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Volume 13, Number 3
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July 2004
the spiritual idea will be understood." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 570)
Mary
Baker Eddy writes in her book, "As
in blest Palestina's hour,
— The Christian Science Standard, Vol. 5, No. 1
This issue of The Christian Science Standard, a continuation of an exegesis of Mary Baker Eddy's book, Christ and Christmas, covering plates no. 9 - 11, includes material published in previous Standards which were edited by Stanley C. Larkin. Plates no.1 - 8 were discussed in the February and April 2004 issues. Copies are available upon request.
CONTINUED PLATE NO. 9 Plate Title: Christian Unity. This picture shows Jesus holding the hand of and seated next to the standing Mrs. Eddy who is holding a scroll marked "Christian Science." Both have mantles and are dressed as in the time of Jesus; both are within the light of the morning star; and both have halos. Mrs. Eddy is wearing a white mantle, while Jesus has a dark one in his lap. Suggested Theme: The new Christian dispensation of the Holy Spirit in which Jesus and Mary are united in one Christ, dual in nature, with one fold and one shepherd. Verse 12: The great I Am, — Omniscient power, — gleaming through Mind, mother, man. Scriptural Text for Verse 12: ("Glossary," Christ and Christmas, p. 55) "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. — Christ Jesus." (Matt. 12:50) Because there is just one "great I Am," there is one fold and one shepherd. God says "I Am" and that word is manifested in Christ, who is the Shepherd. The sheepfold is comprised of individual ideas reflecting the one "I Am" as it is expressed in Christ. The individual ideas reflect life without birth and have no localized mother, — no real physical relationships. Everything is in the one "I Am" which is brought into view as we correctly perceive Christ. All things are in focus in the Christ consciousness, without inharmony or matter. Verse 13: So in our age, 'T is the same hand unfolds His power, And writes the page. Scriptural Text for Verse 13: ("Glossary," p. 55) "And there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. — Christ Jesus." (John 10:16) As in the time of Christ Jesus (as in Palestina's hour) so in our age (in the time of Christ Mary), it is the same hand (two individual natures in one individual)1 that unfolds His healing power, and writes the page, — that is, Science and Health. In this verse, Mrs. Eddy explains the dual nature of the Christ. Duality, or the two-in-one Christ, is the theme of this book, Christ and Christmas. 1See Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 577:4; also, correlative at Rev. 22:16. This woman is the highest visible idea in our age and her name, Christ Mary, (the God-anointed and God-appointed, the known of God) is to be given to Christendom in accord with Mrs. Eddy's prophecy in Pulpit and Press, 22:9 (quoted on page 9 of this issue). The new name reflects the compounded spiritual individuality of the Messiah. As brought out in the February 2004 issue of the Standard, the root of David is the one who opened the book that was sealed with seven seals in the time of Daniel2 and is the same book eaten by Ezekiel.3 The author of the book is Christ, even though the book appeared long before the advent of Jesus or Mrs. Eddy. The book of Revelation devotes six chapters to the unsealing of this book sealed by Daniel, the prophet. Revelation 5:5 tells us that "the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof." Since Mrs. Eddy opened the seven seals, this identifies her as the Root of David and the Lion of the tribe of Juda, and identifies her with Jesus the Christ. 2Daniel
12:4, 9 In this plate, Jesus is seated and his mantle is laid in his lap. Mrs. Eddy's mantle is placed about her shoulders. With his right hand of power and authority, Jesus is gesturing to her scroll in recognition and acknowledgment of her position as the woman who is to establish a new dispensation of the Christ mission, that is, Christian Science. This is not a farewell occasion, where he is saying goodbye. She and he are the same, two-in-one. This is her age — a new era out of which rises a new, advanced dispensation. Christian unity is best explained where Mrs. Eddy says: The Lamb's wife presents the unity of male and female as no longer two wedded individuals, but as two individual natures in one; and this compounded spiritual individuality reflects God as Father-Mother, not as a corporeal being. In this divinely united spiritual consciousness, there is no impediment to eternal bliss, — to the perfectibility of God's creation. (S&H 577:4) (Emphasis added) The circular shape of the picture suggests unity and oneness as indicated in verse 13. Because of this oneness, Christ Jesus is as much the author of Science and Health as is Mrs. Eddy.4 It is important to ask oneself, "Would I read Science and Health differently if I knew it was written by Jesus?" Each one must know his inmost thoughts of Mrs. Eddy. 4See John 14:26. "Circling the head of the woman [Mrs. Eddy] and the head of Jesus are halos of equal size."5 Mrs. Eddy explained this plate as "the type and shadow of Truth's appearing in the womanhood as well as in the manhood of God, our divine Father and Mother."6 5Norman
