THE SEVEN HEADS OF THE RED DRAGON OPPOSE THE SEVEN OFFICES OF MARY BAKER EDDY – Part 3

THE STAR

THE SIXTH DAY OF TRUTH – Part I

            Gordon W. Brown wrote a book called CIVILIZATION LIETH FOURSQUARE (copyright 1987).  What I want to present to you is CHAPTER III “Christian Science:  Discovery and Founding”.  Mr. Brown presents a seven-day process that Mary Baker Eddy went through during her God-crowned mission.  I do not always agree with Mr. Brown on certain topics (or points), but I do think that he presents a pretty good matrix structure for the whole of human history in accordance with the seven days of Genesis 1-2:3.  He explains that these seven days are not really about the creation of the material world, but rather a period of 7,000 years that begin around 5,000 b.c.  He does not deny that life existed before this time period, but that this is when the time for the BIBLE actually begins.  I tend to agree with him on this point.  We could even say that the BIBLE presents the story of one particular race of people – the Israelites.  The Israelites become the bases for the United States of America where Judaeo Christian faiths are reunited as one people.  When this takes place then the BIBLE story continues on with its Bride – SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Mary Baker Eddy.
            Brown’s book deals with the seven-day unfoldment of human history for the BIBLE.  Of course, the BIBLE only takes us up to the Fifth Day of Life.  The Sixth Day of Truth begins, to my estimation, in June 0996 and ends on June 5, 1996.  At this point, like in Genesis, there is a mental cut off, for the Six Days of Creation are found in the first chapter of Genesis only while the Sabbath Day (7^th Day) is found at the very beginning of chapter 2 in Genesis.  Likewise, on June 6, 1996 the Seventh Day of Love begins.  But it is the Sabbath Day of Rest not really a day of creation like the other six days.  Yet people still refer to these seven days as the seven days of creation.
            In Brown’s third chapter he explains how Mary Baker Eddy’s mission follows this seven-day process because Truth has the seven tones within it; while the Seventh Day of Love has only two tones – Love as Truth and Love as Love.  These seven tones are the seven synonymous terms for God in Mary Baker Eddy’s fourteenth chapter “Recapitulation” in SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURE.  They are part of her answer to the question “What is God?”  It was Mary Baker Eddy’s God-crowned mission to provide us with these seven names of God in order that the Holy City would descend from heaven and be found on earth within man’s conscious thought (The Kingdom of God is within not without).
            {During this four part series my interpolations will be in this type of bracket when I am quoting from Brown’s book.}  I also make some corrections in italics (for titles of books, etc.) and may make some spelling corrections, even though I often leave the English style spelling instead of changing it to the American style spelling.

WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE BIBLE?

            Before I speak about the difference between the two creation accounts I would like to present to you an excerpt from a book called FROM REVELATION TO GENESIS, written by Englishman, W. Gordon Brown.  In these few pages, beginning on page 10, he explains how the BIBLE came to be written.  (I always capitalize the word BIBLE entirely (unless I am quoting another source) because I feel it points to the importance of the masculine BIBLE over all other books, besides its feminine mate, in the world.)  [In this first section my interpolations will be in this type of bracket.]

Starflower of Boston – Part 4

THE WORD AS SCIENCE – “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE versus SPIRITUALISM”

TRUTH {Christian Science} versus ERROR {spiritualism}

Second version of Truth versus Error

Today, as oft, away from sin
            Christ summons thee:
Truth pleads to-night:  Just take Me in!
            No mass for me!

Scriptural basis:
            Behold I stand at the door, and knock, if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. — Christ Jesus.

Starflower of Boston – Part 3

CHRISTIANITY AS THE CHRIST – “SCIENCE OF BEING”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING

First Edition

Christian Science Healing (with the bearded man and white mantle)

Christ was not crucified — that doom
            Was Jesus’ part;
For Sharon’s rose must bud and bloom
            In human heart.*

Forever present, bounteous, free,
            Christ comes in gloom;
And aye, with grace towards you and me,
            For health makes room.

* “God was manifest in the flesh.” — St. Paul.  {Christ is the manifestation of God.}

Scriptural basis:
            If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit [God-likeness] is life because of righteousness. — St. Paul.

            But such as I have, give I thee:  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. — St. Peter.

Starflower of Boston – Part 2

SHARON’S ROSE MATRIX for CHRIST AND CHRISTMAS, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, and WINDOW OF THE OPEN BOOK

THE WORD AS THE WORD – “PRAYER”

STAR OF BETHLEHEM {the STARFLOWER OF BOSTON}

First Edition

Fast circling on, from zone to zone,
            Bright, blest, afar, —
O’er the grim night of chaos shone
            One lone, brave star.

