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Science and Christian Healing.
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Whatever growth takes place in the spiritual awareness of man's infinite nature, manifests itself in corresponding growth in scientific achievements, both in terms of scientific Christian healing, and in terms of technological progress or economic development of the nations. The spiritual development, however, must match the dynamics of life, as must the economic and technological development of mankind. If they don't, devolution sets in and the human scene collapses into impotence and death.
In a sense, the universality of scientific Christian healing, is an indicator of the security of mankind. If the pattern of inner spiritual development is stunted, or forced into regression, civilization is destined to collapse into a very primitive state of existence which can hardly be called life, but might be called darkness as in the dark ages when the world population was driven into exactly such a state of collapse in the 14th. and 15th. centuries. Fortunately, this collapse became reversed with the emergence if the Golden Renaissance that arose from the scientific perception of man as being created in the image of God, the creator, which unfolded a certain appreciation (and application) of man's infinite nature.
The tragic loss of the effectiveness of scientific Christ healing in the modern world can be traced to a similar type of collapse, a collapse that is still ongoing, a collapse which is currently imposed upon mankind by its own political apathy which has its manifest in the moral, scientific, technological, and economic devolution of mankind in all nations across the planet.
It has been said that mankind needs a new period of renaissance, similar to the Golden Renaissance, through which mankind had once blossomed, which Renaissance had been ground into the dust over the last five centuries through successive cycles of war and mounting pressures for devolution on the whole human front. The scientific fact, however, is that the platform on which the Renaissance unfolded had not really been destroyed in the cycles of human devolution. The Renaissance unfolded on a fundamental principle of reality that is ever operative, that can forever be reapplied at any time mankind chooses to do so. In a scientific sense, the reestablishment of a new renaissance among mankind must not even be taken as a goal, but must be sought as a starting point. The dynamics of life demand that we look constantly higher than the highest established achievement of the ages. The dynamics of life demand a constantly unfolding development. It is not sufficient to be satisfied with regaining the highest achievements of the ages, we need to strife to go beyond them. And this we do, because progress is a spiritual factor and its nature is rooted in fundamental reality, or infinity.
The nature of negative development.
What hinders spiritual growth, as indeed any type of growth, is a hard to detect progress that one needs to aware of so as not to fall victim to it, which may be termed 'negative development.' Logically, negative development, or negative growth should be an impossibility, for all true development unfolds according to the dynamic pattern of life, which is a patter of positive growth. Unfortunately, in a world steeped in mythologies of all sorts, negative development or negative growth, is a very common phenomenon and has many faces.
Negative development can be understood as a development based on faulty assumptions. It is a development which generates a certain type of growth, but which is destructive to life. This 'negative' growth is quite different in nature than the growth of a liability that an accountant might accumulate in terms of unpaid bills, which can certainly be paid to settle accounts. Negative growth is typified by a dynamic growth that is fundamentally suicidal, as we find it in today's world financial system. Here, we find a growth of capital aggregation that has no physical equivalent.
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