AS students of Christian Science, we understand that spiritual man reflects his Father-Mother God, seeing only as God sees, knowing only that which is of God, eternally dwelling in His wisdom and love. Furthermore, true reflection is unerring, unchangeable, like God. According to the spiritual account of creation, it appeared when "God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good."
A scene observed in the Canadian Rockies proved a great help to the writer in unfolding a clearer sense of the reflected glory of God, in man, His manifestation. At the close of day, as each snow-clad summit of the great mountains caught the setting sun, in unerring exactitude and beauty outlining the huge pinnacles, there was mirrored in minute detail in the clear, still waters of a lake the grandeur and fullness of the scene. The observer could not have told the actual from the reflection; there seemed no line of demarcation; the scene was complete, whole. From the lesson of this beautiful scene the student was enabled to get a clearer vision of the man of God's creating, the only man there is, made in the image and likeness of God, reflecting the qualities, the nature, of the one Father-Mother.
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.3), "The Divine Being must be reflected by man." And Jesus said to his disciples, "Ye are the light of the world." Reflecting the light, the understanding that God created all in the beginning, and bearing witness to the truth of man as the manifestation of God, created for the express purpose of reflecting God, good, is our great privilege here, now, and forever.
