Divine Love calls each of us to relinquish the belief that we or someone we love exists in matter and that death can take away life. Through prayer we can replace this belief with the fact of man's uninterrupted spiritual existence as God's likeness.
This change of consciousness gives us the real comfort that we seek when we face the loss of a loved one. The warmth and presence of unchanging divine Love are right there to give us exactly what we need. And what we always need is the deeper spiritual perception that divine Love is the source and continuity of all good. This understanding nullifies the misconceptions that we must prove through mourning our love for the one who is gone or that the only way to help someone who is bereaved is to sympathize with his sorrow. Both of these misconceptions are based on the supposition that death is real and that God is not ever-present Life. It is understanding the allness of divine Love that brings us out from ignorance of God as eternal Life.
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy explains: "Through all the disciples experienced, they became more spiritual and understood better what the Master had taught. His resurrection was also their resurrection." Further down the page she writes: "His gloom had passed into glory, and his disciples' grief into repentance,—hearts chastened and pride rebuked."
Science and Health, pp. 34-35 .
