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The textbook of Christian Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, is made up of 16 chapters. Mary Baker Eddy's presentation of the Lord's Prayer, her illustrated poem Christ and Christmas, and even the Church Manual are all divided into sixteen parts. If you regard this pattern as a coincidence, read no further. However, if you like explore the pattern, exploring what Mary Baker Eddy had evidently found important, then you might want to consider the presentation, below. The presentation contains the 16 element matrix represented by the City Foursquare. Mary Baker Eddy described this city in terms of 4 "cardinal points" shown in green, described in the chapter the Apocalypse. Cardinal points are the crucial main points. These, logically pertain horizontally to different levels of the matrix. A matrix structure also represents specific types of flow or upwards development, such as scientific spiritual development. In this regard one finds the 4 biblical rivers from Genesis 2 described by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook's Glossary. All these give us a basic architectural definition for our foursquare matrix. After all, a matrix is really nothing more than a scientific structure for exploring interrelationships. Its architecture must therefore be predefined. By intersection of the so defined rows and columns, one can also recognize a predefined characteristic of the 16 elements in some basic fashion. Of all the structures that are made up of 16 elements, only three have been chosen for the following exploration. You find them represented in the chart below. These
are the 16 chapters of the Christian Science textbook,
The matrix shown below gives the titles of the textbook chapters, shown in pink, and the titles of the illustrative paintings in Christ and Christmas, shown in orange. You may click on the painting titles to view the illustrative painting and verses of the poem. Please note: some paintings have two verses associated with them. In these cases, the paintings present two distinct scenes, identified as part 1 and part 2 that are interrelated by the logical framework of the painting. I am certain, you will find the interrelationships interesting. The applicable sections of the Church Manual are shown in black. Also note, that the stanzas of the Lord's Prayer and the Verses from Christ and Christmas (not shown here) are mapped in a similar manner in the order of the numbers shown in each square. As you may have noticed, the 16 textbook chapters, and the 16 elements from Christ and Christmas, have been sequentially applied applied to the matrix, but in a unique manner.
The pattern for applying them has been chosen to match the logical characteristic of a structure that represents four distinct zones of an upwards unfolding development, according to Mary Baker Eddy's definition for the four rivers shown in the chart below. For more information, please refer to the research series "Discovering Infinity" Volume 3.
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