A WELL-KNOWN poet and dramatist, speaking in public a while ago, made the interesting statement that to him the great hunger of the human heart was to be able to understand and interpret its own experiences. This is surely a true and profound observation, based on a sympathetic study of the real needs and desires of mankind. How often men, under the stress of some great emotion, will act blindly, even madly, doing deeds which will certainly give cause for repentance, not perceiving the true nature of the overmastering impulsion. While lacking the guidance of divine Principle, the ability to control the flood of overwhelming sentiment is temporarily lost.
It is not until some perception of divine Principle is gained that one can be said to be in a position to understand the enigma of mortal existence; and an understanding of God as Principle or Mind, the only cause and creator, is gained in no other way than by a study of the Bible and the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Many people experience at some time a sudden awakening to the poignant question, What am I? And this quickened self consciousness never sleeps again quite so soundly, although the individual may try hard to drown the disturbing sense of an incomprehensible ego in a belief of material existence. Another, after searching vainly in the isms, ologies, and philosophies, gives up the quest, and takes refuge in a dignified but arid agnosticism with regard to his own or any other being and life.
