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Chapter 5 - Universal Marriage"Her name is Mary," said Ross as we entered his office. "I have found something in Mary's writings that may interest you," he said. "And I'm supposed to know what you are talking about?" I said to him. "You lost me, my friend." "Mary is the name of the healer that you told me about. Remember the story you told me. You told me the story of a woman that was healed of partial paralysis when another woman was driving by her in a carriage, who was a renowned healer. That healer was Mary, born as Mary Baker on a homestead in New Hampshire in 1821. She healed herself in 1866, which saved her live and changed the world. She became the discoverer and founder of Christian Science who is known today throughout the world under the name of Mary Baker Eddy." Ross showed me a discovery that he had made some time earlier in the writings of that woman, whom he described as one of the great spiritual pioneers of America. "She brought back into practice the long lost element of Christ healing," said Ross. "But the most daring thing that she did is something that hardly anyone is aware of. She had established a Christian church around the turn of the century without incorporating any provision for marriages." "That's interesting," I replied. Ross shook his head. "No, that it where it starts getting interesting, Peter," he said proudly. "That's where the fun starts." Ross told to me that this Mary had written a textbook about her discovery, and that this textbook was made up of sixteen chapters, and that every one her major works that she had become known for had been created as a structure that was divided by her into sixteen parts, or multiples thereof. "So what?" I asked. "So sit down," he said. "I have figured out what this might mean. And it means a lot." Ross told me that being a scientist himself, he found it interesting that the universal partitioning of Mary's work into sixteen parts relates every one of her works to a four by four matrix of sixteen elements, which also described in great detain in her textbook. Ross told me that the woman had defined this four-square matrix in great detain. "She has given it a very precise set of descriptions," said Ross. "She has defined every row of it in nearly half a dozen different ways, and likewise every column." Ross also said that he sat down and related her sixteen textbook chapters to this matrix in the manner that one relates a sequential development to such a matrix. "To my surprise," he said, "the chapter on marriage corresponds to a very high level position on this matrix that's located a complete step above the moral level where marriage normally located by society." "Marriage aren't always moral. There is much abuse tied into it and strange expectations," I interjected. "In Mary's matrix the concept of marriage doesn't relate to that low level domain that you might call sub-moral," said Ross. "She defines the sub-moral domain as a kind of sewer where one deals with depravities and desires, such as marriage rights and duties, sexual greed, privatized love, economic selfishness, or territorial boundaries, borders, limits, even the limits that narrow a marriage to two people as we have it reflected in the modern marriage model. Nor does Mary locate her chapter on marriage at the next higher level that she has defined as the moral domain, labeled Christianity. Instead, she relates the marriage concept to the still higher level, which she has defined as the Christ. She defined this level as the scientific domain to which none of those lower aspects pertain." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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