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In the wake of the World-War-I tragedy, even as humanity was recovering, the fascism in politics, finance, and economics that had caused the war was revived and advanced and put on a high pedestal, so much so that World War II erupted. The crime of inhumanity in this new war became a monster of immense proportions. When the horrors of this war ended, however, the fascism that drove it to the bitter end had remained on its pedestal. America became inflicted with it like as with a disease. The Cold War started. Long before the wounds of Hiroshima could heal, when the logical answer should have been "never again," the advance of fascism caused society to build 65,000 more atomic bombs, many being forty to eighty times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb had been, while in the background to this fascist madness the nations of the world were beginning to be looted financially. Africa became destroyed in the process rather than being economically developed. Most of its aspiring progressive humanist leaders were assassinated. Then the postindustrial madness began and the madness of free-trade slavery. America transfered its production from advanced industries to the sweatshop maliquadore of Mexico, China, Africa, and India. The greatest slavery-type operations in history began that in some cases were worse than the old colonial slavery of the imperials' golden years. And all of this happened while the poor nations were loaded up with mountains of debt that by intent were set up so large that they could never be repaid, but would force the poor nations into submission to privatization demands of even the little they had.
The world had indeed changed since Mary Baker Eddy's time, the time when scientific Christian healing was a widely practiced process, rather than fascism. It stands to reason that a society that has become so intensely aligned to the horror show that it had become a part of has little left in terms of a foundation to invoke the divine Principle of scientific mental healing, which is squarely based on the Principle of Universal Love. The Principle of Universal had began to unfold during the Golden Renaissance in the 14th and 15th Century, and had been revived again in the 17th Century in the background of the Thirty Years War in an effort to stop the war-madness. It was also the underlying principle of the principle that the USA was founded on, that became enshrined in the very Preamble of its Federal Constitution in the form of the General Welfare Principle. By the time of the discovery of Christian Science, America had stood at the pinnacle of its own humanist renaissance. There is little of that left now, nor of what Christian Science healing had been, including its efficacy.
Mary Baker Eddy always had pointed to the Christ as her authority. Christ Jesus had put the Principle of Universal Love on the map as no one had ever done before. So what do we hear the Christ telling us in that regard?
I personally find his many counsels remarkable, especially those which lead directly to the Principle of Universal Love. One example is his counsel in the case of a man in a parable who came before the altar of God to offer his gift for atonement. As Jesus tells the story, he counsels that the man must search his heart to see if there is anyone (a brother) who has aught against him, and that if so, he should step away from the altar and first reconcile with his brother, and only then come and offer his gift. (Matthew 5:23)
I see this counsel as a call to uphold the Principle of Universal Love on as wide a sphere as possible. Indeed, if one neglects ones brother-man and the pressing human needs, how could one be justified in seeking to have one's own needs fulfilled in healing by the Christ Principle that reflects the divine Principle of Universal Love? The obvious answer to this question may hold the answer to as why Christian Science healing has become increasingly precarious and is fast becoming lost. Here we may find the background for our answer to my earlier question as to what set's our world apart from that of Mary Baker Eddy's time.
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