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This Lie Called Evil
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Product Code: 0-942958-02-0
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Paperback, 124 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Handling Evil/Mortal Consciousness
RELATED RECORDINGS:
M-46, Handling Evil: The 4 levels of Science (2 hours, audio)
SYNOPSIS: This book shows a systematic analysis of evil through the three categories of Science—the 7 synonymous terms for God, the 4-fold operation of God, and the 4 levels of Science. Evil is seen as a misunderstanding about God, and not a thing or entity itself. The resolution of evil, therefore, involves understanding God through Science, rather than "fighting" the phenomena of evil as they appear in our individual and collective experience. This method was presented by Mary Baker Eddy in her Textbook, and researched and taught by John W. Doorly and Max Kappeler in their work on the Science of Christian Science.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Four fundamental questions in regard to handling evil
Chapter 1: The First Category: The Nature of God
Chapter 2: The Second Category: The Operation of God
Chapter 3: The Third Category: The Levels of Science
Summary
EXCERPT: From Denise Breton, This Lie Called Evil, pp. 7–8.
Four fundamental questions in regard to handling evil
To see how the categories of Being analyze the question of evil, we will pose four questions to each of the three categories and their main subcategories. These four questions indicate how divine Being operates through its fourfold office of Word, Christ, Christianity, and Science to systematically silence the question of evil.
1) What is the Category of Reality?
How do each of the three fundamental categories represent divine Being? We must start from a right concept of God through a right concept of the categories of Science that represent God. We gain this right concept by culturing the unique set of spiritual qualities that characterize each category of Being. To answer this question meaningfully takes a lifelong culture, involving us in the study of many works on the subject. However, we must also consider the practical implications of these categories of reality in this case, for resolving the question of evil. Thus we can ask:
2) How Does the Category of Reality Uncover Evil?
The categories of Being include no element of evil. Yet, by the law of opposites, the true nature and operation of reality uncover the lie or counterfeit concept. The truth of 2 + 2 = 4 makes every other answer to this calculation wrong. Indeed, every other calculation of 2 + 2 is simply a misunderstanding of the correct calculation. Likewise in Science, what appears to be evil is really the divine categories misunderstood. To see what are the facts of being automatically analyzes and uncovers whatever counterfeits these facts. Yet do these categories leave evil or misunderstanding undisturbed? We must ask the third question:
3) How Does the Category of Reality Resolve Evil?
The truth of the categories of Being not only analyzes and uncovers but also annihilates evil—makes evil disappear. "God says, I am too pure to behold iniquity, and destroy everything that is unlike Myself" (Un. 18:7). Evil or misunderstanding cannot co-exist with the fact of being but is driven from consciousness by the facts that are. We are compelled to forsake the categories of human belief, to give up all belief in evil and so "never to believe a lie" (S&H 540:23). At this point, we can ask:
4. How Does the Category of Reality Restructure Understanding?
Finally, we can investigate the divine process of eliminating the possibility of evil by filling consciousness with the facts that are. The categories of reality operate as our consciousness and so give us scientific immunity from the arguments of evil. Under the impulsion of the divine categories, we accept the structure of Science not only as the structure of consciousness but also as the structure of being. This is our ultimate solution to the problem of evil.
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