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A Study Aid for the Science of Christian Science
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Product Code: StudyAidS
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Max Kappeler
Spiral bound, 116 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
The 7 Synonymous Terms for God
The 4-fold Operation of Being
The 4 Levels of Science
The Laws of Being
Divine Cybernetics
RELATED RECORDINGS:
All of Kappeler's recordings
SYNOPSIS: This book is an invaluable aid to those who are studying Kappeler's writings and recordings in depth. It is comprised of the diagrams and illustrative materials used in his numerous summer school classes and books—a compilation that spans over 50 years of teaching. It is most useful to those who have a solid grasp of the scientific system of Christian Science. It is not a book that can be read per se. These diagrams must be pondered in association with Kappeler's works. Experience has shown that visual aids, especially in the form of charts and diagrams, are highly supportive of a structural understanding of the subject.
CONTENTS:
Preface
PART I: The Divine System of Reference
- The 7 synonymous terms for God—Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love
- The 4-fold operation of Being—Word, Christ, Christianity, Science
- The 4 levels of Science—Science itself, divine Science, absolute Christian Science, Christian Science
PART II: The Laws of Being
PART III: Matrices
PART IV: Definitions
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, A Study Aid for the Science of Christian Science, pp. i–ii. Preface
The fundamental insight that Christian Science is a Science brings with it crucial implications for how Christian Science can be most fruitfully approached. Whereas religion draws on sentiment, belief, and ritual observance, a science requires ordered, systematic education and study. Such an impersonal ordered method of investigation opens the field for anyone who is willing to seek the subject step-by-step, working from the simplicity of the fundamentals to the fullness of their implications.
This accent on an ordered schooling in the fundamentals is most true in the Science of Christian Science. Why? The essence of Science lies in its ability to reduce an infinite unknown—namely, God as a whole—to the simplicity of a few fundamental categories. What are these categories?
- The 7 synonymous terms for God—Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love—present the nature of Being.
- The 4-fold calculus—Word, Christ, Christianity, Science—shows the self-operation of Being.
- The 4 levels of Science—Science itself, divine Science, absolute Christian Science, Christian Science—show the dimensions of spiritual consciousness through which Being operates and presents itself in life-experience.
Through these few categories, the nature, operation, and multidimensional workings of the one Being can be understood, revealing the divine system of Science. "Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live" (S&H 146:31). "Reduction to system" is this paragraph's marginal heading (S&H 147).
What is the practical value of learning and understanding the system? The system of the fundamental categories presents the basic tools of Christian Science, for all scientific work—be it study and research, text-interpretation, or demonstration and practice—builds on an understanding of the categories of Being. "This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle on which Jesus' healing was based" (S&H 147:1). The system of Science provides the foundation for all understanding and demonstration, establishing in us a divine standpoint and consciousness.
To this end, study and research in the Science of Christian Science is devoted wholly to understanding the few fundamental categories … Unlike prose, charts and diagrams are uniquely adapted to presenting, with maximum simplicity, a whole structure of relationships … With each page, references are given, showing where, in the many books and tapes, the subject is explained in depth. In this way, the study aid can be of great assistance not only to classes but also to individual home-study. One finds a line of ordered investigation of the subject through which each student can progress self-reliantly in his study of the system of Christian Science.
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