Quo Vadis
(Whither Goest Thou)
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ...
(REV21:4)
In Mrs. Eddy's own day, she (her writings and teachings)
appealed early to Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Scientists, not
merely in alarm, but in as she said, "the time for thinkers
[which] has come." Yet we see in the Movement standing
alone since, a century later, a spreading slack
in the race to keep-up with the best: a mothering of
harlots to a lesser 'mens' - a severe slant and tendency
toward that against which the Bible warns, bring-up the
child in the way (he) should go ..., and, ... sit not
in the seat of (the) scorn(ful): yet we see The
Monitor (The Christian Scientist's) fill
itself with the blood of saints: mocking
and exaggerating and slandering and stereotyping good and
devout men and women, (grotesquely) playing-up their
foibles which are so easily seen-through, and
stupifying their readers with mock scientificisms: claiming
they (The Monitor editors, staff, and correspondents)
understand the Principle, yet virtually disclaiming the
derivative, the consequence, the constance, the idea of
Love. We read there such anomalous phrases as calling a
certain man, the "homosexual mathematician" [SIC: no
interior comma], as if they knew what either word meant
when they individually themselves have given-up and
periodically disclaimed such studies, mostly for lack of
insight, progress, and competence therein: figuring to
escape their own ignorance through their own undisciplined
pro-forma study of Scripture, not whereas Mrs. Eddy
inculcated thorough perusal, and disclaimed only materia
medica for healing, and the serpentine geology of her day:
she herself used chemical riddents on vermin - would that
they had rescued that one man, but instead they associate
evil with good, to their amusement: not even as capable
enemies to promote their own ageless mentor. (The phrase is
deleted from the Internet archives search; yet the same
'e'-CSMonitor ca. 7//96, pronounces a
certain publicly-confessed former illicit-drug-smoker
as a "squeaky clean" candidate for high public office ... perhap
their own former-smokers would pun on the meaning of 'squeaking'.)
We read of strange reverse-psycho-engineering to educate
children: they (Monitor staff) pick-up on quirky
physicists - hardly representing a moiety of the whole
class - and in acquiescent praise amplify their
quirks, such as the movie-land debunker who asks his
audience why should an outer-space-ship bank into turns
when there is no atmosphere to catch its wings - but, we
should have answered instead, if it didn't bank
into turns the riders would be thrown sideways against the
wall in the turn instead of comfortingly pressed into their
seat-rests ... on and on, The Monitor abuses the righteous
with mock appreciation: perhap they (writers individually)
themselves endured some sad situation of misunderstood
allegiance to the Christ (as though the Earth were loyal to
the sunlight without recognizing as Mrs. Eddy did in her
textbook, the sun's place and centrality) - perhap they
meant only that they do in the dark only as (what) they do
in the light - can you forgive them that? or are their
inner prayer closets yet full of the same junky
scornful mock appreciations that they write outwardly?!-
Their science editor took three tries at explaining the
gravity-swing procedure (ca. '86-89) for deep-space-bound
spaceships, and finally concluded the planet gave the ship
"a kick" - not a very apt ideology in navigation and
graduate sciences. That (said) physics lecturer went on to
ask whether superman can fly when there is no exhaust seen,
yet we might have answered, the Space Shuttle Main Engines
burn almost invisibly, and the physicists' favorite
neutrino (99% of the energy and power of a stellar
supernova) is utterly invisible save one in
duo-decillions .... The Monitor seems to be aging - halting
between two opinions - the Church Directors are reluctant
even to defiance, to call it, The Christian Science Monitor
(Res, ca. 1990-92: World Monitor, and, The Monitor
Channel: both now defunct) - such mockery: it
should be called as it should be known, The
'Cheese-and-Sinus' Monitor: something to sneeze at, but
not around people. (I'm only picking at the fine
points, because they're doing so well.) [*]
Seeking good in evil, they claim much good, and the evil so
much more abounds: Friends, Do we extract fresh water from
addle? It's possible, and it proves a point in Science, but
we need not then swim in toilets: Mrs. Eddy once tried the
effects of [a certain] drug she'd received in childhood for
recovering health, and found no effect against her
now-ready thought, and that proved her point, in Science. [The 'non'-effect she also connoted as, 'With
tearful thanks': That's mentally effectual repentance,
gratitude, and testimony-- that others need not attempt the
obsolete method of healing and learning the nothingness of error and vice; But, they, can do that with cheese instead]
And when other (non)-scientist writers disparage the author
of Christian Science, do they rally? do the Directors
remind that writer that (he) is speaking unmercifully of a
170 year-old woman? a woman who knew the American Civil
War? and sought to comfort others after that slaughter (as
in Jesus' day there was a great slaughter of children)? in
whose days materia medica doctoring was self-appraising and
often fraudulent (the days of 'carpet-baggers') when the
most pernicious drugs were advertised openly often for
healing. Or do they merely offend (retaliate) by
advertising Satanic Verses, against Mrs. Eddy's own counsel
and restriction to not patronize such stores of
(ob)noxious literature? Shall we then reprise, Quo Vadis!
