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.
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