C-1SP: CH. IV, Christian Science versus Spiritualism, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)

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21 hours (21 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-1SP: In Chapter IV, Spirit, God, is the overall tone of the entire chapter. It teaches that Spirit is the only reality, that so-called matter is unreal, and that the belief in matter must be handled scientifically and spiritually. Spiritualism, in its broadest sense, is dualism; it is the belief that Spirit and matter cooperate, which is gross materialism. This chapter explains how to handle the universal belief in materiality (unreality). Part I (Soul & Life) analyzes what is real and what is unreal. Part II (Mind & Truth) shows that the Mind of Christ uncovers a wrong state of mind. Part III (Spirit & Love) postulates that the final spiritualization of all things is the plan of Love—the complete disappearing of all inharmonies before the supremacy of Spirit. CONTENTS: Overview of the Chapter III, "Marriage"    - Only as we grow away from the false through the first three chapters will the fourth chapter, "Christian Science Versus Spiritualism," be a living reality. What is spiritualism? What is God, Spirit? Spirit (the overall tone of the entire chapter) Part I: Soul and Life    - Analyzing error Mind: only ideas constitute the eternal identities of being Spirit: the immortal sense of existence cannot commune with the mortal sense of existence Soul: a spiritual sense of existence cannot undergo a backward transformation into a material sense of existence (There is no main tone of Principle) Life: understanding that man never lives or dies in body has a resuscitating effect Truth: the spiritual understanding of Life, constituting spiritual man, destroys the corporeal sense of existence Love: spiritual life is blessed by God, universal good; while material life with its pains and pleasures brings hell and ultimately vanishes Purpose of Chapter IV (Science must explain the question of mortal existence)    - Spirit as the overall tone of chapter IV    - What is true mediumship? (scientific understanding)    - The belief in spiritualism can be handled through the one Spirit Recapitulation of Part I    - Mortal mind images are not real Part II: Mind and Truth    - Uncovering error Mind: spiritualism is based on human beliefs and hypotheses, whereas Christian Science is based on the intelligence of the Mind of Christ Spirit: spiritualism derives its strength over matter from mysticism, whereas Mind-science takes its strength from an apprehension of truth Soul: spiritualism can give no evidence of immortality, whereas in Science man's immortality is deduced from the immortality of God Principle: divine Mind-reading rests on Science, whereas spiritualism reads mind from the standpoint of human beliefs Life: mentality projects its own images or forms of thought Truth: spiritualism can never be conscious of true reality, whereas in Christian Science all forms of thought can be called to consciousness Love: the wondrous manifestations of spiritualism are mere illusions, whereas veritable ideas alone work real wonders Part III: Spirit and love    - Annihilating error Mind: knowing and accepting final reality reduces error to its native nothingness Spirit: spiritual selfhood, which is a part of God, denies material selfhood, which is no part of God or man Soul: understanding Soul as outside of body silences the serpent's commendation of a limited and finite sense Principle: governs man scientifically, not humanly and personally Life: the motive and aims of spiritual-mindedness are always constructive Truth: Christ, Truth, brings the end of error together with the disappearance of matter before the supremacy of Spirit Love: the Science of Christianity offers universal salvation through true spirituality