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Home > Books > When I Think of John W. Doorly…I: “Scientific Obstetrics”
When I Think of John W. Doorly…I: “Scientific Obstetrics”
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Product Code: WhenIThinkF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 15 pages
Level:
SUBJECT(s):
Christian Science as a Science
Preparing Yourself to Study Science
Healing and Christian Science Practice
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SYNOPSIS: What is the spiritual meaning of "scientific obstetrics" (S&H 463:5–20)? Scientific obstetrics is often misunderstood as referring to the birth of a human baby. John W. Doorly was well aware of its deeper spiritual meaning, and during the years before WWI, he was already putting great emphasis on obstetrics. It describes the birth or revelation of a new spiritual idea in human consciousness.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Scientific Obstetrics from the standpoint of the 7 synonyms for God.
Chapter 2: Scientific Obstetrics from the standpoint of the 4 divine modes of operation.
Chapter 3: Scientific Obstetrics from the standpoint of the 4 Science-levels.
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, When I Think of John W. Doorly...I: "Scientific Obstetrics, p. 1.
During the years before World War I, John W. Doorly was already putting great emphasis on the paragraph about scientific obstetrics, which appears in Chapter XIII of the Christian Science textbook (see S&H 463:5-20). His whole inner attitude seemed to be shaped by this subject; he would talk again and again about that paragraph. During all the decades of my work in the Christian Science field, I never met anyone else who pondered this subject as deeply as John Doorly did. In fact, scientific obstetrics is often misunderstood as referring only to the birth of a human baby. John Doorly was well aware of its much deeper spiritual meaning. Therefore, he would frequently start and conclude his classes and talks by discussing that subject with his students.
What then is the deeper meaning of scientific obstetrics? What is going to be born? If we put it negatively, we can say: It is not about the birth of a human child, of a new mortal. Positively, we can see that it concerns the birth or appearance or revelation of a new spiritual idea in human consciousness. A spiritual idea is always the idea of God. We can understand God through the three main categories of Being, i.e. through (1) the 7 synonyms for God; (2) the 4 divine modes of operation of Word, Christ, Christianity, and Science; and (3) the 4 levels of Science, i.e. Science itself, divine Science, absolute Christian Science and Christian Science. Only when we understand the divine idea through the three divine categories of Being do we gain a true concept of the birth of the divine idea.
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