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Agape
Research
600 Historic Bible
Lessons
comprising 11 years of
Christian Science Bible lessons (1898-1909)
The Christian Bible
can been looked upon as a chronicle of the spiritual development of
mankind, and it failures, within the context of Christianity. Mary Baker
Eddy has used this as a foundation to build her own work upon. She also
created a type of religious sermon, that unlike any other sermon
throughout history, is constructed in the form of a dialog between the
historic chronicle represented by the Bible, on one hand, and the textbook
of her discovery of the Science of the Christ principles, on the other
hand. This dialog combines two major dimensions. Finally, a third
dimension has been added in recent years with the help of computer
technology that superimposes upon this dialog some of the basic elements
of Mary Baker Eddy's structure for scientific and spiritual development. A
collection of six hundred of the early Bible lessons that were developed
during Mary Baker Eddy's time have been prepared with the scientific
foundation added. This makes them probably the most unique literary blend
for focusing on scientific and spiritual development, that can be found in
the world today.
The historic significance of
this series of Bible lessons is, that the period in which they were
created was the peak period of Christian Science healing and the final
period of the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker
Eddy, who had created both the idea, and the format, of these standardized
Bible lessons. These types of lessons continue to constitute the Sunday
service in Christian Science churches throughout the world. They speak as
an impersonal pastor from a standpoint of science.
The following is a list of the
26 standard topics that are repeated twice a year. This offer contains 23
sets of 26 Bible lessons each, the first standardized Bible lessons that
were ever created, which were prepared for the Christian Science church
and constituted its Sunday sermon during the years 1898-1909. All 23 sets
(1898-1909) are available for downloading from this web site for an
honorary contribution of $7.00 per set ($10.00 Canadian), as specified
under down-loading.
A software tool had been
developed while the research was going on, exploring Mary Baker Eddy's
structure for scientific development, based on the biblical city
foursquare (Revelation 21). The software tool automatically relates the
most vital features of the development structure to the texts of the Bible
Lessons that Mary Baker Eddy had set up to comprise the sermon in her
church. These formalized lessons were created to be read by two designated
readers, one for reading citations from the Bible, and the other for
reading corellative passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The linkage is a
correlation between the 16 element positions of the foursquare matrix that
Mary Baker Eddy has outlined, and the 16 chapters of the Christian Science
textbook which directly relate to this matrix. The interrelationships
brings the vast range of the development structure dynamically into
context with the selected lesson texts.
Twenty-three sets of Bible
lessons have been specifically prepared to display during the reading of
the texts all the relevant reference materials that bring together the
various scientific aspects that pertain to the citation texts. The so
prepared sets of Bible lessons had been originally created for the years
1898 to 1909. While Mary Baker Eddy may not have been officially involved
in creating these lessons, one must assume that she was involved to some
extend, because one can sense the directing influence of her pioneering
understanding.
As one would expect, the Bible Lesson structure is
itself directly related to her foursquare matrix structure for scientific
and spiritual development. However, whatever needs to be said about it is
already included in the nine volume series, and has been presented in
Volume 3. The Bible lessons add a great scope of utility to the process of
exploration, but they do not add a separate fundamental aspect for
exploration for which a sperate volume would be required. The nine volumes
are complete in design, but the development process that they are designed
to facilitate is never complete. The Bible lessons are an aspect of this
boundless development or unfolding.
Below is a list of the 26
topics that comprise each set of lessons.
The individual topics are
the following:
- God
- Sacrament
- Life
- Truth
- Love
- Spirit
- Soul
- Mind
- Christ Jesus
- Man
- Substance
- Matter
- Reality
- Unreality
- Are Sin, Disease, and Death
Real?
- Doctrine of
Atonement
- Probation after
Death
- Everlasting
Punishment
- Adam and Fallen Man
- Mortals and
Immortals
- Soul and Body
- Ancient and Modern
Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism Denounced
- God the only Cause and
Creator
- God the Preserver of
Man
- Is the Universe, Including
Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?
- Christian Science
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Canada
(c) Copyright 1995
Cygni
Communications Ltd.
Canada
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