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Home > Books > When I Think of John W. Doorly…II: Introduction to the Matrix Consciousness
When I Think of John W. Doorly…II: Introduction to the Matrix Consciousness
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Product Code: 0-942958-23-3
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Paperback, 57 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Matrices
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SYNOPSIS: Max Kappeler's teacher, John W. Doorly, CSB (London), discovered the fundamental system of the Science contained within the Bible and Science and Health. This system consists of the 7 synonymous terms for God, the 4-fold operation of God, and the 4 levels of spiritual consciousness. In this book, Kappeler explains how Doorly showed the operational interrelationships between the 7 synonyms and the 4-fold operation, thus presenting the fundamental "fourfold divine calculus" inherent in Being in a matrix form. The word "matrix" is derived from Latin and is defined as "a place within which something originates, takes form, or develops." (Webster's Dictionary).
CONTENTS:
PART I: "The Matrix of Immortality"
Chapter 1: What is Science
Chapter 2: What is the System of Christian Science?
Chapter 3: The Further Scientific Unfoldment to the Matrix Form
Chapter 4: The Word-vertical
Chapter 5: The Christ-vertical
Chapter 6: The Christianity-vertical
Chapter 7: The Science-vertical
Chapter 8: Reduction of the Matrix-elements to Epitomes
Chapter 9: The Completion of the Matrix
Chapter 10: The Vastness of Christian Science
Chapter 11: "Don't Mix the Categories!"
PART II: John W. Doorly: A Spiritual Pioneer
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, When I Think of John W. Doorly…II: Introduction to the Matrix Consciousness, pp. 8–11.
What is the System of Christian Science?
The idea of Christian Science arises in consciousness through spiritual birth. Mrs. Eddy presented the necessary process of "scientific obstetrics" in the Textbook (463:5). She speaks of how to attend the birth of the new idea of Science. Since then, no one has taken scientific obstetrics as a leitmotif for everyday life as seriously as John Doorly. Therefore, we should not be surprised that soon after Mrs. Eddy left us, the spiritual idea began to develop and the roots of a scientific understanding continued to evolve in Doorly's consciousness.
In his study of the Textbook, Doorly felt himself strongly drawn to the seven days of creation and their spiritual interpretation as found in "Science and Health." He sensed great meaning in the seven days of creation as they constitute the beginning of the "Key to the Scriptures." Around 1915, he chose the seven days of creation as the theme of one of his lectures. His message was welcomed enthusiastically. However, a few years later when he presented the same subject as a definite order, he was strongly criticized. This shows that religious consciousness does not welcome scientific thought immediately. The lawful order of the seven days of creation, however, proved to be the beginning and the basis for the scientific development of the Science of Spirit that could not be stopped. For Doorly, this new recognition was clear and self-evident. He brooded over it earnestly and let it develop. This enabled him to find the order of the seven days of creation in other examples: in the Commandments, in the Beatitudes, in the Lord's Prayer, and in the Third Degree ("Understanding") of the "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind" (116:1).
Increasingly, he sensed that there was a close correspondence between the seven days of creation and the 7 synonymous terms for God as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. After Mrs. Eddy had repeatedly reformulated this definition for God in her Textbook, she stated the final order that we have today. This was in 1907—quite a long time since the year of her discovery in 1866. In 1938–39, Doorly and a small study group researched spiritually all references of the synonyms in the Textbook in order to reach a definite conclusion regarding the content of their inherent meanings and their specific characteristics.
Of course, Doorly could not fail to notice that the 7 synonyms in the Textbook also occur in two further arrangements, namely as, (1) divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind in the "Scientific Translation of Immortal Mind" (115:13), and again in (2) the chapter "Glossary" in the following sequence: Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love (587:6).
