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Home > Audiotapes > C-1M: CH. III, Marriage, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
C-1M: CH. III, Marriage, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
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Product Code: C-1MA
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Recordings
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14 hours (14 60-min audiotapes)
Class: 1958, London, UK
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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-1M: When we accept the demands of God (Chapter II, "Atonement and Eucharist") in our daily lives, the outcome is that we experience a higher state of humanity (Chapter III, "Marriage"). Through "wedding" ourselves with the nature of God, we experience a superior, more harmonious and more permanent sense of existence.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: The principle of marriage and all human relationships
- Concessions: in referring to Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist Mrs. Eddy says, "Jesus' concessions (in certain cases) to material methods were for the advancement of spiritual good" (S&H 56:4)
- Comparison of beginning and end of Chapter III, "Marriage"
Mind: legal and moral laws are necessary to secure increasing virtue
- Laws of cause and effect
Spirit: the unity of spiritual qualities exalts and perpetuates marriage
Soul: the blending of spiritual interests elevates and prolongs happiness and life
Principle: Science, not personal sense, is the foundation of permanent companionship or relationship
Life: exalted thought propagates and educates a higher human species
"The new birth" comes by going the ordered way of the chapters
- Marriage, a transitional stage
Recapitulation of main tones: Mind—Life seen through tones of Scriptural note
- Linking the tones through the first three chapters
- Through unity with the tones of M—Li, we become contributing factors to the universe
Correlation of "Marriage" to the Beatitudes
Truth: what constitutes the higher nature of man?
- How we become contributors to society
- Freeing self of "sex beliefs"
Love: Love enforces the disappearance of a false sense of unity, and the acceptance of man's unity with God.
Recapitulation of Chapter III, Mind—Love
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