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Home > Audiotapes > C-1PR: CH. I, Prayer, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
C-1PR: CH. I, Prayer, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
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Product Code: C-1PRA
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Recordings
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27 hours (27 60-min audiotapes)
Class: 1956, 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
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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-1PR: Prayer is the beginning of every approach to God, and Chapter I, "Prayer," shows the qualities necessary for such an approach. In Christian Science, in order to pray correctly, we need to have a deep desire to know God as God is. When we open ourselves to God's nature and accept the divine nature as our own, our lives become "answered" prayer.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: spiritually scientific system of study
- Meaning of Science and scientific approach
- Overall tone of the chapter
Method of study:
- Science requires seeing the relationships between the subjects
Mind: the prayer of wisdom through true desire
Spirit: the prayer of reflection, through the longing to express divine qualities
Soul: the prayer of reformation through the cancellation of sin
Principle: the prayer of honesty through correction
- Uniting the qualities of prayer reflecting Mind, Spirit, Soul, constitutes a principled prayer
- Honest vs. dishonest prayer
Life: the prayer for wholeness through deep concentration
- Conformity between attitude and life practice
Truth: the prayer of spiritual consciousness through the affirmation of spiritual facts
- How Truth builds on Mi—Li
Love: the prayer of deliverance through holiness
- The Lord's prayer, its seven statements
- Prayer in the context of spiritual evolution
- The Old Testament
- The New Testament
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
- The scientific simplicity and unity of Chapter I, "Prayer"
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