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Science and Christian Healing.
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The tendency of the age not to claim the freedom for man that is a fundamental reality within reach, resulted in tragedy after tragedy throughout the intervening decades till the present time. The tremendous effectiveness of Christian Science healing in the early years may have been carried by a certain faith in Mary Baker Eddy's strange new Science, more than by a deep scientific understanding of it. Such faith inevitably wears thin over time, because it is too shallow to make the demands that only Science can make. The possibility exists today that the mere faith in Christian Science, which is fast failing, can at last be supplanted by the scientific component that should have carried the day in the first place, but was not be recognized at Mary Baker Eddy's time. The challenge to mankind's existence has escalated over the intervening years, even to the point of becoming globally critical. Nor will be this challenge be met unless it becomes understood fully that man has the capacity for freedom as a fundamental reality of his being, which understanding will invariably result in appropriate action; in taking responsibility; in claiming freedom for man; in demonstrating to oneself, or a nation to itself, that man is free.
The pioneer that Mary Baker Eddy had been, had managed to gain a 'depth' of perception that lay far beyond the grasp of her contemporaries. She might have realized that the development leading up to it might not present itself again, so that it became essential for her to proceed with the project to lay the foundation for the scientific self-discovery of man throughout all ages. She may have hoped that the nature of that structure on which most of her accomplishments were founded, would have the effect to inspire a certain universal trust in fundamental truths, powerful enough to keep the Christian Science healing work alive through the decades until her outline of the scientific structure could be discovered on which her own work had largely rested. She must have hoped, or may have recognized with certainty, that this structure would at length come to life in the universal consciousness of mankind.
The book that is presented documents what unfolded in the consciousness of a single individual in response to discoveries made. The work traces the scientific structure that was outlined by Mary Baker Eddy. It explores the outline that is given, and the scope of the tasks involved in building the structure that is outlined. In this context this book explores the nature of what has been discovered, and its potential for opening the mental horizon to infinity and to spiritual healing. No guarantee can given, however, that certain effects will be realized, or even, that the Science that is explored is itself complete. The book is intended to open a door. How the potential unfolds depends on the work done individually. All that can be said with a reasonable certainty, is, that the healing in Christ Jesus' days did occur, and that they were commonly repeated through Christian Science treatment, and that a specific outline of a major scientific structure does exist - interwoven into Mary Baker Eddy's works - which had not been discovered until recently. Thus, the stage has been set that may alter mankind's approach to healing from the ground up. The whole thing may also fizzle out into nothing, and the 'Key of David' drift back into obscurity for yet another forty or a hundred years. Also, another thing is certain, that the continuity of the Christ healing that had sporadically produced bright epochs in human history is sure to continue regardless of what happens to Mary Baker Eddy's work. The search for Truth will ever continue to inspire humanity to seek out the unknown that the pursuit of science can reveal.
If Christ Jesus was correct in his saying that the perception of Truth is intertwined with a spiritual healing efficacy, Christ healing will continue to appear to the degree to which the nature of God or Truth is sought and comprehended.
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