Editorial July 16, 1938 Issue

The Mirror of Divine Science

George Shaw Cook

Writing to the Corinthian Christians, Paul said, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." Modern translators of the Bible quite generally agree that the word translated "glass" in the Authorized Version should be translated "mirror."

Mary Baker Eddy, explaining the true significance of reflection on page 515 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," uses the illustration of a person before a mirror, and says, "Call the mirror divine Science, and call man the reflection." In another place in the textbook (ibid., pp. 476, 477) she says, "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals." The mirror of divine Science, then, is that which reveals the truth about man—God's spiritual image and likeness.

If one looks into an ordinary mirror he sees reflected only that which mortal mind believes to be man. This material image is, of course, very far from being the reflection of God, Spirit—divine Mind. It is altogether a caricature of spiritual man, nothing more than a finite, material misrepresentation of the man who is created in God's likeness, and who is spiritual and therefore invisible to the material sense of sight. No one ever beheld with the material eyes God's perfect likeness—the real man. On the other hand, if one looks into the mirror of divine Science—true demonstrable knowledge of God—one spiritually discerns, as did Jesus the perfect man of God's creating. This man is beyond the ken of mortal seeing and is discernible only to spiritual sense.

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