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The Pioneer of Truth is Blessed
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Product Code: PioneerTruth
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 6 pages
Level:
SUBJECT(s):
Preparing Yourself to Study Science
The Laws of Being
Handling Evil/Mortal Consciousness
RELATED RECORDINGS:
C-1AN, CH. V, Animal Magnetism Unmasked, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (8 hours, audio)
SYNOPSIS: Max Kappeler points out that in "The Revelation of St. John" (Rev. 12), the "woman clothed with the sun," was "with child" and the great red dragon "stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born." In Science and Health we read: "From the beginning to the end, the serpent pursues with hatred the spiritual idea" (564:29). This booklet shows that the best protection for a spiritual idea lies in taking it back to its divine origin—embedded in its divine Principle, Love. Then animal magnetism can touch it no more.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Law of Life
- Mind
- Spirit
- Soul
- Principle
- Life
- Truth
- Love
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, The Pioneer of Truth is Blessed, p. 1–2.
When a new idea of Science is born to mankind the general belief is that the pioneer or the adherents of the new idea will be "unjustly persecuted and belied" (S&H 104:6) and that they will have to pay the price of persecution: sickness, accidents, lack, frustration, loss, death, etc. We should not, however, shun or fear such a belief, but turn and face it squarely, for as Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Ignorance of the error to be eradicated oftentimes subjects you to its abuse" (S&H 446:31–32). But let us be clear that the enmity is not against people, but fundamentally against God and His revelation. Though this belief is age-old and has throughout every epoch of spiritual history tried to manifest itself by bringing about the downfall of the representatives of a progressive spiritual idea, it is well to remember right from the start that it is only a belief, and not a fact or even a law. Because it is only a belief, it has no cause, no origin, no power, no mind, no authority, no law, no channel, no target, no effect; in short, there is no reason to fear it in the slightest. But as it is a "general" belief it needs to be handled through Science. General beliefs cannot be handled merely through individual disbelief, or even by ridiculing such beliefs or disbeliefs. "A belief held by a minority … is governed by the majority" unless the "individual dissent or faith … rests on Science" (S&H 155:11–14). Only through a consciousness rooted in an understanding of Science can collective and universal beliefs be overruled.
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