Article September 19, 1959 Issue

REFLECTING THE AMENITIES OF LOVE

ANDREW FLINT FRARY

Quite often material objects are prized for their ability to reflect light. The diamond, for instance, has an especial quality which enables it to reflect light, thus making it the most brilliant of minerals.

Christian Science teaches much about light and reflection. In "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy states (p. 57): "Man shines by borrowed light. He reflects God as his Mind, and this reflection is substance,—the substance of good." Christian Science also teaches that man, the image of God, Spirit, Love, reflects spiritually all the qualities of God.

Some of the qualities which man reflects as the image of Love are holiness, purity, and love. The notion that man is a mortal, unloving and unforgiving, is a false concept of man and stems from accepting the mortal mind image as the real one. Christian Science teaches us that we can correct this false impression of man by realizing that true reflection is "the substance of good," God.

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