Mary Baker Eddy
said
in her unique way: Pay close attention to what you find
in the Glossary. This is important!
Except, what exactly is it,
that one is to pay attention to? One must assume that the Biblical text, itself,
points this out, that she had used twice in succession as a pointer.
The text is from Revelation:
"These thing saith He that
is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, he that openeth,
and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works:
behold, I have set before thee an open book, and no man can shut
it."
The open book that no one can shut, can only be a structure
that one creates for oneself in consciousness. This structure, of course,
must be built individually. Towards this end, as an aid, as it were, she
has outlined a scientific development structure in her textbook, defined
its architecture, and set up definitions for all the significant details.
The rest was left up to humanity. She had hinted at the existence of her
outlined work, which is extensively outlined throughout her textbook and
her other works, but it appears she could go no further. The structure had
to be discovered by humanity, and be built from the ground up with her
outlined architecture and detailed definitions for it, as an aid. The
nature of this structure was such that it could not simply be given to
anyone, like a finished product that one might buy in a store. Science
operates in a different manner. It rests on discoveries of fundamental
principles and the application thereof. Such a process poses no final
limit. No doctrine can describe it. By its nature, Science is an open door
to infinity. For this reason, any structure of science, or any structure
for the development of science, must carry the same fundamental
characteristic. Can there ever be such thing as the final discovery, or
the final understanding of Truth, or the final perception of reality. Many
claims of finality in truth, understanding, and perception have been made
through the ages, and have all been superseded. Now the problem becomes a
critical one. How does one set up an infinite structure, a form that is
open to infinity, that is not doctrine, but becomes a part of life and its
dynamics of unfoldment?
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