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Rh A picture in the camera, or a face reflected in the mirror, is not the original, though resembling it. Man,

in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light of Being, the invisible God. As there is no corporeality in the mirrored form, which is but a reflection, so man, like all things else, belongs to God, and his Life is in the Principle above him, not in man's own body.

Gender also is a quality, a characteristic of mind, not of matter. Man is not a creator, though he reflects

Mind's creations, which constitute the underlying reality of Science. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them: Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

The inverted images presented by the senses, the deflections of matter, as opposed to the Science of spiritual

reflection, are all unlike Spirit. In the illusion of life that is here to-day and gone tomorrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Principle gained through Divine Science, destroys all error and brings Immortality to light. Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not divine.

The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrection; but not so blindly as the Pharisees, who believed

error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought they could raise the spiritual from the material. They would first make life result in death, and then resort to death to reproduce spiritual