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Mary Baker Eddy

Books about Christ & Christmas ~ 5 authors
Autobiography of Mary Baker Eddy

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Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus' healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease. Science & Health ~ chpt 6 ~ 146:31

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'Christ & Christmas', a small but powerful book, is a summary of Mary Baker Eddy’s life’s discoveries culminating in the Science of the Bible & the Science of Christianity in the 11th drawing with the 12th being blank indicating the infinite has no ending. The infinite can not be defined.
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Upon being asked, Mrs. Eddy designated the importance of her writings in this order:
(1) Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures,
(2) Miscellaneous Writings,
(3) Manual of The Mother Church,
(4) Christ and Christmas.
This above order indicates an unfolding sequence from the vision of the City as portrayed by St. John in Revelation.

Christ and Christmas is comprised of a poem and 11 Illustrations by Mary Baker Eddy with drawings by James F. Gilman. Each illustration is assigned a specific part of the poem.

The evolution of Mary Baker Eddy’s discoveries are completely and yet concisely conveyed in this book. The depth of each verse with its accompanying illustration is so concentrated that advanced students even now, over 120 years later, continue to further uncover more of the light shining forth from the hidden messages of Truth much like the Textbook, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Historically, poetry often conveys profound significance that may require voluminous explication. The ever-unfolding discoveries of the dynamic power symbolized in every element of this masterpiece sets a new standard. Below is an index of some authors that are sharing their insights. Show all

Rolf Witzsche ~ Featured Author about Christ & Christmas

Based on reviewing many authors who have written about Mary Baker Eddy's Autobiography, Christ & Christmas, in the opinion of the Mary Baker Eddy Institute, Rolf Witzsche has discovered and understood more relationships than any other author that has written about Christ and Christmas.

Mary Baker Eddy stated in Science & Health (page 146) that “Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system….

The direct relationship between Christ & Christmas and the 4 references listed on the right was revealed by Rolf Witzsche.

This was possible because of his deep spiritual understanding of the System of the Science of the Bible & the Science of Christianity.

1. Bible
2. Science & Health
3. Lord’s Prayer
4. Christian Science Manual

Because of what is stated above, he is selected as the distinguished featured author.  In addition to his discoveries, he has portrayed the relationships in graphic form which pave the way to a more clear understanding of the immense pedogogical structure that is innate in Mary Baker Eddy's revelation.  The structure was hidden purposely by her so it could be discovered individually through divine inspiration.

The HOME PAGE presents Rolf's revelation about Christ & Christmas. Mary Baker Eddy stated that this book is the 4th most important book she has written. This is her complete autobiography with enormous implications which is revealed only as it is understood more & more by the spiritually advancing student. Each image on the home page links to another complete presentation developed by Rolf Witzche. We hope you enjoy the adventure presented in this most comprehensive spiritual analysis of Christ & Christmas.        Begin the adventure

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69 Pages ~ THE ILLUSTRATIONS 1 ~ 1. STAR OF  BETHLEHEM (MIND) ~ In Miscellaneous Writings, ’’the star of Bethlehem” is called ”the star of Boston”. What is 'the star of Boston, 'when did it appear, and where can it be found? A star appeared first on the cover of Christ and Christ­mas and ' then in the illustrations, It appeared again the following year in the sunburst of the auditorium of The Mother Church. The Journal described it as shedding its seven-fold' light upon the congregation below! It has sev­en points to symbolize the 'seven-hued white' of the poem, which, in its turn, symbolizes; the seven synonymous terms for God in Science and Health.
The main characteristic of this illustration is the star, generating light. ’’Light is a symbol of Mind.” (S,and H,) In the light four shapes are. revealed. These are more or .less distinct according to their category and the emphasis Mrs. Eddy wished to have placed on each.
To the right, in the lower quarter of the Illustration, is the -head of a primitive type of. man with a foetus- like shape emerging from his skull arid representing the evolution of the human race. The effect of the star of divine Science was to set in motion evolution so that homo sapiens appeared, A mentality was now present which could begin to grasp ideas and to reason. To the left and above the level of this head one may distinguish another head in a horizontal position. It is reminiscent of David with his crown. This next great development laid the basis for the appearance of the Christ-idea. Here.the line of Jesus according to Matthew begins. Why? Because the spiritual idea had been glimpsed in its completeness. Under the star and somewhat greyer, will be found a group resembling the 'Holy Family' of Maryj the babe Jesus, and Joseph. The birth of Jesus signalled the beginning of Christianity or the redeeming power bf the divine idea. The most distinct of all re­ presentations appears to the right of the star and in line with it. Without doubt it represents Mrs,Eddy and the introduction of Science.  -- Please click this description to view or download complete publication
'Recollections of Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian  Science, as Preserved in the Diary Records of James F. Gilman Written During the Making of the Illustrations for Mrs. Eddy's Poem, Christ and Christmas, in 1893 – With an Introductory Critique by Gilbert C. Carpenter, C.S.B., Sometime Assistant Secretary to Mrs. Eddy, and Gilbert C. Carpenter, Jr. C.S.B.' includes 31 page Introductory Critique by Gilbert C. Carpenter Jr. CSB.

     The writer of these records first appeared to Mrs. Eddy as a lone, homeless wanderer, with a native ability for picture making. Since then it has appeared that there was much truth in this, for a little retrospective analysis has revealed that he had, indeed, through many years, been peculiarly, and often literally, a lone wandering seeker as well as a homeless one seeking even from his youth, the definition and fulfilment of soulful, but yet undefined ideals. 

