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The reverse link from the Bible lessons.
Each weekly lesson is divided into five to seven segments, each of these segments begin with citations from the Bible (The King James version), which are followed by correlative passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The passages from Science and Health, now, can be linked to individual elements of the structure for the Key of David, by way of the sequential title of the chapter to which a quotation of the lesson pertains.
In the early stages of exploring the outlined structure, the sixteen chapters from the textbook were mapped against the matrix, together with the poem and paintings from Christ and Christmas. This correlation is still valid. Except, now, we have a practical use for it. Knowing the chapter title (or sequential chapter number) that a given passage from the Bible lesson is from, enables one to explore the selected passage that appears in the lesson in the scientific context that has been established through the structure for the Key of David, according to the particular element that the chapter title is pointing to. It is in this context that the paintings in Christ and Christmas have a great utility. Let me illustrate how this all works together..
Suppose a correlative quotation that appears in the Bible lesson is from the textbook chapter: Science of Being. After having worked extensively with this structure, one will know that this chapter is associated with the painting of the old man in the rocking chair, who is shown facing the young girl illumined by a cone of light from a star overhead, reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. This brings to mind the scriptural text beneath the painting: "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." Also, the image of the painting comes to mind, and the verse of the poem that is associated with it, especially the last two lines that are reprinted in the book version of Christ and Christmas, on the page facing the painting. The two structures become interlocked. Thus, when a quote is from the chapter, Science of Being, one sees in thought the little Girl from the painting and hears the words from the verse that goes with the painting, saying to consciousness, "Life, without birth and without end, emitting light!" Please refer to Appendix E and Appendix F.
Naturally, one also knows which column this element belongs to; that it belongs into the column labeled, Christianity, which deals with the universal nature of divine Truth. One also know the river for this column, that it is Hiddekel: "Divine Science understood and acknowledged," and that the applicable aspect of God for this column is, "supreme." Now, when one ponders that citation in relationship to the lesson topic, a whole world of concepts is drawn into the context. What one reads, and what one sees in mind, may well be totally different as things are coming together into some sort of scientific symphony.
Sometimes one may also consider the element's relationship to the Lord's Prayer and its scientific interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy. (Please see Appendix D) In this case one would read the line, "Give us grace for today, feed the famished affections." This too, then, is brought back into context with the quotation from the Bible lesson that started the whole round.
Naturally, this kind of correlation continues throughout the entire Bible lesson, half of which is made up of references to Science and Health. Sometimes this type of correlation causes significant moves in consciousness, addressing attitudes, desires, motives, standpoints, hopes, etc. - in which areas remains much work to be done.
The astonishing thing is, the utility of this dynamic correlation was not recognized until it had been put to use in routine research. Then, all of a sudden... wow!
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