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Science and Christian Healing.
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The last concept in the chain of terms with which Mary Baker Eddy answers the question, "What is God," is "Love." This term presents the most difficult concept, and cannot be understood except on a metaphysical basis which has not yet been established.
The development of man is an advancing process of discovery, the discovery of metaphysics, the discovery that will lead to the startling conclusion that man IS free, and always has been. Freedom is a discovery.
We are still in this mode of discovery. For instance, the year 1875 is significant for two momentous occurrences of opposite character. The year marks the first publication of the Christian Science textbook that united the nature of man with infinity. Ironically, this historic event took place in parallel with another historic event: the introduction of the Specie Resumption Act by which the United States of America surrendered its sovereignty over its currency and placed it into the hands of a private foreign system operated by a feudal oligarchy. Both these aspects are still developing. One has developed into global indebtedness, poverty, starvation, and the collapse of the physical economy, with a global financial disintegration on the horizon, while the other still offers healing, peace, and a platform for the development of mankind.
For the intervening years to the present 120th anniversary of both events (in 1995), we have seen the feudal monetary system become a global system, with global devastating consequences that lie at the root of a social decay covering two world wars and the moral disarray of what was once the greatest nation on earth. In the background to this, the significance of the Christian Science textbook has gradually increased, not in terms by which iconoclastic religion is measured, but to the point of becoming recognized as an integrated aspect of possibly the greatest scientific development ever created on this planet, which actually provides nothing by itself, but impels man to reach for the stars. In this sense, the 120th anniversary of the first publication of the Christian Science textbook and the introduction of the Specie Resumption act, should cause people to take note for the contrast that has become manifest, which has become nearly absolute.
With this recognition, the year 1995 closes. The future lies before us. The projection for the future indicates that the contrast may collapse. Whatever has an unnatural footing, always does. It is unfortunate that most of mankind's policy infrastructures, and thereby its physical resources and capabilities are based on this unnatural footing. Except, this is not cast in stone. The reality remains that man is free. The imperatives of the future, coupled with the reality of man's freedom, may become the governing factors to determine the present. The possibility exists, and a rich infrastructure in discovered principles, such as were developed during the Renaissance, supports this possibility. The past efforts of the pioneers of mankind mankind have left their mark on present age in terms of these riches, neither have they left mankind impotent nor ignorant, but have unfolded clear options which are not actual choices, but represent truths based on the imperatives of discovered and demonstrated fundamental realities and their underlying laws. The tallest of these realities is man's freedom as an 'infinite' being, which lies before us to be discovered and to be demonstrated.
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