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128 that the woman is leading the man around we must say she is following him.

One may see at a glance that Mrs. Eddy with her definition of man must reject the Bible doctrine of the Fall. It is impossible for immortal man to fall or commit sin. He is the true reflection of God and since God is without imperfections so must his reflection be. If the body before the mirror is perfect, so will the image in the mirror be perfect and must be. And again, any imperfection in the reflection demonstrates imperfection in the original that is reflected.

Mrs. Eddy says: “In divine Science, man is the true image of God. The divine nature was best 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 thought and demonstration. If man was once perfect but has now lost his perfection, then mortals have never beheld in man the reflex image of God. The lost image is no image;” “Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man under the government of God in eternal Science to fall from his high estate.”