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There is ample evidence existing which shows that people were healed by studying this textbook. Some were healed by merely reading it, and this from rather dramatic ailments. A hundred pages of testimonials at the back of the book bear witness to this fact. There exists even a college in which the underlying science is taught.
The early healings were indeed numerous. The future seemed bright. Except the trend didn't last. Had the rapid expansion continued, medical healing would be obsolete by now, which is far from the case. Medicine reigns supreme, while the Christian Science churches have become quite empty. Although Christian Science healing continues to be practiced, its effectiveness is not sure. It has been the author's finding that scientific spiritual healing became progressively harder to achieve as the years passed; the cases of healing have become fewer and often took a long time to come about, if healing was realized at all.
We are presented with a paradox, here, are we not? It is generally understood that biological ailments, in most cases, require some form of physical intervention to be healed. This understanding is contradicted by a brief flurry of metaphysical healing during the first century of the Christian era. The most severe ailments were cured without any physical intervention at all, and this in the space of moments. These are the facts. Whenever the accepted understanding of things is contradicted with self-evident truths, we have a paradox on our hands that is nagging to be resolved. Here is where science comes into play. It gives us a rigorous platform for discovering the underlying principles by which the paradoxes become resolved. The result of such a process launched a new wave of Christian healing in the late 1800s, on the same platform that was demonstrated centuries earlier, and with similar results, except on a larger scale. The paradox was resolved by recognizing the historic events as evidence of some profound truth that needed but to be discovered. And this it was. In fact, it appears that the continuity of the process depended on this paradox to be continuously resolved, anew, which wasn't happening. Nor is it happening now.
The simplest way to begin the process of resolving the paradox, is with the question, why? Why is there a paradox? What did the people have in the early days that is no longer available? Why could some vastly more primitive people accomplish what we, in the scientific age, can no longer accomplish? Also, why is the once demonstrated potential that was realized in the late 1800s, no longer realized? One would expect the science involved to be at the forefront of the society's concerns. Truth, Science, reality, should be the center of attention. Don't we live in the most advanced age where there are literally no limits to what we can potentially do?
The last question must evidently be answered in the negative. The realities that were once demonstrated have not changed. The fundamental principles of the universe remain invariable. What has been lost with the end of the last period of renaissance is the mental quality that mankind had once achieved. With its disappearance the corresponding capabilities have likewise disappeared. Nor is scientific metaphysical healing the only aspect that has vanished from the world scene. A great many aspects have become lost by the same cause, such as general prosperity, physical and financial security, peace, honor, justice, humanity, industry, etc.. The list of what has vanished, or has dramatically diminished since the end of mankind's last period of renaissance, is quite a long one.
History presents us with many paradoxes in which observed facts contradict our cherished understandings, especially in economics. For many years the value of financial aggregates has been climbing into the stratosphere while the physical economy was collapsing at a similar rate. This paradox was not resolved, but hidden. The process continued until it could no longer be sustained, then it collapsed. That is where we are now. The reason why the modern world has become so impotent in solving problems, including the problem of Christian healing, is due to the fact that it no longer cares about resolving paradoxes, as if the process was something that died with the last renaissance. Naturally, once a people stop asking why, nothing gets resolved anymore and civilization begins to disintegrate.
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