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"AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT"

From the November 1965 issue of The Christian Science Journal


"YE are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness" (I Thess. 5:5). In these words Paul proclaims man's origin, identity, and destiny.

Regarded metaphysically, light is mental and spiritual enlightenment. It also denotes divinity. Therefore, the above statement is an assurance of alliance with all that is good and harmonious. It is our absolute authority for asserting dominion over darkness, or evil, and all its hosts, which are productive only of mental and bodily misery, chaos, and death.

An expanded sense of man's divine son-ship may be found in this passage in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 305): "Man, in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light of being, the invisible God."

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