Beasley, The Cross and The Crown (New York:
Duell, Sloan, and Pierce, 1952), p. 311. The Christ idea as a man seated, reflecting God's Fatherhood, is subordinate to the concept of the divine idea as a woman, reflecting God's Motherhood. He is subordinate to her because she came at a time when "Woman is [seen as] the highest species of man."7 This is an emphatic statement because she does not say "higher" species, and she does not say "mankind" but "man." She has come in time at the highest point of mental and spiritual development. She is also higher because she came as the final revelator. (Cf. S&H 565:18-19) 7 Mary Baker Eddy, Unity of Good, p. 51:14-15 In plate no. 2 (discussed in the February 2004 issue), Mrs. Eddy's incarnation8 as Christ Mary was immaculate in that she was figuratively raised from a coffin where she had died to the flesh (and birth), and was healed and aroused to her Christ mission by Christ Jesus. She received her vision of Science. "Woman must give it birth." (Ret. 26:23) 8Mary Baker Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection, p. 26:22-30 Plate Title: Truth versus Error. This picture shows Mrs. Eddy holding a scroll, knocking on the door of a mansion. She is dressed in the attire of Jesus' day, as in the previous plate, and now encompasses Jesus. Seen through the window is a party with dancing and drinking; two small children are looking out at the Christ woman. Suggested Theme: Christ Mary knocking at the door of humanity. Verse 14: Christ summons thee! Truth pleads to-night: Just take Me in! No mass for Me! Scriptural Text for Verse 14: ("Glossary," p. 55) "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. — Christ Jesus." (Rev. 3:20) In this picture, the two representatives of Christ from the preceding picture are seen as one. Her gown is of Jesus' time as in the previous picture and indicates that she is going forward in the way of Jesus whom she encompasses.9 9Jeremiah 31:22, "for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man." The woman, Christ Mary, knocking at the door of the human consciousness, is summoning it to a higher concept of Christ. This plate follows "Christian Unity" where Jesus and Mrs. Eddy are portrayed as two separate individuals with hands joined. But in this plate no. 10, she and he represent one Christ — "two individual natures in one." (S&H 577:6) As one Christ, she and he are clothed in her flesh and vestments, that is, " 'T is the same hand." (Christ and Christmas, verse 13) Mrs. Eddy explains this spiritual development in Science and Health where she writes: "The Lamb's wife presents the unity of male and female as no longer two wedded individuals, but as two individual natures in one. . . ." (S&H 577:4-7) This quotation is to the effect that there are not two individuals, but "two individual natures in one." In plate no. 10, the woman — the woman "God-crowned" of Revelation 12 — represents "two individual natures in one" — one "compounded spiritual individuality." (S&H 577:7) This picture depicts her era, an advanced era of Truth's appearing, and the world is ready to understand and accept this concept. This is in line with the words of Jeremiah: "for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man." It is important to recognize that while Mrs. Eddy attempted to restrain her students from making any public statements as to her place in Scriptural prophecy for fifty years, explained in previous Standards as the "providential waiting period,"10 she herself placed this idea in her illustrated poem, Christ and Christmas. In Miscellaneous Writings she states: "Advanced scientific students are ready for 'Christ and Christmas;' but those are a minority of its readers, and even they know its practicality only by healing the sick on its divine Principle. In the words of the prophet, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.'" (Mis. 308:12) 10"MR. EDITOR: — The late articles referring to me in July issue of the JOURNAL, contain presentiments that I object to having uttered or written now in regard to myself. God alone appoints the befitting path and place for each of His children; and mankind should wait on Him, and let the ages declare judgment. It is my impression that at least a half century will pass away before man is permitted to render his public verdict on some of the