MAN is defined in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 591) as "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind." A dictionary defines the adjective "full" as "abounding in something"; also, "perfectly sufficient, adequate, or complete." One meaning of "representation" is "likeness." Man, then, is the complete likeness of Mind, abounding in the qualities which Mind expresses. Mind knows; it is intelligence.
There are no beliefs in Mind. The man God knows, therefore, has no beliefs. He knows all he needs to know at all times because his Mind is the all-knowing Mind, God. The Apostle Paul must have had a clear perception of God as the only Mind when he wrote in his second epistle to the Corinthians (3:5), "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God."
What are the qualities which Mind expresses? The primal quality must, of course, be intelligence, which is omniscience, or all-science, all true knowledge. Knowledge and science based solely upon study of matter and the human mentality are built on the shifting sands of materiality and must eventually give way to divine knowledge, the Science which rests upon the rock of spiritual understanding. Man as God's reflection must abound in the understanding of the Science of Mind, which includes all true knowledge.
