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Science and Christian Healing.
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The most important gains for mankind, however, are not the 'miraculous' events that are associated with these people, but in the effect of these events on the way in which men have looked at themselves from their time on to the present - how people regard their innermost nature, their potential, and their relationship to their God, regardless of what this God is understood to be. Christ Jesus may well be regarded as the greatest pioneer of mankind, for the events that he set in motion has fundamentally altered the way in which the nature of God and of man is understood, which process has barely begun to bear fruit.
What Jesus of Nazareth did not do, however, nor indeed set out to do, was to unify the world's religious believes and to yank society out of its corrupt political order into some kind of social utopia. Instead, he presented expositions of law, bringing to light the fundamental aspects of truth which by which the social and political advances can be achieved that society was so desperately hoping for. He left the task to humanity to lift itself out of its mental dullness to the point at which it may benefit from the laws that he had demonstrated. This task, no one can fulfill for another. The task still remains to be taken up in a serious and scientific manner.
Unfortunately for humanity, as the ages passed, Jesus' demonstrations of fundamental law were becoming attributed to special privileges inherent in what was deemed to be the man's unique divine status. Rather than being recognized as the representative of the true status of man in divine reality, he was being recognized as someone totally unrelated to the fundamental nature of man. He appeared to be an answer to prayers and to the prophecies of many ages, and thus could not be accepted for what he was. This failure reflects deeply on the self-esteem of mankind, as is manifested in todays technological pessimism which demands dramatic population reductions rather than the requisite scientific/technological development of the world towards economic recovery by which all current and future needs of human beings can be met. The vast scope of the capacity of the human intellect, that Christ Jesus demonstrated unfolding from its infinite base, is still widely rejected as non-existent.
That Christ Jesus' demonstrations were not unique, however, is evident by the fact that they have been repeated in modern times through the rediscovery of the underlying laws that Christ Jesus had once demonstrated, and through their application to metaphysical healing right to the present day. Christ Jesus frequently drew reference to prior ancient events in which people had demonstrated the same laws before him. Only the magnitude and the efficacy of his work overshadowed the significance of those works of the earlier pioneers. He became the undisputed master in the field of 'miracle' workers. Some day it will be recognized, and Jesus of Nazareth will be properly accredited for it, that he put scientific metaphysical healing on the map of human existence as a demonstration of man's inherent capability. It will also be recognized that his brief public career of demonstrating man's capability, was preceded by a thirty year period of inner development, a period of discoveries, of searching, praying, and mental creativity.
Creativity is an aspect that Jesus of Nazareth is rarely recognized for, yet it is fundamental to his work, for he displayed an approach to human problems that was never seen in the world before, that was original and powerfully effective in stirring human consciousness, even to the point that it would forever alter the world. Christ Jesus was recognized as the God-crowned royal man, but both this title and description were earned through dedicated work, rather than representing a unique privilege. Thus Jesus of Nazareth should be recognized as the creator of the concept of the God-crowned royal man as an identifier of humanity. This concept, if recognized and adopted by humanity as its true identity, would be a useful starting point for the required scientific / technological development of the human potential by which the great human needs in the world today can be fully met with dignity and certainty, thus closing the current process of human devolution, deindustrialization and the increasingly fascist population reduction schemes that are employed in the hope of solving the human problems.
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