At this time (the beginning of the 1940s), Doorly also studied intensively Chapter XVI, "The Apocalypse" of the Textbook. This chapter speaks of a new birth and culminates with the allegory of the Holy City descending from heaven. This city has four sides that Mrs. Eddy interprets as: Word, Christ, Christianity, and Science. Thus, a second category was added to scientific metaphysics called the "divine infinite calculus" (520:14).
Accordingly, at that time, the numeration table of Christian Science ('01 22:20) consisted of two categories, like the numeration table of arithmetic. In arithmetic, we have the numbers from 1 through 10 as the first category, and the four modes of operation—addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—as the second category. The entire field of arithmetic can be covered or calculated using these two categories. In scientific metaphysics, we have the seven synonyms as the definition of the nature of God as the first category, and we have the four modes of operation of God, or the divine calculus, as the second category. The interrelationship of these two categories yields an infinite number of divine calculations. This is the key to Doorly's additional insight that the sequence of the seven synonyms was, for the time being, limited to only three orders. The seven synonyms could be arranged in 5,040 different ways (expressed mathematically as "7!" or "seven factorial"). The order of the synonyms is determined by the fourfold calculus, however, and that excludes any arbitrary combinatorics. Thus, it became apparent that the first side of the Holy City, the Word of God, is defined by the following order of the synonyms: "Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love" (465:10). We call this order the "Word-order," that is, the orderly revelation (definition) of God's nature. The second side of the Holy City that Mrs. Eddy interprets as Christ can be explained through the "Christ-order" as "divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind," which is the translation of the Christ (115:13). The third side is Christianity, and the sequence of the synonyms, the "Christianity-order," appears in the "Glossary" as "Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love" (587:6).
In this way, the first three sides of the Holy City were defined through the three orders of the synonyms. A question remained unanswered: Since the Holy City has four sides, would not the fourth side also have to be explained by a synonym-order? However, such an arrangement did not seem to be obviously present in the Textbook. But there had to be an answer to this question! Doorly never let himself be taken in by the construction of hypotheses, and he never attempted to force an answer through the method of combinatorics. For this reason, he carried this question around in his heart for a long time, relying on the certainty that every right answer will come forth through spiritual birth.
At that time, Doorly was also concerned with the major question of the difference between becoming and being. He saw that Word, Christ, and Christianity all have a great deal to do with unfolding, while Science has more to do with a condition of being. His spiritual scientific consciousness recognized that the fourth side of the Holy City, Science, does not proceed linearly as in the process of becoming, but occurs, rather, as a condition of being that is described through its structure. Thus, in consciousness, he crystallized the view of the Word-order structurally, starting from the center, from Principle. Viewed in this manner, Principle, occupying the center, comprises all of the other synonyms placed on both the left and right side of it, beginning with "Soul and Life," then proceeding to "Spirit and Truth," and finally "Mind and Love." This insight was the result of his spiritually cultivated sense. But could this insight also be documented scientifically? This question could also be answered in a convincing manner. The picture of the seven-armed candlestick that Moses had given the Israelites as the highest symbol for God suddenly came to Doorly's consciousness in a flash. This candlestick has a shaft (Principle) with three pairs of arms unifying the lamps and providing them with oil. One pair symbolizes "Soul and Life," the next pair symbolizes "Spirit and Truth," and the last pair "Mind and Love." All three pairs of arms are equally sustained by Principle and provided with oil. The seven lamps no longer have a linear order, but rather, a structural one. Becoming has turned into being.
The symbol of the seven-armed candlestick yielded another scientific insight. The seven yielded a four, since the candlestick, including the base and the three pairs of arms, symbolize a fourfold structural system. This "Science-order" thus includes the Science of the Word ("Soul and Life"), the Science of the Christ ("Spirit and Truth"), the Science of Christianity ("Mind and Love") in the Science of Science (Principle). With these insights, Doorly was able to clarify, first of all, the two fundamental categories of Christian Science: (1) the order of the synonyms, and (2) the fourfold divine calculus.
Doorly placed these four orders in the form of a table: View Table 1, Doorly Matrix
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