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Science and Christian Healing.
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The author shares his research in this book in the form of an invitation to the reader to explore the science that has come to light, even as the author has explored what has been discovered. The book must not be regarded as anything more but an example of what can be found - an item in the history of the human spirit in its approach to the divine Spirit, on a frontier that has barely begun to unfold. If the book is not seen in this manner, there is danger that it might be mistaken as a finite form of divine Science, or an extension of Christian Science, both of which would represent themselves to the reader as an absolute rule to live by, a final limit of scientific perception beyond which no one can go. Such views would be counter-productive. If such were the case, the structure for the Key of David would close the door to continuing unfoldment, rather than open it. If the work were to be seen as an extension of Christian Science, such a view would belittle the value of Christian Science as the great foundation that has been proven in so many ways. Thereby its science would be destroyed. Instead, the book is designed for the opposite goal, to meet the promise of the biblical text: "...behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it."
The author recognizes Christian Science as a complete foundation, that no scientist has any reason to extend. The author recognizes one Science, and one rule of scientific Christian healing. He also recognizes the infinite individuality of Mind's unfolding in individual applications of Christian and Divine Science. As the Key of David unfolds through the scientific ordering of thought that unlocks the fundamental aspects imbedded in Christian Science a new epoch may be ushered into being. The work involved in building this structure is interlocked with the highest possible attainments in divine Science that takes the human thought beyond the doctrinal to the inspirational. Therefore, the work presented in this book draws its references constantly back to Christian Science, to its foundation, to its discoverer and founder Mary Baker Eddy, even as the author aims to unlock the nature of the scientific structure that stood behind Mary Baker Eddy's achievements, a structure that she herself had worked with to a very large extend.
What is being presented here, is the story of a gleam of light in the hope that it may awaken a dawning in consciousness as thought is urged to move beyond the highest conventional perceptions of the age. Mary Baker Eddy has outlined a structure for spiritual unfoldment that is dynamic enough to adopt itself to continuously expanding mental horizons. With the Key of David being build in consciousness, it shall it be said no longer, "Where there is no vision, the people perish."*(Proverbs 29:18) It shall be said that the only limits to experience, are the limits that individuals allow to stand in their way, which confine their mental horizons. Those limits are being challenged today as never before, by the unfolding of the Key of David.
The book presents a work of science, not religion. Science, by its nature, challenges consciousness to examine its standpoints, its perceived limits, its abilities that had been left dormant and unrealized. The book presents facts originated by Mary Baker Eddy, and explores the interrelationships involved as they are frequently pointed out by Mary Baker Eddy herself in numerous levels of metaphor and in patterns of scientific presentations.
What is presented in the book has evolved through research filled with agonies and triumphs, and much work. The large amount of material required for the presentation of what Mary Baker Eddy has outlined, hints somewhat at the vast nature of the subject that has come to light. It hints at the magnitude of what Mary Baker Eddy has dealt with and has provided for our continuing discovery.
The book has also been designed to take the reader directly to a point in the sequence of discovery where the individual footsteps begin to dependent on individual perception, rather than on the mechanical aspects of discovery and classification. In this manner, the author hopes to spare the reader years of tedious work of searching after details. This should enable the reader to make the divine Science of the Key of David more immediately available to daily living.
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