In an era that seems to be losing sight of man's spiritual origin in a welter of genetic theories, it behooves those who have glimpsed something of spiritual reality to keep clear their vision of the real man.
Christian Science is leading its students to a view of man that rarely has been glimpsed since the days of Christ Jesus and the primitive Church. This Science is turning their thought away from the apparently physical organism that the material senses seem to see. Instead, it is pointing steadfastly to God, Spirit, as the source of man's being, and to the scientific knowledge of God as a prerequisite to the true understanding of man. Mrs. Eddy writes, "We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God." Science and Health, p. 258;
As our idea of God expands beyond the imagined concept of a magnified and glorified mortal, so does our understanding of man change and expand beyond the bounds of a limited physical form. We learn that man is infinitely greater than what he appears to be to the limited material senses, because, as the Bible states, he is the image and likeness of God, who is boundless Spirit or Mind, unconfined by mortal limitations. When dedicating the temple of Jerusalem, David indicated his sense of Spirit's infinitude by saying to God, "Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded." I Kings 8:27;