momentous questions that are now agitating the world. Mary B. G. Eddy. The Christian Science Journal, August 1890, Vol. VIII, p. 193. (Emphasis added) The following is a revealing account by Mrs. Eddy's student, Mrs. Janet T. Colman, CSD, who attended the convention of the National Christian Scientist Association in Chicago in 1888: Another wonderful experience of what our beloved Leader was, came to me at Chicago. She had spoken to her students the first day alone, and to me she seemed more like a man as she spoke to us; her strength, her manner, impressed me with great strength; the next day she spoke in Music Hall to the multitude. Many were healed; that day I saw her as a woman. That night as I was getting into bed, had not laid down, when at the foot of the bed I saw Jesus' form rise up in white, then our Leader in white rose up beside Him. She put out her arms and embraced Him. He melted into her, then she rose up beyond my gaze. . . . I came down to Boston a short time after and I went to see our Leader at Commonwealth Avenue. . . . I told Mrs. Eddy that I had something to tell her. . . . After I finished, she told me not to speak of it to any one, not even to her students; it was too far beyond the age at that time. When Christ and Christmas came out, the picture CHRISTIAN UNITY expressed more what I saw at Chicago. God has been so good to me to let me see our Leader in her right light.11 (Emphasis added) 11Gilbert C. Carpenter, Sr., compiler, Miscellaneous Documents (Providence, 1961), pp. 53-54. Remember, Mrs. Eddy's verse that accompanies the illustration in plate no.10 reads: Christ summons thee! Truth pleads to-night: Just take Me in! No mass for Me! Mrs. Eddy is telling us that this figure at the door represents the Christ. This figure of a woman has a halo and is clothed in vestments similar to plate no. 9. Is she not clearly telling us that in this era the Christ appears as a woman encompassing a man? Notice that in the above verse Mrs. Eddy capitalizes the word "Me." Is she not referring to herself as the Christ, "two individual natures in one" — one "compounded spiritual individuality"? She fulfills the prophecy of the woman in chapter 12 of Revelation, the woman "God-crowned." She brings into manifestation the true concept of the "Lamb's wife" — "two individual natures in one." And notice the little children in this picture, the girl with her arm around the younger boy, peering through the window at the woman at the door. Is not Mrs. Eddy showing us that it requires the childlike thought — pure, innocent, receptive — to recognize and comprehend "two individual natures in one"? Mrs. Eddy writes: "Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony." (S&H 324:2) And Jesus said: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." (Mark 10:14) In this present scientific age, the concept of one Christ as "two individual natures in one" is not a difficult concept to comprehend. Christendom has no difficulty accepting the idea that Adam was a dual being — a man encompassing a woman before they were separated. So why should it be difficult to accept a woman as a dual being encompassing a man, "two individual natures in one"? Mrs. Eddy clearly states that "this compounded spiritual individuality reflects God as Father-Mother, not as a corporeal being." (S&H 577:7-8)
The
woman at the door is Mrs. Eddy as Christ. Mrs. Eddy
intended the woman to be the perfect ideal of
herself as Mr. Gilman, the artist, reports: She [Mrs. Eddy] had brought down a box of pictures of herself to show me that I might gain a good idea of her as she used to be, or look. . . . I took up the picture of the last scene in the poem: This documentation is to show that Mrs. Eddy intended the woman in the picture to represent herself as Christ summoning all to let her in. According to the Scriptural text12 all Christendom must take her in as the dual Christ and sup with her. To break bread with Mrs. Eddy is to be classified as Christian Scientists. 12"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. — Christ Jesus." (Rev. 3:20) The door will open to the woman in plate no. 10 as individuals recognize her as the Christ, just as do the two children in the window. Mrs. Eddy says that they will attest their fidelity to Truth in this way: in proportion to the individual response to Mrs. Eddy's prophecy in Pulpit and Press, 22:9, written in veiled language because of the restrictions of the half-century "providential waiting period:" (See half-century "providential waiting period," page 6, including footnote 10.) If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be classified as Christian Scientists. (Pul. 22:9) Since the fifty-year "providential waiting period" is now past, the above prophecy can be paraphrased into direct language: Christ's new name is Christ Mary. To heal the sick effectively in Christ's name one must recognize Mrs. Eddy's Christ identity. Her followers must proclaim these facts to have Christian Science embrace all the churches of Christendom. Christ and Christmas was published during the period of the building of the original Mother Church and the beginning of the conversion of Christendom to Christian Science, brought about by the recognition of Mrs. Eddy as the representative in the flesh of the second coming of Christ.13 The next plate has to do with the church, or "fane," as a vehicle to fulfill this prophecy. 