Article December 4, 1954 Issue

GOD'S QUALITIES ARE REFLECTED BY MAN

ELIZABETH S. MURRAY

We love people for the good qualities they express. What are these qualities that we love? They are God's qualities, of course, which man reflects as God's image. They are joy, wisdom, love, purity, justice, understanding, and all the attributes that express the nature of our omnipotent and all-loving Father-Mother. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy brings out the fact that man fully represents God. And her definition of man in the Glossary of this precious textbook reads in part (p. 591), "The full representation of Mind." She also says, on page 475, that man is "that which has not a single quality underived from Deity."

Each day the Christian Scientist who is really living the truths which Christian Science teaches becomes more and more aware of the ever-presence of the measureless good and the unlimited power which belong to man as God's manifestation. The expression of Godlike qualities brings to light the fact that health depends on God, Spirit, not on matter. Health must be seen as a spiritual quality, not as a material condition. In Christian Science we do not attempt to heal matter, for we learn to see matter for what it is—merely a false sense of things, a false state of consciousness. And this mortal consciousness itself must also be seen as an illusion, for Mind, God, is the divine and only consciousness. Man reflects this consciousness because man is the likeness of the one God, the only Mind.

Negative or false qualities, such as fear, hate, selfishness, seem to create discordant conditions, but these errors are only mistaken concepts. They are not realities. They certainly do not belong to man, God's reflection, any more than they belong to God. We must deny them power. Evil is not power and cannot create any conditions for us when we realize that power belongs to God, not to error. God alone makes all the conditions that are required for our well-being.

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