Article March 31, 1934 Issue

Perfect God, and Perfect Man

ALICE K. METZ

"The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration." This declaration by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 259) fully meets humanity's imperative need of a statement about divine Principle on which to base its understanding of Life, and with which to demonstrate that understanding in the healing of all human ills. Never has the need for such an understanding been greater, or at least more apparent, than at the present time, and never since Christ Jesus walked among men has his teaching of God's allness and man's at-one-ment with God been so clearly stated as a basis for thought and demonstration, as in the revelation of Christian Science.

The world is coming to see more and more clearly that all phenomena cognized by the so-called material senses are merely thought externalized. The great necessity is to gain an understanding of the one demonstrable divine Principle on which to base our thinking and from which to deduce our inferences as to cause and effect. Christian Science teaches and demonstrates that the one primal cause is God, Mind, and that the effect of the one cause is Mind's infinite idea, man and the universe. This great fact must be spiritually discerned, because the material senses, being utterly unreliable, testify only to the belief of a material man and a material universe.

In our textbook are given several object lessons in explanation of man's relation to God, one of which is that of reflection, as illustrated by a mirror and that which it reflects. We read (Science and Health, pp. 515, 516): "Now compare man before the mirror to his divine Principle, God. Call the mirror divine Science, and call man the reflection. Then note how true, according to Christian Science, is the reflection to its original. As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God."

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