What is the actual sphere of man? What bounds his brotherhood? Social psychology suggests that each human being surrounds himself with his own minisphere of personal concerns and his own limiting circle of friends. But, in reality, God surrounds man with an infinite sphere of Love and links every idea to every other idea with forces of Love. This sphere, which omnipotent Love constitutes and maintains, includes all identities, cuts no one off, leaves no one outside.
To all who long to expand their perimeters of fellowship and enrich their relations with others, Christian Science unfolds this infinitely inclusive, spiritual sphere. Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health, "God is at once the centre and circumference of being."Science and Health, pp. 203, 204; Man cannot segregate himself either from the Love which includes all identities or from the identities Love includes.
Maintaining this clear basis in thought, we are prepared to deal with everyday human experience, where, to all appearances, a person's social circle is restricted, springing from the belief that human behavior partakes of the animal world and its limitations. Observers tell us that it is common for most animals to surround themselves with invisible circles, as it were, which serve to maintain proper intervals between members of their species wherever they go. (See The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall.) Any observant person has noticed how birds perch in a regularly spaced row along a telephone wire, with about the same distance between each one and the next, none touching another, or perhaps has noticed a school of fish, each swimming an equal distance from the next one.
