Chapter 15a ~ Genesis Introduction ~ Subtitles
Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.
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…GENESIS, begins with the story of the seven days of creation showing that the nature of God as sevenfold has in fact always been presented to mankind through the Scriptures. The seven days are the Bible's symbolization of what we call the seven synonymous terms. These days illustrate how the seven terms which are God generate within us the understanding of what those synonyms are. It is like a teacher in a classroom telling the children what the numbers are and then saying that next he will show them what they represent, how to use them, and what to do with them. So the "Genesis" chapter shows us how the divine sevenfold nature of God unfolds itself in human life, regenerating our conception of ourselves, so that we are no longer born of Adam and Eve, or of Darwin's theory of evolution, but we are really consciously born of God right where material evolution seems to be. The sevenfold generative nature of God exposes the unreality of the Adam story in which mortals seem to have originated. ~ DISSOLVING BARRIERS, The Healing Work of Christian Science by John L. MorganSHOW ALL
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1 | 1 | 501 | Exodus 6 verse 3 - God Almighty Appeared - Intro Quote |
Intro Quote 1. Exodus 6 verse 3 | Exodus 6 verse 3 - Intro Quote | And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty; but by My name Jehovah was I not known to them. — Exodus. | |
2 | 2 | 501 | John 1 verse 3 - God made everything - Intro Quote |
Intro Quote 1. John 1 verse 3 - Intro Quote | John 1 verse 3 - Intro Quote | All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. — John. | |
3 | 3 | 501 | Interpretation - Spiritual interpretation | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Interpretation - Spiritual interpretation | 1 Scientific interpretation of the Scriptures prop- erly starts with the beginning of the Old Testa- 3 ment, chiefly because the spiritual import of Spiritual the Word, in its earliest articulations, often interpretation seems so smothered by the immediate context as to 6 require explication; whereas the New Testament narra- tives are clearer and come nearer the heart. Jesus il- lumines them, showing the poverty of mortal existence, 9 but richly recompensing human want and woe with spiritual gain. The incarnation of Truth, that amplifi- cation of wonder and glory which angels could only 12 whisper and which God illustrated by light and har- mony, is consonant with ever-present Love. So-called mystery and miracle, which subserve the end of natural 15 good, are explained by that Love for whose rest the weary ones sigh when needing something more native to their immortal cravings than the history of perpetual 18 evil. SHOW ALL |
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4 | 4 | 502 | Overture - Spiritual overture | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Overture - Spiritual overture | 1 A second necessity for beginning with Genesis is that the living and real prelude of the older Scriptures is so 3 brief that it would almost seem, from the Spiritual preponderance of unreality in the entire nar- overture rative, as if reality did not predominate over unreality, 6 the light over the dark, the straight line of Spirit over the mortal deviations and inverted images of the creator and His creation. SHOW ALL |
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5 | 5 | 502 | Being - Deflection of being | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Being - Deflection of being | 9 Spiritually followed, the book of Genesis is the history of the untrue image of God, named a sinful mortal. This deflection of being, rightly viewed, serves to Deflection 12 suggest the proper reflection of God and the of being spiritual actuality of man, as given in the first chapter of Genesis. Even thus the crude forms of human thought 15 take on higher symbols and significations, when scien- tifically Christian views of the universe appear, illuminat- ing time with the glory of eternity. 18 In the following exegesis, each text is followed by its spiritual interpretation according to the teachings of Chris- tian Science. SHOW ALL |