Article January 7, 1950 Issue

"THE BOND OF PERFECTNESS"

ELLA B. LELIE

On page 225 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Love is the liberator." Love, God, is the only power. Man, made in the image and likeness of God, reflects this infinite power of good.

To know God as the one and only Mind and man as the expression of His infinite perfection is the only true way to love. That man has a mind of his own from which may proceed evil thoughts and aims is seen to be entirely an illusion when one understands that the Mind which is God is infinite and there can be nothing outside of infinity. There is, therefore, no place for any other mind and no source of evil thoughts. Man, as God's reflection, is the embodiment of His thoughts. The recognition of this true idea of man is true loving.

To acknowledge that man is the complete expression of the one perfect Mind brings the liberating power of divine Love into human experience and frees humanity from the bondage of false personal sense. To see our brother in his true being as the spiritual reflection of all that is perfect, forever at one with his Father-Mother God, is truly to love him, and this is the love that heals.

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