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Science and Christian Healing.
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That the ancient examples of the pioneers are meaningful today, such as the miraculous healings performed by Christ Jesus, can be deduced from the simple fact that nothing happens in reality that has not an underlying fundamental principle supporting the phenomenon by which the phenomenon comes about. Whatever happens in real terms is based on Truth. Thus, the focus in this book must be on Truth. But what is that reality which has come to light in such works as Christ Jesus', as the truth?
What is Truth?
Pontius Pilate asked that questions once. He asked it in response to Christ Jesus' statement to Pilate that he had come into the world to bear witness unto the truth. Pilate, of course, was quite incapable of answering the question himself. Scientific and technological progress by which the nature of truth could be discerned through metaphysical phenomena, raising the physical platform of a nation, was not on the Roman's agenda. Thus, the concept of truth was quite unknown to Pilate. Christ Jesus, on the other hand, had demonstrated the truth through healing. He understood quite well that Truth was reality. Christ Jesus' marvelous achievements were manifests of an underlying aspect of divine Truth, where they not? His works illustrated truths which he scientifically understood. And what wonderful truths they were, which were demonstrated by countless marvellous healings. With these works, he gave the nations of mankind a new identity. His works reveal a vast range of capabilities imbedded in the nature of man, capabilities for healing, capabilities for development, for cultural advances, for scientific discoveries, and yes, even for economic and technological application of advanced perceptions of fundamental aspects of reality or Truth. Above all, however, through his works and through his life, he proved the truth that man is free. The challenge in this age, is to repeat the process.
What Christ Jesus demonstrated as the truth - the truth about man, about God, about reality - reveals the existence of powerful underlying principles that he had understood and applied. From these examples, the scientific mind perceives the existence of fundamental laws, or natural laws, or divine laws, or truths which came to light through Jesus' healing work.
Evidently, these truths that he illustrated, are unrelated to the so-called truths of matter, the dust of the ground, that is supposed to give life to man and the universe. Life has a higher foundation. Its reality is contrary to the primitive logic of material considerations, and thereby makes all the lower aspects secondary in nature, if not totally untrue.
Even the universe, as we recognize it today through the modern advances of nuclear physics, is perceived in a much less 'material' fashion as it had been four countless ages. It is seen today at the atomic and subatomic level as being constituted through the interaction of forces of energy bound together by principles of some underlying intelligently created order. These principles are recognized to some degree and made the basis for our perception of what are termed fundamental laws. These laws are understood sufficiently well, today, to enable mankind to derive a wide range of benefits from the exploitation of these laws.
By this constant exploration of reality, and the understanding gained thereby, the human intellect becomes closer aligned to the intelligence that created the order of the universe. In a sense, man begins to understand scientifically, what God understands, at least to some minute degree. But even this majestic advance, in present terms, represents little more than the step of a child in its newly discovered universe. None-the-less, this advance has been powerfully effective.
The advancing development of mankind's application of intelligence has lead to the creation of such incredible technologies as those that enable mankind today to harvest for its use even the tightly bound energies that are bound up within the atomic structures. Nuclear fission and fusion are steps in that direction with an unimaginable potential. Already, today's state of the art Fast Breeder technology (of nuclear fission) has given mankind access to an unlimited source of affordable energy with sufficient resources to last for billions of years, even while fission is itself is a very primitive process that will soon be superseded by hot fusion technology, which in turn will likely be superseded in the not too distant future with still more advanced technologies in energy production, such as the fabled matter-antimatter reaction technology that is slowly moving out of the realm of fantasy to the theoretically possible.
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