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Science and Christian Healing.
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Mary Baker Eddy's greatest challenge in setting up this contribution for mankind, must have been in the area of incorporating two distinct levels of Science into one single textbook, one to remain hidden until the human thought is ready to deal with the complexities involved, and the other to be immediately practical, documenting the 'technology' of Christian Science healing. She, herself, indicates clearly that it took her two years of full time effort to accomplish this task, beginning in 1889.
Since the structure of Science that she has so outlined, has been given no name by her, it will be referred to in this book as the structure for the Key of David, according to the biblical text that she associated with a major aspect of its outline. The outline, itself, has been presented sufficiently rich in detail that the resulting structure can be created with a reasonable compliance to its underlying design. None the less, the task is large enough in scope so that the work of building the structure depends directly on what is coming to light in individual consciousness, reflecting itself backwards onto its form in the advancing stages of development. The structure that she has outlined to be build, unfolds in its individual form from what is understood in consciousness while the building proceeds. Thus, the scientific process itself develops, as the development work proceeds.
The discoveries were made in North Vancouver, Canada, in the early 1980s. The individual who made the break-through discovery does not wish to have his identity revealed. This book, consequently, traces not the process of discovery, but the discovered outline itself. It presents the numerous details that came to light while exploring the outline, and the logic that it introduces. Thereby, the book traces what has unfolded in the author's consciousness and individual experience, rather than what may be believed by another or a collective. Today, after more than a decade of researching the subject, the underlying principles are sufficiently understood that the attempt may be justified to describe what has come to light.
The rich legacy that Mary Baker Eddy has left us by way of this outlined structure for exploring divine metaphysics, may be the only fit tool available to humanity at this age, with which to gain some insight into the science of divine metaphysics in which Mary Baker Eddy had excelled. Actually, there is no other source material available on the subject of scientific Christian healing with a deep reaching development of science and a large body of documented proof over a long period of time. Also, there is no greater demonstrator of this Science found throughout human history, apart from Christ Jesus, that one could draw from to explore the Science of Christian metaphysical healing. However, the reader must make a distinction here, between Christian Science as a religion, and Christian Science as a universal Science in mankind's search for Truth that Christ Jesus had pioneered as a universal aspect of the scientific nature of man, and man's infinite capacity for development.
Christian Science as a religion, had once achieved much success. Today, it has lost much of its effectiveness so that it is now in need of healing, itself. Much the same must be said of the nation, too, in which it first came to light. This suggests that there exists an interrelationship between the decline in metaphysical healing and the general decline in public thought of spiritual values. The coincidence, certainly, exists. The hard earned freedoms, and the spirit of optimism that had come to the forefront in the early years though the revolution for independence are fast becoming lost, universally. This decline of the early spirit of renaissance had actually already begun during Mary Baker Eddy's time. The British oligarchy and friends had never ceased their assaults on the American System that had displaced their power and influence. While the Opium Wars were waged against China in 1839 and again in 1858, which forced the Chinese nation to legalize opium within its borders, the Unites States was assaulted in a much more effective manner from within, by forces that would none-the-less break its spirit in much the same manner that the spirit of the Chinese people had been broken with the British dope trade.
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