 Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:34 AM
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followingHim (12/10/2008)
We all have them. One of my favorite is from when, as a child, I visited the house in Lynn where Eddy wrote S&H. There, as we stood alongside a velvet rope and gazed reverently at the "attic room" with its little period writing table and rocking chair, my mother told me, in hushed terms, that this is where "Mrs. Eddy received Science and Heath." She then told me that Eddy would sit up late into the night, "writing and writing,...and when she looked at it the next day, she didn't remember writing She would have to read it and study it, just as we do!"
Years later I came to understand what this phenomenon is: It's called and is a practice found in Spiritism!
I remember that mythic idea -- I remember the story that MBE said S&H was received as divine inspiration, and she had to study it herself. So I guess she channeled it. 
I was floored when I realized how much of CS is like Spiritualism. Not in having seances, but a lot of ideas are the same, and MBE evidently was involved in Spiritualism (to what extent depends on the book you are reading!)
Ann
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Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 9:04 AM
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| Getting back to the legend of the insane woman who did not comprehend time and thus never aged, it does bring to mind The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde in 1890. Eddy may have picked up on that. then there's Miss Havisham, from Dickens' Great Expectations who was jilted on her wedding day, and attempts to freeze that moment in time. So she becomes a reclusive, old, physically and emotionally shriveled lady, wearing her tattered wedding dress behind dusty old curtains. No major points here--just two authors who treated the issue of time's passage with poignancy and art.
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Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 12:40 PM
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We must also not forget people like Dick Clark, but I wonder about the validation process undertaken regarding Mrs. Eddy neveraging woman.
Do Go Be Man
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Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 2:03 PM
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"That story is in the Science and Health, pg 245:
Disappointed in love in her early years, she became insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she was still living in the same hour which parted her from her lover, taking no note of years, she stood daily before the window watching for her lover's coming. In this mental state she remained young. Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew no older. Some American travellers saw her when she was seventy-four, and supposed her to be a young woman. She had no care-lined face, no wrinkles nor gray hair, but youth sat gently on cheek and brow. Asked to guess her age, those unacquainted with her history conjectured that she must be under twenty.
MBE goes on to say that the woman could not age while believing herself to be young because the mental state governed the physical state.
Hope this answers your question!"
Anonymous:
Yes it does!!! Thank you very much. I should have remembered that S&H was the source or this. Of course,
Mrs. Eddy cited as her source an article in the Lancet, but without volume and page numbers it is impossible to verify the source. Additionally, she didn't say if the woman was still alive at the time when MBE wrote this. Indeed, is she still alive to prove that Christian Science is true?
John
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Posted Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:22 PM
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| How about Vanna White, frozen at age 21? (She started that show in 1982. Sure wish I had stock in that one!) But on a serious note: Refering without specificity to legitimate media is a well-established technique for mis- and dis- informtion. The Soviets were good at it. I remember reading a local activist's screed on an issue. He wrote something like, "According to an item in The Boston Globe.... This piqued my curiosity, so I took the effort to research it. The "item" was actually a letter to the editor! Hardly a fact-reliable source!
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Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:15 PM
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I am 64 yrs. old and was raised by a Christian Science mother (my father was of a Methodist family and NEVER argued about religion! I have eight of my original teeth -toothaches/cavities - I am hearing impaired - horrible earaches. And, I have a hip that is in very bad shape, due to no immediate care after I broke it at age 4. There was never a dental or doctor appt. until I became a teenager and started thinking for myself! After informing my mother of a tooth ache, ear ache, etc. the Science and Health was placed in my hands to read and "heal."
Well, I became the caregiver for my mother in her later years....my sister moved across the country! When Mom was in her early 80's and became ill, etc., there was no more Science and Health for her, but continual medical appts. which I had to chauffer her to and from. After her passing the Science and Health book went in the garbage.
My 2 children were raised with excellent medical care, when necessary, and both are thriving today! GOD gave us wonderful doctors, dentists and all others in the medical field. How could one woman, whose background is a bit questionable, be believed by any sane person?
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Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:30 PM
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| P.S. Mary Baker Eddy has reportedly been married 8-9 times. Does she have any living ancestors?
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Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:38 PM
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Anonymous January 28, 2009 @ 11:30:19 PM,
P.S. Mary Baker Eddy has reportedly been married 8-9 times. Does she have any living ancestors?
First time I've ever heard that Mrs. Eddy was married more than three times:
George Washington Glover (1843)
Daniel Patterson (1853)
Asa Eddy (1877)
I know of only one living leaf on her family tree, a great grand nephew (not sure how many generations) who is a pastor in my denomination. I tried contacting him, but I'm sure he's not excited about the prospect of the connection. There are probably others, but they probably also prefer to let things be.
Do Go Be Man
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Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:24 PM
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Mrs. Eddy cited as her source an article in the Lancet, but without volume and page numbers it is impossible to verify the source.
Refering without specificity to legitimate media is a well-established technique for mis- and dis- informtion.
Actually, Mrs. Eddy was following the citation conventions of her day. In the Enllightenment Era, it was generally believed that educated people were all familiar enough with classic literature and current periodicals that specific citations weren't needed, and so a casual reference to a title or an author was considered sufficient. It was only later, with the proliferation of works considered literary and with the recognition that it would be impossible for any one person to be familiar with all writing of "quality" that more extensive rules for citing sources were developed. Also, the idea that someone might have legal property rights over artistic and literary creations (the concept of intellectual property) was still evolving during Eddy's time.
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Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 7:34 AM
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And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
-The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 5, verses 14 & 15
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