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The book presented here presents scenes that require to be illumined with the light of our humanity. That is where the power of our humanity lies, because our humanity is divine, spiritual, and therefore substantial. We have the capacity today to achieve through advances in Christian Science what Goya lacked the means to even dream of. And the first step is to get ourselves and our fellow man out of the mud of self-assumed impotence, and assume our place in the sun, a place of power to illumine the night and to enrich the day. The divine Principle of Universal Love is really an invitation to take these kinds of actions in upholding our humanity and letting its light shine so that no dark spot remains on earth.
It is possible to cause healing on the universal scale. Mary Baker Eddy once said to her class that those few assembled in her classroom would be sufficient to uplift the world if they were of one Mind, because then the world would feel the influence of that Mind. This has always been true and will remain so. It is a part of the light of the diamond, that of the woman clothed with the sun. The kind of healing that Richard Haw witnessed is always possible and is most likely more powerfully unfolding in the world as we are inclined to acknowledge. The recognized scientific fact upheld by the advance-guard of humanity, recognizing that evil is merely a negation of our humanity, rather than a power in its own right, might have been the impetus that has prevented the horrors of a nuclear war that has been constant preparation for over fifty years but never come to pass. The evidence is that the power of evil has been denied in this case. While the battle isn't over, one should also acknowledge that a lot of other achievements have been secured in the nuclear-war arena. Of the over 120,000 nuclear bombs that have been built, less than 40,000 remain, and the physical potential exists for those to be gone in a week. All that is required for this final step, is some mud becoming removed in order that mankind's love of itself and one-another as diamonds in the universe makes human existence so precious that the bombs appear exceedingly ugly and out of place. When this final step has been taken, the rest is but a technical process.
Actually we have already seen many such cases where the power of evil has been denied. Take the Middle East for example. Though Palestine is still a mess and a scene of atrocities, Palestine still exists. The 1990s instigated "Clean Break" policy has been prevented. This policy, also called the "Jordan equals Palestine" policy, had been devised to create a scale of horror so huge, like carpet bombing, that the surviving Palestinians would flee to Jordan, surrendering their land to Israel. In this case, the power to do that horrid thing has been denied. It didn't happen, and never will happen.
There have been several great instances already in which the power of evil proved to be less than a puff of smoke. The American Social Security privatization scheme, for example, that would have thrown the nation's social security trust fund into the gambling arena, has been turned into a dead issue in spite of the highest level of support. While much more needs to be achieved before all the crimes against humanity forever cease or are prevented, a significant proof has been put on the line that good is a platform of power that can establish the claims of humanity and deny evil its claim, which has no power.
I also love Richard Haw's experience in respect to the night without crime, which echoes to some degree Mary Baker Eddy's work for the world and her influence on society. Except her work and influence extended not just through a single night, but through 45 years on a near global scale. By the time of her discovery of Christian Science in 1866 all the huge continental wars had ground to a halt. Even the bestial Spanish Inquisition that had ruled with terror since the 1400s had been shut down just years before. Also the Opium Wars against China had ended a few years before 1866. Likewise the hugely tragic 14-years Taiping uprising in China had ended around that time, in 1864. Estimates have put the human losses of the rebellion at 9-10 million lives. The rebellion, which the British Empire had first supported, if not instigated, had then been crushed by them in the end before it succeeded. This entire tragedy of conspiracies had been over two years before the spiritual scientific breakthrough was made in America. Throughout Mary Baker Eddy's time, after her breakthrough-discovery, only a few minor wars broke the decades-long peace, and those were of relatively short duration, like the war for the independence of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria from Turkish rule that Russia supported and fought for against the Ottoman Empire in 1876-78. Other similar wars were the Sino Japanese War of 1894-95 and the Japan Russia War in 1904-05. All of them were relatively small. The train of all the really huge war-atrocities didn't get started again until after Mary Baker Eddy's death in 1910, beginning with World War I in 1914. The train hasn't stopped rolling since, but it is faltering. A healing process is under way.
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