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Science and Christian Healing.
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The concept of law is incorrectly applied when we speak of institutional truths, or governmental regulations, or legal systems set up by parliaments that are deemed to enact laws. We may even recognize autocratic rulers, as law-makers. But are these creations of human beings that are set up for the purpose of establishing order, health, and security, really laws in the scientific sense? This is an important question when we are dealing with the complexities of life and of love which cannot be empirically defined and verified.
Metaphysics is one of the few sciences that deals intimately in areas where mathematics cannot create models for simulation to explore possible technologies. It is quite possible, therefore, that society will never be absolutely certain if its moral, social, or civil laws really reflect the spark of underlying truth, although much can be done to advance in this direction. Scientific discovery can take us beyond many uncertainties, even to the threshold to the infinite, to divine Truth.
Whatever is the truth does not vary. It can be explored scientifically, and if discovered aright, can be applied effectively to the degree to which one comes to understand it. Obviously, the nature of truth itself, or reality, is never subject to the laws that people make or choose to live by? By the same token, if the perceptions that are labeled, Christian Science, are wrong, the results cannot come out right, as the decline in Christian Science healing indicates. If the perception that unfolds in Christian Science has deteriorated from its high point, then, its application must result in the kind of failure that we have today.
It all boils down to this: Men do not make laws! God, infinite divine Principle, alone has established the laws of reality. At the very best, people may observe the laws of the universe and deduce by observation their principles that operate in the natural world, which are spiritual principles, such as those which define the nature of intelligence, life, and love.
If humanity fails to establish order through its self-created laws, this merely proves the point that the real laws are not understood and applied, that they are cast aside for imaginary laws that profit nothing and leave the field open for the development of chaos. It proves that the real laws are supreme, that man cannot alter them, or bypass their effect.
If God, or reality, alone is the author of laws, then, the laws of the universe are fixed. If scientific metaphysical healing once abounded, but has now ebbed into silence, human perception of the operating laws must have been significantly advanced at one point, and has become eroded through apathy or external forces. It is not logical to assume, as is widely accepted today, that the fundamental laws of reality have changed or are no longer valid today.
Humanity has made great progress in observing and utilizing the laws of the physical world, while the exploration of the mental realm has barely begun. It cannot be said, therefore, that metaphysical healing is an empty dream, seeing that astonishing results have been achieved on this basis throughout literally all ages of human history. There have been glimpses of truth as far back as recorded history can take us. Except these glimpses were always few in numbers and spaced well apart in time, non-the-less, they were discoveries of a reality that is still valid today. These discoveries need to be developed to their full potential. Mankind needs to develop its inherent capacities on the whole front of human existence, morally, scientifically, technologically, economically, and yes, also spiritually. Mankind needs a thoroughly researched platform for spiritual growth that includes in part the metaphysical healing technology, which incidentally is required in this modern age not only to address areas of individual health and healing of disease, but is also required to heal the growing insanity of this age that destroys the physical support structures for human living as a means to 'save' mankind through devolution, while the support structure for human living should rather be in a constant state of development.
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