SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION - The Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute

(127:15). This is a very different matter, for the implication is that wemay apply the term Christian Science to humanity. Humanity is veryfar from being the same thing as the mortal concept; indeed themission of Christian Science is to redeem humanity from the mortalby demonstrating what it really is. Just as Jacob was redeemed bybeing renamed Israel, and the children of Israel in turn wereredeemed by being renamed Christian, so humanity itself is “to bebrought back through great tribulation, to be renamed in ChristianScience” (309:20). 'Bringing back' is the special office of ChristianScience, and in it we see the workings of the second translation. 'Outfrom' and 'back to' characterize divine Science and Christian Sciencerespectively, alias the two phases of translation.The textbook specifically defines the different aspects of 'Science' as“synonymous” (see 147:9--16); that is, they are the same in essencethough multiform in office. Indeed, 'offices' is the ideal word, for it isthe one Science though perceived as functioning in different ways.Divine Science is not higher than Christian Science; ChristianScience is not in some way inferior to divine Science. The materiallyhuman mind thinks in terms of space and time; it is important that wedo not transfer to spiritual things these dimensional conceptions ofmortal thought, or else we shall be unable to resolve the hierarchicalstructures of human society which keep man in bondage. Let usrather work out from the divine principle of synonymity and see whatthat achieves in human relationships!So, whether we are contemplating the seven terms for God, or thefour sides of the city-calculus, or the different offices of Science, weare involved with synonyms. Enormous in its saving scope, theprinciple of synonymity means the principle of diversity in unity. Italone is the answer to fragmentation, whether we are thinking ofdivisions in society or of the world being blown to bits.These observations on the three categories of capitalized terms,which comprise the core of the Science and system of ChristianScience, focus on the critical relation of the capitalized terms to theiruncapitalized expression. As 'capital' comes from the Latin caputmeaning a head, these three sets of capitalized terms represent theGodhead, while their positive uncapitalized ideas signify the Godbody.Putting it in Mrs. Eddy's phrase, all focus on the “divine46