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What is the Science of Being?
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Product Code: ScienceBeingF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 25 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Christian Science as a Science
Introduction to the Divine System of Reference (7, 4 & 4)
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SYNOPSIS: This booklet broadly outlines the Science that produces solutions to our life's problems. When we think about being, we find there are four fundamentally important questions to be answered:
1. What is reality?
2. How can I consciously become one with reality?
3. How can I apply these methods in practical everyday life?
4. How can I learn the method by which I can accept my oneness with the reality of being?
When we consciously unite with the nature and essence of spiritual reality, we touch a power far greater than any other known to man.
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CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is reality?
Chapter 2: How can I unite with reality?
Chapter 3: How can this new method be of practical use?
Chapter 4: How do I become schooled in the understanding of reality?
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, What is the Science of Being?, pp. 7–9.
The divine system of reference. This is not the place to explain the new, divine system of reference in detail. Initially, the important thing is just to keep in mind the fact that the system of reference with which we can understand reality is fundamentally different from the human, material system. Thus, everyone who takes up the subject of the Science of being must be prepared to give up the old scale of values, which holds good in the domain of human life alone, and take as his only values the new categories of being. A brief comparison of the human and divine systems of reference will suffice to show that they are diametrically opposed to each other:
1. In the human system of reference, we proceed from human thinking, from human reason; only when our intellect and reason and our human knowing all approve, are we really convinced. Opposed to this human reasoning or to the human mind, there is in the divine system of reference a far greater category, which we call divine Mind. It is that intelligence which does not come from the human mind or originate in the brain. The reality of being can be understood only when we no longer rely on the categories of human knowing and reasoning, but adopt the standpoint of divine seeing and discerning.
2. In the human system of reference, we regard matter as real and substantial. In the divine system of reference, Spirit is the only true substance and the only reality. A hundred years ago this new thinking was revolutionary; today physics itself is advancing further and further into metaphysics in its search for the nature of matter.
3. In the human system of reference, we test everything with the help of the physical senses. It is only when a phenomenon is verified by these senses that we are convinced of its existence. But the physical senses are proved to be untrustworthy and inadequate even in the human realm. To be capable of judging what is real we need in fact a higher, spiritual means of perception, one which does not continually deceive us and lead us astray, as the senses do. This higher, spiritual sense we term Soul. In the divine system of reference it is always Soul, and not the senses, which testifies to what is, and what is not, truly real.
4. In the human system of reference, everything is based on human theory and dogma, human personality, and authority. In the divine system of reference, the only authority, to which everything conforms, lies not in a human person, a humanly devised system or any human theory or teaching, but only in being itself, which is the Principle of all that is real.
5. In the human system of reference, we start from the premise that everything is subject to the law of birth, maturity, and decay. In the divine system of reference, there is only being, Life, the "isness" of eternal Life, which does not appear and subsequently disappear.
6. The human system of reference includes error, disease, falsehood—discord of every kind—as part of human existence. The divine system of reference knows only Truth; here discord has no part in reality.
7. In the human system of reference, everything is aligned to hate, envy, destruction, etc. and leads inevitably to imperfection. In the divine system of reference, being is Love—which means that its purpose is always to fulfill itself and never lose perfection.
To recapitulate: Opposed to the human system of reference are seven fundamental prime factors, which characterize the divine system of reference:
1. the human mind—divine Mind;
2. matter—Spirit;
3. the physical senses—Soul;
4. human authority—Principle;
5. death—Life;
6. error—Truth;
7. imperfection—Love.
We capitalize these seven prime factors, on which the divine system of reference is based, to indicate that these seven terms do not have human significance, but denote the nature of divine being. The exact meaning of the seven synonymous terms Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love, and the results which follow from a deep understanding of these seven prime factors of Being, are things which become clear to the student in the course of his thorough study of the Science of being. This brings us once again to the subject of how infinite being can be understood. We have seen that the only possible method of rendering the infinite comprehensible to mankind is the scientific one, by which infinite being is reduced to a few fundamental categories. We have also seen that these must be categories that are inherent in being itself, and that therefore they must be, not human, but divine. Through a knowledge of the seven prime factors of the divine system of reference, and the laws according to which they operate, we can comprehend the reality of being; and we thereby find at the same time the fundamental solution to all the day-to-day problems and questions of human existence.
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