Article December 7, 1940 Issue

Reflection

L. IVIMY GWALTER

The subject of reflection sometimes presents a difficulty to the young student of Christian Science in that the often-used illustration of a mirror may suggest separation between that which is reflected and the reflection.

One definition, however, which Webster gives of the verb "reflect" is "to consider mentally, specifically, to attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness." And "reflection" is defined in part as "any state in which the mind considers its own content."

On page 515 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The eternal Elohim includes the forever universe." The eternal Elohim, or infinite Mind, is self-contained, self-existent, self-expressed. God, being Mind, includes "the forever universe" as idea. There is but one Mind and but one universe. Nothing exists outside the realm of all-inclusive infinity.

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