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Thirteen of Mary Baker Eddy's writings, collected together in one volume. Plumbs the depths of Christian theology, morality, spirituality, healing, and Church. Includes Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, Retrospection and Introspection, Unity of Good, Pulpit and Press, Rudimental Divine Science, No and Yes, Christian Science versus Pantheism, Message to The Mother Church for 1900, Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Message to The Mother Church for 1902, Christian Healing, The People's Idea of God--Its Effect on Health and Christianity, and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. Animal-friendly, long-lasting books for daily study or gift-giving offered in two rich colors ruby red and sapphire blue. Covers are soft, flexible, and durable Vivella® a non-leather, entirely man-made material. Each book includes a silk ribbon marker and lightweight, gold-gilded pages. Elegantly boxed Thumb-tab indexed.
138 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2007
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Mary Baker Eddy
713 books52 followersFounder of the new religious movement, Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist).
Her name is also written as:
Mary Baker Glover
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Her name is also written as:
Mary Baker Glover
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Mary Baker G. Eddy
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September 15, 2024
AN EXCELLENT EDITION OF MRS. EDDY'S OTHER VARIOUS WORKS
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) was the founder of Christian Science and (in 1879) the Church of Christ, Scientist (1879). She also founded the Christian Science Publishing Society (1898), which continues to publish a number of periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor (1908). She also wrote books such as 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' 'Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896,' 'Church Manual,' 'Retrospection and Introspection,' 'Christian Healing,' 'Rudimental Divine Science,' 'What Christmas Means to Me,' etc.
She wrote in the Preface, "The opportunity has at length offered itself for me to comply with an oft-repeated request: namely, to collect my miscellaneous writings published in The Christian Science Journal, since April, 1883, and republish them in book form---accessible as reference, and reliable as old landmarks... most of these articles were originally written in haste, without due preparation... To some articles are affixed data... to serve as milestones measuring... the distance between then and now---in the opinions of man and the progress of our Cause." (Pg. x)
She recalls, "At the age of twelve, I was admitted to the Congregational (Trinitarian) Church... the doctrine of unconditional election, or predestination, greatly troubled me; for I was unwilling to be saved, if my brothers and sisters were to be numbered among those who were doomed to perpetual banishment from God. So perturbed was I by the thoughts aroused by this erroneous doctrine, that the family doctor... pronounced me stricken with fever... My mother... bade me lean on God's love, which would give me rest, if I went to Him in prayer, as I was wont to do... I prayed; and a soft glow of ineffable joy came over me. The fever was gone... The physician marvels; and the 'horrible decree' of predestination---as John Calvin rightly called his own tenet---forever lost its power over me." (R&I, Theological Reminiscence)
She states, "It was in Massachusetts, in February, 1866, and after the death of the magnetic doctor, Mr. P[hineas] P[arkhurst] Quimby, whom spiritualists would associate therewith, but who was in no wise connected with this event, that I discovered the Science of divine metaphysical healing which I afterwards named Christian Science." (R&I, The Great Discovery) She notes, "Christian Science declares that sickness is a belief, a latent fear, made manifest on the body in different forms of fear or disease... if suffering exists, it is in the mortal mind only, for matter has no sensation and cannot suffer. If you rule out every sense of disease and suffering from mortal mind, it cannot be found in the body." (R&I, The Great Revelation)
She suggests, "We do not question the authenticity of the Scriptural narrative of the Virgin-mother and Bethlehem babe, and the Messianic mission of Christ Jesus; but in our time no Christian Scientist will give chimerical wings to his imagination, or advance speculative theories as to the recurrence of such events." (R&I, The Human Concept)
Later, she says, "I am asked, 'Is there a hell?' Yes, there is a hell for all who persist in breaking the Golden Rule or in disobeying the commandments of God. Physical science has sometimes argued that the internal fires of our earth will eventually consume this planet. Christian Science shows that hidden unpunished sin is this internal fire---even the fire of a guilty conscience... burning in torture until the sinner is consumed---his sins destroyed. This may take millions of cycles, but of the time no man knoweth." (Miscellany, pg. 160)
About Plagiarism, she says, "The various forms of book-borrowing without credit spring from this ill-conceived question in mortal mind, Who shall be greatest?... Why withhold my name, while appropriating my language and ideas, but give credit when citing the works of other authors?... There is no warrant in common law and no permission in the gospel for plagiarizing an author's ideas and their words. Christian Science is not copyrighted... A student can write voluminous works on Science without trespassing... I have long remained silent on a growing evil in plagiarism; but if I do not insist upon the strictest observance of moral law and order in Christian Scientists, I become responsible, as a teacher, for laxity in discipline and lawlessness in literature." (R&I, Plagiarism)
She states, "According to Christian Science, the first idolatrous claim of sin is, that matter exists; the second, that matter is substance; the third, that matter has intelligence; and the fourth, that matter, being so endowed, produces life and death." (UoG, There is no Matter) Later, she says, "Matter is but the subjective state of mortal mind. Matter has no more substance and reality in our day-dreams than it has in our night-dreams." (Miscellany, The Christian Science Textbook)
She asserts, "Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism... Theosophy is no more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern sky are to the solar heat and light." (No and Yes) She says, "It was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.' I have been learning the higher meaning of this book since writing it... I should blush to write of [the book] as I have, were it of human origin, and were I, apart from God, its author. But, as I was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divine metaphysics, I cannot be super-modest in my estimate of the Christian Science textbook." (Miscellany, pg. 114-115) She adds, "Millions may know that I am the Founder of Christian Science. I alone know what the means." (Miscellany, pg. 249)
This is an excellent edition of Mrs. Eddy's writings, that will be of great interest to all Christian Scientists and related spiritual philosophies.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) was the founder of Christian Science and (in 1879) the Church of Christ, Scientist (1879). She also founded the Christian Science Publishing Society (1898), which continues to publish a number of periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor (1908). She also wrote books such as 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' 'Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896,' 'Church Manual,' 'Retrospection and Introspection,' 'Christian Healing,' 'Rudimental Divine Science,' 'What Christmas Means to Me,' etc.
