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I will be showing there is an orchestrated attempt by the Christian Science Mother Church to cover up Mary Baker Eddy's interest in British Israelist pyramidology. First thing they cannot deny that Eddy and many of her elite followers like Augusta Stetson and Sibyl Marvin Huse were British Israelists. However, upon Eddy's death, the Mother Church made it an excommunicable offense to hold British Israelist views. However as I will be showing later, the Mother Church is making efforts to distance Eddy from pyramidology. This is impossible since Eddy was a loyal adherent of Charles Adiel Lewis Totten who was a British Israelist pyramidologist. I have more evidence of her connection to Pyramidology, but at least the more neutral Encyclopedia. com states statedly that she was indeed a pyramidologist. Why is Christian Science so afraid of its pyramidology past?
Church Of Christ, Scientist
Christian Science Center
Boston, MA 02115
The Church of Christ, Scientist grew out of the experiences, work and writings of Mary Baker Eddy. Following her healing in 1866, which happened concurrently with her discovery of God as the sole reality of life, Eddy began a period of Bible study which involved testing the practicality of her new discovery, as well as questioning the earlier teachings on mental healing she had received from Phineas P. Quimby. The result was the development of her thought, first expressed in a booklet, The Science of Man(1870) and later embodied in her textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures(1875). She began almost immediately to apply the precepts of Christian Science to healing and to teach them informally to others. Her work led her to seek a letter of dismissal from the Congregational Church in which she was raised, and in 1876 she founded the Christian Science Association, the first organization for her students.
The next 16 years were ones of the development of a variety of organizational expressions, some temporary, some lasting. A final reorganization in 1892 and the development of the church's by-laws in the Church Manual(1895), resulted in the church as it is known today. These 16 years were punctuated by the formation of the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879; Eddy's ordination in 1881; the dissolution of the church in 1889; and its reorganization in 1892. This reorganization placed the governance of the Christian Science movement in the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, generally known as The Mother Church. The remainder of Eddy's life was spent in perfecting the textbook of the movement which went through several revisions and in completing by-laws as codified in the Church Manual. The texts of these two volumes remain the prime sources of the church's doctrine and polity.
The beliefs of the Church of Christ, Scientist are summarized in the Tenets printed in both Science and Health(p. 497) and the Church Manual(p. 15). The Church defines itself as Christian in essence, a major difference between it and most other "metaphysical" churches with which it is often compared. The Tenets affirm the Church's allegiance to the inspired Word of the Bible as the sufficient guide to Life; one God; God's Son; the Holy Ghost; and man as being in God's likeness and image. Forgiveness for sin comes in spiritual understanding that casts out evil as having no God-ordained reality. Jesus is acknowledged as the Way-shower. His atonement, as the evidence of God's love and salvation, comes through the Truth, Life, and Love he demonstrated in his healing activity and by his overcoming sin and death.
Healing activity following the principles laid down in the Bible and in Science and Health has been the keynote of the Christian Science movement. Christian healing is a normal practice among members–some giving their full time to the ministry of spiritual healing. This is in accord with Eddy's experience of the allness of God. It is distinct from other forms of healing, especially psychic or magnetic healing.
Eddy is held in high regard by Christian Scientists. The church does, however, carefully distinguish Eddy's status and role as the discoverer of Christian Science from that of Jesus as the Savior of humanity. In like measure, while acknowledging the essential and central role of the Christian Science textbook, it does not understand Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to be a second Scripture or a revelation equal in authority to the Bible. Rather, Science and Health is considered a tool for understanding the Bible.
The governance of the Christian Science movement is vested in The Mother Church, whose rules of operation are spelled out in the Church Manual. Administration is placed in a five-member self-perpetuating board of directors. The board charters branch churches, which are run according to their own democratic control (apart from any matters covered in the Church Manual). Worship in all branch churches is conducted by elected readers, each of whom must be a member in good standing of The Mother Church. Services in the branch churches consist of readings from scripture and Science and Health. The exact passages for eachweek are delineated in The Christian Science Quarterly.
