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Science and Christian Healing.
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in this manner all aspects of Mary Baker Eddy's contribution to the advance of mankind are addressed, and in the sequence in which they evolved.
A scientific starting point.
The main focus of this book is to develop a fundamental awareness of the most advanced existing structures for scientific Christian healing. Whether the reader of this book is able to achieve the efficacy in metaphysical healing that the most able pioneer in this endeavor had achieved, who was unquestionably Mary Baker Eddy, depends solely on the individual. It is not the purpose of this book to bring about this kind of achievement, or to teach Christian Science, or any form of religion. In the search for Truth one is always alone with God. It is the purpose of this book, however, to present what has been achieved in this line, and also to look at those aspects that have been prepared for, but have not yet been achieved. It this context, it is the purpose of this book to present a discovery that has been made of that underlying foundation that was pioneered by the greatest metaphysical healer in recent history. However, it is not the purpose of this book to bring about any kind of individual metaphysical healing, but to open the door to a great potential for healing that exists to be realized. All scientific Christian healing is derived from within, but never from an external source. It is totally possible, none-the-less, that the unbiased though comes closer to the heart of Truth in the space of a moment of keen insight, than ages of study can produce.
The revealed text of Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science provides a starting point where the advanced exploration and scientific development of consciousness can begin to unfold. This does not alter the fact that the truth of being must unfold in consciousness according to its own terms. The most scientific human outline can only set up the stage upon which individual spiritual discoveries may unfold more effectively, which, in some cases, may forge a revolution in consciousness. The requisite steps towards this revolution must be taken individually. No person can take these steps for another. If such a thing were possible, the result would amount to a mental invasion of another person that would violate the individuality of man.
What is presented in this book follows Mary Baker Eddy's outline as closely as possible. The conclusions that naturally result as one works with the outline, must be regarded as merely an example, not a final edict. The highest achievement that Mary Baker Eddy has left for humanity is a scientific system for the exploration of spiritual reality. She presents not a collection of dogmas, rules, and formulas, but an outline for a structure for the scientific ordering that channels thought heaven-ward to allow the human consciousness to find its own none-linear path to the infinite. Men make rules, but God alone is the author of laws that shape reality. These laws underlie reality. They are the laws that define man, who, in Bible language, is the living image of God, the Creator. These laws define the capabilities of man, or more specifically, man's creative capacities, as these have been manifested throughout the ages uplifting human civilization, strengthening it, enriching it. This is what the 'Key of David' is designed to open up consciousness to.
A path to a higher dimension.
Through work in divine Science, the human thought may be prepared for coming to terms with the divine reality. The work of exploring what God is - an exploration that is as ancient as humanity itself - involves discovering how God relates to man in his image, or man to God. What we perceive as Truth must therefore be the result of scientific investigation, reason, and creative experiences. Mary Baker Eddy's outline can be likened to the score of a symphony or one of the works of Bach. Take a piano sonata of Beethoven for instance. You can take the score and decode it into computer code and have a machine play it for you, and the machine will indeed play the sonata with absolute precision. But will the music sound like Beethoven might have played it? No! It takes the human heart, soul, and spirit to translate Beethoven's outline set down in a musical score into a work of beauty and sublimity that may do justice to the word, music. Mary Baker Eddy could have provided the whole thing instead of but an outlined structure, but had she done so we would have had nothing at all. The outline that she provided embody hints of underlying fundamental principles of reality which she discovered, which have no meaning in themselves unless they are discovered individually against the background of life within the individual creative consciousness of man. By this measure Science will never be that dead and dictatorial thing that a Beethoven Sonata would be played by a machine. Science, and Mary Baker Eddy's open ended structure for scientific development, come to light as exciting tools for probing reality, even the reality of our own nature.
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