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Science and Christian Healing.
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In the second movement of the symphonic poem the music evokes a ball. In the swirl of the dance the musician catches glimpses of the beloved, with great joy, but finds no fulfillment. The third movement begins with the calling sound of a flute of a shepherd in the country. The call is echoed faintly in the distance, as another shepherd answer back. But the tranquility ends when the theme of the beloved appears again, interwoven with anxious questioning. In the end, as the shepherd plays his pipe again, there is no answer. Instead, a thunder roll is heard coming from a distance.
The fourth movement brings up a dream. The hero is condemned for having murdered the beloved. At the scaffold the beloved appears, but at that moment the axe falls. After this, the final movement unfolds into a diabolic celebration, a Witches' Sabbath, where the theme of the beloved now becomes unrestrained, shrill, a mockery as it were, of love. The hymn of the Judgement day mingles with the music of the dance as the work ends.
In real life Hector Beriloz eventually married his beloved, but the marriage brought no lasting satisfaction. Her career declined into drunkenness, and his musical preoccupation and other amorous pursuits increased in importance. Neither had been able to reach beyond the empirical boundary by which love is bound to utilitarianism, to the sphere of divine Love, love for humanity, love for all that is good and beautiful in human nature, love that to some degree the composers Robert and Clara Schuman had shared.
The reason that humanity still acts barbaric, today, lies in the difficulty in making the mental transition away from the confrontational model, to the reflective model where perception and human responses reflect the larger realities of the universe. Mary Baker Eddy has created an outline of a structure for scientific development that incorporates both of these models for perception, the confrontational and the reflective one. The structure includes the obvious need for a shift in the mental point of reference that causes the transition to a higher point of reference to occur. This shift must be consciously created. But for this to occur, the science behind it needs to be understood, which poses no small challenge to a humanity that is largely unresponsive to anything that lies beyond the empirical line. It was for this reason, perhaps, that Mary Baker Eddy's structure for scientific development had remained hidden for a hundred years since it was created. It had remained hidden within the very volumes of her work that had been studied daily by a multitude of people all over the world for an entire century.
The importance of Mary Baker Eddy's scientific work, her discovery of the science of Christianity and her effort to present it to humanity, however, hadn't faded. What she understood and had subsequently demonstrated as real in countless cases of healing, is still real, nor has this reality lost its relevance for the presence and its promise for infinite unfolding. The mental regression that marks our modern humanity, which humanity suffers from and dies under, has occurred only in human thought, not in divine consciousness and its reflection in reality.
The regression, of course, has been self-escalating. The Science that Mary Baker Eddy understood, and its principles, are being less and less understood. Once limits are allowed to stand, they create new limits in thought, until all that which defines humanity as a spiritual being is put off limits and humanity dies.
This type of regression is not really all that uncommon. It is typically found in any field of endeavor where one finds a lack of continuous development. Where there is no development, there is regression. Even science is a living thing, and like life itself, it cannot be held static. Wherever there is life, there is growth. Where there is no growth, there is disintegration. An in-between state does not exist. This is true for all aspects of life, including economic and technological capability, which are aspects of intelligent human life.
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