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Of course, neither Newton, nor today's researchers, have ever seen an electron, or a neutron, or a positron; they merely observed their effects. From these observations, the physical scientists were able to construct models of a reality that the eye cannot behold. When you see a block of granite in front of you, your eyes see a stone, while the scientific mind beholds patterns created by electrons swirling in what is literally empty space. In absolute terms, the block of granite that you think you see, does not exist. You take a hammer in your hand and strike the granite with great force. You hear a sharp crack and the hammer bounces back towards you. You will say, "but see, the granite does exist." In reality, what you have experienced was the effect of the interaction of electrons bound in their orbital paths, and energies that maintain them there. What you have experienced were the effects of quite a different world than what you imagined you saw, a world that the engineers of quantum mechanics deal with on a daily basis.
Mary Baker Eddy's work may be seen in much the same manner. Neither she, nor anyone else, has ever seen God in a physical sense. She had come to absolute conclusions through observation and experiences, and she presented these conclusions in absolute terms. She presents statements, such as these: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."*(Science and Health 468:9)
The nature of divine Science.
Between the absolute statements of divine Science, and the immediate needs of a patient lying on a death bed overcome with disease, lies a great gap that must be traversed if the power of the fundamental spiritual truth, described in absolute terms, is to be realized in practical application. It is evident that Mary Baker Eddy was able to bridge this gap instantly, and so in a precise and scientific manner. Most of her students, however, appeared to have bridged the gap merely in a leap of faith. Evidently, no one came close to understand what she understood. After twenty-two years of teaching, both privately and through the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, she must have fully recognized this differential. She is to have said to a friend, that her present sense of heaven was, to have someone understand her one bit.
Eventually she closed her college, in 1889. There appeared to be a need to set up that structure of science that no one at her time could fully deal with, which enabled her to instantly bridge the gap between corporeal material evidences and what she understood as the truth. The structure that she outlined in her works, consists of two parts. One part has a mathematical basis. She presents a four by four matrix on which she superimposed a number of distinct areas of concern, which in turn unfold unique interrelationships that are of great importance to the scientific process of understanding the nature of divine Truth. This understanding is a prerequisite for spiritual healing.
Since there exists a biblical equivalent to a four by four structure, which happens to be the city foursquare presented in Revelation 21, she presents her scientific matrix of interrelationships of spiritual concepts in a metaphor that is closely related to the biblical equivalent, even though there is no literal relationship between the two.
The second part of her outline builds a superstructure above this matrix, through which the Key of David may unfold in consciousness. This superstructure is build out of a very large resource, the Glossary of Science and Health, which contains 144 definitions of terms, enough to superimpose a nine element structure, as a new dimension, above each of the sixteen elements of the basic four by four matrix. What unfolds out of all this, as will be illustrated later, is a structure so vast to be literally unlimited in definable ways, so that the heart of the Key of David comes not from a form, but from what the outlined structure opens up to consciousness.
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