Thank you for this post! When I read “I saw the love of God encircling the universe and man, filling all space, and that divine Love so permeated my own consciousness that I loved with Christ-like compassion everything I saw” I was reminded of what the mother of the child said in her testimony about when Mrs. Eddy healed her little girl of the boil on her head (The Healer – The Healing Work of Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 120-121):

“I wish I could make the world know what I saw when Mrs. Eddy looked on those children….I saw for the first time the real Mother-Love….It is impossible to put into words what the uncovering of my own lack of the real Mother-Love meant to me. As I…walked toward the line of trees in the front yard, there was a bird sitting on the limb of a tree, and I saw the same Love, poured out on that bird that I had seen flow from Mrs. Eddy to my children. I looked down at the grass and the flowers and there was the same Love resting on them. It is difficult for me to put into words what I saw. This Love was everywhere, like the light, but it was divine, not mere human affection. I looked at the people milling around on the lawn and I saw it poured out on them….It was not only everywhere present, like the light, but it was an intelligent presence that spoke to me, and I found myself weeping as I walked back and forth under the trees and saying out loud, ‘Why did I never know you before? Why have I not known you always?’…When we got back to the hotel, there was no boil on my child’s head.”