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Science and Christian Healing.History indicates that healing the sick by a scientific Christian method has flourished only twice in all of mankind's history, and has occurred in each case after a long development period of a general renaissance. And even then, in spite of dramatic proofs in demonstrated achievement, it has posed enormous challenges on consciousness for gaining credibility. Nothing that has unfolded in mankind's history has posed such an extreme challenge to consciousness, and in the face of such concrete evidence, as Christ healing. The easiest way out is to declare Christ Jesus, who pioneered the process, the personal son of the Almighty, endowed with special powers, who worked miracles. Except this makes no sense. What God would send such a person to intimidate everyone, to make everyone feel small and impotent? The alternative is to understand Christ Jesus as an Exemplar of the boundless dominion that is attainable by everyone of humanity due to man's infinite nature. This makes Christ Jesus' works natural, beautiful, and enormously important. However, it also opens the great Pandora Box, with the question, How! How can such incredible feats be possible to ordinary men, as Christ Jesus has performed; or more correctly, as Christ Jesus has demonstrated? Here, is where the challenge comes from. Humanity has been taught to belittle itself. It has been taught not to reach beyond the empirical boundary. Plato had taught the opposite. The entire Greek Classical period, up to this point, was build on reaching beyond this boundary. The person who advanced this progression to the greatest extend, who came out of an advanced culture himself, was Christ Jesus. He emerged at the end of a great spiritual renaissance and extended it a whole lot further. No miracles occurred there. This fact, that no miracles occurred there, was recognized at the end of mankind's second great period of renaissance that began with the Golden Renaissance in Italy, in the 15th century and extended to the end of the 19th century. Against the background of the scientific overturning that the spirit of renaissance brings about in every age, the idea emerged that nothing happens in reality that does not reflect some underlying principle, and if so, this principle can be as readily demonstrated in any age, when understood, as it was in the time of Christ Jesus. And so it was. Christ healing was repeated in countless thousands of cases, of virtually any disease known at the time. It seemed as if mankind had touched upon infinity itself, but this renaissance, too, would not last. The power of this renaissance became defeated by the same attack against the human spirit that had also defeated the general period of renaissance. The weapon in this attack was empiricism, and its immediate outcome, conservatism. Under this attack the mental challenge that the principle of Christ healing posed, became evermore difficult to meet. Empiricism was the weapon the British Empire had employed against China, after the second opium war, in order to assure that this nation would not revitalize itself and rebel against the Empire, like the colonies in North America had done. Of course, it was also employed against the former colonies, the USA, in order to shut down the rebel's independence. With the success of this project, a regression began that has not ended to the present day. In this escalating regression all the lesser challenges that underlie the achievements of the renaissance, such as accepting the infinite economic principle by which the American society had enjoyed its greatest period of, became lost. Today, as the world is in the midst of the most far reaching general economic breakdown in all of human history, including that of the 14th century, the most basic principles of the renaissance have been put aside. In the light of this breakdown one cannot be surprised that the most far reaching leading edge perceptions have lost their credibility entirely in the consciousness of mankind. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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