universe and mankind — reflect God. The Substance, Life, Intelligence, Truth, and Love, that constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; and we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere, when we subordinate the false testimony of the senses to the facts of Divine Science.
Spirit creates and fashions all things spiritually, after its own likeness. Life is reflected in life, Truth in truth, God in good. Truth imparts its own true peace and permanence. Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and good. The grass beneath our feet silently exclaims, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” The modest arbutus, from under the snow, sends her sweet breath to heaven. The great rock gives shadow and shelter. The sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, gilds the hospital cot, brightens the flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth.
Man, made in God's likeness, reflects His dominion over all the earth. Man is co-existent and eternal with God, forever manifesting, in the more glorified forms of the ascending senses, the Infinite Father and Mother God.
Genesis i. 27. So God created man in His image; in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
To emphasize this momentous truth, it is repeated — that God made man in His own image, to reflect the Infinite Spirit. It follows that man must be the generic term for all creation, masculine, feminine, and neuter.
In one of the ancient languages the word for man is used also as the synonym of mind. How this definition