13See The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, pp 65-100; also, The Christian Science Standard, Vol. 11, No. 1, November 2000. Plate Title: The Way. Plate no. 11 is the last picture in Mrs. Eddy's book. In the first edition of Christ and Christmas published in 1893, the last illustration is that of Christ Jesus ascending from a New England landscape. The accompanying verse is the key to understanding this picture. It reads: Verse 15: Truth's fane can dim. Eternal swells its music tone In Heaven's hymn. Early in 1894 Mrs. Eddy discontinued publication of Christ and Christmas after the sale of the second edition. "This little messenger has done its work, fulfilled its mission,14 retired with honor, (and mayhap taught me more than it has others), only to reappear in due season." (Mis. 308:20-23) 14The mission of Christ and Christmas was two-fold: it revealed the spiritual fact of Mary Baker Eddy as the representative in the flesh of the second coming of Christ; secondly, it illustrated the duality of the two-in-one Christ. This recognition enabled the original Mother Church to be built. See also, footnote 17, page 12, of this issue. Approximately three years after the original Mother Church was completed, Mrs. Eddy made a major change in the last illustration, and in 1897, she resumed publication. In the new plate, the body disappeared leaving only the character of Christ as seen through the cross. "The Scriptures and Christian Science reveal 'the way,' and personal revelators will take their proper place in history, but will not be deified." (Mis. 308:8) 15See page 13 of this Standard for full quotation. Plate Title: The Way. This picture shows a pastoral scene with a beam of light, in the path of which are the symbols of victory — two crosses and a crown. In the foreground at the end of the beam is a dark cross. Following the beam up the hill, one reaches a second cross with flowering vines, birds, and a descending dove bearing an olive branch. Farther up the beam is a crown. Suggested Theme: Successive victories in the warfare whereby "Christ will give [gives] to Christianity his new name."16 Christendom and Mary Baker Eddy's Church are built on the Rock, Christ Mary, described in plates no. 1 through 10. She is the God-appointed way to Christ's kingdom and this way is destined to overtake Christendom. 16Pulpit and Press, p. 22:13 Mrs. Eddy also changed the verse slightly to read: Verse 15: Truth's fane can dim; Eternal swells Christ's music-tone, In heaven's hymn. Scriptural Text for Verse 15: ("Glossary," p. 55) "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me [Christ Mary] shall never die. — Christ Jesus." (John 11:26) This last verse is concerned with a "fane." "Fane" is defined in the dictionary as "a temple or church." Yet, in the first two editions of the poem, in 1893, the last picture, illustrating this verse, was that of Christ Jesus ascending from a New England countryside. In the revised edition of 1897, this last illustration was changed to that of a symbolic countryside stretching to the horizon with two crosses placed in an ascending position and a crown above, but no "fane." "Truth's fane" is Mary Baker Eddy's church, the Church of Christ, Scientist, which is dimming during the second half-century waiting period because it has not risen to the conception of the new dispensation. This verse illustrates the period of the "dimming" of "Truth's fane." This dimming is clearly evident in the ridicule found in every phrase of the following quotation from Robert Peel's description of Christ and Christmas in his book, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority, published in 1977, and authorized by the Board of Directors as official church history: These were the large issues to be raised in connection with the production of a Christmas gift book [Christ and Christmas] by a self-taught artist [James F. Gilman] from rural Vermont and an untrained theologian [Mary Baker Eddy] from rural New Hampshire. To Mrs. Eddy and Gilman the undertaking seemed a spiritual enterprise more gripping than any of the adventure-strewn voyages recorded by Captain Eastaman. This one was carefully logged by Gilman during the six-month course of alternating calm and storm, and the log revealed a Mrs. Eddy so various as to escape neat psychological pigeonholing. (p. 44) Was Christ and Christmas written in an effort to keep "Truth's fane" from being dimmed? The last two verses in Christ and Christmas, with their illustrations, are a summary of the book. Plate no. 10 is a picture of "Truth versus Error" and the last picture is "The Way" — "Truth's fane," which gives us the crown. Christ and Christmas was clearly a church message which made possible the building of the original Mother Church17 and which is destined to fulfill Mrs. Eddy's prophesied conversion of Christendom to Christian Science. 