"Few persons comprehend what Christian Science means by the word reflection." This thought-arresting statement is made by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 301 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." These words arouse the desire of the earnest student to go deeper into the study of Christian Science and strive to understand more fully what her discovery reveals on the subject of reflection.
An important fact in this Science of Soul was illustrated by a reflection in a little lake, and it conveyed much enlightenment to a student of Christian Science while she was beholding it. For here, in colorful detail, the grandeur of a majestic mountain was reflected perfectly in the clear, calm water. Reason told her that it was impossible for the mountain to be in the lake, for the mountain was fourteen thousand feet in height and over twenty-five miles wide at the base. Nevertheless, its magnitude and snow-capped whiteness were reflected so vividly by the small twenty-seven-acre lake that to the material senses it actually looked as though the mountain were in the lake.
Inspired by this view, the student recalled these words on page 467 of Science and Health: "Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man but as reflected by man. The greater cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the greater can be in the lesser is an error that works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul, that Principle is not in its idea."
