Article January 13, 1934 Issue

Reflection

GEORGE J. SCHANTZ

The Scriptural statement that man was created in the image and likeness of God has seemed to many not a little baffling until they have begun through Christian Science to gain some proper sense of God and of the spiritual nature of man. The fact having been established by Christian Science that every kind of ill which besets mankind is healed as the result of gaining spiritual vision, the importance of such vision is recognized as preëminent. Indeed, it may be said that only in proportion as one attains some degree of spiritual understanding does one gain freedom from material fetters and enter "the secret place of the most High," the spiritual consciousness through which the sick are healed and the dying restored to vigor.

To aid her students to rise to this spiritual vision and overcome the claims of matter, Mrs. Eddy has used various illustrations and presented her explanations in different forms, thereby revealing the truth to every receptive consciousness. Probably nothing in her writings has done more to make clear the relationship between God and man than her repeated reference to man as the reflection of God.

There is something about this word "reflection" which seems familiar to human experience. Because of its many practical applications, it can be grasped by the student, beginning at the point of his own thinking, and gradually leading to a more complete realization of man's at-one-ment with God. There are many daily experiences in which reflections play a noticeable part, such as those seen in the mirror, which lead thought to grow and unfold gently into the higher lesson which is to be derived from the teaching in Christian Science that man in God's reflection.

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