SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION - The Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute

The prophet Zephaniah says, “For then will I turn to the people a purelanguage, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to servehim with one consent” (3-9); this means that humanity rediscovers itsoriginal language.In the Gospels we see this marvelous promise fulfilled resolutely andfaithfully by Christ Jesus, demonstrating on the individual scale thesolution to the Life-problem. He speaks the language of proof. Heobliterates sin, heals the sick, overcomes death and restores lostIsrael. Exemplified in him we see 'Language 1' replacing 'Language 2'by means of 'Language „3.‟ That is to say, we see exemplified theimpact of the first translation upon the mortal dream, and theconsequent healing and translation of the human concept (secondtranslation).“Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that which mortalsentertain: his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the idealworld. His earthly mission was to translate substance into its originalmeaning, Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water intowine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised the dead, androlled away the stone from the door of his own tomb.” Mrs. Eddyconcludes this trenchant explanation of Jesus' work by relating it tous: “. . . Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through a humanperson, a spiritual revelation of man's possible earthly development”(Mis 74:13). If it was true and feasible for Jesus, individually, it mustbe equally demonstrable for mankind generically. To depict thispossibility is the divine purpose of the book of Revelation, whichculminates in the vision of a new heaven and a new earth, meaningthat from a new sense of God comes a new conception of man. TheRevelator illustrates this state by the holy city, “coming down fromGod out of heaven” (Rev 2 1:2), in which humanity dwells infoursquare divine harmony. Sickness, sin and death are no more.When we turn to Science and Health for this third class of language,we find that Mrs. Eddy connects this “new tongue” withdemonstration. “God's essential language is spoken of in the lastchapter of Mark's Gospel as the new tongue, the spiritual meaning ofwhich is attained through 'signs following' “ (117:10).29