SO interwoven are the experiences of mankind, so interdependent, that each individual thought and act has its bearing, either to bless or to harm. Not one lives to himself alone. Through the enlightenment that comes from the study of Christian Science one becomes aware of this fact, and learns how to purify his thinking so as to be a blessing to his neighbor.
It is obvious that, first of all, the student must know what his neighbor really is before he can hope to bless him spiritually. Thinking along the line of material evidence, one is apt to regard his neighbor as a corporeal being, but this false sense of man can never bless.
In the Glossary of the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find on page 583 in the definition of "children of Israel," this statement: "Some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting out error and healing the sick." Here, then, is a demand that we look for the ideas of God, in order to see our neighbors truly. Procedure along this line will be varied necessarily according to the purity of our concept of God, Mind, from whom emanate all right ideas.
