Mary Baker Eddy was probably the first person to use the term "Matrix" in a spiritual-scientific context. This term appears only once in her extensive oeuvre and is difficult for the average reader to understand. In "Science and Health," she speaks of the misconception that mortality could be the "Matrix of Immortality" (translated from English, SH p. 250). This is somewhat understandable: Immortality is unlikely to arise from mortality. Raymond Kurzweil and others who believe they can dock their brains to a computer to achieve immortality will not be able to change this. Other fantasies of immortality based on the materialistic worldview will also prove to be illusions. They demonstrate that the generic term "Homo sapiens" is wrongly applied to contemporary humanity, which—to quote Mary Baker Eddy again—seems to be following a very dubious path:
"Lulled by numbing illusions, the world sleeps in the cradle of childhood and dreamily whiles the hours away. Material sense does not unfold the facts of existence; spiritual sense, on the other hand, lifts human consciousness to eternal truth."
Even readers of "Science and Health" initially had no idea what the term "matrix" meant, and probably understood it more in a metaphorical sense. It was only with the groundbreaking discoveries of John W. Doorly and Dr. Max Kappeler that both "Science and Health" and many micro- and macrostructures of the Bible are semantically demonstrably organized in a matrix-like manner that their students slowly began to engage with matrix analysis.
