This library contains a number of new major
books
produced by Rolf A.F. Witzsche, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Christian Science.
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Two New Books
The books are
reference books, designed to greatly enrich the Christian Science Bible
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Three republished books
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Articles
and Resources
Christian
Science was founded in New England, in the USA, in the late 1800s, at the
beginning of the scientific revolution that had ushered in a new age. The
period of its development from 1866 to the end of 1910 was historically the
only major period of peace and humanity that the world has experienced to date
in almost five centuries. While no empiric proof is possible that a connection
exists between the experienced peace and development and the explosive
development of spiritual healing that had occurred and had quickly spread
internationally, the slightest possibility that such a connection may exist,
warrants an extensive exploration of it.
In this
context the principle of the academy is utilized as an exploration stage of what Mary
Baker Eddy has developed, accomplished, inspired, established, and has applied
to practical healing on a wide field.
The
spiritual healing of humanity is critically important today, since the common
root for all the modern crisis is the small-minded self-perception in society
that has been cultivated by the social disease called the oligarchic system.
The symptoms include the depopulation policies; nuclear war programs;
worldwide economic collapse; and far-flung devolution in science, such as the
one that hides the unfolding dynamics of the ice age ahead. The healing for
the disease requires an elevated self-perception in humanity - an intelligent
recognition in society of the sovereignty, creativity, and power that is
inherent in the nature of man. This task, involves a spiritual process. The
political scene, especially, requires the healing of this spiritual process to
enable society to accept its dominion, and its freedom from the fascism of
oligarchism.
Christian
Science was established to commemorate and carry forward the work that Christ
Jesus had begun and to give it a new dimension in the scientific age. A church was chartered
in its
name in Boston Massachusetts that became known as the
Mother Church of Christ Scientists which developed into a worldwide growing
movement of branch churches in Mary Baker Eddy's time.
Her
textbook on Christian Science, first published in 1875, was constantly
developed by her in line with her own scientific development. By the time she
laid the pen down in December 1910 over 400 updated editions had been
produced. Over 10 million copies were sold, with a century of healing standing
to her credit.
Today, a
century after her death, in spite of the vast publication that has occurred,
only a small portion of what the Christian Science textbook contains is generally recognized and
utilized. This means that the dawn of Christian Science is still only at its
beginning stage. This fact gives one hope that humanity may yet develop its inner
strength to lay aside war, poverty, and terror, and to meet the challenge
posed by the return of the Ice Age in potentially 30 years.
