Chapter X - Science Of Being
The divine reflection
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yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even
yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even
as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats
the color, form, and action of the person in front of the
mirror.
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Few persons comprehend what Christian Science
Few persons comprehend what Christian Science
means by the word reflection. To himself, mortal and
material man seems to be substance, but his sense of
substance involves error and therefore is material,
temporal.
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On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really
On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really
substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit,
which mortals hope for. He reflects the divine, which
constitutes the only real and eternal entity. This reflection
seems to mortal sense transcendental, because the spiritual
man's substantiality transcends mortal vision and is re-
vealed only through divine Science.
Inverted images and ideas
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As God is substance and man is the divine image and
As God is substance and man is the divine image and
likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only
the substance of good, the substance of Spirit,
not matter. The belief that man has any other
substance, or mind, is not spiritual and breaks
the First Commandment, Thou shalt have one God, one
Mind. Mortal man seems to himself to be material sub-
stance, while man is "image" (idea). Delusion, sin, dis-
ease, and death arise from the false testimony of material
sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the
focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image
of Mind and substance with everything turned upside
down.
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This falsity presupposes soul to be an unsubstantial
This falsity presupposes soul to be an unsubstantial
dweller in material forms, and man to be material instead
of spiritual. Immortality is not bounded by mortality.