The "Key of David"

Mary Baker Eddy appears to have solved the problem by creating an outline for a structure that is to be built out of the resources of scientific discovery. She suggested a basic architecture in an outlined form, and provided a wealth of examples that describe its nature and functionality, as she saw it, but she never told anyone: This is it! She provided an outline and went no further. In fact, she urged her followers not to speculate. She obviously understood, that once the science of her structure would dawn in thought, it would make its own demands and lead consciousness into the right channels through concrete reasoning that mere speculation can never bring about. So it was, that the existence of her most advanced work remained hidden. It had to remain hidden. Had she promoted it, then whatever she might have had said about it would have been taken as an absolute, which would have closed the door to the infinite progression of science and discovery. The outline that she created, therefore, remained hidden until it could be discovered, which means that no one recognized its existence for close to a hundred years, though every aspect of it had been placed in full public view.

What was discovered, then? What spark of insight had ended the long period of obscurity? The discovery had many facets. The first discovery was made in the 1940s, by a man named John Doorly, who discovered that her textbook, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, is made of 16 chapters, and that this dimension matches the dimension of her description of the biblical city foursquare from Revelation 21. The city foursquare can be represented as a 16 element matrix, a matrix that lies four square. John Doorly recognized that the textbook chapters were designed to be interrelated with this structure that Mary Baker Eddy had extensively defined, which thereby took on a whole new significance. This, unfortunately, caused a great deal of tension in the church, which eventually led to the excommunication of John Doorly. As it was, the flow of discovery did not end with this tragedy, it was merely halted for a few decades.

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