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Series of seven books
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The
author introducing these series: "In the
opening chapter of the Bible, the 'days of creation' follow one
another in natural scientific order. When I wrote my first book,
'From Genesis to Revelation,' I did not know that a
series of books was about to develop, the different subjects of
which would be found, in retrospect, to have a relationship to
each other which corresponds, in certain marked respects, to the
relationship of the seven days." (Education of the Future,
p. vii)
"From 1956 to 1966 the author recorded his researches into the
universal Science of being (as revealed in Christian Science) in
the following series of books: From Genesis to Revelation,
Civilization Lieth Foursquare, The Spiritual Evolution of the
Christian Science Movement, Take Eat this is my Body, The Bible
and Science and Health their Spiritual and Scientific Wedlock,
Education of the Future, Christian Science Nonsectarian.
"The last was the first to be printed professionally (1976) and
comprises a chapter by chapter distillation of the subjects of
the series as a whole. Afterwards, the first one, From
Genesis to Revelation, was extensively rewritten, and
professionally printed in 1973."
The "edition of Civilization Lieth Foursquare takes the
essentials of books 2 and 6 and combines them in one volume.
Book 2 traced the footsteps of world civilization that have led
to the present-day, while book 6 concentrated on the current
revolutionary turmoil and what this portends. The two books
taken together thus form a continuous whole." (Civilization
Lieth Foursquare, p. ix)
1. From Genesis to Revelation
(1984, 3rd ed., revision of 1957, 1st ed.)
by W. Gordon Brown
Preface –
"In the Christian Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy refers to
"the divine Science of the Scriptures seen from Genesis to
Revelation" (S & H 139:23). These words indicate that there is
spiritual and scientific continuity throughout the Scriptural
message as a whole. . . . " (p. ix)
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2. Civilization Lieth
Foursquare
(1987, 3rd ed., 1973, 1st ed.)
by
W. Gordon Brown
Preface –
"CIVILIZATION LIETH FOURSQUARE is in two Parts.
The first is called 'Retrospect' where the subject is the
divinely impelled journey of civilization over the past 6000
years; the second is 'Introspection and Prospect,' which surveys
the present world scene, with its changing ideas and values, and
with its promise that the divine Science of man, now beginning
to be understood, will lead at last to the 'healing of the
nations.'"
"In the words of Ecclesiastes: 'That which hath been is now; and
that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that
which is past'" (pp. ix, x)
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3. Evolution of the Christian Science Church Organization
(1970)
by W. Gordon Brown
"This brief spiritual survey of the
story of the Christian Science movement investigates only the
basic theme of the relationship between its textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and the Church
organization. Subjects such as the Metaphysical College, the
Publishing Society, the Deeds of Trust, etc., etc., which are
not included, naturally take their place within the perspective
mapped out by these two foremost topics when the story is
treated in greater detail." (p. 4)
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4. "Take, eat; this is my body"
(1960)
by W. Gordon Brown
Subtitle –
"A
study of the Fundamentals of the System of Scientific
Metaphysics denominated Christian Science"
Preface – "This book is a course of study in the
fundamental ideas of the system of CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Its
purpose is to promote the birth and development of these ideas
from within the student's own spiritual loins. In accordance
with the root-meaning of 'educate' (to lead out, to draw forth)
the object of this study is to encourage the student to give
birth to Christian Science himself, divinely, and not to
superimpose it upon his thought, humanly." (p. vii)
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5. The Bible and Science and Health –
Their Spiritual and
Scientific Wedlock
(1962)
by W. Gordon Brown
Preface – "This is
the fifth in my present series of books, and follows as the
natural outcome of the other four. . . ."
"The subject of this book is the indivisibility of THE BIBLE and
SCIENCE & HEALTH. Its purpose is to reveal a specific,
scientific aspect of the unity of the two textbooks, and to show
how their unity must be reflected in the consciousness of the
individual student in order that he shall reach the solution of
the great problem of life. The Bible has the emphasis on
individuality as exemplified by Jesus, Science & Health has the
emphasis on collectivity and universality as that from which
every individual finds himself undivided." (p. vii)
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6a. Education of the Future
(1964)
by W. Gordon Brown
Full Title –
"'The
Education of the Future will be instruction, in spiritual
Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit sciences'
(Mis. 61:4)"
Preface –
"This book, 'EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE,' is the sixth of the
series and its relationship to its five predecessors runs
parallel to the sixth day of creation in its relationship to the
five preceding days."
