The Law of Mental Reflection

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.  Romans 8:2

   The Law of Mental Reflection is always at work within you, producing its logical effects—positively and negatively—depending on how you see and reflect on images in your mind. To the extent that you reflect the Pure Spirit of Life, you live; when you reflect the material form as a power in itself, instead of as a moldable vehicle of the Spirit, you bring yourself under a law of limitation which ends in death.

   In both cases, it is the same law of Mind. In the former case it is used positively, and in the latter case negatively. 

   The creative process requires that the substance of all things you desire must first exist as images in your mind before they can come into manifestation in the material world of the space-time continuum. Thus, another way of defining sin in concrete manifestation is your contemplation of the limited and negative—that which is not Life-in-itself—and forming yourself into its image and likeness.

   Once you grasp the great fundamental law that your Mind—your spiritual creative power—attracts conditions which mirror its own contemplation of its dominant thought, then you can understand why Jesus announced forgiveness of sins as a complement to physical healing.

   You can also see that death and all lesser evils entered the world through sin—sin being the cause and the other evils being the effect. If you begin to understand that death and sickness of the body result from an imperfect realization of Life by your Mind, then when your Mind realizes its connection to and union with the All-Originating Spirit of God, healing of your body will be its natural complement.

   When your inverted conception of your relationship to the Spirit of Life is removed and replaced by the right conception, you will reflect the true image and likeness of your Creator.