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148 Mrs. Eddy says: “The Ego is revealed as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but the full Truth is found only in Divine Science where we see God as Life, Truth, and Love;” “Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the father-mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the three-fold, essential nature of the infinite. They also indicate the divine Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God to man and the universe;” “The advent of this understanding is what is meant by the descent of the Holy Ghost;” “Compare man before the mirror to his divine Principle, God. Call the mirror divine Science, and call man the reflection. Then note how true, according to Christian Science, is the reflection to its original;” “Firmament, or understanding, united Principle to its idea. Life and (or) Intelligence (corresponds to) this Principle; idea (corresponds to) the universe and man.”

In addition to the points above specified notice that in the last quotation especially we have the clue to the original source of the Christian