|
Science and Christian Healing.
page
58
Let's look at the complexity in another way. If God is Truth, who on this planet can dictate to another what this God must be? Mary Baker Eddy can present references, and define God as Life, Truth, Love, Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, but she cannot make these terms have the same meaning to all, and to have the same effect in individual experiences. Until the absolute is reached - and who can claim to have reached a full understanding of the infinite - individual perceptions will necessarily vary in their approximation to the absolute. Mary Baker Eddy could, however, outline all the essential parameters for the process of discovering divine Truth, or divine Principle, which she had done, and which she evidently had employed herself and had found to be powerfully effective.
The rule by dogma forces an artificial universality which has been attempted numerous times throughout the ages with dire results. There have been some breakthroughs in history out of the dogmatic confinement to honest intensive investigation of reality, which immediately unfolded into bright eras of Renaissance. These rather few achievements of advancing thought are still the mainstay of modern civilization, even though they are severely depressed by counteracting measures and destructive super-imposed mentalities.
With the development of the outline for the structure for the 'Key of David,' Mary Baker Eddy has put behind her the last vestiges of dogmatic presentation and created a detailed outline of a structure of Science in which Christian Science is little more than a facet of something much larger - a structure built on broad, absolute, statements that leave the field wide open to the workings of Truth in individual consciousness to assert its own claims. In this manner, the form of the Science will never limit the magnitude of divine Truth and what is certain to unfold as mankind asserts its heritage of infinity that is fundamental in the design of the nature of man as divine image.
It is not really surprising that there was not a single person alive a hundred years ago, who could follow Mary Baker Eddy's quantum leap in respect to the advanced spiritual issues that the Key of David is centered on - a leap from pure dogma, to pure Science. What is the track record, then, of this structure, in its effectiveness? Has it caused a revolution? In a sense it has, but mostly it has had been a force for quiet progress in line with the unfolding work that has taken place. Its impact on public thought cannot be measured, for the work has never been presented to the public before. This book is the first general presentation of what had remained hidden for over a hundred years. It is the only publication of its kind in existence. It, too, is a pioneering effort.
The early discoveries.
Looking back into the history of the Christian Science field, it should be noted that a minor aspect of Mary Baker Eddy's outlined structure had actually been recognized once before, in the early 1940s. This early and extremely limits discovery, was made by a certain John Doorly of London, England, who recognized that Mary Baker Eddy had worked with an orderly scientific interrelationship of spiritual ideas. A mathematician friend had altered John Doorly that this trend may points to the existence of a mathematical matrix, set up to order the interrelationship of the interrelated ideas. It didn't take long until John Doorly had recognized the actual existence of such a matrix, which is directly described in Mary Baker Eddy's textbook: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which contains her unique description of the biblical city foursquare from the book of Revelation, chapter 21. On this basis a sixteen point matrix had been perceived by John Doorly (a four, square, matrix) that he thought was bringing into focus all that Mary Baker Eddy had understood about Christian Science. John Doorly was quite mistaken.
Next Page
|