THE mature student of Christian Science does not fear animal magnetism or evil; neither does he ignore it or personalize it, that is, give it identity. This Science teaches him how to strip error of its covering and to destroy it through the application of the power of Christ, Truth, God's infinite idea.
One may consider it momentarily more comfortable to give thought to that which is to human sense calm and peaceful. This feeling of comfort may exist even while secret errors which need to be destroyed pervade his life experience. Sooner or later one who bypasses the handling of error must face it, see it as unreal, as impotent, and dispose of it in his experience by the scientific method presented in Christian Science.
Mrs. Eddy, after discovering Christian Science, at first hesitated to present in the textbook she was writing the secret activity of animal magnetism and how to deal with it. But under the direction of God, good, she delved into the subject and then instructed her students in the proper method of handling it.
