Mary
Baker Eddy
God’s Great Scientist
Volume I
by
Helen M. Wright
BY
THE SAME AUTHOR:
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Mary Baker Eddy: A New Look |
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Mary Baker Eddy: Church Manual & Church Universal & Triumphant |
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Mary Baker Eddy: God’s Great Scientist, Vol. I |
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Mary Baker Eddy: God’s Great
Scientist, Vol. II |
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Mary Baker Eddy: God’s Great Scientist, Vol. III |
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Mary Baker Eddy ‘s Church
Manual & Church Universal & Triumphant |
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If Mary Baker Eddy’s Manual Were Obeyed |
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America: Cradle for the Second Coming of the Chris (second edition,
paperback) |
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Mary Baker Eddy Institute Letters |
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Mary Baker Eddy Reveals Your Divinity |
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Humanity’s Divinity |
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Made Whole Through Our Marriage To God |
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Mary Baker Eddy, Leader Forever (44 page pamphlet) FREE |
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Mary Baker Eddy, Leader Forever (112 page booklet) FREE |
Second
printing, 1995
ISBN
1-886505-01-2
Copyright
1984, ISBN 0-9604648-2-4
Copyright
1995 by Helen M. Wright
All
rights reserved
Manufactured
in the United States of America
As Jesus called Lazarus to come forth from his tomb, so the writings of Mary Baker Eddy call the world to come forth from its tomb, and find that what we are so diligently striving to become, we have forever been and shall forever be.
“The term ‘Mind and body’ literally means God and man, for man is the expression of Mind and the manifestation of Mind is the embodiment of Mind. Therefore, man is God’s body and there is but one God. Body is therefore the aggregation of spiritual ideas forever controlled and governed by the law of Life, harmonious and eternal. The understanding of perfect body is the savior of the belief of body, and is the law of recovery to any and every claim of error. “ (Mary Baker Eddy. A copyrighted statement, Jan. 19, 1886)
In an 1899 letter, Mrs. Eddy
wrote: “All the people need to love and
adopt Christian Science, is a true sense of its founder. In proportion as they
have found it, will our Cause advance.” (We
Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Vol. I, p. 40)
“Whoever opens most the eyes of the children of men to see
aright and to understand aright that IDEA ON EARTH that has best and clearest
reflected by word or deed the divine Principle of man and the universe, will
accomplish most for himself and mankind in the direction of all that is good
and true.” (Mary Baker Eddy Letter to Judge Hanna. August 26, 1902. Early Collectanea)
TO
THE SPIRITUALLY-MINDED READER
ITALICS
Italics not appearing in the original are sometimes used in quotations, not to emphasize, but to identify that portion of the quote directly applicable to the point under discussion.
ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations for titles of Mrs. Eddy’s writings are those used in the Concordance to Miscellaneous Writings and Works Other than Science and Health.
Six Days is the abbreviation for Mary Baker Eddy’s Six Days of Revelation by Richard Oakes.
EOF is the abbreviation for Essays and Other Footprints.
DCC is the abbreviation for Divinity Course and General Collectanea.
(Note: EOF and DCC were compiled and reproduced by
Richard Oakes at the instigation of Gilbert C. Carpenter, Jr. CSB, of
Providence, R.I.). Some rare Carpenter compilations are also quoted in the
text: Items, Collectanea (original
version), Miscellaneous Documents,
Fragments.
REFERENCES
In Part I references to last edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy are shown in parenthesis, e.g. (470:23).
In Part II, which deals with the first edition of the textbook, references to the final edition are indicated thus: (1910 ed. 330:2). References to FIRST EDITION are shown in parenthesis: (10:12).
FIRST EDITION EXEGESIS
Mrs. Eddy did not capitalize “Science” in the first edition. However, in the quotes selected for this work, Science when referring to Mrs. Eddy’s discovery is capitalized to avoid confusion with the various natural sciences.
Also, commas, where obviously superfluous—in conformity with the custom prevailing a century ago—have sometimes been omitted in the portions here extracted. In an article to the Boston Journal, January 20, 1876, regarding the first edition, Mrs. Eddy wrote: “ ‘Science and Health’ bears the burden of many typographical errors.” The author of this book feels no purpose would be served in perpetuating obvious errors.
CONTENTS
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Dedication |
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Explanatory Notes |
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Foreword |
Part I
The Founding of Christian Science in Human
Consciousness; and
The Value of the Early Editions
CHAPTER I
Mrs. Eddy’s Early Teaching and Writing; Her Heroic Struggle to Found
Christian Science in Human Consciousness
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ARRIVAL
OF “THE PRECIOUS VOLUME” |
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Evil’s
Design |
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Discrediting
Early Editions |
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Revolutionary Statements |
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Systematizing Begins |
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Her Human Footsteps |
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Her Holy History |
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Mary Baker Eddy: Highest Visible Idea |
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Gratitude Due Mrs. Eddy |
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LYNN, AND THE LEAN YEARS |
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Deserted, Alone |
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Defeats Seen as Victory |
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REVELATION and DISCOVERY |
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How the Discovery Came to Pass |
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Divinity Seen Through Discovery |
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Articulating the Discovery |
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MORE TRIALS AWAIT HER |
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Willingness to Endure |
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Opposition Despite Healings |
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Blessedness From Sorrow |
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Loss Is Spiritual Gain |
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Character Regeneration the Goal |
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Christian Science Regarded as an Insane Notion |
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HER LOVE FOR HER STUDENTS |
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True Motherhood |
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Her |