In Genesis we learn the real origin and substance of man when we read God’s statement, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (1:26).
A little later, in Exodus, we read of God speaking to Moses through a bush that burned without being consumed by the fire. Moses heard God say, “I AM THAT I AM” (3:14). There was no other identity or activity—only the oneness of creator and His spiritual expression, man. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines God as “the great I am” (p. 587) and states: “The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things” (p. 281).
Further along, Science and Health includes the analogy of an image in a mirror to describe man reflecting God, stating: “God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love,—yea, which manifests God’s attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror” (pp. 300–301). The word likeness is important in getting a true picture of the reflected image.
