Some readers may feel the conclusion suggested in the previous entry is a paranoid fantasy of some sort. Nevertheless, there have been for many years talk and reports, much of it reliable, of high level Mother Church canoodling with the Roman Catholic church and the medical profession. Former Board Director Virginia Harris was apparently proud of having many close friends who were obstetricians.
Those were the days when Harris and presumably the Board were giddy at the prospect of being an official participant in some Harvard University Medical School group which periodically met to discuss the effect of mind on health and healing or something like that. Harvard, at least, had the good sense to end this misguided and pathetic foray into the exciting and alluring world of medicine.
That malevolent influences have been at work in Boston for the past 20 years or so is to me supported by the systematic perversion of nearly every important activity of The Mother Church. Here is a short list: the Board of Directors, the Bible lessons, the periodicals, the Monitor, lectures, class teaching, committees on publication, healing standards, Journal listing standards, M.C. membership qualifications (so it is reported), and the squandering of many hundreds of millions of the Church's financial legacy.
It took a few 250 watt bulbs to get this job done as thoroughly and methodically as it was, and there are some of us who have not seen Church wattages much above 60 for many years. The insidious mental influence came from somewhere, and make no mistake, there are practiced hands at this sort of thing constantly at work.
Christian Scientists cannot be too alert to aggressive mental suggestion and subtle stupefying and stultifying mental influences. Powerless mental influences to be sure, but extremely harmful nonetheless if innocently, carelessly, or foolishly taken in.
Distressing as these actions have been to so many, what is even worse, they made possible the carefully disguised endgame: marginalizing, disheartening, discouraging, and driving out probably thousands of genuine Christian Scientists. Long written off by Boston as pesky impediments and nuisances these true Scientists have been superseded by a majority consisting of apathetic and servile sheep.
God will never, of course, place Christian Science in such hands, but much of what has been hard won since 1866 could be obscured or lost for a time. And if one is looking for who is doubtless rejoicing at this fait accompli, he should look no farther than the opening paragraph of this entry.
Christian Science might well borrow at this juncture the motto of the Order of the Garter: honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Science and Health starts off by saying the time for thinkers has come, and this blog is certainly going to cause some of that! Bless you for saying what many of us have thought for a long time. But isn't it cheering that many of us are awake and working for this Cause that has so blessed us.
C.S. practitioner in the Boston suburbs
Love what you said about God not placing Christ, Truth in such hands. Amen to that! Christian Science is my greatest treasure, and I do appreciate everyone who feels likewise and is doing something about it!
I applaud you for not only thinking deeply about crucial issues, but for telling it like it is. Can't help recalling something the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science writes in "First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" where she points out that plain dealing is a jewel. (page l2l) It certainly is needed these days , and
I thank you, my friend.
To me, one of Mary Baker Eddy's greatest contributions is the teaching, the divine fact Christ Jesus knew, that there is only one Mind actually--God. And we learn that this is our Mind as His reflection, and that what we need to know does come to us. I love to think about this, that He is in fact doing our thinking for us since we do not have a separate mind from God as our textbook points out. Isn't this glorious though! God certainly revealed to you some things Christian Scientists need to be aware.
You've done a good service here.
But everybody in Boston thinks that God is doing THEIR thinking! Each side is the other's "malicious animal magnetism"!!!
An interesting analogy from the military: When an army's headquarters is captured or surrenders to the enemy, the troops can do one of two things, either surrender and suffer the degradations of concentration camp life or they can fade into the countryside and fight on as individuals guerrilla-styile. I'd say this blog is evidence of the latter choice since Boston was overrun years ago as you say.
This blog is also evidence of how "cultish" Christian Science really is. Notice how no one is brave enough to sign their names and that the blogger is anonymous. What is everyone so afraid of? Is Boston the "Boogie Man"? For goodness sakes, God and He only is your true "Beloved Leader".
My, my...the previous commenter makes me think of the pot calling the kettle black. Why didn't this disturbed personage leave her or his name? Hmmmmm? And while we Christian Scientists love God supremely, depend on Him for the problems we face, Mary Baker Eddy is the Discoverer and Founder of our religion, and is our Leader through her inspired writings. Oh yes indeedy, she is respected and loved and will continue to be for all she has done and is doing for mankind's betterment.
Cynthia H.
(Boston)
Oh yes indeedy!
Sue H. You called me a "disturbed personage"...and yet you proclaim to honor Mary Baker Eddy? Shouldn't you be seeing me as she would teach you to see me? You are malpracticing against me. I am not a "disturbed personage" but made in the image and likeness of God. Now go read your lesson!
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