Article November 3, 1951 Issue

THE ETERNAL WONDER

ANN PUTCAMP

As students of Christian Science we say sometimes glibly in mere repetition, sometimes thoughtfully, and sometimes understandingly, and so with healing power, "Man is the reflection of God," or, "I am God's reflection."

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her published writings has said much about reflection. Two of these statements indicate to the writer what has become a thought-provoking and thought-expanding idea. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" we find this sentence (p. 301): "Few persons comprehend what Christian Science means by the word reflection." And on page 240 we read, "In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord." A quick look at a dictionary yields, among others, the following definitions of the word reflection: "reflected light," "a reflected image," also "mental consideration."

It has become natural for one reared in Christian Science to think of himself as actually the reflection, the image and likeness, of God, but the writer has only recently grasped the wealth of meaning inherent in the word. Now she sees that when one declares, "I am God's reflection," it may mean, "I am now, always was, and always will be that which God, Mind, imparts in the forever present."

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