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Rh Through spiritual sense you may discern the heart of humanity, and thus begin to comprehend, in Science, the

generic term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, solitary idea, for he represents the sum of all Substance, or infinite Mind.

In Divine Science man is the true image of God. The divine nature was expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God, and lifted their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying. The Christlike understanding of Scientific Being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of every thought.

If man was once perfect, but has now lost his perfection, then mortals have never beheld in man the outlines

or reality of divine Mind. The lost image is no image, and the true likeness cannot be lost in reflection. Understanding this, Jesus said: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.”

Mortal thought transmits its own images, and forms its offspring after human concepts. Immortal models

— pure, perfect, and enduring — are transmitted by the divine Mind through Science, which corrects error with the ideals of Truth, and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results.

Drawing our conclusions about man from imperfection instead of perfection, we can no more arrive at the