Freemasons gifted Christian Science
founder Mary Baker Eddy with a Mason symboled boat and a pyramid statue for her
100th birthday.
Brill Handbook of Freemasonry
Edited by Henrik
Bogdan and J.A.M. Snoek.
https://brill.com/view/title/34184
Pg.13
Freemasonry, in turn, did honor Mary
Baker Eddy as a friend both during her life and after her death. In 1892 a
group of Freemasons in Toronto (which included some Christian Scientists)
donated to her a boat with masonic symbols (Moramarco 1989-1995: VoL 2, 57). In
1921, local Freemasons donated a monument reproducing the Great Pyramid to be
placed near her birthplace in Bow, New Hampshire, to commemorate the hundredth
anniversary of her birth. The directors of Christian Science, who apparently
did not like the idea of creating an alternate center of pilgrimage in
competition with Boston's Mother Church, later had the monument destroyed, a
move which generated some protests (-Directors Order Diabolical Destruction of
Grand Pyramid Marker at Row" 1997:11-12). There is, thus, substantial
evidence of a friendly relationship between Christian Science and Freemasonry.
Mary Baker Eddy used the symbol of the cross within a crown and occasionally
referred to God as the 'Great Architect.
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