1. The neutral principles of law doctrine applies to disputes that are .secular by church-related, -- so the court must take care to scrutinize documents in purely secular terms.

2. The danger of civil courts abridging First Amendment rights is most salient in hierarchical church. In this case, nevertheless, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is not an hierarchical church.

3. At Mrs. Eddy's passing, foundational documents of the Church left only a local Boston church and local Societies around the world, with no legitimate worldwide Mother Church organization.

4. Existing branch churches should have continued for a time and then gradually disappeared.

5. The hierarchical Christian Science organization, apparent in Boston, having branch churches throughout the world, is illegitimate, which fraudulently continued after Mrs. eddy's passing. It is only a hierarchy due to the fraud of its Directors.

6. There is no authority for such an organization in the Church founding documents; these documents dissolved the hierarchical nature of the Church.

7. Similarly, the church has no valid ecclesiastical tribunal; founding documents dissolved the one that existed in 1910.

8. Courts are not obliged to defer to the decisions of a fraudulent ecclesiastical tribunal or polity-construing board of a Church, particularly when the Church is specifically not hierarchical.

9. Massachusetts courts have found that in voluntary associations such as churches -- as in this case -- members acquiesce to the apparent mode of administration. Such decisions are inappositehere.

10. Although the instant Church is a voluntary association, that does not give the Directors license to usurp the organization and transform it into an hierarchical church in order to insulate themselves from judicial action.

11. If the members and the Defendants want an hierarchical church, they are free to create their own organization, but they have no right to convert Mrs. Eddy's church to their own purpose and intent.