She wrote in the Preface, "The opportunity has at length offered itself for me to comply with an oft-repeated request: namely, to collect my miscellaneous writings published in The Christian Science Journal, since April, 1883, and republish them in book form---accessible as reference, and reliable as old landmarks... most of these articles were originally written in haste, without due preparation... To some articles are affixed data... to serve as milestones measuring... the distance between then and now---in the opinions of man and the progress of our Cause." (Pg. x)
She recalls, "At the age of twelve, I was admitted to the Congregational (Trinitarian) Church... the doctrine of unconditional election, or predestination, greatly troubled me; for I was unwilling to be saved, if my brothers and sisters were to be numbered among those who were doomed to perpetual banishment from God. So perturbed was I by the thoughts aroused by this erroneous doctrine, that the family doctor... pronounced me stricken with fever... My mother... bade me lean on God's love, which would give me rest, if I went to Him in prayer, as I was wont to do... I prayed; and a soft glow of ineffable joy came over me. The fever was gone... The physician marvels; and the 'horrible decree' of predestination---as John Calvin rightly called his own tenet---forever lost its power over me." (R&I, Theological Reminiscence)
She states, "It was in Massachusetts, in February, 1866, and after the death of the magnetic doctor, Mr. P[hineas] P[arkhurst] Quimby, whom spiritualists would associate therewith, but who was in no wise connected with this event, that I discovered the Science of divine metaphysical healing which I afterwards named Christian Science." (R&I, The Great Discovery) She notes, "Christian Science declares that sickness is a belief, a latent fear, made manifest on the body in different forms of fear or disease... if suffering exists, it is in the mortal mind only, for matter has no sensation and cannot suffer. If you rule out every sense of disease and suffering from mortal mind, it cannot be found in the body." (R&I, The Great Revelation)
She suggests, "We do not question the authenticity of the Scriptural narrative of the Virgin-mother and Bethlehem babe, and the Messianic mission of Christ Jesus; but in our time no Christian Scientist will give chimerical wings to his imagination, or advance speculative theories as to the recurrence of such events." (R&I, The Human Concept)
Later, she says, "I am asked, 'Is there a hell?' Yes, there is a hell for all who persist in breaking the Golden Rule or in disobeying the commandments of God. Physical science has sometimes argued that the internal fires of our earth will eventually consume this planet. Christian Science shows that hidden unpunished sin is this internal fire---even the fire of a guilty conscience... burning in torture until the sinner is consumed---his sins destroyed. This may take millions of cycles, but of the time no man knoweth." (Miscellany, pg. 160)
About Plagiarism, she says, "The various forms of book-borrowing without credit spring from this ill-conceived question in mortal mind, Who shall be greatest?... Why withhold my name, while appropriating my language and ideas, but give credit when citing the works of other authors?... There is no warrant in common law and no permission in the gospel for plagiarizing an author's ideas and their words. Christian Science is not copyrighted... A student can write voluminous works on Science without trespassing... I have long remained silent on a growing evil in plagiarism; but if I do not insist upon the strictest observance of moral law and order in Christian Scientists, I become responsible, as a teacher, for laxity in discipline and lawlessness in literature." (R&I, Plagiarism)
She states, "According to Christian Science, the first idolatrous claim of sin is, that matter exists; the second, that matter is substance; the third, that matter has intelligence; and the fourth, that matter, being so endowed, produces life and death." (UoG, There is no Matter) Later, she says, "Matter is but the subjective state of mortal mind. Matter has no more substance and reality in our day-dreams than it has in our night-dreams." (Miscellany, The Christian Science Textbook)
She asserts, "Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism... Theosophy is no more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern sky are to the solar heat and light." (No and Yes) She says, "It was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.' I have been learning the higher meaning of this book since writing it... I should blush to write of [the book] as I have, were it of human origin, and were I, apart from God, its author. But, as I was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divine metaphysics, I cannot be super-modest in my estimate of the Christian Science textbook." (Miscellany, pg. 114-115) She adds, "Millions may know that I am the Founder of Christian Science. I alone know what the means." (Miscellany, pg. 249)
This is an excellent edition of Mrs. Eddy's writings, that will be of great interest to all Christian Scientists and related spiritual philosophies.
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