Publications of the Church are produced by the Christian Science Publishing Society and its Board of Directors. Included in its publications are its award-winning newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, its prime foreign language periodical The Herald of Christian Science(published in 12 languages and braille for the blind), and numerous books and pamphlets. Eddy's writings are controlled and published by the Trustees Under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy. Under the Board of Directors of The Mother Church is a Board of Lectureship which approves speakers who travel the world offering free public lectures on Christian Science. The Committee on Publication is charged with correcting false information about the church and injustices done to Mrs. Eddy, The Mother Church, and Christian Scientists.
Headquarters of the church are in the Christian Science Church Center, a large complex in Boston, Massachusetts, which has become one of the city's most-visited tourist stops. Branch churches are found in more than 70 nations of the world (though approximately 73 percent of the membership is in North America).
Membership: Not reported.
Educational Facilities: Unofficial: Principia College, Elsah, Illinois.
Periodicals: The Christian Science Monitor. • The Christian Science Journal. • Christian Science Sentinel Christian Science Quarterly. • The Herald of Christian Science–in 12 languages. Available from One Norway St., Boston, MA 02115.
Remarks: Since its founding, the Church of Christ, Scientist, has been the subject of intense controversy. Its healing emphasis brought criticism from a variety of perspectives, both those who shared the emphasis but followed a different set of teachings and practice, and those who disapproved of any form of spiritual healing. The most intense criticism found its way into various legal proceedings and has led to an extensive body of legal opinion defining the rights and limits of Christian Science practice. Courts have defined Christian Science healing as a legally protected activity of the church as a form of worship. Deductions for some Christian Science services are allowed by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Various state-level committees on publication have issued handbooks defining the legal rights and obligations of Christian Scientists in some detail.
During the 1880s Eddy was accused of drawing her teachings from Phineas P. Quimby, first by Annetta Dresser and her husband, Julius Dresser who, like Eddy, had been students of Quimby, and later by numerous members of what became known as the New Thought movement. An examination of Eddy's writings and the publications of the Church of Christ, Scientist, reveals an essential difference between Eddy's teachings on healing and those of Quimby and finds the major similarity to be in the area of terminology, and the attempt to struggle with some of the same questions of religion and health.
The Church of Christ, Scientist has maintained over the years that there is a basic gulf between its teachings and those of the New Thought movement. This difference is highlighted in Eddy's rejection of Quimby's adherence to magnetic healing and the movement's abandonment of Eddy's essential Christian orientation. The Church also disapproves of the emphasis in the movement on prosperity and the openness to various psychic and occult practices most evident in some of the larger New Thought groups. Christian Science retains a focus on healing and has denounced Spiritualism and animal magnetism, the forms of the occult most evident in Eddy's lifetime, from its earliest years. Some obvious differences between New Thought and Christian Science can be seen by comparing the Tenets of the Church with the Declaration of the International New Thought Alliance (INTA). Despite these differences, the two movements are historicall related. New thought was, to a great extent, built upon the work of Eddy's early students, particularly Emma Curtis Hopkins, and used Science and Health as a major sourcebook. Today New Thought groups vary considerably, from those who are close to Eddy's teaching to those who more closely follow Quimby while developing their own form of metaphysical thought.
Finally, over the years the Church has had to face formal and informal challenges to its authority, beginning with the various individuals and groups claiming to have inherited Mary Baker Eddy's authority. These challenges led to the formation of several movements, such as the Christian Science Parent Church, none of which prospered more than a few years. There is, of course, a small but steady stream of practitioners who have left the church and who continue to practice independently. Many have built a successful personal following (possibly the most prominent being Joel S. Goldsmith). Most, however, have been anti-organization and their following has continued only briefly after their retirement and/or death.
Sources:
Braden, Charles S. Christian Science Today. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1958.
Christian Science: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Materials. Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1990.
Eddy, Mary Baker. Church Manual of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Boston: Trustees Under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1908.
——. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Boston: Trustees Under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1906.
Gill, Gillian. Mary Baker Eddy. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998.
Gottschalk, Stephen. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Peel, Robert. Mary Baker Eddy. 3 vols. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Swihart, Altman K. Since Mrs. Eddy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1931
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