- Goest thou then to whither?
We've seen since then, the Church itself publishing without
retraction or correction neven after being advised, altered
versions of Mrs. Eddy's public writings, purporting her as discerning the Holy Bible making divines mad, when herself, she corrected, her own handwriting to read, "diviners" ...
Like Jesus' parable of the headservants of the household
beating the lesser servants while the Master of the house
was away, and, What do you think the Master will do ...?-
while they pray politically (the formality of political speech is forbidden them under U.S.A. Law regarding non
profit organizations), He tarrieth; He is drunk ...? ...
Even standing before the public camera they look like
holiday 'spirits' in cold weather. Perhap on this date, Saturday June 25 2005, they should look up at the evening sky and see the perhap rarest and tightest-ever conjunction
of the three most-significant planets in millennia, and
ponder their end-point: While the planets revolve onward,
this Saturday-evening meeting of Saturn, Venus, Mercury,
reminds momentously of the unity of the sons-of-God Abraham
and Isaac and Israel (Jacob) as close as the sun is small;
and tomorrow Sunday evening, Venus and Mercury hand-in-hand
go-on: Not even Christ Jesus' birth was announced by such
closeness, -forty times closer;- Like Jesus' story of the
re-turn of the prodigal, not just a son, but two brothers.
If it is possible to do this right, the Directors should see to it.
Lastly, It may be, -or eventually become moreso,- notable, that,
the world-around The Christian Science 'mental center' of truth, is
decaying rapidly from its own advances since Mrs. Eddy's day:
What is called materia medica, in her day received an impetus to
scientific mathematically correct albeit-human thinking; while in
recent decades -this century later- public laws (many of the United
States of America), have lapsed from, refining moral and ethical truths,
to pre-1937, pre-civil,-rights, nonchalance-- to mere statistical
opinionations of 'users by-their uses', for chemical cocktails, wildly,
ignorant-of, even imposing-on, their neighbors, peers, decent people,
betters, albeit in the human context, and setting the 'bad example' for
poorly-educated who have neither Christian Science nor, high
school-worthy graduate-diplomas and right-thinking Legislatures
publicizing what is the 'standard-as-peer' for all freemen to live
now;-- Christian Scientists have failed to appeal their Science to the
top-thinkers whose time has come ... had come ... In Mrs. Eddy's day it
did, she did, they did ... where it was humanly possible.... Mrs. Eddy
said, apathy becomes indignation;-- indignation is like picking a
date-and-time on a calendar to make important for others, eg.
1-a.m.-2003-04-05, which means absolutely nothing to scientific thinkers
human-doctoral nor divine; but to zodiacal-cronies and numbers-junkies
... Christian Scientists expose sin but recover hurt.
Nevertheless, many await its resurrection, along with
several excommunicated, trustworthy members,
restored to the Church in which they -should- belong.
[They were not the specific personal Successor to Mrs. Eddy]
* [I told them (in writing) to remove their cheese recipes
from the Home Forum page; but they did naught. Cheese, is a
peculiar problem with mankind: There is a right way to make
cheese that is not spoiled; and the wrong way is not right:
It takes a peer, -someone they should look up to and obey,-
who knows and does the difference]
[We must note here in closing that the plausible actual
would become speculative if we merely imagine what persons
may have done, said, meant ... the importance is in the
demonstration of the Christ Science: not to rediscover
that which is today abundant, but discern and live it]
The teachings hereïn are not secularized nor classified:
Sunday School pupils, Primary Class students, Normal Class
graduates, scholars, researchers, astronomers, scientists,
governments, find this coursework timely, modern, global,
historical, democratic. The syllabus is the ALMS Program:
Astronomics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Systematics:
Scientific inferentiation on Holy Biblical Scripture: What
actually happened.
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