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.

A SYMBOL BEHIND A KEYHOLE

            On a recent episode (December 5, 2020) of Ancient Aliens on the HISTORY Channel, the topic was the keyhole.  They mentioned that the keyhole symbol has been used throughout history and they showed examples of buildings, little islands, wells, that have the shape of a keyhole.  Well, even the cul-de-sac street that I live on has the shape of a keyhole and I am sure nothing symbolic was meant by it.  One shape they showed was that of a pyramid with a circle on top of it.  I feel that this could be symbolic of a person.  However, they explained that it was the sun (circle) representing heaven and a pyramid (triangle) representing earth, and the two being connected was heaven and earth as one.  But why not go even further with their analogy and say that the circle represents the head while the triangle represents the body – or – divine Mind (God and Christ) of the circle and the triangle (man) are united as One Being.  We also have mentioned in the BIBLE, by Paul, that the body is the wife and the head is the husband. 

            Not all keyhole shapes have a pyramid shape, but a rectangular shape to it (see the diagram below).

THE SIXTH DAY OF TRUTH – Part IV

Second Edition

“Seventh Evolutionary Period 1907-1910
“(seventh day of creation:  purpose fulfilled:  Love)
            “‘Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them,’ declares the opening tone of the seventh day of creation, Love as Truth.  Of the corresponding stage in the founding of Christian Science it could be said:  ‘Thus the revelation was fully and finally recorded, and it remained for its infinitude to unfold forever.’”[1]
            We now proceed to the twenty-eighth tone.

THE SIXTH DAY OF TRUTH – Part II

            I begin, where we left off, with Mary Baker Eddy’s third evolutionary period of Soul (which is the seventh tone).

“Third Evolutionary Period 1883-1885
“(third day of creation:  dry land:  Soul {yellow Light})
“Soul as Mind
            “The new material contained in the textbook’s sixth edition, published in 1883, was such as to point to a third evolutionary footstep in Mary Baker Eddy’s {F}ounding career.  No changes appeared in editions 4 and 5, which were issued simply to meet the public demand.”[1]

First Edition

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 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.

REVELATION – Part 11a

REVELATION – The Holy City is Open to All

REVELATION – Part 9a

REVELATION – VISION VII – MIND-LOVE or LOVE-MIND = MOTHER HOOD – Part 9a