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November 7, 2018 at 10:33 am #7548

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Thank you. There are many citations on reflection in the lesson this week, and coincidentally, I have been reading Martha Wilcox’s The Word Made Flesh. In this address, she includes a section titled “The Function of Man Is Reflection,” which is also helpful to understand what reflection means.

“Man, as the idea of Mind, receives all that he is from the Mind that constitutes him, and gives back to that Mind the facts of Mind’s own being. A reflection always does two things: it receives and it gives back what it receives. In this way, reflection establishes the divine Mind to itself as a great fact or entity. Just as, humanly, your idea of yourself gives back to you the fact or your own being, and establishes you to yourself as an entity.

If we could only remember that “I can of mine own self do nothing,” then we could better understand that we are a living conscious reflection. We should know the tremendous importance of our function and our divine purpose – that of being reflection.”