Article October 18, 1969 Issue

Abundance Through Reflection

DONALDA VON POELLNITZ

When our consciousness is filled with truths of God and His perfect spiritual creation, we lose the sense of limitation. We cannot hope to solve the problem of lack if we think of it as a reality. According to Christian Science we must see it as only a mesmeric illusion to be dispelled through the understanding of God's completeness and of man's sonship with Him. The fallacy that supply is material fosters another untruth, namely, that there is not a sufficient amount for all. But because God, divine Love, is infinite Spirit and is perfectly just, all men, in reality, share His goodness equally; no one can be deprived of his God-given good any more than the sun's rays can be severed from the sun.

God is infinite good. Christian Science reveals man as God's reflection, the expression of the infinitude of good. Good is something we must recognize, not gain, for it already constitutes our real, spiritual identity. Since God is indivisible, man, who is actually His image and likeness, partakes of the unbroken continuity of God's goodness.

Man, as the spiritual reflection of Mind, God, exists to express the qualities of Mind. His supply, therefore, consists of spiritual ideas emanating from Mind. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives." ^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 5} Realization that true substance is made up of ideas and is therefore ever available unfolds good in human experience.