GENERIC MAN

            I quoted from Paul R. Smillie’s book MARY BAKER EDDY in my post IS MARY BAKER EDDY THE WOMAN THAT GOD-CROWNED?  In his book he talks about generic man and the woman God-crowned (Revelation 12) and that Mary Baker Eddy is the human appearing of the absolute generic man, that the woman in the Apocalypse is the symbol, just as Jesus, being the human appearing, is the Lamb (symbol) and the Christ is the absolute.  We even use the term of Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ, which is the absolute Christ appearing as the human Jesus and the symbol is that he is the Lamb of God.  Smillie says that we do not call ourselves the Lamb of God, for there is only one Lamb and that is Jesus.  He continues to say that we cannot claim to be the woman of the Apocalypse because that belongs to Mary Baker Eddy alone.  But I am wondering if he is 100% correct about what he says on this topic.  {All my comments to his work and Helen Wright’s work, while quoting from their books, will be in these types of brackets.}  On page 245 he says, “Christian Scientists are fond of saying that Mrs. Eddy says the Woman in the Apocalypse is generic man, but she does not say that.  ‘The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea.’  This statement says that the Woman ‘symbolizes’ generic man but certainly does not say the woman is generic man.

IS MARY BAKER EDDY THE WOMAN THAT GOD-CROWNED IN REVELATION 12?

            How does Mary Baker Eddy answer this question?  She gives us the answer when she first tells us that there is a messenger (or angel) from God that we must take notice of in her chapter “The Apocalypse”.  [My comments will be in these types of brackets.]

            “Revelation xii. 1.  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

“True estimate of God’s messenger [angel]

            “Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony.  The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man [within man’s consciousness – for that is the only place the kingdom of heaven can be located].  This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word.  [God appointed Mary Baker Eddy to voice His Word.]  Again, without a correct sense of its highest visible idea [womanhood], we can never understand the divine Principle [God].  The botanist must know the genus and species of a plant in order to classify it correctly.  As it is with things, so it is with persons.

CHRISTMAS 2022 – Part B

            I begin Part B with the second portion of CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING because it is about Mary Baker Eddy’s Light, the result that comes from her Life work.

CHRISTMAS 2022 – Part A

            Mary Baker Eddy wrote a poem, had it illustrated, and titled it Christ and Christmas.  It was released on December 2, 1893. 

CAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA KEEP ITS FREEDOM? – Pt. 9

Chapter 9 – The City Foursquare

CAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA KEEP ITS FREEDOM? – Pt. 4

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof….”

            “The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) gave us freedom from a state church.  It also gave freedom of worship, press, assembly; rights of petition to trial by jury, to bear arms, among a few.  Though our American Bill of Rights was not added until two years later, it forever penned our individual liberties… as the Declaration had said earlier, ‘our inalienable [God-given] rights.’” (AMERICA CRADLE FOR THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST, by Helen Wright, page un-numbered.)