"Frodo, likewise had to discover that sublimity in himself. They all had to do that. With that Tolkien covers one of Mary's development streams, the second one, of the sunrise. I think Mary's other development stream in which sex becomes an issue, which is her fourth one, can be seen as a river in which sex becomes elevated to an idea of completeness, representing science in its infinite development, or divine Science as she called it.

      "In Tolkien's tale, Mary's second development stream is represented by the elves, which represent completeness in self-awareness, the white of the sun, the royalty of the human being. The fourth development stream, related to the boundless development of science itself, is represented by Arwen, the daughter of Elrond, one of the wisest of the elves. Arwen embraces her potential for infinite scientific development. For this she puts the seal of immortality on time, an immortality that blossoms with love, that is another facet of completeness. In this human completeness she finds an air of divinity. In the context of this love, Aragorn is inspired to pull himself out of the trap of arrogance, which had forced his self-imposed exile from society. He appears to have been disgusted with the smallmindedness of his society, such he searches for the infinity of Mind. He is called Strider, a wanderer. His journey lets him find that completeness within himself as a human being, which is found in the boundless humanity that we all share. In that quest he becomes linked to Arwen, whose love inspires him to reach for his own infinity as a divinely royal human being, his completeness. Thus, the two remain linked in that self-love that unites them, a kind of divine Love, and together they elevate society with it. It is in that achievement that they both find their immortality, the true immortality that we should all aspire to, the immortality that remains forever. Mary defined her sense of divine Science with those two words: immortality and Love."



      "Are you saying that Tolkien studied Mary's work?" Tony interrupted my presentation.

      "Not at all," I replied. "Tolkien couldn't have studied this aspect of Mary Baker Eddy's work even if he wanted to. It hadn't been known to exist in Tolkien's day. It remains largely unknown to the present day, for obvious reasons. As for Tolkien, there was no need for him to know about it. The dynamics for dealing with the truth about our humanity can be discovered by anyone who devotes himself intensively to it. The truth has been the same throughout all ages. Mary and Tolkien probably made their discoveries independently, as the leading edge thinkers that they both were; though they both worked in totally different fields of specialization with different dimensions and different forms of expression. The both focused on the same truth, and each in its way quite successfully so. That's what makes the dimension of sex so fascinating, because it follows the same pattern of specialization in the larger sphere of our universal humanity. We find the same underlying completeness in countless individual aspects, sexually and spiritually. We find them in science as we find them in sex, reflecting the same rich, boundless universal humanity. We are more deeply married to one another by this boundless universal humanity than by any artificial marriage model that tends to be small and encumbered with barriers and limits."

      "You are referring to the principle of the universal marriage of humanity, aren't you, in which we come to light as a single indivisible whole? That's relatively simple concept compared to the complexities of sex," said Tony. He appeared to be somewhat astonished by what he said.

      "Right," I replied. "I suppose that may have been the reason why Mary has put the science of marriage into the very first development stream, which represents the dawn, that is our dawning awareness of the profound universal truths pertaining to our nature and being as a spiritual species."

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