". . . This . . . book emphasizes the power inherent in this
spiritual wedlock to translate the material universe. Spiritual
and scientific dominion is exercised only in terms of spiritual
and scientific translation; hence the conversive power which
persons, creeds, and governments set out to wield over the human
race is not the kind of world-dominion referred to in the sixth
day of Genesis."
"Spiritual translation and spiritual education are essentially
the same process. The subject of this book is the translation of
the whole by the Whole, –
the translation, that is, of the whole of human consciousness by
that which underlies all human phenomena, namely, the idea of
God in its health, or wholeness. Today, through Christian
Science, this idea is voicing itself in its order, system, and
Science and the educational possibilities implicit in this fact
are destined in the end to make the idea of God understandable
and demonstrable by the whole of mankind." (pp. vii, viii)
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6b. University City of Divine Metaphysics
(1986)
by W. Gordon Brown
Preface – "This book UNIVERSITY CITY OF DIVINE METAPHYSICS is a revision of
the one which the author first published in 1964 under the title
EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE. . . . "
"The concern of this book is . . .
to look towards the eventual divine translation of the material
symbolic counterfeit sciences into the eternal realities of
spiritual Science, that is, into the all-harmonious Science of
the cosmos as it exists in the Mind which is God."
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7.
Christian Science Nonsectarian
(1967)
by W. Gordon Brown
Full Title –
"'The
Education of the Future will be instruction, in spiritual
Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit sciences'
(Mis. 61:4)"
Preface – "During the past twenty years a conception
of Christian Science has been developing outside official
circles which shows Christian Science in a new light as far as
the public image is concerned. Far from being an exclusive,
sectarian religion which reached the peak of its expansion
towards the ends of the 1930s, Christian Science, as stated in
its textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,
by Mary Baker Eddy, can be shown today to be precisely
scientific whithin the accepted meaning of this term, and to be
evolving spiritually and irresistibly. Its moral aspect, and
indeed its healing aspect, are natural derivatives of its
Science." (p. ix)
Christian Science Nonsectarian "comprises a chapter by chapter
distillation of the subjects of the series as a whole"
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Other Publications
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Britain and America
(1990)
by W. Gordon Brown
Full Title –
"'The
Education of the Future will be instruction, in spiritual
Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit sciences'
(Mis. 61:4)"
Preface – ". . . What this book is primarily concerned
with . . . is individual ideas that are universal in scop and
value. Its purpose is not with Britain and America in a biased
nationalistic or geographical sense, but with what these two
nations stand for essentially and ideationally as they relate
beneficially to the world-wide fimaily of man. " (p. ix)
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Humanity and Christian Science
(1970)
by W. Gordon Brown
5 short Essays:
In Search of Authority
In the Name of
That the World May Know
Son of Man and Son of God
Divine Scence and System
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Science and Health and the Church Manual
(1988)
by W. Gordon Brown
Preface – "The purpose of this booklet, SCIENCE AND
HEALTH AND THE CHURCH MANUAL, is to bring to light a particular
over-all view of the deep spiritual relationship which exists
between the Christian Science textbook and the Manual of the
Mother Church organization."
(p. 1)
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That the World May Know
(1992)
by W. Gordon Brown
Foreword – The pages of this book "are an edited transcript of a
series of Tape Recordings made in England in the years 1990 and 1991 on
the subject of the spiritual interpretation of world civilization,
conceived of in the light of Christian Science. The recordings were the
outcome of a previous series on the divine Science of the Bible, as this
evolves without a break from Genesis to Revelation. (p. viii)
A "Triptych Chart accompanies this book, the purpose of which is to
facilitate, in an orderly and comprehensive way, an understanding of the
book's holistic meaning." (p. viii)
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Study Sessions Talks
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These Study Sessions Talks
are the result of many studies by a group of Christian Science
students in England. They first decided to study the textbook
Science and Health, with Key to
the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, chapter by chapter,
from the standpoint of the seven synonymous terms for God. At
the end of the study of each chapter, W. Gordon Brown put on
record a summary of what had been brought to light.
The study of the textbook, the first series, was followed with a
study of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, the second
series. This study of the Bible led, in turn, to a third series
on the spiritual interpretation of World Civilization. Two more
supplementary series were made, namely, The Nothingness of
Animal Magnetism and The Open Door.
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