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Science and Christian Healing.
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The modern threshold to the infinite.
There were times in human history when the development of the society was curtailed by thresholds of physical resources. Most of these were artificially created as mythologies and destructive ideologies disrupted the metaphysical processes of development. In such times the population numbers tumbled. These occurrences bring to light another factor where the mental development of the society is vital, but which is not translated into expanded technologies for the creation of increased resources. This vital factor, however, has been much less vigorously addressed. This factor pertains to the development of public policies, axioms, and ideologies, all of which have a tremendous impact on the technological development of mankind. Here is where social infrastructures are created that enable the technological development for the creation of the physical resources. This infrastructural development, however, rests entirely on spiritual aspects which are held back from development by the credibility gaps that are created against the spiritual aspects on which human existence depends. It becomes an essential exercise, therefore, to deal with the credibility gap that relegates the greatest advance in this arena to the ash heap of history.
That the above concern is not a trivial matter is evident by the dramatic population collapse that a major policy insanity had forced onto the European population in the 13th and 14th century.
The largest portion of this population collapse occurred as the result of the world-financial disintegration in 1345 as the inevitable consequence of the financial looting practices of the banking empires of Florence and Venice. The infamous Bardi and Peruzzi banks, and of course the Venetian banks as well, had squeezed financier profits out of the European economies at levels that were many times greater than what the economies could produce. In most cases the profit demands were 10 times the rate of the profitability of the economies, which demands were thereby collapsing the productive economies at an ever increasing volume, which also collapsed the populations that these economies supported. The biological collapse that came in the wake of starvation and nutrition related vulnerability to diseases, then, set the stage for one of the greatest social catastrophes in European history with the emergence of the Black Plaque.
The plaque was the combined result of also another policy disaster that played itself out simultaneously in China. The connecting link to Europe was the Venetian's close relationship to the Mongol rulers of China whose primitive warfare based culture had unleashed a two century rampage of unimaginable murdering in that part of the world, had laid waste large numbers of cities, killed up to 10 million people of their populations, had destroyed their agricultural infrastructures such as fruit trees and irrigation systems. The Mongol's vast herds of horses, some 300,000 of them, had literally grazed whatever whatever agriculture had existed into oblivion. It is reported the Mongol grazed down all the plains of Hungary in two short years.
Out this chaos amidst a dying nation, the Black Death plagues emerged. It emerged first in China, in 1330, where it killed 15-20 million people in southern China where the Mongol's looting spree had drained the populations to exhaustion. Later, in 1345, when the Florentian and Venetian banking empires had collapsed all the economies of the European basin to the point that a world-financial disintegration occurred and had made matters still worse, the Black Death was brought into Europe. In 1346 the Mongol hordes had spread the plagues from southern China into the towns of the Crimea, from where the Venetian's brought it to Italy and the economically devastated Europe. The combined effect of the economic collapse, the financial disintegration, superimposed by the Back Death plagues, caused the death of 35% of the population of Europe. Although the plaque, itself, was brief in duration, Europe's population levels fell throughout an entire hundred year period as a result of these processes, and recovered only after the beginning of the Golden Renaissance.
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