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Chapter 2 - Scientific Metaphysical Healing - A Quest for The Truth.
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It is important to understand this factor, for the scientific structure for the Key of David that was merely outlined, specifically meets the requirement for coming to terms with the truths that Mary Baker Eddy had recognized and enshrined into law, without exerting any official control of one over another. With this, Mary Baker Eddy sets the stage upon which spiritual facts can be explored in total safety. At this point, also, she pulls herself out of the picture and leaves the field to God and the individual. The structure for the Key of David is not an imposition of dogma or form. In so doing, Mary Baker Eddy has laid the foundation for an universal, scientific 'religion' in which no one dominates, no doctrine calls the tune, no final form exists, - a 'religion' in which the highest structure is an open door that demands each one to find the reality of Truth, scientifically, within one's own individuality and unity with God through inspiration, reason, discovery, and demonstration.
There is also a practical side to all this. With her By-Law, Mary Baker Eddy puts the focus on one of the most devastating aspects that has prevented the normal development of humanity. The control of one individual over another, or one church over another, may seem innocent. The root cause of this, however, is reflected in the more extensive form of control, in oligarchism and elitism. The term, oligarchy, applies when, according to dictionary definition, there is a control by a few over many. Usually the term is applied in the derogatory sense. The term oligarch is traditionally applied to describe the kind of rule that has resulted in human slavery on a huge scale, a kind of rule which also has turned the last five centuries into an epoch of repetitive cycles of intentionally created wars between nations, and economic devastation by various other manipulative means. The control of one over another is also reflected as fascism, which is a still more forceful aspect of it. Oligarchic powers frequently use fascism as a tool to achieve their ends, such as through assassinations, torture, genocide, or war. The control of one over another, is also the fundamental root cause of terrorism in which the principle finds its most extreme expression, in which people are murdered for no other reason than to stir up public reactions to accept irrationalist idealisms. Terrorism is frequently employed, both, by oligarchic and fascist power structures.
The control by a few over is also found in the rule by an elite, even when the rule is deemed to be benign. Thus, elitist control is inherently oligarchic, and 100% contrary to the fundamental principles of divine Science. Mary Baker Eddy's By-Law that forbids any form of control over another, renders elitism as the most dangerous form of control which tends to render that as benign which is fundamentally destructive according to the underlying principle involved. In the realm of absolute Truth, there exists no justification for any form of control over another. Instead of being ruled by elitist dictates, mankind should be ruled by the fundamental principles of Truth as they have been demonstrated throughout history and have been proven to be benign.
Any form of control by one over another, be it elitism, oligarchism, and the entire pyramid that rests on this foundation, becomes impossible when divine Truth becomes the controlling factor in the lives of humanity. Truth identifies man as divine image, a spiritual idea of God endowed with the divine quality of reason and scientific understanding, an entity of worth and fundamental sovereignty that reflects the sovereignty of God. Any attempt to control another, by any means, is a denial of God, for such control rests on the perception of weakness or mental poverty in another individual or divine image, rather than on a perception of worth and dignity. This powerful denial of what is absolute Truth, as innocent as the denial may seem to be, is necessarily a fundamental factor in forestalling any possible success in metaphysical healing which is based on the truth. Christ Jesus attached a condition to his promise when he said; "and Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."*(John 8:32) That condition is that we we abide is his word. This goal will not be reached through a denial of the truth, no matter for what purpose, no matter of who does it. Thus, Mary Baker Eddy's focus on aspects of the truth, if honestly pursued, could by itself transform human society that has already suffered immensely under centuries of oligarchism, fascism, terrorism, and the control of one over another, or one religion over another.
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