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reflection vs artistic temperament

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Announcements Forums Adam and Fallen Man – November 11th, 2018 reflection vs artistic temperament

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    bruce
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    I was impressed with the passages in Science and Health on reflection, like “Man is, and forever has been, God’s reflection” and “he reflects the creation of Mind, God”. It is so true that man is not an originator, not an originator of thoughts, nor an independent creator of anything, and the pride that would like to make the claim that he is leads to many problems, but the humble honesty that acknowledges the divine source of all that is good is safe ground. Error’s label of artistic temperament is very pernicious, subjecting one to extremes of emotions, even anger, and also makes it impossible to work with others. Whereas the humble submission to God’s guidance enables one to unite easily with others that do the same. I am very thankful for Christian Science that clarifies all of this.

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    Espaid
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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.”

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