It is a change indeed when a dear one has passed on and we no longer see him. Yet this experience can be elevated to the hallowing one of comprehending what a loved hymn terms "the form divinely fair."Christian Science Hymnal, No. 51; Then this can be an interval of greatest victory for the individual, rather than for the illusive evil called death.
In a statement in Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy depicts this situation. It reads, "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares."Science and Health, p. 574; The advent of angel thoughts in consciousness and the righteous utilization of them to nullify evil is triumph of the highest order.
In the study of Christian Science it is learned that we never love anyone fully until we perceive that in reality he is what God made him to be—is a thoroughly spiritual idea, composed of right qualities and ideas. As part of her answer to the question, "What is man?" our Leader writes in the above-named textbook, "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas."p. 475;
