Article October 17, 1925 Issue

Regarding a paragraph in a recent issue of your paper...

Mrs. Gudrun G. Jensen, Committee on Publication for Norway,—Oslo, Norway (translation)

Den Nye Socialdemokraten

Regarding a paragraph in a recent issue of your paper, I must request space for a short statement to prevent a misunderstanding of the reference to Christian Science. In the paragraph mentioned it is stated that Dr. Steiner at one time studied "Paracelsus and Christian Science, ... became an occultist, and little by little his teaching about body and soul exercise was formed, which should bring the earthly man into a supermundane existence." These words may suggest that Dr. Steiner's study of Christian Science was a basis for his later life and teaching, which, however, appear to be wholly without resemblance to Christian Science.

In her teaching, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, distinguishes between the material body and the spiritual man, created by God, Spirit, who, Christian Science teaches, is the only real man. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 232), we read: "Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and exercise could make a man healthy, or that they could destroy human life; nor did he illustrate these errors by his practice." Christian Science teaching is founded on the life and precepts of Jesus, and Christian Scientists strive to have that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." Mrs. Eddy declares that nothing but the divine power is able to heal men; and through the understanding of the Bible which Christian Science gives, it is learned how heaven may be gained here and now, not in a "supermundane existence." The Bible is not mystical; neither is Christian Science. There is no similarity between Christian Science and theosophy, nor any resemblance in Christian Science to the teachings of Dr. Steiner, as they are put forth in his writings. Christian Science is founded wholly on the teaching of the Bible, that men shall put off "the old man" and put on "the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

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