Article September 3, 1932 Issue

Reflection

ALFRED PITTMAN

IF someone who had not studied art were asked to copy a fine etching, he might require many years to accomplish the task, if indeed he could do it at all. But if a mirror were turned toward the etching, it would instantly reproduce it exactly. The mirror might be turned toward a problem in algebra worked out on a blackboard, toward a garden full of flowers, or toward the score of the most intricate of fugues, and it would effortlessly and correctly reproduce any of them. Nothing visible to human sense would be beyond its capacity for immediate and exact reflection.

The mirror's exact reflection illustrates a characteristic which is true of the real, spiritual man. He shows forth continually all that belongs to God, infinite Mind, in accordance with the Scriptural statement, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him."

On page 516 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, "The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere." Subordinating the false evidence of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, then, is the work of the student of Christian Science. It is the work of overcoming sin, disease, and death — whatever is unlike God; and it is at once exacting and sustaining, demonstrating the qualities of the real man, as God's likeness. And the student is immeasurably helped in this work by understanding that he does these things, or can do them, only because God is forever doing all that is really done, and the real man reflects Him.

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