Ursula N. Gestefeld (1845 - 1921) was a greatly talented healer and teacher.

She wrote a number of wonderful works including:

The Breath of Life: A Series of Self-Treatments
The Metaphysics of Balzac
Pentateuch
Another View
The Builder and the Plan
A Chicago Bible Class
How We Master Our Fate
Jesuitism in Christian Science
Reincarnation or Immortality
Ursula N. Gestefeld's Statement of Christian Science
The Science of Being
Exodus Magazine

Ursula Gestefeld was an insightful and brilliant individual who loved to argue about the nature of Divine Science. She began her journey to New Thought when she was loaned a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health. She began to apply its principles and, "despite its contradictions and inconsistencies," gained an unprecedented state of health within 90 days. She felt that she had found: "a truth that if applied to the problems of individual and social life would make all things new." and soon became another of Mary Baker Eddy's trusted lieutenants. This relationship was soon shattered by Eddy's hubris.

But in the beginning, Ursula's talents and spiritual fortitude led her to become a leader in Eddy's Christian Science Church. When Mrs. Eddy appeared in Chicago and offered class instruction, she became a member and was taught by Mrs. Eddy in her class of May, 1884, held in Chicago. Mrs. Eddy early recognized that Ursula was a person of outstanding ability and welcomed her as an exponent of Eddy's version of Quimby's work.

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