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Science and Christian Healing.
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The reader will naturally ask the question of the author: By what authority do you present what is in this book? I asked myself that question before the writing begun, and still do. The answer that I am looking for is simple. The only authority that I can allow myself to recognize is that which I find in the documentation provided by the most advanced metaphysician of the recent centuries, which is clearly Mary Baker Eddy. The monumental scope of her accomplishments in this field is the authority with which she speaks.
What is presented in this book unfolded from the author's searching for answers as to what is documented in Mary Baker Eddy's works on the subject of metaphysics. For this reason, in exploring the outline of the structure of Science that is clearly presented as such in Mary Baker Eddy's works, the presented elements have been adapted as given in order to explore what she has given as a starting point. It is the duty of the reader to ask the question, why? Why has Mary Baker Eddy presented the various elements that are clearly part of a complex single structure in the manner in which she has presented them? I have asked myself that question. The book documents the results as I have seen them. Here I stand. It has also my experience that many more questions arise than what one finds answers for. With these the discovery begins. This is which is one of the features that one will find as the the building proceeds beyond the defined foundational architecture that is explored in this book. This book is not intended to offer a panacea to those seeking spiritual healing. Spiritual healing results from the healing in consciousness of the false suppositions that have developed through shallow perception, mistaken conclusions, or even negative development. The book is not intended to present the final answer to all question, but to present a possible exploratory path to the questions that require discovery, which inherent present new questions. I see Mary Baker Eddy's development structure as an open door for infinite discovery rather than finite, fixed answers. If the reader searches for fixed and finite answers, this book may be a dangerous tool if it was taken for that.
The task of coming to terms with what has been discovered in outlined form has been demanding, and even after thirteen years of work, though much has been accomplished, one finds the work has barely begun. To what degree the ever ongoing new discoveries of infinite Spirit, and the manifest thereof that comes to light as thought ponders the questions of truth, will translate themselves into a certainty for healing depends on individual work. This type of healing was no doubt experienced during the years of Christ Jesus and the early decades of Christian Science activity. Overwhelming evidence exists of a healing work that demonstrates mankind's fundamental nature as founded on perfection and freedom.
One thing is certain, that Mary Baker Eddy has not casually build her entire lifework on that structure that she has outlined. There is something of substance there that is bound to benefit all of humanity. Also, one must assume that Mary Baker Eddy had recognized a need that this deeply scientific platform be established in her time, even though it could not be comprehended by the people of that age. The people of her age may have had achieved the wisdom to rouse themselves in opposition to the dominance of colonialism, and built a great nation on this platform of recognized freedom, but they had not learned the far more demanding task to claim that freedom for themselves in the deeper aspects of human existence. They had not claimed freedom for man. They had not understood that fundamentally, man is free.
The scientific platform for infinite enquiry that this author recognizes, Mary Baker Eddy had pioneered, may well prove to be the factor that had not been achieved so that the decline in the effectiveness of Christian Science treatment was an unavoidable result of the willingness of mankind of coming to terms with what Mary Baker Eddy had demonstrated for 44 years, that man is free. The stone-age man who stood with his flint-tipped spear in hand that raised the platform of his physical existence, may have understood by virtue of this single step onto a higher platform, that man is free. He may have understood this fundamental reality better than mankind understands it today, or understood it even in the age in which Mary Baker Eddy had vividly demonstrated the principle of freedom as the reality of man's being.
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