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The Church, itself, is defined (in the Glossary) as an INSTITUTION, - a structure that institutes, that sets up what already exists, that facilitates, that rouses understanding. The term "Church" is capitalized in this definition.
To recognize the (capital) Church as a material organization is scientifically impossible. No human form or entity can establish laws. All that any organization can do, at the very best, is set up rules for itself that reflect the operation of the divine laws that constitute the operation of what is termed reality. In other words, the universe is ORGANIZED on divine Laws which are instituted symbolically through Church activity. Divine Principle alone originates all actions. Thus, Mary Baker Eddy has founded a church structure that is scientifically correct and based on spiritual reality. Its design reflects scientifically the design of the 'Church Universal and Triumphant' that infinite Mind has organized.
Appendix G provides a list of the four specific domains that are related to the various strata for activities that we have just discussed. The highest level may be associated with the spiritual definition for Church in the Glossary, which speaks of a structure that proceeds from divine Principle. Mary Baker Eddy defines it in full, as: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle." This structure of Truth and Love refers to the basic organization of the universe; that which no human hand can hinder or advance. To ORGANIZE is to create. Infinite divine Principle is the creator of the universe including man.
Referring to Appendix G, can anyone imagine that these various types of activity can fail to produce harmonious results if applied in their respective domain? However, the moment that one begins to transpose these specific types of activity into different domains, or attempts to add other types of activities, chaos results.
One such chaos has developed in the Christian Science church in 1995 as some disgruntled (former) church officers filed suit against the church with the intend (in one case) to have the courts forcibly alter the Manual of the Mother Church by giving the Finance Committee power over the Board's decisions, and power to dismiss Board members. The strange thing is, that in the large volume of depositions to the court, the simple fact was never mentioned that such a ruling would introduce a new type of authority that is not supported by natural law, apart from transacting and conducting, which are already defined in the Manual.
In response, this author alerted the counsel for the defense: "...let me point out that the plaintiffs in effect petition the court to establish a dictatorship. While there exist lawful procedures in the Manual for the removal of Directors from office, which may be initiated by every single church member regardless of office, status, or standing; no such procedure exists for the removal of members of the finance committee that seeks dictatorial powers. If this petition is granted, the power of the membership is thereby largely taken away. This violates the spirit, and possibly the letter of the Constitution of the Unites States of America, which itself needs to be protected rather than being trampled upon by setting up dictatorial structures by force of the court, to negate democratic structures."
Dictatorship, which is the same as oligarchism, represents that fifth type authority that is not founded of natural law, but becomes destructive to any structure of government that embraces it.
The question had been asked, and this questions deserves universal consideration, "Would any court have the scientific understanding, even if it had the right, to introduce into the structure of reality a fifth level of authority that Mary Baker Eddy had not the wisdom to detect and establish her church upon? In fact, can such a fifth level of authority exist in reality. Reality is not something that is arbitrarily defined. Reality is primary, and it is man's task to align human structures in conformity to reality. This, Mary Baker Eddy has done to highest possible degree, and signed her name to. No court of law has the right to overrule what has been established by an author through a lifetime of scientific searching, by introducing artificial modifiers."
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