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Chapter 2 - Scientific Metaphysical Healing - A Quest for The Truth.
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The "Comforter" is the scientific perception unfolding in divine Science. For centuries mankind has looked for a person to fulfill that role, but no such person appeared. No individual could ever fulfill that role. If the Master's promise is to be fulfilled, it will have to be fulfilled in the manner in which some of the ancient legends are fulfilled today, which foretold the freedom of human flight. If Christ Jesus was a scientist, he understood that mankind would inevitably reach that perception of absolute Truth from which he, himself, operated. Based on this recognition, he could most certainly promise that the principle of creative scientific discovery would unfold the platform of Truth that he understood, and he could promise that once this unfolding has taken place, the scientific understanding of Truth would remain with mankind forever. He even promised that greater works than his own shall be done.*(John 14:12)
Over the last one hundred years, this promise has been fulfilled to some degree, and it is destined to be fulfilled fully. The human dream to be able to fly like the birds has been far surpassed in this age, and so will the capabilities that the Master had demonstrated. Like human flight, the spiritual capability of metaphysical healing will remain forever when it becomes sufficiently understood and practiced. Once a door of this nature has been opened, scientifically, it can never be shut again. Circumstances may hide its existence, but the door remains open.
For centuries Christ Jesus' works have been regarded as miracles. They are deemed to have resulted from special status or privileges. Instead, they should be regarded as natural occurrences based on a fuller understanding of reality. The by-product of this narrow way of thinking has been to obscure the native metaphysical capabilities of man that Christ Jesus had worked so hard to make understood. This cheap excuse of an explanation, that defines the highest manifestation of Truth as unnatural or miraculous, launched the most majestic coverup that was ever imposed against the human spirit and its limitless capabilities.
As it was, it took more than eighteen hundred years of waking up, before the chain of self-deception was beginning to be broken.
Mary Baker Eddy's touch upon absolute truth.
Mankind's most significant breakthrough occurred in 1866, when in moments of extreme need a scientifically minded woman had begun to ask the deep questions that had been avoided for centuries. Not surprisingly, it had became possible to her, on a scientific basis, to repeat the ancient wonders that were wrongly called miracles, and to have them repeated on a very broad front by people from all walks of live, healing by scientific spiritual means literally all diseases known at the time. Many such cases had been cases given up as hopeless by the physicians of the day, - of types of diseases, some of which are still acknowledged as incurable by modern medical means. The healing that was accomplished resulted from the rediscovery of the workings of primitive Christianity.
Any effort to explore the phenomena of metaphysics that is commonly called spiritual healing, must be centered on the discoveries of the most accomplished practitioner and scientist in the field. This requires that one take a closer look at the woman who had achieved the historic breakthrough in the search for spiritual truth, and that one consider her work.
She was born on July 16, 1821, at a homestead farm of Bow, New Hampshire, operated by the Mark Baker family. At this time and place the Bible occupied a central position in the home, and in family life. This was especially so in the Baker household. This background may have lit a silent 'fire' within, that would shape her desires, disciplines, and searching for the next fifty years, until her first major discoveries were made, driven by the intensity of that cataclysmic event that had threatened her life. Another childhood background was her eagerness for learning, which was nurtured by the achievements of her older brother who was a fine scholar. She also grew up in an age of unfolding scientific understanding and industrialization. At the end of a long road of trials, discoveries, struggles, and enlightenment, lay the great victory, that itself, would prove to be but a beginning. She would work, from this beginning for another forty-four years, tirelessly. This period was rich in scientific breakthroughs and monumental achievements.
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