "In the scientific relation of man to God, man is reflected not as human soul, but as the divine ideal, whose Soul is not in body, but is God,—the divine Principle of man."

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