During the time when their churches were still being built, such as by Freemason Carl Werner (here), Christ Scientists met in Freemason Halls.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Before their churches were built, Christian Scientists met in Freemason Halls
During the time when their churches were still being built, such as by Freemason Carl Werner (here), Christ Scientists met in Freemason Halls.
Christian Science did not allow members to be members of any other societies accept Freemasonry
In its earlier years the Church of Christ Scientists did not allow members to be members of any other organization, except Freemasonry.
American Christian Science Architecture and its Influence
Mary Baker Eddy Library
June 16, 2011
See Eddy 1896, pp. 142-143; Eddy 1913, 351. A Church Manual by-law (43rd edition, Article XXVI) requiring members to be free from other organizations at first excepted Free Masons.
Freemason built Christian Science churches and added Masonic symbols
Christian Science churches were built by Freemason Carl Werner who added Freemason imagery which Mary Baker Eddy understood.
American Christian Science Architecture and its Influence
Mary Baker Eddy Library
June 16, 2011
The classical style could be interpreted as the rational outgrowth of a Christian primitivism but it was equally associated with esoteric or specialized knowledge practiced by groups such as the Masons. Masonic interpretations of the Ionic column favored in many Christian Science commissions, for example, would suggest that they represented wisdom. While a penchant for Masonic symbolism was found in the decorative programs for several Christian Science churches,16 it is doubtful, even with Mrs. Eddy’s understanding and appreciation of Masonic symbolism, that most Christian Scientists discussed these interpretations openly.17
FOOTNOTES
10 The larger coronet crown reminded many of the motif used by the Masons. It was featured on the cover of Science and Health from the 3rd edition from 1881, and in the decorative programs of many early branch churches, until it was replaced by a smaller crown in 1908. On symbolism see Beasley 1952, 77-78. The Christian Science Journal, 26, 186 explained that Eddy wanted the “Christian Science seal” to be “truly emblematic of what it stands for,” stating that the “crown now used is what is known in heraldry as a celestial crown, whereas the one formerly used was in fact not a crown at all, but a coronet, and possessed no significance when combined with the cross. The celestial crown, or, as it is sometimes called, the Christian’s crown, is the one described in Revelation, and it always has been emblematic of the triumphant life of the saints and martyrs.”
16 For example see the classical churches of California architect Carl Werner, a Mason and architect of the Oakland Masonic Temple (1925). He designed Fourth Church, San Francisco (1913), and Fourth Church, Oakland (1922) among others and included low-relief braziers and flaming lamps of wisdom across his facades. Many churches at this time, including the extension of the mother church, had heraldic, symbolic, even Masonic references in their decorative elements. The cross and crown in windows, carvings and terra cotta tiles, sheaves of wheat, vines, individual fruits like pomegranates, lamps of wisdom, braziers of the temple, shields, all can be found in the decorative programs of many early Christian Science churches.
Christian Scientist Mary Eddy's husband was degree "Royal Arch Mason"
It is important to know that Mary Baker Eddy's husband George Glover had reached the Freemason degree of Royal Arch Mason. This shows that he was not a low-level Mason, and this is the degree right before you are allowed to learn "Crypto-Masonry" or to learn the secrets of the Freemason order. Eddy's husband was likely training in the occult secrets of Masonry. The Masons held a "special meeting" to mourn George Glover's death so entrenched in Masonry he was.
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Mary Baker Eddy and others
CHAPTER XIX
Brother Glover resided in Charleston, S. C., and was made a Mason in “St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 10.” He was soon exalted to the degree of a Royal Arch Mason in “Union Chapter, No. 3,” and retained his membership in both till his decease. He was devotedly attached to Masonry, faithful as a member and officer of the Lodge and Chapter, and beloved by his brothers and companions, who mourn his early death
A "special meeting" held for George Glover's death by Masons
In the records of St. John's Lodge, Wilmington, as found by one of your own citizens, a Mason, it is shown that on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1844, a special meeting was convened for the purpose of paying the last tribute of respect to Brother George W. Glover, who died on the night of the twenty-seventh. The minutes record this further proceeding: —
“A procession was formed, which moved to the residence of the deceased, and from thence to the Episcopal burying-ground, where the body was interred with the usual ceremonies. The procession then returned to the lodge, which was closed in due form.”
Christ Science founder Mary Eddy's husband buried as a "Master Mason"
Upon his death, Major George W. Glover, husband of Mary Baker Eddy, was given the burial rites of a "Master Mason"; this was recorded in a letter written by Mrs. Eddy herself in 1903.
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Mary Baker Eddy and others
CHAPTER XIX
Mrs. Eddy's Letter
Dear Editor: — I send for publication in our periodicals the following deeply interesting letter from Elizabeth Earl Jones of Asheville, N. C, — the State where my husband, Major George W. Glover, passed on and up, the State that so signally honored his memory, where with wet eyes the Free Masons laid on his bier the emblems of a master Mason, and in long procession with tender dirge bore his remains to their last resting-place. Deeply grateful, I recognize the divine hand in turning the hearts of the noble Southrons of North Carolina legally to protect the practice of Christian Science in that State.
Is it not a memorable coincidence that, in the Court of New Hampshire, my native State, and in the Legislature of North Carolina, they have the same year, in 1903, made it legal to practise Christian Science in these States?
Mary Baker Eddy.
| Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., | |
| October 16, 1903. |
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Freemasons built a statue and gifted a boat to Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy
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.
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.
Christian Science founder was Freemason's wife, Masons helped her upon her husband's death
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, was married to a Freemason. Before he died her husband arranged with his lodge to have his wife taken care of, she expressed her appreciation in writing.
FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
HELPED BY FREEMASONS
HELPED BY FREEMASONS
Brother Glover was an honorary member of the staff of the Governor and was called "Major Glover".
He was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 10 and of Union Chapter No. 3, R.A.M. A few months after the marriage Brother Glover contracted yellow fever and died; he was given a Masonic funeral.
Before he died he requested members of the lodge to help his young bride return to the parental home in New Hampshire.
How well they kept their promise was told by the widow, who wrote in 1892, "Here it is but justice to record they performed their obligation most faithfully."
Some time after arriving at her parental home she gave birth to her only child, George. Later she married Mr. Eddy; there is no record that he was a Mason.
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Scientist, and Miscellany (1913)
Mary Baker Eddy and others
CHAPTER XIX
On the third day of her husband's illness, Mrs. Glover (now Mrs. Eddy) sent for the distinguished physician who attended cases of this terrible disease as an expert (Dr. McRee we think it was), and was told by him that he could not conceal the fact that the case was one of yellow fever in its worst form, and nothing could save the life of her husband. In these nine days and nights of agony the young wife prayed incessantly for her husband's recovery, and was told by the expert physician that but for her prayers the patient would have died on the seventh day.
The disease spread so rapidly that Mrs. Glover (Mrs. Eddy) was afraid to have her brother, George S. Baker, come to her after her husband's death, to take her back to the North. Although he desired to go to her assistance, she declined on this ground, and entrusted herself to the care of her husband's Masonic brethren, who faithfully performed their obligation to her. She makes grateful acknowledgment of this in her book, “Retrospection and Introspection.” In this book (p. 20) she also states, “After returning to the paternal roof I lost all my husband's property, except what money I had brought with me; and remained with my parents until after my mother's decease.” Mr. Glover had made no will previous to his last illness, and then the seizure of disease was so sudden and so violent that he was unable to make a will.
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