Article August 15, 1977 Issue

God's light is here and there

Truth in the Space Age

GEORGIANA LIEDER LAHR

The planet Mars in our living room on the television screen! Pictures sent from that planet millions of miles away in space, received on earth in minutes. Unbelievable but true, a marvel of the space age.

Time and physical space are mortal concepts. Man is the inseparable reflection of God, and God is omnipresent. Therefore man, God's reflection, is as present as God is. We witness the effects of the world's glimpse of this spiritual fact as we see astronauts circling the entire globe within ninety minutes and men walking on the moon. On the fastest planes we can be anywhere on the face of this planet within twenty-four hours. Doesn't all this hint at the truth of man's omnipresence as God's reflection?

Here a clear line needs to be drawn between man, living in God's harmonious universe as the perfect reflection of God, and the mortal belief of a human being in a material universe, burdened with the woes of a discordant world. Defining man in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "Man. The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind." Science and Health, p. 591;

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