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Science and Christian Healing.
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Whenever this development is halted, collapse sets in. That all this has already occurred is plain to see. It would be impossible, for instance, for the United States of America, to send another man to the moon at the present time, should it wish to do so. The industrial base that had created the technology and built the vehicles that had carried the mission, does no longer exist. The development has been halted, consequently the capability fell apart. Should the U.S. decide to go to the moon once again, a whole new industrial infrastructure would have to be built up to recreate the capability the nation once had at the point when it decided to cut back on its space exploration.
A similar situation exists today in respect to scientific Christian healing. A major infrastructural gap had developed over a century of regression that needs to be reversed. In fact, this recovery is essential should mankind desire to recreate the mental capability, and the resulting prosperity, that it had once achieved during its last period of renaissance that had laid the foundation for the USA as a nation-state, and in later years for the discovery of Christian Science.
In a spiritual and moral sense it can be said that mankind has presently regressed back to the level of development that had prevailed in 14th century. There is even a new Black Death plaque afoot that kills as brutally as the old plaque. We also have the same despicable barbarism again. In Africa bayonets are put through bodies of men, women, and children, or machetes are used to hack them apart, alive, in an orgy of intended genocide while humanity stands by and closes its eyes. In North Korea millions of people are starved to death, and have been so for years, so that 16 years old kids are stunted to look like 10 year olds, and six year old children look like infants. It is estimated that the world's refusal to provide aid after two years of flooding followed by a drought had devastated the nation's agriculture so extensively that two million children have died in the summer of 1997, after the nation's food reserves had ran out in mid June. Nor will the nation have much of a harvest to look forward to as 70% of the maize crop has already become lost once again, due to bad weather.
This kind of devastation would not have been possible ten years ago. At that time the world's moral commitment had been stronger. Humanity would not have turned a deaf ear to the desperate calls for help that now find the world unresponsive.
Modern technology and discoveries should have taught us to love and respect who we are, for we have recognized that nothing technology has yet created comes even close to matching that wonders of the human body that we call our own. It develops out of virtually nothing into a complex organization of order and functionality that nothing in the universe can equal. It maintains itself, and carries within its design the wonders of creativity, productivity, discovery, cognicity, honor, morality, love. Man is the wonder of the universe, yet we choose to grind it into dust for the most petty reasons.
We have sunk into the abyss of darkness in this age by not living up to who we are; by not developing our potential; by not exploring who we are; by not exploring love. But out of this darkness a new vitality can unfold. The seed is still there. Homer, in his epic poetry played on darkness. He forced his audience through it. But he also brought out that in this undefined darkness lies an open door, the sublime, the operation of reason that charts a path out of the darkness. Homer played on this darkness extensively in order to ignite in its vacuity a search for the sublime that elevates thought to noble resolve and discoveries of freedom.
In today's world one can find the same disparity between fundamental reality and accepted mythological beliefs that Homer had recognized and addressed in the 6th century B.C., out of which arose the Greek Classical period, or that Dante had found in the financial and social arena of his time, and had addressed, out of which background the Golden Renaissance unfolded in the 15th century. The present darkness in the world may likewise force upon humanity a recognition of its sublimity.
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