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Only Science Reveals
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Product Code: OnlySciF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 25 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
The 4 Levels of Science
The Bible in the Light of Christian Science
The Ascending and Descending Way
RELATED RECORDINGS:
C-1G, CH. XV, Genesis, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (26 hours, audio & video)
SYNOPSIS: This booklet shows that only divine Principle, God, can interpret the universe, based on its own inherent divine categories (7+4+4). The answer to our most fundamental questions of being is shown to be answered in the first part of "Genesis" in the Bible in the light of the 4 levels of Science.
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: The answer and its right interpretation
only divine Principle can interpret the universe
Chapter 2: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen.1:1).
the level of Science itself
the level of divine Science
the level of absolute Christian Science
the level of Christian Science
Chapter 3: The scientific interpretation of the Bible
summary of "Genesis" 1:1
Chapter 4: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" (Gen. 1:2).
divine Science as Word
divine Science as Christ
divine Science as Christianity
absolute Christian Science
Christian Science
Chapter 5: The symphony of divine revelation
"He that openeth, and no man shutteth"
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, Only Science Reveals, p. 1, 6–7.
In all cultures, throughout all time, man has been stirred by the deepest and most fundamental questions of being. First: What is the primal origin and source of all being? Second: Is there a purpose in being, towards which everything leads? Third, and of greatest importance to human existence: What sense does it all make anyway? These are not theoretical questions that concern only metaphysical philosophers or a few aesthetes, but questions that concern everyone; every individual must find concrete, satisfying, and compelling answers. Why? Only as we know the origin of being are we able to perceive the aim that guides and moves all things; and only as we are able to entrust our life to a plan which is directed towards a definite purpose do we gain a positive answer to the question of the meaning of life.
Chapter 1: The answer and its right interpretation
Only divine Principle can interpret the universe
The answer in the Bible. The answer to these questions is indicated in the first two verses of "Genesis" in the Bible: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" (1:1,2). This simple statement focuses that which is most essential about being: its origin, its aim and its fundamental meaning. However, we see how this statement answers our questions about being only when we gain its right and divinely scientific interpretation. Only through the correct method of interpretation can the "so-called mystery and miracle, which subserve the end of natural good, [be] explained by that Love for whose rest the weary ones sigh when needing something more native to their immortal cravings than the history of perpetual evil" (S&H 501:13). This right interpretation is found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy….
The 4 levels of Science
The Textbook interprets the first sentence of the Bible through the 4 levels of spiritual consciousness, that category of divine being which scientifically explains the infinite One in all its fundamental dimensions. Specifically, the 4 levels of Science show how the one Being translates itself from the level of Science itself to the levels of divine Science, absolute Christian Science, and Christian Science. These levels of Science show not only how the infinite One appears simultaneously on different levels of consciousness and experience, but also how the one Being can be understood and interpreted differently according to each distinct level. In other words, the 4 levels show us not only what the Principle of being is as it operates on each level of spiritual consciousness, but also how this Principle provides a spiritually scientific method for understanding God and interpreting texts of God's revelation.
With respect to the first verse of "Genesis," the full tone, evident in the Bible text, of God as the infinite, all-inclusive creator, the origin of all existence, yields its spiritually scientific meaning only as it is interpreted according to these 4 levels of spiritual consciousness. Through this method, the explanation given in the Textbook transforms the biblical statement from a vast but indefinite truth to a statement that carries practical, scientific validity, revealing the exact, divinely lawful nature of being.
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