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All this mean, as we begin to look at the outline that she has provided, we should not be surprised that it comes to light as a giant puzzle rather than a neat hand me down gift.
Her resolution is interesting. The problem was, to bestow on another what must result from individual creative discoveries that unfold the nature of infinite divine Truth in consciousness. Without the process of searching, struggling, experiencing, developing creative approaches to complex spiritual questions, the needed shift in human consciousness that is required for Christ healing - a shift out of man's self-defined limits into the infinitude of divine metaphysics - cannot be achieved.
Spiritual unfolding, a fact of life.
Spiritual healing is not a mind over matter exercise, but results from a deeply conscious scientific awareness of the truth, and the conscious recognition that what has unfolded is the truth about God, or Truth. Christ Jesus made this quite plain. He never indicated that there was any special magic underlying his works, but to know the truth - "and the truth shall make you free."*(John 8:32) He worked in the realm of the real, the realm of the operation of God's law. Being is unfoldment: the unfoldment of metaphysical phenomena manifesting the divine reality. One either moves ahead towards the infinite awareness of the truth, or regresses towards mental dullness, impotence, and oblivion. There is no status quo in divine Truth, no steady state or zero growth, no standing still, only continuous unfolding of the infinite and its boundless reality. Truth and Life are interlinked as aspects of God. Life is the dynamic aspect of the divine expression. It unfolds continually in expanding stages of progress. There is no static life. Life is unfoldment of the boundless base of divine Principle. Life can never be static. No living entity is static. Apart from the dynamic expansion of life, mentally and bodily, there is inevitable regression and collapse, that which closes the door on life.
The human mental realm, even when infested with mortal beliefs, is evidently not exempted from the principle of dynamic unfolding. It becomes imperative, therefore, that we recognize ourselves scientifically as spiritual beings, according to the facts that Christ Jesus had illustrated. Ultimately, we have no choice but to discover ourselves, thus, spiritually. Ultimately, we cannot escape the unfolding awareness of spiritual existence, but we can hasten this unfolding through scientific processes, reason, and experiences. For this, we have to take the required footsteps and explore what lies before us, open our thoughts to inspiration and find its substance in demonstration. Truth demands that we take on this responsibility. God is not a controlling dictator that kicks mankind into heaven, but has set up the door through which one can come face to face with infinity.
When Jesus spoke about sending the new comforter that would remain forever, he may have pointed to the inevitable unfolding of divine Science which must unfold in human thought rather than being presented to it through stylized teachings or structured organizations. Christ Jesus' words are significant in this respect, when he said: "I can of my own self do nothing..." or as he said to Phillip: "the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."*(John 5:30 and 14:10)
There is a great temptation to regard Christian Science healing as a function of personal ability, which brings with it a sense of responsibility and ultimately guilt when the healing isn't forthcoming. But Jesus said that it is the truth that heals, and that knowing the truth would cause one to be free. This truth that Jesus referred to must be the Truth that God sees, which is reality.
There is a personal story attached to this. Many years before the outline of the Key of David had been discovered, I had struggled with persistent back aches. The pain started at night and often lasted till noon. All my efforts to treat the ailment in Christian Science, had failed. One day, during a church business meeting someone said that Christian Science has NEVER failed! I reacted with indignation; was I not a living example to the very opposite. Then came the thought that the person was right in a scientific sense. If he was speaking of the Science of Truth, it must necessarily be said that it never failed to produce results, for this is the nature of Truth.
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