17Just as Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ in the first appearing was the foundation of Jesus' church, — "upon this rock [that is, the recognition of the coming of Christ in the flesh] I will build my church," Matt. 16:18, — so the recognition of Mary Baker Eddy as the Christ in the second appearing was essential to the building of the original Mother Church. See The Christian Science Standard, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2003. The problems of "blight," "broken wing," and "moan" (in the last verse) are problems confronting "Truth's fane" — that is, they are church problems; and this book, Christ and Christmas, presents the way to heal them. The healing comes through the recognition of Mrs. Eddy as the second appearing of Christ in the flesh, and the recognition of the two-in-one Christ, "the character of God." As she says in her article, "The Second Advent": Every loyal Scientist understands that the second coming of Christ is the next higher, hence, more spiritual revelation of God's character. The Christian era presented the first tangible idea of God's character by its inspired man, Jesus. The era of Christian Science ushers in through woman the second appearing of His character and this from the necessity of His nature as the Father and Mother of all, the creator, even the complete and ever-present idea of God. Therefore, this era comes not through Jesus but through Mary, the type of womanhood and mother of its first and forever appearing which divine Science alone can give. The third appearing of the spiritual idea of the character of God will present but the disappearing of all else, and establish the supremacy of Spirit which obliterates the human sense of the divine, takes away all sense of matter and reveals the final fact that the idea, Christ, is not a materialized or finite man or woman, but is the infinite concept of infinite Mind.18 — Mary Baker Eddy (Emphasis added) 18Gilbert C. Carpenter, Jr., compiler, Essays on Christian Science Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy (Providence, 1961). Gilbert Carpenter, Sr., a member of Mrs. Eddy's household, writes in the introduction: "The article 'The Second Advent' was copied directly from a reproduction of the original manuscript in Mrs. Eddy's handwriting." This article is also reprinted in what is often known as the Carpenter (or R.F. Oakes) "Red Book," Essays and Other Footprints, pp. 47-49. For a discussion on this article, see The Christian Science Standard, Vol. 8, No. 2. Why is there no material organization, "temple" or body in plate no. 11? Mrs. Eddy said, "Transfiguration is impersonalization."19 She also wrote, "The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty. But the time cometh when the religious element, or Church of Christ, shall exist alone in the affections, and need no organization to express it." (Mis.144:32) 19Martha H. Bogue, CSD, "Notes," Miscellaneous Documents, Gilbert C. Carpenter, Sr., compiler (Providence, 1961), pp. 80-83. Plate no. 11 is showing us "the way" to the kingdom of heaven through transfiguration and impersonalization. The two crosses represent the "two anointed ones" in the first and second appearings. The crown symbolizes20 the two-in-one Christ in the "third appearing of the spiritual idea of the character of God." 20"Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols." (S&H 575:13-14) The dark cross in the picture is where the individual joins battle with the dragon of anti-Christ. (See Rev. 12.) The flowered cross and the crown are symbolic of the steps in the warrior's triumph. The church and its Christian warfare are the way of escape from a planet where "material history is drawing to a close."21 21Mary Baker Eddy, No and Yes, p. 45:27 In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes (482:13-16):
