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The One Man
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Product Code: OneManF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 22 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Christian Science as a Science
The 4-fold Operation of Being
The Christ-idea
RELATED RECORDINGS:
M-2, The Universal Life-principle (1 hour, audio)
SYNOPSIS: Man is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas (see S&H 475:14). The one real man is the combination of all of God's ideas, that is to say, all the ideas of Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. This compound idea of God is also called generic man. Man is "the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness" (S&H 475:15) and "God is one. The allness of Deity is ... [its] oneness. Generically man is one, and specifically man means all men" (S&H 267:5).
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Word: What is the one man?
- The false concept of "man"
- The true definition of "man"
- Man is the reflection of God
- Oneness of God and man
- Indivisible Being
Chapter 2: Christ: The one man as Christ-idea
Chapter 3: Christianity: The one man as the one manhood
Chapter 4: Science: The one man as scientific man
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, The One Man, p. 1.
Christian Science, while defining the nature and essence of God in a new way, also gives us a completely new definition of the term "man." The more fully we understand what God is, the more clearly we can see what man, the image and likeness of God, is. And the more clearly we see what is meant by the name "man" from the standpoint of a spiritually scientific understanding, the more surely this true view leads us out of the erroneous belief in man as a corporeal mortal.
Biblical teaching reaches its climax in the book of Revelation with John's symbol of the holy city foursquare, coming down from heaven. In the system of Christian Science, the four sides symbolize the four modes of operation of the one Being: Word, Christ, Christianity, Science. We will look at the great theme of "The One Man" from this standpoint, that is, "from heaven," and analyze it from the four sides of this city—from Word, Christ, Christianity, and Science respectively. In this way, we gain a progressively higher and wider spiritual view of what constitutes true man, which at the same time frees us from all the false concepts of man and their attendant beliefs.
The first aspect, the Word of God, leads us to a divine, true definition of man as the one man, God's man. This is the aspect which needs to be treated most fully.
The second aspect, Christ, shows that man is the one Christ-man, delivering us from mortal manhood.
The third aspect, Christianity, presents man as the one true manhood.
The fourth aspect, Science, portrays this one man as scientific man, as the infinite calculus of being.
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