John in his first epistle wrote, "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes of the Revelator (p. 561): "John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration,—reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God." Humanity's progress beyond the shackles of matter and mortal belief is linked with a clear understanding of "the human and divine coincidence."
In the book of Daniel we read of the three Hebrew captives who were cast "into the midst of the burning fiery furnace." And the king said, "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." And again, Daniel in a vision beheld "one like the Son of man;" and the Bible states that "there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." Thus Daniel prophetically beheld salvation, individual and universal, resulting from the revelation and demonstration of sonship with God.
Our Leader writes (ibid., pp. 465, 466), "Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe." Reflection is the spiritual sonship which includes all.
