Divine Love encompasses the universe. God, or infinite Spirit, blesses its perfect idea, man, endowing him by reflection with Love's own qualities, and man cannot fail to express these joyously and abundantly. This is the wondrous eternal fact, which never changes and which is discerned through spiritual sense alone.
The human sense of things not yet enlightened by spiritual discernment bears witness to quite a different picture, but the hungry, discordant, confused persons and world which it sees do not constitute a second creation separate from Love's own infinite manifestation; they are but an ignorant misconception of it. Spiritual education is evidently necessary. With compassionate perception that this is recognized only when human thought realizes its own lack, the beloved Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, declares in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 107), "More love is the great need of mankind." It is one of those truths which people acknowledge as obvious, but which too few regard as applying directly to themselves. Yet, is it not in individual experience that this great need must first be met?
The first recognition of love as a need is often from the standpoint of a yearning to be loved. But to love is the real need, and even the hunger to receive love finds satisfaction in loving response when one begins to pour out love, however meager his own sense of it at first may seem. Like the oil in the widow's cruse, it fails not when it is poured out, meeting human needs reciprocally.
