Chapter X - Science Of Being
Old and new man
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and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts
and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts
to draw correct spiritual conclusions regarding life from
matter. Finite sense has no true apprecia-
tion of infinite Principle, God, or of His infi-
nite image or reflection, man. The mirage, which makes
trees and cities seem to be where they are not, illustrates
the illusion of material man, who cannot be the image
of God.
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So far as the scientific statement as to man is under-
So far as the scientific statement as to man is under-
stood, it can be proved and will bring to light the true
reflection of God – the real man, or the new man (as
St. Paul has it).
The tares and wheat
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The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and
real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the im-
mutable and perfect. The inharmonious and
self-destructive never touch the harmonious
and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares
and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal
sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Sci-
ence separates the wheat from the tares, through the real-
ization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting
the divine likeness.
The divine reflection
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Spirit is God, Soul; therefore Soul is not in matter. If
Spirit is God, Soul; therefore Soul is not in matter. If
Spirit were in matter, God would have no representative,
and matter would be identical with God.
The theory that soul, spirit, intelligence, in-
habits matter is taught by the schools. This theory is
unscientific. The universe reflects and expresses the di-
vine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the
spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in
the ray of light which goes out from it. God is re-
vealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love, –
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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.