DAVID E. ROBINSON, et al, pro se______________________
Plaintiff
v.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, et al______
Defendants

1. Mrs. Eddy began her second period of organization in 1892. It continued until her passing in 1910. The records indicate that Mrs. Eddy's purpose during this period was to found the free and unfettered individual practice of Christian Science, throughout the world. To accomplish this purpose, Mrs. Eddy utilized three institutions.

2. Two of these institutions comprise the foundational Deeds of Trust -- the Church Director's Deed of 1892 and the Publishing Society Trustees. Deed of 1898 -- were indispensable to Mrs. Eddy's final period of founding. Their further purpose was to enable the organization to carry on after Mrs. Eddy's passing when it could no longer function under her personal direction and control.

3. The third institution -- the first and second being her Deeds of Trust -- was the Mother Church, established in 1892. This institution embraced the other two, as all three were under her direct guidance and control.

4. Nearly a year before Mrs. Eddy reorganized her church, she wrote prophetically in her first edition of Retrospection and Introspection, published in November, 1891, that:

"This church may find it wisdom to organize a second time for the completion of its history. This, however is left to the providence of God."

5. So when the word came, Mrs. Eddy went forward and reorganized her church on September 23, 1892 as a means of completing her church history. Yet when this church, under her God-directed "Mothering" had served its purpose, she, through the estoppel clauses in her Manual, authorized its dissolution to take place after her passing.

6. This did not mean that she authorized the dissolution of the organization of the local and branch churches, but only of the centrally controlled "Mother Church" in Boston, leaving "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts" operating in its place.

7. The inability of the Directors to see the way to obey the estoppel clauses in the Manual, and at the same time to carry on the organization, provided for them a dilemma.

8. The Director.s decision to "waive" the By-laws, in effect .abandoning. the by-laws, reversed Mrs. Eddy's plan of true government for her church.

9. From the time of the publication of the first edition of the textbook Science and Health, in 1875, to the conclusion of her founding, in 1910, Mrs. Eddy repeatedly stated her position on the subject of organization, and her thoughts on this subject had not changed throughout those years.

"We have no need for creeds and church organization to sustain or explain a demonstrable platform, in healing the sick, and casting out error." (p.166) "Church rites and ceremonies have nothing to do with Christianity, and more than this, they draw us toward material things: hence away from spiritual Truth, and all Truth is spiritual." (p.181).

10. Fourteen years later, in 1889, Mrs. Eddy reiterated her original position on organization: "Material organization is requisite in the beginning; but when it has done its work, the purely Christly method of teaching and preaching must be adopted." (Misc. 355-359).

11. Note that she says: "must be" and not "may be" adopted. And again, in speaking of the dissolution of her first church organization, Mrs. Eddy writes:

"Despite the prosperity of my church, it was learned that material organization has its value and peril, and that organization is requisite only in the earliest periods of Christian history. After this material form of cohesion and fellowship has accomplished its end, continued organization retards spiritual growth, and should be laid off..." (Ret. 45).

12. Three years later at the time of the organization of the Mother Church in 1892, Mrs. Eddy once again reminds her students that her idea of organization had not changed, since the publishing of the first edition of Science and Health in 1875.

"It is not indispensable to organize materially Christ's Church. It is not absolutely necessary to ordain pastors and to dedicate churches: but if this is done, let it be in concession to the period, and not as a perpetual or indispensable ceremonial of the church. If our church is organized, it is to meet the demand, 'suffer it to be so now.' The real Christian compact is love for one another. This bond is wholly spiritual and inviolate."

13. One might wonder why Mrs. Eddy would "organize a second time." Her purpose in making this second temporary concession to organize was to complete her church history, the history of the "Mothering" or founding of the local independent churches and to establish the free unfettered, individual practice of Christian Science -- as a Science -- throughout the world.

14. Mrs. Eddy's second requirement in reorganizing her church in 1892 was that it be established on a wholly non-legal, secular basis. Consequently, 23 days after she had established the Deed of Trust for the purpose of legally holding the church property, she and 12 of her students who were members of her former church met and formed the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, as a non-legal, voluntary association.

15. The third fundamental requirement in Mrs. Eddy.s reorganization was that the Publishing Society should be kept entirely separate not only from the church itself, but from her September 1st, 1892 Deed of Trust Directors.

16. Ecclesiasticism, using both the Board of Directors and the Field, combined into one which Mrs. Eddy tried to keep separate, the Publishing House separate from the Church.

17. In this three-fold separation, Mrs. Eddy insisted that (a) the Property should be held separate from the Church, (b) the Publishing Society should function independently of the Church, and (c) the Deed Directors and the Publishing Society Trustees should function independently of and through cooperation with each other.

18. Mrs. Eddy was laying the groundwork for the free, self-governing aspect of the local churches; churches which were to continue even after the centrally controlled Mother Church had been dissolved in obedience to the estoppels in the Manual.

19. This three-fold separation had been and is being reversed by the present violation of the Manual with regard to the estoppel clauses. This ongoing reversal has combined (a) the Church of Christ, Scientist, (b) the church property, and (c) the Publishing Society -- all in direct disobedience to Mrs. Eddy's Commands.

20. Mrs. Eddy set up a centrally controlled organization as a tool for her own use in carrying out her own purpose of establishing Christian Science world-wide. After her work had been completed and closed out, she did not intend that the Board of Directors should try to do with her tools what only she alone could do.

21. The office of the Manual was two-fold. First, to enable Mrs. Eddy -- while she was yet with us -- to guide and direct her organization so that she could successfully carry out her world mission. Second, to act as a spiritual guide for the Churches and Christian Scientists in their relationship with each other.

22. Since Mrs. Eddy has completed her task of world founding, the second office alone remains.

23. However, by waiving the estoppel clauses that provide for the dissolving of the material Mother Church, and by assuming to take Mrs. Eddy's place as Leader, the Defendants have turned the Manual's spiritual guidance into human authority and autocratic control.

24. Full obedience to the Manual would at once destroy this false interpretation, and would restore its true functioning as guide.

25. From the very first Manual, Mrs. Eddy kept full control of the Mother Church; its government was her government and its "mothering" aspect was concluded before she passed on. Consequently, all the By-laws in the Manual calling for her personal supervision can only be obeyed by the closing out of the centrally and ecclesiastically
controlled Mother church, and by reinstating Mrs. Eddy's plan for the true government of her church.