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INTRODUCTION
The enigmatical dream pictures which were
recorded by Mary Baker Eddy's secretary, Calvin
A. Frye, under the heading "MRS. EDDY'S VISIONS"
have already appeared in print. In a recent
attack on Christian Science and its Founder,
these Visions were summarized and given an unfavorable import in the following comment: "The
dreams, of course, point clearly in one
direction, but to C. A. Frye and other Christian
Scientists to whom they were told, the direction
seemed that of saintliness." (Mary Baker Eddy,
page 232, Knopf, 1932.)
This volume is put into print as a protest
against this pronouncement of ignorance in order
to proclaim the spiritual nature of these Visions
as coming from divine revelation, when viewed
through the lens of spiritual perception.
Mary Baker Eddy was the window for this age
to let in the light of Truth. Therefore the
spiritual footsteps which led her to this
"consummation devoutly to be wished" are of
infinite value to her followers. It is their
innate conviction that Mrs. Eddy recorded or permitted to be recorded nothing of her life, or
experience, except what had spiritual
significance and practical value when properly
understood and interpreted. It is evident,
therefore, that these Visions must constitute
definite waymarks in her spiritual revelation
that merit attention and analysis.
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First Visions
The First Visions were always of water
and in proportion as I would walk over the
wave or struggle through it with an old
rickety bark, and the waters subside, would
be the success of our Cause. Then came in
an interval of serpents. Then it went back
to water again. Then came all manner of
beasts.
cause of
outgrown.
Christian
Science,
and
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Vision of 1872
I was pitched out of a boat into the
sea and went down. While going down a
clear consciousness came to me that I
could have no human aid and must go to
the bottom. When I reached the bottom
(out of the depths He called me) the view
was terrific. Green slime covered it and
the most horrible reptiles hissed around
me, but immediately a ray of light came
down through the water and there burst in
upon me the most gorgeous sunlight,
"and there was no more sea."
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that this
explanation for
Howard was an
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a lack of demonstration.
Sometimes sickness sensitizes one so that
he cannot bear the presence of certain friends
in his roomfriends whose company he had
normally enjoyed. This illustrates why
Mrs.Eddy, when her thought was spiritually
vulnerable, might rebuke a student for the
error of mortal thinking of which he was unaware, because of its effect upon her; when, at
other times protected by her own demonstration,
she rebuked him only for his own good.
Mrs. Eddy knew that it was possible for
human traits of loyalty, faithfulness and love,
to camouflage an underlying hatred--the hatred
of animal magnetism for the children of God.
Sometimes it became necessary to discharge
servants whose service is beyond criticism,
because of an under-lying antagonism in the
thought of the one who serves which, while it
is concealed, can be felt and which tends to
rob the atmosphere of the home of its harmony
and happiness. Because the service of such a
one is beyond criticism, it is difficult to
give satisfactory reasons for discharging him
or her. Such a one will ask, "Has not my work
been perfect?" to those who are forced to admit
that it has been.
Is it not logical that spiritual growth
will bring a student to the point of progress
where every phase of mortal thought will be
offensive to his spiritual nature? At that
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of Christian Science he is
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greater the consciousness he has of the everpresence of divine Love. This mode of mental
practice Mrs. Eddy taught to members of her
household.
On the other hand, to pour out love would
be ineffectual if one did it expecting it to be
reversed by error so that it would act like
hate on the opposer of Truth. Science
recognizes only a divine motive as effectual
and back of one's love for his neighbor must be
the desire to help him.
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CONCLUSION
There is no doubt that early in her
Christian Science career, Mrs.
Eddy began to realize that God was instructing
her through her night dreams from time to time
as He did in her waking hours. Once she
appreciated this fact, she must have made a
definite effort to recall such dreams as
seemed spiritually significant, and elevate
them from the category of commonplace night
dreams to the realization of them as visions
or revelations.
Any student of Christian Science, when
he begins to win the ability to reflect God
to some degree, can make the claim that God
is instructing him day and night, and he will
find that through what are considered the vagaries of mortal thinking, will begin to
appear traces of spiritual good, and his
dreams will begin to take on a divine hue, as
does everything else in life.
Surely, as Mrs. Eddy grew nearer to God,
the more spiritually significant became every
experience of her life. Gradually everything
became tinged with that which was divine. It
merely required her breaking open the shell in
which the spiritual truth was contained in
order to find the kernel.
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