C-158: Summary of the First Four Chapters in Science and Health, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)

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8 hours (8 60-min audiotapes) Class: 1958, London, UK Level: SUBJECT(s): The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook RELATED BOOKS: Max Kappeler, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life, Vol. I: Revelation of the Structure Overview of C-1 Series: For over 60 years, Max Kappeler presented the structure of the Christian Science textbook through books, lectures, and classes, showing the divinely structured layout of each chapter. Kappeler's premise is that Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, is a revealed text and contains the whole of Christian Science. Read atomistically (sentences read out of context), the divinely inspired structure is missed. Our challenge is to understand Mrs. Eddy's revelation in its Science, something that can only be achieved through understanding the Textbook's spiritual system and structure. Once John W. Doorly pointed out the fundamental categories of the scientific system of Christian Science, it became possible for Kappeler to interpret the entire Textbook as a divinely structured, coherent story. This story leads the student through an evolution of understanding and consciousness in an uninterrupted, ordered way, from the first page to the last. This spiritual story is our ordered way of life and our teacher. SYNOPSIS of C-158: The overall standpoint of Chapters I–IV is the revelation of God's nature. In Chapter I, "Prayer," we see that we must accept God's nature in us. In Chapter II, "Atonement and Eucharist," we find that God's nature manifests itself in us in spite of error. Chapter III, "Marriage," shows us that God's nature demonstrates itself in us as a higher humanhood. And in Chapter IV, "Christian Science versus Spiritualism," God's nature can be understood only by scientific methods of understanding; only the spiritual is real. CONTENTS: A discussion of the scientific method of study The overall tone of the talks:    - Going the way of life    - Giving birth to the idea Only by understanding Chapters I–IV can we grasp that Life is Spirit "Prayer" Recapitulation of "Prayer": following the Principle of prayer, we gain demonstration Approach God from wholeness, not lack Meditation versus scientific prayer "Atonement and Eucharist" Scientific Eucharist (spiritual communion with God) Linking Chapters I and II "Prayer," the seed-plot of the Textbook Spiritual progress measured by demonstration "Marriage" The blending (wedding) of spiritual qualities brings about a higher civilization, and the emergence of a more spiritual sense of life Factors that promote humanity versus factors that disintegrate "Christian Science versus Spiritualism" Linking chapters I–III, to IV Part I analyzes error Part II uncovers error Part III annihilates error Scientific understanding is the only way to spiritualization Linking Parts I, II, III Linking the Word-vertical chapters, questions put to each Method of study: seeing place value of each chapter in the whole, grasping the attitude of each