The first time I saw the Original Edifice of The Mother Church reflected with great clarity in the pool at the Christian Science Center in Boston two thoughts struck me. The first was that the church had been there for more than half a century, but that it had had no reflection until recently because there had been no pool. The second was that although there is a pool, there could be no reflection if the building were not there to be reflected.
God, the eternal and everlasting, is, always will be, and has been forever. In the inspired interpretation of the Scriptures through Christian Science we discern man as His reflection—no miserable sinner but the very likeness of God in all His qualities. Mrs. Eddy writes of this true sense of man: "Man is free born: he is neither the slave of sense, nor a silly ambler to the so-called pleasures and pains of self-conscious matter. Man is God's image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183;
Were it not for God, man would have no existence, no identity, no individuality, no being. He could not be. But God being God, man, seen in Christian Science, is His complete and perfect reflection.
