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Modern scientific Christian healing is not found at the bottom rung of the ladder of mankind's scientific development, but is found at the top, at the farthest extreme. It came to light at a high point of the nation's spiritual development, and receded when this thrust of that development became lost. Science is a thing of life. It is not a static thing. It unfolds with development, and like any living system, it collapses when growth or development no longer takes place.
Development - the dynamics of life.
The central aspect of any individual's existence is life. Life's highest manifest is in the human intellect that enables discoveries of fundamental principles and their application for the building of civilization. This development potential sets mankind apart from any other living species on the planet. But life is a dynamic thing. It comes to light through development. It is a thing that unfolds out its own resources. It is a thing of constant growth. There is no static life, or zero growth, or negative unfolding possible. 'Static life' is a contradiction in language, and so is its modern equivalent the much promoted concept of 'zero growth' economy or the 'negative growth' of life which are currently at the fore-front of implemented ideology.
Human society is a living structure which cannot be forced into a 'zero growth' state without enforcing its collapse. This holds true physically, economically, scientifically, and spiritually. Whatever is connected with life must grow, develop, or it collapses. Has anyone ever seen a flower in a state of zero growth, or even growing smaller as it unfolds? Life exist only in the form of constant development. Apart from development, there is but death and oblivion. Not even animal societies exist in a zero growth state, but live with a constant association with development being poised against death through starvation or predation.
The nature of life is growth, is development, is unfoldment, provided it is allowed to develop and unfold. If these are denied by artificial intervention, life ceases. As much as this holds true for a plant, it holds true for a man, for a society, for humanity, for mankind's Science and culture, for all these are aspects of life. It is the nature of life to develop and grow, whether we like it or not. We cannot change the nature of reality, the nature of life, but must live in accord with it or suffer the consequences. Zero growth, or negative growth cannot be achieved, either in population numbers, in economic development, or in spiritual development. The moment a life-curtailing policy is enforced the collapse of the whole structure begins, such as the collapse of civilization. The dynamics of life are fundamental. All that mankind can do in the face of it, is find the most intelligent way to support the developing unfoldment of life.
It is most unfortunate, therefore, that 'zero growth' policies and 'negative growth' systems are in control in this modern world with the necessary catastrophic effects on human civilization and on mankind's capacity for scientific Christian healing, which, too, is not an isolated aspect but unfolds and decays with the advance of civilization.
An individual, however, is not bound to the general pattern that society has imposed upon itself. Understanding the nature of life, and the nature of the mythologies and systems that would counteract it, an individual may achieve his or her own development according to the fundamental principles of life. This book is dedicated in support of this development, and may well be essential in this endeavor.
Spiritual understanding is an aspect of life that must be in a constant state of growth, in active development, in progressive unfoldment. The fact that there has been little of that happening on the public front makes the individual task significantly more isolated and difficult as much needs to be regained that had already been established at one point. However, without this growth in spiritual self-awareness - without constant development in terms of new discoveries of the principles of Truth, without progressive scientific unfoldment, understanding, and experiences - the spiritual and mental support structures cannot be established on which scientific Christian healing depends, and needs to be maintained. Then, a serious decay sets in. This pattern is quite a universal one and applies to all areas of the human dimension.
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