Peace Of God

Disciple of Mary Baker Eddy

Lillian DeWaters

Lillian DeWaters was my wife’s grandmother. Lillian was a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy who is the founder of Christian Science. Lillian broke away from Christian Science and became a well-known author. She wrote over 60 different books that were translated into 14 different languages. She was well-known as a healer and as a Christian Science Practitioner. Lillian was famous for her teachings at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where she had many students and clients.

Holy Spirit

She taught that you are spirit and only spirit, that God permeates everything and is available to everybody. You do not have to follow any particular teacher and in fact if you recognize that you are spirit, the spirit will automatically take over and guide you. She was referring here to the Holy Spirit. She believed that there was no particular pathway. And indeed, if you believed in a particular pathway, a mode of teaching, or a religion, you were basically denying the Holy Spirit. If you felt you had to follow certain steps your mind was set on following steps and on achieving the next level. Then above the current level there would always be another level. As a result you would never actually reach the Holy Ideal, the Holy Spirit, the holy experience of love, joy, peace, and that you know everything.

Love, Joy, and Peace

Even though I was not a spiritual person, at the time, I immediately recognized in her something different. In her presence I had an incredible sense of peace and understanding, as well as an immense sense of joy and love. This went in the face of my training at the time, because being in the military, these were not characteristics at the forefront of my mind. But in the 4 or 5 times I met her I always received total peace, love, understanding, and acceptance from her.

After she passed away, I came home on a leave of absence from the military. We broke up her house, to sell it. And When I entered the house I had this incredible feeling that I was in the presence of Lillian and in the actual presence of God. I went up into the attic, and there were hundreds of manuscripts; thoughts and ideas she had put down. And to my embarrassment today, when I asked the family what I was to do with these manuscripts, they told me: “just put them in barrels and take ‘em to the dump”, which is one of the great regrets of my life. In the attic we found a letter from the Russian Tsarist ambassador to the United States. He was thanking Lillian for interceding on behalf of the Tsarevich of Russia and the healing from his hemophilia. We also found interesting photos. We saw photos of her sitting in her garden. She would be sitting on the left, on the right there would be another person, and in the middle there was a blank, but it was obvious to me that there was another person there, Jesus or the Holy Spirit. We found many letters from many, many people, thanking her for her healing, her teaching, the love she extended, and that incredible peace she expressed.

Message of Love

Later on I became aware of her work and her many writings. My wife inherited Lillian’s publishing company from her mother who had inherited it from Lillian herself. Because the books were published in 14 languages, including Swahili and Russian, we would receive telephone calls from all over the world. My wife, who had read the books herself, answered the questions. I was greatly appreciative to Lillian for her writings and that these writings had affected the lives of so many people. That had always impressed me. She had gone through the trouble to write these books, publish them, and to express her message of love, joy, and peace throughout the world.

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