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Chapter 4: The Practical Aspects of the Fourth Dimension, of Spirit.It was in 1895, shortly after the the original edifice for the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, was built, that the call was extended to Mary Baker Eddy to become its pastor. She writes that she declined the offer. In real term, such a position couldn't be implemented anyway as the Bible and Science and Health were already ordained as the forever pastor of the Christian Science church. While declining the offer, she stated that she would accept the symbolic title of Pastor Emeritus.*(Pulpit and Press 87:11) The title may not have been suggested by her as merely a kind gesture to solve a delicate situation, but as a necessity that would open the door to an essential step forward. She made use of this title extensively in the Church Manual, but rarely ever used it in any other context. In the Manual, the title is used to represent a very high level of authority, an authority that is not based on personal will, but is based on an innate understanding of reality or divine Truth. When she exercises this authority, she point to that total knowing that reflects the authority of Truth itself. In such cases, she no longer attempts to state her reasons. In most cases her reasons would not have been understood as they required a working understanding of the structure for the Key of David that she had outlined, but which outline nobody had discovered in her time. Through the three dimensional structure, that she outlined, she was able to provide hints and specific definitions of the complexities that she was working with. Since the Church Manual was fundamentally based on the scientific structure that was neither known nor understood, and was closely interrelated to it, this manual had to be protected in its essential form by some other authority than a near absolute understanding. This means, a method had to be found that would keep it out of the reach of the organizational powers that would inevitably destroy it through thoughtless alterations. Her solution was, that the Manual was brought legally under her own authority for perpetuity under the authority of herself as Pastor Emeritus. The title describes not so much a person, as it describes a spiritual office. It describes the authority that is anchored in the realities that unfold in the fourth dimension. The Manual itself, therefore, became not a document that dictates policy, but one that describes the operation of organization driven from the fourth dimension. It describes what will inevitably come to be, when things are working correctly. Then oligarchism will have seen its day, together with all that which rests upon it. Apparently, there was no other way open to Mary Baker Eddy to protect the structure of truth that she had scientifically created, and to structure the human scene onto that platform that makes little sense to the materially oriented mind of limitation piled upon limitation. This protection was necessary, because there existed no scientific path for reaching backwards from the fourth dimension into the realm of human perception with high level technological explanations of the Manual provisions. Without a thorough understanding of the structure for the Key of David, this path between public policy and the fourth dimension, of Spirit, simply did not exist, nor does it exist now. By the time Mary Baker Eddy was compiling the Church Manual, she had moved far beyond form and formula. She was working from the fourth dimension, herself. The only real evidence we have of this fact, lies in the numerous manifestations of increasing authority and increasingly precise requirements for actions. To identify herself as working in the fourth dimension, of Spirit, the opportunity that was presented to her to create the title Pastor Emeritus, must have appeared like a God-sent solution to the problem she faced. The authority was not based on personal whim, but on facets of Truth, on divine reflection, on the dimension of reality. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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