| What is the website for? My answer is that I hope to be
able to get people to step above their incredibly small minded thinking,
both about Mary Baker Eddy and about their own perception of themselves.
To much of humanity, and to many Christian Scientists today, the image of
Mary Baker Eddy is incredibly small as we find it symbolically portrayed
in Christ and Christmas as a woman in a rocking chair, cane in hand.
This small minded perception is very much reflected in society's present tendency to look to countless new Christian Science philosophies which all promise to deliver what Mary Baker Eddy's own provisions for her discoveries did not. We have a great tragedy unfolding here. The tragedy is that there is nothing to be found in the new philosophies in comparison to the enormous scale of Mary Baker Eddy's work, which is ironically being rejected, and compared to the profundity of her discoveries, and the depth of the scientific structures she has provided for society's developing understanding of her discoveries. But the greater tragedy, is the tragedy of society small minded attitude towards itself and its spiritual capacity to uplift the world, enrich the universe, and put the seal of eternity on time and on their own lives. In Christ and Christmas the space where the last painting should appear has been left blank. This is the page of our future. It exists at a level above the great crown that we see symbolically descending from God out of heaven in a beam of light. We can all 'wear' this crown and step above it, towards its infinite source. We can do this in spite of the limiting atmosphere of human belief, because we are spiritual beings. The spirituality that we find in our humanity is the substance of our civilization. If it is withdrawn, civilization must collapse, as it is already happening. However, if let go of our small minded attitudes and develop the resources that we find in our spirituality, then not even the sky is the limit for what can be achieved in an unfolding new renaissance. This, in short, is what lies before us; what we can bring into our lives to enrich our world and our civilization. The future truly lies in our hands. John foresaw this as a bright future. His vision of humanity was that of a woman clothed with the sun. Mary Baker Eddy certainly saw herself in that way, and so should we see her, and ourselves included. She also provided the means for us to get to this point, and this on a scale that can never be exhausted. Rolf Witzsche
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