Business, Mysticism, and Moderation

I have read up to page 98 of Robert Peel's Mary Baker Eddy: Years of Authority with a pencil in hand, marking arrows on points I wish to comment on.

Here goes:

Business

Oh! Here is a note from me on page 15 - “Trump 2017”, written alongside some discussion  about business men.  For example, the following, quoted from Mrs. Eddy -  

“The smartest business man is not scientifically a safe business man. He is not as smart as God, while he thinks himself smart and is quite unconscious of this thought.” 

And on page 16:

“What is your model business man – the real Scientist who plants in Mind, God, who sows in Mind and reaps in Mind, or he who begins with political economy, human plans, legal speculations, and ends with them, dust to dust?”

It seems there are always lessons to be learned, lives to be blessed. Therefore, in our time as in Mrs. Eddy's, we will find that, “There must be a blessing in it.” Even in world politics!

Somewhere it is recorded that Mrs. Eddy said, “Never say there is too much or too little of anything. God governs. He will do right.” (Ed. Readers: can anyone place that quote?)

Mysticism

On page 388 note 7, Peel speaks on “mysticism.” He writes:

“Mysticism in its primary sense of direct communion with the ultimate ground of being has become so overlaid with suggestions of the mysterious, the occult, the psychologically unhealthy, that it has become unusable in general discourse.” 

There is more of interest in that note. 

[Ed. Peel goes on to quote Eddy in the chapter "Christian Science versus Spiritualism" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in part:

"Science dispels mystery and explains extraordinary phenomena; but Science never removes phenomena from the domain of reason into the realm of mysticism" (p. 80).]

Google suggests that mysticism is: "Belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender."

Moderation

It is very instructive to read what Peel has noted about Mrs. Eddy's demand for moderation by students when they spoke of her place in the discovery and founding of Christian Science. For example, see page 38. [Ed. Peel points out her abhorrence of intemperate or adulatory remarks, and declares her preference for the terms "discoverer" and "founder" as a "victory of reason over mysticism" (ibid).]

Joyce Voysey