Spirit has no elements of evil or poison to impart. Its ideas are subject to the Mind that formed them, — the power which changeth the serpent into a rod.
Understanding the control that Spirit holds over all, Daniel felt safe in the lion's den, Paul knew the viper to be harmless. All the creatures of God are harmless, useful, indestructible, moving in the harmony of Science. A realization of this grand verity was a source of strength to the ancient worthies. It supports Christian healing, and enables us to emulate the example of Jesus.
Genesis i. 26. And God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
The eternal Elohim makes man. The name is in the plural, but this plurality of Spirit does not imply more than one God, nor does it imply three persons in one. It relates to the trinity of Life, Truth, and Love.
“Let them have dominion.” All that Spirit creates moves in accord with the Divine Mind, reflecting goodness and power.
Your mirrored reflection is your own image or likeness. If you lift a weight, your reflection does this also. If you speak, the lips of this likeness move in accord with yours. Now compare man, before the mirror, to his Divine Principle, God. Call the mirror Divine Science; and call its reflections, the universe and man. Then note how true, according to Science, is the reflection to its original.
As the mirror reflects yourself, so you — the spiritual
