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.
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Soul is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to
Soul is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to
be found in fragmentary ideas.
Identity not lost
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The material body and mind are temporal, but the
The material body and mind are temporal, but the
real man is spiritual and eternal. The identity of the
real man is not lost, but found through this
explanation; for the conscious infinitude of
existence and of all identity is thereby discerned and re-
mains unchanged. It is impossible that man should lose
aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his. The
notion that mind is in matter, and that the so-called pleas-
ures and pains, the birth, sin, sickness, and death of
matter, are real, is a mortal belief; and this belief is all
that will ever be lost.
Definition of man
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Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that
Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that
harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and
is always beyond and above the mortal illu-
sion of any life, substance and intelligence
as existent in matter. This statement is based on fact,
not fable. The Science of being reveals man as perfect,
even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind,
of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all
being, and because this real man is governed by Soul
instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called
laws of matter.
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God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Prin-
God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Prin-
ciple, called Person or God. Man's true consciousness
is in the mental, not in any bodily or personal likeness
to Spirit. Indeed, the body presents no proper likeness
of divinity, though mortal sense would fain have us so
believe.
Mental propagation
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Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's
Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's
individual ideas is but the reflection of the creative power