I awoke one morning with the following statement of Mrs. Eddy's strongly before me: "To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 310
This seemed a tall order. How does one impersonalize what appears to be a world filled with persons, each with a will and mind of his own—a personality-worshiping world? The question amounted to this: How can one find sufficient spiritual enlightenment to see beyond the evidence of the physical senses, which testify to a world of material beings?
I knew I had to begin with God. If I could gain sufficient understanding of Him and of my relationship to Him as His spiritual reflection, I could make some headway in dematerializing my view of the world, translating it back into Spirit. These words of Mrs. Eddy's were helpful: "The scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual sense and source of being." Unity of Good, p. 46
