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Rh man is in the mirror which reflects his image, or the sun is in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is seen only in that which reflects Good, Life, Truth, Love, — yea, which manifests all God's attributes and power, even as the human likeness, thrown upon the mirror, repeats precisely the looks and actions of the object in front of it.

Few persons comprehend what Science means by the word reflection. To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substantial; but this is mere belief, or a false view of substance, and involves error.

On the other hand, the immortal and spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the divine Substance, or Good, which mortals hope for. He reflects divine Life, Truth, and Love, which constitute the only real and eternal entity. This reflection is transcendental, only because the spiritual man's substantiality transcends mortal vision, and is revealed only through divine Science.

As God is Substance, and man also is the offspring of Substance, being made in the divine image and

likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has the substance of Good. The belief that man has any other substance, or mind, is not spiritual. Mortal man seems to himself to be substance, but man is “image.” Delusion arises from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and Substance, with everything turned upside down.

This falsity presupposes soul to be an unsubstantial dweller in material forms, and spirit and substance to