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Prologue

I was born on a farm 3 miles east of Grant, Iowa on September 27, 1923. I was raised as a Methodist.

My father turned to Christian Science when my mother divorced him. He attended a Christian Science Society in Red Oak. I could see it helped him a lot to study Christian Science. I began to attend the Christian Science Society services while I went to Red Oak Junior College.

When I married my wife, Joyce, we attended the Episcopalian church. After a few years, I told her that I would like to attend the Christian Science Church, which we did.

In 1967, we lost our 14-year-old son, Gregory Kirk. I was devastated. I promised myself after he died that I would do anything I could to see him again. That night I dreamed of a painting which is exactly like the cover of this book. The ideas behind the painting have never changed.

We had a neighbor lady who taught painting. She asked me if I would like to learn to paint and I said, “Yes.” The result was my painting which I called The Great Metaphysical Transition.

I began to seriously read the King James Version of The Holy Bible and the works of Mary Baker Eddy to discover how the painting showed the way to unite me with my son. During my study, I saw the relations between the spiritual, material, and transitional stages of consciousness. This book concerns the fruit of my study. 

Dennis L. Porter
January 26, 2020

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How to use this book

            If you are a Christian or a Christian Scientist, you qualify for the Son of man, here and now, yesterday, today, and forever.

This metaphysical transition is also explained by using numerous quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Bible and the Works of Mary Baker Eddy.

For example:  “For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.” (1 Corinthians 15:53) From the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

            For this materially conscious corruptible must put on spiritually conscious incorruption and this material conscious mortal must put on spiritually conscious immortality.

            “Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.” (S&H 16:20) From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

            Only as the spiritually conscious Son of man we rise above all material conscious sensuousness and material conscious sin, can the spiritually conscious Christ we, reach the heaven-born Christ aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s spiritually conscious Prayer and which instantaneously spiritually heals the materially conscious sick.

This book includes multitudes of quotations like those above. The intent is to show us how to make the metaphysical transition from our material consciousness back to our original spiritual consciousness. From our material sense of being, back to our original spiritual sense of being.  From the material conscious man, to the spiritually conscious Son of man, and to our original spiritually conscious Christ man. And from the material conscious universe back to our original spiritual conscious universe.

I have included a fold out of the back cover, at the end of the book, to be used as a reference, as we progress in reading the book.