Article November 12, 1949 Issue

REFLECTION

JOHN B. TOPPING

The correct understanding of the term "reflection" as used in Christian Science is important to the effective comprehension of man in the image and likeness of God. The first chapter of Genesis states that God created man in His own image and likeness. God being Spirit and perfect, it follows that man is spiritual and perfect. An image, or reflection, must of necessity be in the exact likeness of the original.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy explains in her inimitable way (pp. 515, 516): "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."

Looking into the mirror of divine Science, which reveals the truth of being, we see man as he really is, the image and likeness of Mind, reflecting health, intelligence, understanding; of Spirit, reflecting power and substance; of Soul, reflecting beauty, innocence, and purity; of Principle, reflecting order and justice; of Life, reflecting activity, growth, immortality; of Truth, reflecting integrity, reality; of Love, reflecting inspiration, light, gentleness, and loveliness.

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