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The unity of God and man that is expressed here, in the spiritual sense of 'son of a year,' is the same that the German poet, Friedrich Schiller, had hinted at in his "Ode to Joy," which Beethoven had set to music for his famous Ninth Symphony. The poem opens: "Freude, schoener Goetterfunken," translated as "Joy, bright spark of divinity." Here, Schiller finds 'tangible' substance beyond the empirical and relates this substance to both deity and the human experience.
Religion has been used for quite some centuries to split apart this unity, by relegating each into its own domain. God became mystified, Jesus glorified, and man became isolated and demonized as evil or as a natural sinner. This isolation was politically useful in that it enabled the worst atrocities to be committed without moral hindrances. This built up isolation between God and man enabled slavery, dope peddling, colonial exploitation; it also allows the genocide in modern days, even depopulation, and the resulting breakdown of civilization to take place unhindered. It even opens the door for such large scale murdering to take place as has been achieved with the ban of DDT.
When Christ Jesus is not seen as an Exemplar of a taller and more truthful identity of man, but is regarded as some sort of divinely appointed King existing in in an irrelevant mystery-land, then, the status of man becomes so reduced that it is quite all-right to lie, steal, and butcher people to death by the millions. In fact the oligarchy's depopulation drive could have never been launched without its careful intervention in religious perception, creating the kind of ideologies that sever in human perception the unity between God and man.
It would be surprising, therefore, if religious devolution were not a central pillar in the oligarchy's power-structure. Nor is it surprising that the Church of England became an oligarchic instrument as soon as the Venetian oligarchy began to take over England, around the time of Henry VIII. Another increment along this line came through the Empire's later creation, the World Council of Churches, with the latest such movements being the Empire's own "Christian Solidarity International."
At the other end of the scale, Christian Science is probably the most advanced structure in the Christian arena. It isn't a religion in the standard sense, because it is primarily a science. It isn't a church, either, in the standard sense, because it offers no dogma. Instead, it offers demonstrable scientific propositions. Neither does it idolize Jesus as a far off King. Instead, the proposition is put forward that Christ Jesus was an advanced spiritual scientist with a remarkable record of achievement, which makes him an Exemplar of mankind's potential as "sons" of God (as in, son of a year).
It should be recognized that Christ Jesus defined himself never as an isolated Saviour, but as one of humanity, calling himself both, the "son of God," and the "son of man." And he explored this unity to the full, and the potential it opened up for humanity.
Christ Jesus' example, therefore, becomes sufficient authority for the scientific exploration of the principles involved that underlie what he had demonstrated, and their application in healing of all manner of diseases. The result has been tremendous. A century of scientific Christian healing on a near commercial scale, especially during the first decades of Christian Science activity, bear witness to what is imminently achievable, and to what still lies ahead, as the exists no limit in infinity. Christ Jesus, himself had predicted, that if his example is being comprehended and further pursued, greater works than his own would be done.*(John 14:12)
Christian Science defines man as having dominion, and proofs its claim with thousands of demonstrated cases of healing that echo those reported from the first century of the Christian era. It speaks of Truth, and demonstrates man's relationship to it by enabling mankind to claim its identity in the divine likeness through demonstrated manifests.
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