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Science and Christian Healing.
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The American Revolution was not a real revolution because it merely reversed the Venetian style oppression that had been superimposed upon it under the name of the British Empire, which the Venetian empire had become after the oligarchy of Venice had gradually supplanted itself into England over a 200 year cycle beginning in the 1530s under Henry the VIII. The American Revolution didn't create a new form of utopia, as slavery played a role for many years to come, but it did reestablish the people's earlier self-created heritage that became further developed after the revolution into a foundation from which arose the richest, freest, and proudest single nation on earth with the strongest humanist base of the century and the strongest platform for technological, scientific, and spiritual progress.
Mary Baker Eddy named the technology of Christ healing that she had discovered and founded, Christian Science. She named the church that she has established as a platform for its operation among humanity, The Mother Church of Christ Scientist, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Mass.. It should be noted that this church, as she has founded it, has little in common with what is generally regarded as a church. Unfortunately, this is rarely recognized, even by the church itself. In the author's own experience, the church is not yet functioning according to its documented design; and how can it, seeing that the scientific structure on which its design rests has remained hidden and still remains so to a large extend to the present day.
The term "Christian Science" was applied by Mary Baker Eddy as an identifier of a church and its organization, but also as a specific scientific approach in addressing bodily healing in accord to Christ Jesus command: "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give."*(Matthew 10:8) In this unique application the term, Christian Science, becomes a specific identifier. It may be assumed for this reason that this book represents but an attempt to pontificate the teaching of the Christian Science church. This is far from being the case. In fact, the very object of research that this book presents, the scientific structure that Mary Baker Eddy has outlined, is deemed to be irrelevant by the currently established directors of the church and by the field at large. The very logic that is presented in this book, and the science that comes to light through developing Mary Baker Eddy's outline for it, is still far in advance of this age, and is certainly not representative of the general perception of Christian Science as the concept is recognized by the Christian Science church organization and its people at large.
This rejection of the scientific structure that Mary Baker Eddy has produced, became strongly evident when an earlier version of this book was extensively advertised to the Christian Science field with letters to the churches and to Christian Science practitioners. The difference between what was presented and the general religious perception in the field, was so extensive that for the two thousand letter that were send no more than eleven returns were received, and of those who purchased the early version of the book only one individual responded with a reply, though he responded with a profound note of thanks.
While Mary Baker Eddy is universally recognized as the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, her achievements go a long way beyond this single discipline of science. In her outlined scientific structure for divine metaphysics, "Christian Science" comes to light as but an item under consideration among a great many other factors, one of which she calls "divine Science." Since both of these concepts, Christian Science and divine Science, are but facets of a much larger structure, the nature of the whole must be such that it vastly supersedes each single aspect in significance. And so it is. The outline for this structure is not only documented extensively in Mary Baker Eddy's works, but is reflected itself in many of her major works. It is amply evident by this, that what are deemed to be her greatest achievements are all built upon this fundamental structure.
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