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06/25/2024 ~ Platform ~ Science of Being 

This is a long chapter full of beautiful details of how the divine comes with Christ power to illuminate, and to transform, and to redeem all the details of our human sense of being. It finishes with thirty-two numbered sections, called 'the platform.' Mrs Eddy introduces this by saying, 'When the following platform is understood and the letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated' (330:8). The word platform is derived from two words, plat and form, and plat is an interweaving. So the platform offers us interwoven spiritual precepts about the nature of God, the nature of Christ, the nature of the human, and the resolving of the problem of evil. This therefore must be something on which we can safely stand.