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Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah G. Crosby, 1864
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Sarah G. Crosby 
Date: 1864 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper.
Editorial Note: On page 186 of his Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, Robert Peel gives an explanation for this document: “In an episode that has been variously interpreted, Mrs. Patterson simulated a trance and wrote ‘spirit letters’ to Mrs. Crosby purporting to come from Albert Baker. The most reasonable explanation, in view of her known opposition to spiritualism and of the admonition in these letters to ‘lean on no material or spiritual medium’ is that she used this rather drastic method to show Mrs. Crosby how easy it was to produce such sham ‘manifestations.’ Mrs. Crosby, on the other hand, refused to believe they were not genuine.” The alleged communications from Albert were presented as “automatic writing” written by the spirit of Albert Baker in Eddy’s simulated trance. This perhaps explains the differences between Eddy’s normal handwriting and the handwriting in these documents.
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Sarah dear

Be ye calm in reliance on self, amid all the changes As Written: changs of natural yearnings, of too keen a sense of earth joys, of too great a struggle between As Written: betwen the material and spiritual. Be calm or you will rend your mortal and your experience which is needed for your spiritual progress lost, till taken up without the proper sphere and your spirit trials more severe.

This is why all things are working for goodRom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. to those who suffer and they must look not upon the things which are seen but upon those which do not appearII Cor 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. P. Quimby of PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine has the spiritual truth of diseases. You must imbibe it to be healed. Go to him again and lean on no material or spiritual medium. In that path of truth I first found you. Dear one, I am at present no aid to you although you think I am, but your spirit will not at present bear this quickening or twill leave the body; hence I leave you till you ripen into a condition to meet me. You will miss me at first, but afterwards grow more tranquil because of it. Which is important that you may live for yourself and children.

Love and care for poor sister a great suffering lies before her
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Be ye calm in reliance on self, amid all the changs Corrected: changes of natural yearnings, of too keen a sense of ofAs Written:of earth joys, of too great a struggle betwen Corrected: between the material and spiritual. Be calm or you will rend your mortal and your experience which is needed for your spiritual progress lost, till taken up without the proper sphere and your spirit trials more severe.

This is why all things are working for goodRom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. to those who suffer and they must look not upon the things which are seen but upon tho [?] Unclear or illegible se which do not appearII Cor 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. P. Quimby of PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine has the spiritual truth of diseases. You must imbibe it to be healed. Go to him again and lean on no material or spiritual medium. In that path of truth I first found you. Dear one, I am at present no aid to you although you think I am, but your spirit will not at present bear this quickening or twill leave the body; hence I leave you till you ripen into a condition to meet me. You will miss me at first, but afterwards grow more tranquil because of it. Which is important that you may live for yourself and children.

Love and care for poor sister a great suffering lies before her
 
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