A vital point in demonstrating Christian Science is always to separate error from the individual. Evil traits, wrong thinking, sickness, and discord are never man. They are false claims about man. Seeing this clearly is fundamental to scientific mental treatment.
So long as we identify wrong thinking or discord with an individual, it is very difficult to destroy these errors metaphysically. If we claim them as our own, we thereby lose sight of our spiritual capacity to get rid of them. If we identify them with another, then it may appear that we have no control over them, even though they may seem to influence our affairs adversely. In either case we are entertaining a wrong concept of man.
But if we see evil suggestions as impersonal lies about man, it is obvious that we can nullify them from the standpoint of Truth—right at the threshold of our own consciousness. Thus we take a decisive step to free ourselves and others. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Miscellaneous Writings, "To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day." Mis., p. 310