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order to heal the sick? WILL SAVE THE CHURCH The recognition of Mary Baker Eddy as the representative in the flesh of the second coming of Christ is the foundation of The Mother Church. Christ and Christmas was written to build and advance The Mother Church and the teachings of Mrs. Eddy; therefore, the fundamental point of the duality of the Christ, which Christ and Christmas brings out, must once again be understood. As previously stated: in this present scientific age, the concept of one Christ as "two individual natures in one" is not a difficult concept to comprehend! If we look at the pictures in Christ and Christmas and see a material personality of Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, we are not seeing the pictures correctly. They are symbolic of the two-in-one Christ. We have to lift our thought to see the illustrations as they relate to the impersonal Christ. "Advanced scientific students are ready for 'Christ and Christmas;' but those are a minority of its readers, and even they know its practicality only by healing the sick on its divine Principle. In the words of the prophet, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.'" (Mis. 308:12) "'Christ and Christmas' voices Christian Science through song and object-lesson." (Mis. 372:7-8) "Christ and Christmas was an inspiration from beginning to end. The power of God and the wisdom of God was even more manifest in it and guided me more perceptibly, as those of my household can attest, than when I wrote Science and Health. . . . He [God] taught me that the art of Christian Science has come through inspiration the same as its Science has. Hence the great error of human opinions passing judgment on it." (Letter to Carol Norton, Dec. 14, 1893. William L. Johnson, History of the Christian Science Movement, Vol. 2, p. 448.) "Do you know what you have done for yourself, for mankind, for our Cause? No, you do not, perhaps, but I will tell you. You have illustrated and interpreted my life on the plate [no. 6] that you sent me." (Letter to James F. Gilman. Diary Records of James F. Gilman, p. 91.) "Christian Science is taught through its divine Principle, which is invisible to corporeal sense. . . . I earnestly advise all Christian Scientists to remove from their observation or study the personal sense of any one, and not to dwell in thought upon their own or others' corporeality, either as good or evil." (Mis. 308:28-3) "All clergymen may not understand the illustrations in 'Christ and Christmas;' or that these refer not to personality, but present the type and shadow of Truth's appearing in the womanhood as well as in the manhood of God, our divine Father and Mother." (Mis. 33:7) "The illustrations were not intended for a golden calf, at which the sick may look and be healed. Christian Scientists should beware of unseen snares, and adhere to the divine Principle and rules for demonstration. They must guard against the deification of finite personality. . . ." (Mis. 307:25-30) "Pondering on the finite personality of Jesus, the son of man, is not the channel through which we reach the Christ, or Son of God, the true idea of man's divine Principle." (Mis. 309:14) "Even the teachings of Jesus would be misused by substituting personality for the Christ, or the impersonal form of Truth, amplified in this age by the discovery of Christian Science. To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence — rather than cling to personality — is the lesson of to-day." (Mis. 310:4) "Christ, is not a materialized or finite man or woman, but is the infinite concept of infinite Mind." (Carpenter, op. cit., p. 13.) As evidence of the original position of Mrs. Eddy's church during its first half century, one of the First Readers in The Mother Church appointed by Mrs. Eddy in 1902, said: "It is of first importance to see Mrs. Eddy rightly as the woman of prophecy referred to in the Apocalypse, as the one through whom the Comforter came, the second coming of Christ. Unless we see that this revelation came through Mrs. Eddy under divine inspiration, and see it as the inspired word of God, we are not seeing Christian Science rightly. Jesus and Mrs. Eddy are the two anointed ones and must be seen as such, just as Jesus in the flesh must be seen as the one who established the first coming of the Christ, back of whom was the divinely royal man, so Mrs. Eddy in the flesh must be seen as the one who established the second coming of the Christ, back of whom was the divinely royal woman, the God-crowned woman of the 12th chapter of the Apocalypse." (Prof. Hermann S. Hering, CSB, in a letter to his pupils, 1938.) The Christian Science Endtime Center is established to promote these concepts and extend the religion of Christian Science as taught by Mary Baker Eddy in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College during the 1880s. NOTE: At the time Mrs. Eddy had Mr. Gilman make improvements in plate no. 6, and a new and different picture for plate no. 11, she also had three other plates made with symbolic pictures of her church. These three additional plates will be discussed in an up-coming issue of the Standard. Phone:
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