Scriptural basis:
            I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. — Christ Jesus.

Starflower of Boston – Part 1

            Helen Wright’s book STAR OF BOSTON The Life of Mary Baker Eddy has three sections to it.  Part I is about Mary Baker Eddy fulfilling Isaiah 54, Part II is Atonement and Eucharist: the story of the Second Coming of the Christ as Revelation, and Part III is about Christ and Christmas, an illustrated poem by Mary Baker Eddy.  And finally there is a Conclusion.
            What I would like to talk to you about is Part III of her book.  Helen uses quote excerpts from the writings of Alice Orgain and a manuscript attributed (but never confirmed) to Judge Septimus J. Hanna.  When she quotes from this manuscript she places a question mark after Hanna’s name.  She also gives us some ideas on the topic by John Pawlik, someone she knew.  I have studied Christ and Christmas for years, and am not sure that I agree with everything that Alice Orgain writes upon the topic, but I am open to changing my mind.  And I think that I have done so on Illustration 8 – TREATING THE SICK.  It is explained in Helen’s book that every illustration points to a particular time in Mary Baker Eddy’s life, which is probably so, and so I will try and bring out that point to you, as I do not know if I have succeeded in my past posts on the topic in this respect (or on this topic).  Part 1 is about how Christ and Christmas correlates with the symbols in The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston.  Parts 2 and 3 have to do with Sharon’s Rose Matrix and its alignment with WINDOW OF THE OPEN BOOK, a Rose Window on the South side of the little edifice in Boston.
            Helen did not include the material written by Doris Grekel (from one of her biographies on Mary Baker Eddy and in some of her pamphlets she used to publish).  This could be because Helen did not have room for everything out there written on Christ and Christmas, for her book is only 257 pages long and Alice Orgain’s two books are WAY bigger!
            I do not know John Pawlik, so I will leave him out of my discussion, because what I want to explain, at this point, is the big difference between the Orgain, Hanna (?), and Grekel ideas on Christ and Christmas.

Are There Sixteen Commandments?

            Is it possible that there are sixteen Commandments instead of ten?  Perhaps the BIBLE’S Ten Commandments represent man’s ascension to heaven (home, harmony), while six other Commandments; or rather Six Tenets represent God’s descending from heaven, as the Bride, or the Word that is God (Rev. 21:10)?  Is it also possible that these Six Tenets provide mankind with true Democracy through self-government?  I feel as if the Ten Commandments were given to Israel when they needed a material church organization with rules, and Moses (and then his successors, the Levite priests) were the Law givers giving the people their shall nots.  In other words, the early Israelite Church was not based upon self-government but had a bunch of rules and regulations to be followed.  The Ten Commandments, however, were set in stone (ten portions of the infinite divine calculus).  They are our Father-Mother God’s Law that we must follow and obey.  But once we have obeyed them and learned from them, was there something else that needed to be given to the people (both Israel and Christian alike)?  Would these Six Tenets be guidelines for mankind’s self-government via Principle (God)?
            It is quite interesting that when we add (addition is a function of the Christ) the Ten Commandments with these Six Tenets that we come up with the number of sixteen.  Sixteen is the same number for the matrix structure for the divine infinite calculus.  There are sixteen main chapters for the Christian Science Textbook – SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Mary Baker Eddy.  Is it possible then that each of these chapters coincides with the Ten Commandments and the Six Tenets provided in SCIENCE AND HEALTH and the Christian Science Church Manual.  I am willing to take a chance and answer, “Yes.”  And I also feel that I must correlate this matrix pattern with WINDOW OF THE OPEN BOOK, a.k.a. the Director’s Window, located in the Edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts.  I  feel that God revealed all of this to me on June 17, 2018 so that I can present to you the Bride of the City of our God (Christian Science) as, what I call, sixteen STARGATES.

AS IT IS “Teaching must always be by symbols.”

CHAPTER XIII

            Chapter 8, from Alice Orgain’s book AS IT IS, is about symbols, something that I really like!  However, I am not sure I always agree with this author upon the topic of symbols, or what they mean.  And I find that she has a low understanding of symbology.  {Any interpolations I make will be in this type of bracket.}  I will make changes to any spelling mistakes I find, and add italics where necessary, etc.

THE THREE TABERNACLES – Part 4

            Alice Orgain continues on with this chapter, but basically she is finished with her main discussion of the symbols for the three tabernacle churches.