     A vague, nameless sense of Infinite Beauty attended his thought from childhood, and as he grew toward maturity, the things that had dominated his thought before grew in urgency and pressed him to find the opportunity for their unfoldment in some appropriate, practical action. 

     In order to break the seeming limitations of his outward circumstances which appeared to bar his way to ideal unfoldment and to forbid education along usual academic training, he found himself ready to accept joyfully, at the age of twenty, a simple, humble way that was then presented to him through the kindly impulse of a neighbor who, knowing of his exceptional capacity for drawing, offered to pay him if he would make for him a good pencil drawing of his home place, thus unconsciously pointing a way of gaining a self-supporting art-practice that was felt to be necessary to the successful art-endeavor aspired to.  -- Please click this description to view or download complete publication
1941 ~ 1060 Pages ~ The title of this book,  Angelic Overtures of Mary Baker Eddy's Christ and Christmas, has been chosen in the light of Mrs. Eddy's placement of Christ and Christmas in the charge of 'angels, with overtures' to 'announce' its 'Principle and idea,' her statement in an article in Miscellaneous Writings under the title of 'Christ and Christmas' reading as follows: ' ... Christian Science and its art will rise triumphant; ... Angels, with overtures, hold charge over both, and announce their Principle and idea' (Mis. 374: 11-16)-implying that such angels alone hold the key to the interpretation of Christ and Christmas. Could a book which draws its every life breath from the inspiriting premises of Mrs. Eddy's own statements do other than place itself under the same angelic charge by its title, thereby insuring that its presentation will be true to Mrs. Eddy's vision and song?
Thus Mrs. Eddy has locked the interpretation of Christ and Christmas with the golden key of the spiritual idea which hears only
in tones of the musical cadence of angelic 'overtures,' and so speaks to human heads and hearts. The words 'heads' and 'hearts' are employed because Mrs. Eddy says that 'music is the rhythm of head and heart,' S. & H. 213:26. So an intelligent understanding of what the angels are singing in their 'overtures' of Christ and Christmas is as important to the 'head' of the listener as the rhythmical melodic tones of their song are to his 'heart.' Thus these angelic 'overtures' have their harmonic (basic) Principle and their melodic tones of idea, which require the 'rhythm of head and heart' to be understood.  -- Please click this description to view or download complete publication
Home page presentation of the 4 x 4 = 16  part matrix as discovered by the Featured Author, Rolf Witzsche.  -- Please click this description to view home page.
182 Pages ~ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE & CHRIST & CHRISTMAS ~  This book is focused on the leading edge of spiritual science, developed, outlined, and published by the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, between 1866 and 1910. The book contains critical aspects of her work, including her seal from 1881, under which her works were published until 1908, which itself stands as metaphor for the scientific foundation that she was working on.
The presentation in the book begins with her illustrated poem, Christ and Christmas that provides essential metaphoric references. The references are designed to enrich the understanding in society of her works -works that are scientifically founded on the biblical “city foursquare”, which she referred to as the “city of our God”.

Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy is the focus of this book by Rolf Witzsche.  He presents a number of interrelated leading-edge elements of spiritual science that were developed, outlined, and published by Mary Baker Eddy over the span of 44 years. It contains numerous rarely-known aspects that are critical for an understanding of all that she has accomplished, and for what needs yet to be accomplished to heal humanity, advance civilization, prevent wars, even nuclear war, and prepare the world for the start of the next Ice Age in 30 years. The scientific aspects that are drawn together in this book are based on decades of research and bring to light amazing scientific-spiritual aspects that have a great healing potential.  -- Please click this description to view or download complete publication
1998 First Edition ~ 269 pages. This remarkable book plumbs  the breadth and significance of Mary Baker Eddy's incomparable life-work in a way no other biography has done. Understand the historical impact of a life in fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 54. See how Mrs. Eddy's life is related throughout the inspired pictorial poem, Christ & Christmas. How does 'Atonement and Eucharist' in Science and Health relate to Mrs. Eddy's life, as it most certainly does to our beloved Master's? This book will awaken in the spiritually-minded reader a deep appreciation of this unique woman, destined from the foundations of the world to bless humanity with the 'Comforter' of which Jesus promised. (ISBN: 1-886505-12-8) During the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century the foundations of the modem world were laid. Electricity was harnessed; automobiles and airplanes were invented; Einstein formulated the special theory of relativity. But the most significant and least recognized contribution was the mighty, crowning and triumphant discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, a discovery that would fulfill Bible revelation and show us that our own real Mind is God, infinite good. Mrs. Eddy’s work on earth came as divine revelation. This is brought out in her statement to James Henry Wiggin, as reported in My. 318:32. Because Mr. Wiggin had helped Mrs. Eddy, editorially, to make clearer to the man in the street some of her statements in Science and Health, she invited him to visit one of her classes. Mr. Wiggin saw things differently from Mrs. Eddy and when she began her attack on agnosticism, Mr. Wiggin could control himself no longer, and burst out with, “How do you know there ever was such a man as Christ Jesus?” It was important to Mrs. Eddy that Christian Scientists, as well as the public in general, have a correct concept of who she was as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the one chosen to fulfill Jesus’ promise and prophecy of the “Comforter,” who would bring the Second Coming of the Christ, and teach all men their true identity as one with God, having “the kingdom of God within” their own consciousness as their true Mind.  -- Please click this description to view or download complete publication