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Science and Christian Healing.
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The first attack against the family was launched in the USA in the mid 1980s, as part of a population control policy. For the purpose of inhibiting family formation, a policy was adopted that involved the creation of substandard housing, as part of the urban renewal projects. While this policy may have caused havoc on the housing market, created social stress and an increase in violent crime in the streets, the institution of the Family has survived better than its larger equivalent, the institution of the nation-state.
While there is nothing fundamentally sacred or holy about marriage as an institution, and Family unit it creates, the sacred quality that has become traditionally bestowed upon it is found in the spiritual qualities that support it, qualities such as love, honor, commitment, trust, care, etc.. In the German language the term for marriage is "Ehe" which has a linguistic relationship to the concept of being "honorable." Also the concept of "adultery" does not have an equivalent term in the German language, as related to marriage. There exists a descriptive correlative, however, by which adultery is recognized as "breaking" the "Ehe" - which is to say, breaking that which is honorable, breaking the trust, breaking the love, the commitment.
Now, if these spiritual qualities (which empiricism counts as nothing) are regarded as so valuable, and so substantial, that the structure of civilization is founded on them, what must be said about the still higher spiritual qualities and their recognition through scientific discovery? What about intelligence, itself? What about such concepts as Mind, Principle, Life, and Spirit, in the absolute sense, and their reflected 'image' in man?
The concept of Christ-healing has a similar root in the higher domain as has maintaining the spiritual foundation in the moral domain, related to marriage. In this more absolute sense, disease is seen as an intrusion into human existence that would break the link between Principle and its manifestation, between Mind and its reflection, between Life and its infinite base, between Spirit and its purity, integrity, and perfection.
It is even understood that disease has no fundamental reality. Can infinite divine Principle create an opposition to itself? Or can there be a cause apart from Principle, and contrary to it? Obviously not. This points to its fundamental unreality which has only a suppositional existence. Ask yourself: Would it be right, if sickness were an facet of reality, for one to destroy it? Could Christ Jesus have destroyed a facet of reality founded in absolute Principle? Of course not. He said he came not to destroy, but to bear witness onto the truth. He perceived perfection beyond the empirical limit, where to empiric perception disease exists.
Christ-healing involves nothing more than exercising scientific damage control and restoration of what is demonstrably true. It means, ending all self-imposed agonies and bearing witness unto the truth.
The phenomenon of Christ-healing occurred only twice in history on a widely practiced scale. It occurred at the end phase of the Greek Classical Period, which was mankind's first great period of renaissance. And it occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, at the end phase of mankind's second great period of renaissance that began in the 15th century in Italy and lasted till the late 1800s. It appears that a certain 'distance' is required, from empiricist thinking, for the Christ idea to take root in consciousness. Therefore, the tallest manifest of the renaissance development period, in both cases, appeared at the end if this period.
The first great period of Christ-healing ended with the rise of the Roman Empire, and the second with the rise of the modern British Empire. In both cases, empiricism came to the forefront by which spiritual concepts became seen as less and and less credible.
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