SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION - The Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute

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ealization that we are not apart from God but are part of God, at-onewith the divine, as Jesus showed. He exemplified this at-one-ment bythe sacrifice of a separate material sense of man and body(Atonement and Eucharist). The outcome is that humanity, discernedtruly, is wedded to divinity and is progressively lifted out of the mortalsense of creation (Marriage). Thus Principle is seen to operatedirectly, as its own idea. “Christian Science versus Spiritualism”explains that the real is Spirit, expressed as spirituality and notthrough a medium called a person when alive and a spirit when dead.As it is understood that all that is happening is God, the mask ofpersonal sense is removed. The root of evil is the erroneous beliefthat both good and evil work through personality in oneself and inothers. Freed from this influence, man, reflecting God's government,is self-governed (Animal Magnetism Unmasked). So the nature of thetrue 'I' is uncovered and Christian Science is discovered as the divinelaws of Life, Truth, and Love in self operation, leavening andtranslating the whole of human thought (Science, Theology,Medicine). “In these inspiring chapters the divine facts and the human responseare so interwoven that they bring about spiritual growth in the studentas he studies the letter and imbibes the spirit. At a single reading, noone understands very much, but by pondering the ideas and lettingthem shape his thoughts, attitudes and relationships, they bring himinto accord with the Science of being. It is a matter of spiritualizingvalues and life, not of building up knowledge. Christian Sciencemakes the individual peck open his ego-shell of separate selfhood, tofind the eternal Ego as the unity of God and His idea, man (see S & H314:5). Whether we are aware of it or not, in living our way throughthe textbook we are discovering true human hood.For further light on the structure and meaning of the chapters,attention is drawn to Civilization Lieth Foursquare by W .G. Brown;The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook by M. Kappeler; andThe Divine Design of Science and Health by J. L. Sinton.An Educational SystemWhenever mention is made of 'the human,' we find that we have tomake a quick calculation. Do we mean the mortal as in the First40
Degree, or do we mean the divine-in-expression, like the ThirdDegree? Or something in between, such as the Second Degree?Many Christian Scientists have their fixed conception; some locatethe human firmly in the mortal, while others would place it in theSecond Degree. Yet the fact is that the textbook uses the termcarefully in all three categories, showing us thereby that the concepthas to be constantly translated from what it is not to what it truly is.Because 'the human' spans all three degrees of the secondtranslation, our apprehension of what it means is continually rising. Ifour sense of it is stuck in a certain opinion, it shuts the mind to whatthe textbook is actually saying about the human, and we are hinderedin our ability to demonstrate Christian Science. The mission ofChristian Science is to demonstrate that the human is the purereflection of the divine, that it is not mortality, and is thus “absolvedfrom death and the grave” (My 2 18:14). How can this be done unlessour conception of the human be translated? And how can the human,which is phenomenon, be translated unless we first understand itsnoumenon? There can be no solution to humanity's problems on apurely human basis.To this end Mrs. Eddy had to frame an educational system that wouldteach what God really is, - and therefore what man really is. It wasalso designed to spiritualize the student's thought, for as the studentis spiritually transformed, less and less is he a person outside,objectively approaching reality; more and more does he find himselfto be the very workings, - the experience, - of reality itself. TheScientific Translation of Immortal Mind” works in him as thecomplementary “Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind.” Thus he findsthat the educational system of Christian Science is not onlysystematic instruction in the absolute laws of being but is alsoexperiential, self-demonstrating, and permeating his life.The chapter “Science, Theology, Medicine,” where the translationtable is found, contains also the arresting statement, “Divinemetaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensibleby and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live” (146:31).In her own thought the discovery that Mrs. Eddy denominatedChristian Science was clearly a system. By means of it God could beunderstood, and this understanding then became divine Mindhealing.The Science and system to which divine metaphysics is41
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