In the "Famehall of Books" of humanity, Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (1910) occupies a unique place. Despite having been published in millions of copies, it remains one of the least understood works of all time. Albert Einstein is said to have commented on this book to the effect that it was beyond the comprehension of his time.
The cult-like, mystifying veneration that large parts of Mary Baker Eddy's followers still show towards the book and the author does not do justice to its scientific significance.
It wasn't until approximately 30 years after the last authorized edition (1907) that a research group led by John W. Doorly began to recognize the deeper structural dimension of the work. In 1952, his student, Dr. Max Kappeler, published his own research demonstrating that "Science and Health" contains similar micro- and macrostructures that can also be identified in the Bible using semantic analysis—a truly incredible phenomenon, one that Mary Baker Eddy herself had already predicted.
Today we know that both “Science and Health” and the Bible contain spiritually motivated algorithms that are isomorphic with the basic structure of the Logos as developed by John the Evangelist in his “Gospel” (I myself am currently working on this topic).
It is almost superfluous to mention that both John W. Doorly and Max Kappeler met with little favor in the free church environment founded by Mary Baker Eddy (“Christian Science”) and were eventually excommunicated, which probably speaks more for their scientific authenticity (compare also “paradigm shift”) than against it.
It is also hardly surprising that the academic mainstream (with few exceptions) has so far ignored Doorly's and Kappeler's work.
(More information and sources coming soon)
