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Home > Audiotapes > C-1C: CH. IX, Creation, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
C-1C: CH. IX, Creation, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
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Product Code: C-1CA
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Recordings
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13 hours (13 60-min audiotapes)
Class: 1978, Wilmington, DE
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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-1C: When we realize that everything is determined by our state of consciousness, a completely new universe opens up: the universe of ideas. Mental limitations and restrictions fall away. True creation is seen as the infinite image, or infinite idea, of the infinite Mind, because all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: An investigation of the structural concept of reality
- Old versus new system of reference
- How can we arrive at the new scientific understanding? Spirit imparts it through classifications, interrelationships, individualization with a scientific system.
Structure: reality lies in relationships, not isolated facts, meaning is relational
Structural interpretations
- Order and tonality
- Spiritual language
- Only dimensional consciousness (linear, horizontal reasoning intersecting with vertical reasoning) is capable of structural interpretation
- This demand synchronic reading, seeing the intertwining of categories and levels
Place value of chapter: Christianity/Word within the Textbook matrix on the levels of aCS/CS
Word, Christ, Christianity, and Science in aCS/CS in the Word chapters: I–III, IV, in the Christ chapters: V–VI, VII–VIII
First Christianity chapter: "Creation"
Scientific method of interpretation shown through
- interrelationships of M—Lo
- Intersecting of levels and categories, synchronic composition
- Seeing creation from two standpoints: limited, material vs. infinite, spiritual
Categorial interpretations:
Mind: creation is the infinite image or idea emanating from infinite Mind
Spirit: spirit, not matter, is the substance of an idea and of creation
Soul: the image and likeness of God, man, is not mind in matter, man reflects infinity, and man is the infinite idea
Principle: in Science, man is the infinite idea as perfect as the perfect Principle
Life: the fatherhood of man, which exalts thought to the contemplation of man as an immortal idea
Truth: the sonship of man claims the truth of creation
Love: the motherhood of man confers heaven
Review of chapter
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