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Science and Christian Healing.
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This unity is an essential aspect in healing human ills, and this not just on the level of healing biological disease. One cannot single out one aspect and focus on it, and thereby expect to understand the whole. The founders of the Renaissance knew this, and so did the pioneers of humanity working for advanced periods of renaissance. The universe is one and is rational in nature. Unless one aims to fight against the principle of the universe - against God or divine Principle - one cannot leave humanity out of the equation when considering truth, or even oneself. The universe is organized on an axis of development of intelligent processes, of beauty, order, and vitality, which are reflected in life and humanity. Humanity is part of the whole. An intelligent, passionate love for humanity is fundamental to rational thinking, for that thinking corresponds with the principle that upholds life and the universe. On this basis we find our identity. Any self-perception outside of it is neurotic thinking. The fact that humanity acts still largely barbaric, reflects these neurotic thought processes.
Mary Baker Eddy takes this concept one step further. Her advanced perception of the all-embracing unity of every aspect that pertains to God and reality is summed up in her definition in the Glossary of her textbook on Christian Science, where she defines the concept of "I, or Ego" by saying (in part): "There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as number which never blend with other, though they are governed by one Principle." Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, came to a similar perception from a different background. She said in a speech: "Man has been created as the most noble creature of the universe, and each person has to live up to that. Each man, according to Schiller, has the potential of the ideal man in him, and it is the great task of our existence to realize that."*(as per transcript in, New Federalist, Sept. 15, 1997)
By this process of linking man and universal Principle, or divine Principle, or God, the point of reference by which all things are judged and responded to, is being raised to a higher level. When this happens, the confrontational structure becomes invalidated. It becomes invalidated with a structure that fully reflects the divine nature. In this process of spiritual scientific healing, or Christ healing, the credibility gap becomes erased. The process of active reflection, which invalidates the confrontational structure as this structure becomes superceded when a proper point of reference is established, is illustrated in Appendix A, Figure 1, which may be termed the primal, eternal, or reflective structure. By the process of reflection the 'identity' of Christianity becomes superimposed with a scientific Christ-awareness of reality. This reflective process invalidates empiricism. It shuts down its limits and its terrible degradations. By this native process a reflection of the "Word of Life, Truth, and Love" becomes superimposed upon the errors in human thinking that have no grounding in infinite Principle, and the Christ becomes fully reflected in Christianity.
The credibility gap that mankind has erected in its thought processes against the phenomenon of Christ healing is in part also the outcome of linear thinking. It is erroneous to perceive life as a linear structure. This concept does not accord with reality. Mankind is not the linear extension of the single cell organism that began to be formed in the primordial oceans millions of years ago. The development of life has taken discontinuous jumps of tremendous proportions. There exists no linear extension at any stage, not even that which supposedly links the monkey species and man. Charles Darwin had assumed that these links would be found, but they haven't. They simply don't exist.
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