When Solomon advised mankind that the principal thing was wisdom, he did not explain how the getting of it was to be accomplished. On the other hand, Mary Baker Eddy in her writings gives us explicit instructions in this connection. In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 359) we find these words: "To ask wisdom of God, is the beginning of wisdom." And farther on in the same article she says of Christian Science (ibid., p. 364): "It is not a search after wisdom, it is wisdom: it is God's right hand grasping the universe."
The initial step, therefore, in obtaining the principal thing, is the recognition that wisdom is not inherent in mortal man. It is obtained only as the result of asking; and since the asking is of God, it must come through spiritual communion, through prayer.
Those who accept the divine Principle of Christian Science, whence comes all that inspires, directs, and illumines, must learn that wisdom is one with it, characterizing its every thought and action, and that this wisdom, this right knowing, is inherent in man as Mind's idea.
