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The Necessary Change of Standpoint
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Product Code: NecessaryF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 13 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Preparing Yourself to Study Science
Introduction to the Divine System of Reference (7, 4 & 4)
The Ascending and Descending Way
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SYNOPSIS: Christian Science teaches that there is only one true Being, and that by identifying ourselves with the one Being, we can consciously experience it in our lives. But this is an enormous task. To willingly give up everything that does not coincide with Being is a long process. This booklet outlines the steps and changes necessary for us to leave behind the old structures of consciousness and adopt a purely spiritual structure of consciousness.
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CONTENTS:
The approach to the one Being
The ascending way of consciousness
The seven days of creation as our ascending way
The big breakthrough
The way of demonstration
The new attitude
The "7" and the "4" in the sixth day of creation
The new method of treatment
Meekness is necessary
The way of understanding within the "Model of Being"
How do we arrive at this turning point?
The way to the standpoint of Science
Means for understanding
True motives
Striving is necessary and good
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, The Necessary Change of Standpoint, p. 1.
The Approach to the one Being. Christian Science teaches that there is only one true Being, and that by identifying ourselves with the one Being, we can experience it in our lives.
This effort to give up everything which does not coincide with Being is a long process. It means breaking away from age-old, traditional forms of consciousness. We must wean ourselves from human opinions and beliefs that originate in the physical senses which still form our concepts of the outer world. We must give up the mystical views that are imbedded in our thinking. Our consciousness today is far from coinciding with the scientific state of consciousness needed to free us from all these old beliefs. In order to approach the one Being, we must first give up the old views and adopt a purely spiritual structure of consciousness.
This is an enormous task for mankind. We must answer the question: How can we become one with Being, the only real Being that greatly differs from our human beliefs? This answer involves two considerations:
1. How can we turn to the one Being? What steps are necessary so that we can leave behind the old structures of consciousness and become one with Being? In other words: How can we approach Being?
2. As this change of consciousness takes place within ourselves, we are ready to accept the standpoint of Being as our own standpoint. This enables us to look at our being or existence from the very standpoint of Being itself. Then we see everything—man and the universe—in the light of the one Being. Then the question arises: How is consciousness structured when it reflects the true Being? How do the universe, man, and all our experiences appear to us when we are sitting on the throne of the Almighty, so to speak? How does everything appear when we take the standpoint of the three categories of Being?
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