Article February 22, 1947 Issue

The Mirror of Divine Science

VESTA MAY SAUNDERS

In many single paragraphs of her great textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy throws spiritual illumination directly onto the path that leads out of the mystifying mazes of material living in which humanity seems to move to the open, unbounded horizon of reality. There is seen God's perfect spiritual creation, man and the universe.

One such paragraph found on pages 515 and 516 reads: "Your mirrored reflection is your own image or likeness. If you lift a weight, your reflection does this also. If you speak, the lips of this likeness move in accord with yours. 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. 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."

We can appreciate something of the experience of one who arouses himself sufficiently to look into the mirror of Christian Science held up by the author of its textbook. Even in that first glimpse the newcomer to this Science can see enough to make him realize that a life filled with the understanding of divine Principle, God, is something very different from a life based on the beliefs of the corporeal senses. Such a glimpse of reality can change his whole course of living. Thus his thought is lifted away from matter to divine Mind, God.

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