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Home > Audiotapes > C-2PR: CH. I, Prayer, The Christian Science Textbook: A workshop on text-interpretation (audiocassette)
C-2PR: CH. I, Prayer, The Christian Science Textbook: A workshop on text-interpretation (audiocassette)
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Product Code: C-2PRA
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Recordings
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26 hours (26 60-min audiotapes)
Class: 1983, Whittier, CA
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
Max Kappeler, The Science of Prayer
Overview of C-2 Series:
In the C-1 series of recordings, students are introduced to the divine structure of the Textbook. In this C-2 series, Kappeler outlines the exact method that enables a student of Science to get beyond personal interpretations of a revealed text and discover its divinely objective structure. Using Chapters I–V in the Textbook as a working example, these classes teach the fundamental method of spiritually scientific text-interpretation:
1) How to discern the spiritual structure of the text based on the categories of divine Being.
2) How the Textbook presents its spiritual symphony, and how to distinguish the leading tones and elements within the symphony—the method of epitomizing.
3) How to work with the spiritual structure to answer questions intrinsic to the subject, as well as practical implications for daily living.
This program is for more advanced students of Science. A comprehensive understanding of the divine system of reference, or completion of the Syllabus program, is recommended.
SYNOPSIS of C-2PR: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, must be understood in its Science through system and structure, including the 7 synonymous terms for God. Using the method of scientific text-interpretation, we first find the overall theme of the chapter. Then we investigate the chapter's main tones and subtones. The result of this study shows us that true prayer is a step-by-step spiritual process toward understanding God.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: the background, value and method of scientific text interpretation
- History of discovery of the spiritual order, structure, categories, system, laws
- Jesus and St. John promised a "Comforter"
Understanding Science and system of the Textbook
- Principle interprets itself through its own categories
- Unscientific text-interpretation leads to many religious sects
Science versus metaphysics
- Scientific consciousness is structured according to the structure of Being
The Scientific interpretation of "Prayer"
- Tone of the chapter as a whole
- Why do we pray?
- In what way can prayer be a danger?
- Is prayer per se good or evil?
Scriptural note I: Mind, Spirit, Soul
- Method
- Meaning is relational
- Selective reading of the text for tonality
- Identifying the counterfeits
Scriptural note II: Love and Mind
- Tone of the chapter in line with the 6th and 7th 1000-year periods
- Our prayer should be for that which God has in Mind
- The art of abstraction
- The principle of redundancy
- Deductive method of interpretation
Mind: The prayer of true desire to know God, divine Being, as it is brings us into unity with the intelligent active All-Mind.
- Pondering the tones until it becomes a spiritual atmosphere
- Dimensional or symphonic composition of the text
Spirit: The prayer of reflecting the divine Being through the culturing of spiritual qualities brings us into unity with the unfoldment of Spirit.
Law of the subtones
- Spirit—subject yields full sense of spiritual qualities
- Negative qualities and how each hinders progress
Soul: The prayer of sinlessness, fulfilling the Christ-demand to rebuke sin, brings us into unity with Soul's ability to reform.
Review of the prayer of Soul
Principle: The prayer of obedience to God, the prayer of honesty, by which we bring everything within us into accord with God, unites us with the impersonal working of the divine Principle.
- Why translated forms of ideas are used in the first chapter versus ideas or idea
- Method of finding the pith of a long text and testing the correctness of an epitome
Life: The prayer of an understanding, living devotion to the divine, which is willing to sacrifice the mortal, brings us into unity with all-renewing Life.
- Review of Life
Truth: The prayer of spiritual consciousness, which is closed to error and open to Truth, brings us into unity with the dominion of Truth.
- Symphonic versus diachronic use of the synonymous terms
- How the law of Truth, Life, Love differs from the method of argumentation
Love: The prayer of glorifying the perfection of being brings us into unity with the perfection of Love
Review of the "Lord’s Prayer"
- Correct interpretation of the sevenfold aspect of prayer gives ordered method of prayer
- Matrix of "Prayer" and the law of the subtones
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