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Science and Christian Healing.
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The Chinese, for their part, would never become free from the curse of the poppy, while the United States became torn apart in a civil war and internally created turmoil in which the American System of economy died with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the end of that war, and with the federal bank dissolved, and the nation's money supply could ounce again be put back into the private hands of the oligarchy of London. Thus the stage was set for the great depression of 1928 which stagnated until the outbreak of the Second World War.
The spirit of the American Revolution, died somewhat slower, however. None-the-less, the contemporary perception of Christian Science is overshadowed by the decay of the early American cultural revolution in which it evolved. With the focus thus being shifted away from the spiritual foundation, towards materialism and its limitations, finity, impotence, and poverty, a negative development has unfolded that undermined the very foundation on which Mary Baker Eddy's discovery and development of Christian Science was founded. This means that contemporary Christian Science can no longer be used as a vehicle, both to judge the potential of scientific Christ healing, and to discover what has once moved consciousness so profoundly that it produced an age rich in metaphysical healing.
Regardless of this drawback, Christian Science must be referenced as a foundation or a starting point. This reference is required, for any exploration of the topic of Christian healing must include a reference to that structure by which it came profoundly to light on a large scale, with great effectiveness, and over quite a long time. This reference is required for this purpose in as much as the Master's works were required by Mary Baker Eddy. The Master's works served as a starting point for her discovery of Christian Science, and as a foundation for her unfolding awareness of Divine Science. Apart from her work, no other systems of scientific divine metaphysics exist that are intertwined with demonstrations of universal practicability. There exist many theories and concepts about mental healing, most of which are centered around the personal mind force of mortals as the controlling agent, or around material brain power. Also there are no large scale demonstrations associated with these theories to back them up.
The modern philosophies and formulas of mental healing are largely based on direct mental manipulation of the patient for purposes of healing disease, but none of them are able to offer the results that were offered in early Christian Science healing. Nor do any such systems present a platform that involves the re-discovery of the Science by which Christ Jesus had healed. There simply is nothing available on the subject that is of any depth, which also presents an open scientific structure for advanced development towards the infinite. As far as can be determined, the structure that Mary Baker Eddy has created is the only one in existence that meets the requirement of today's modern age for demonstrable scientific Christian healing, both individually and collectively. It meets all these criteria and supersedes the most advanced systems developed in modern times, and it does all this though it is well over a hundred years old while it still leads anything in the field by a long way.
The question now is one of curiosity. What exactly did Mary Baker Eddy discover, and how can her discovery be recognized as a Science?
How do we recognize a spiritual structure as Science?
An observation by the aforementioned statesman and economist, Lyndon LaRouche, may shed some light on the nature of scientific processes for discovering truth. This observation is centered on the method by which the mathematician Eratosthenes, in the Third century B.C. had calculated the circumference of the earth with a fifty mile accuracy. How was it possible for him to do this 2,200 years before anyone ever saw the curvature of the earth? It was done by observation. Eratosthenes had observed that a shadow was cast by an obelisk in Alexandria when no such shadow was cast in Aswan. This difference in shadows at different places on the earth, at the identical time of course, could not occur if the earth was flat. If the earth was flat, Eratosthenes must have recognized, all shadows anywhere on the earth would necessarily have the same inclination. But this was not what he had observed as the reality of things. Thus, Eratosthenes had an conflict to resolve that contradicted accepted knowledge. He deduced from the observed conflicting absurdity (since absurdities do not exist in reality) that the accepted knowledge was evidently faulty and absurd as it contradicted reality. He must have recognized that there would be no absurdity indicated if the earth were perceived to be spherical, so that the sunlight would strike at different angles in different places, according to relative differences in the spherical surface inclination. Now, against the background of this new assumption, which resolved the absurdity, it was but a mathematical exercise to translate the angular difference in shadows, according to their distance from each other on the face of the earth, into an accurate calculation of the earth's circumference. The mathematics involved are actually simple enough that a child can replicate the process. The key item in the process, therefore, was not any novel mathematical approach, but the mental process that enabled the discovered absurdity be resolved.
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