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Please note, that Mary Baker Eddy does not speak about Christian Science in reference to the promised comforter. She said the Comforter is "Divine Science" with both words capitalized, indicating that the phrase represents a title. In contrast, she speaks about "divine Science" which is not a title and suggests something in the nature of a tool in the process of development that leads up to Divine Science. Mary Baker Eddy writes that "Jesus of Nazareth was a natural and divine Scientist." And she adds, "To one 'born of the flesh,' however, divine Science must be a discovery."*(See Retrospection and Introspection 26:12-22) Still, Jesus' cycle of development in divine Science, which took thirty years to complete, evidently culminated in obtaining that "key of David," the key to infinity. Here we have a definite title again, for the scriptural texts reads: "These things says He... that hath the key of David... behold I have set before thee an open door..."*(Revelation 3:7-8)
Mary Baker Eddy points to three consecutive dimensions here. She talks about a structure for discovery and development (divine Science), the product or application of this development (the key of David), and the open open door to infinity.
The phrase, key of David, refers to something that exists not in physical form. The Scriptures do not say that it is the key of David itself that sets before man the opened door, but he who has the Key of David (in consciousness). This means, that the only thing that Mary Baker Eddy could outline specifically, was the structure for the development of the key of David.
There exists no evidence that Mary Baker Eddy has presented a fully completed form of that structure. She merely presents an outline of it, an outline for discovery, for development. Moreover, it is an outline for continuous unconfined discovery and development, an invitation to humanity to get to work seriously in divine metaphysics and build that significant monument of scientific understanding in consciousness that opens doors to infinity that no one can ever shut. Whatever door is opened by lesser means, such as personal vision or political doctrine, will close again as the force fades. This means that we are looking for a development structure that takes consciousness a significant way beyond anything conventional.
Indeed, Mary Baker Eddy's outline of it is extensive. It is specific in many of its fundamental aspects. The specifics provide a basic architecture, but from there on she opens the structure up to the movements of discovery in regard to the deeper details, where the searcher is required to find answers increasingly for himself, or herself, within the science that is unfolding through discovery. The higher that this process takes one, the more will the process of building depend on one's own resources of individual consciousness in oneness with God or Truth. The strange thing about this structure is, that the more one works with it, the more questions appear. It provides more questions than it provides answers, which answers, then, must be found in life. Such is the characteristic of Mary Baker Eddy' structure for the Key of David.
It is evident that the deeper realm of spiritual understanding cannot be wrapped into a finite sheet of formalism to be provided by even Mary Baker Eddy. Christ Jesus was certainly aware that he could not provide it. If Mary Baker Eddy had provided a finite finished form in which was contained all that she understood, she would have created a negative development system. She would have suggested the existence of a high end limit to development, which being supplied, would have obsoleted the very process of discovery. With this she would have closed the door to infinity. She would have generated a foundation for spiritual apathy which would soon be the only growth factor left in the entire system. This spiritual apathy would in turn be echoed in political apathy as well. Indeed, this whole scenario has already come true as this is exactly how Mary Baker Eddy's work is looked upon today by her church and by society. The talk is about preservation rather than development, but preservation means zero growth and zero growth means collapse.
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