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Today's practitioners of scientific Christian healing have the same uphill battle to fight, the same challenges to meet, the same obstacles to deal with. Fortunately, we have today's scientific principles available as aids in the monumental quest for gaining an understanding of Truth. Experience has amply shown that mere faith is no substitute for scientific understanding. Faith may be necessary as a kind of trust in the principles of scientific logic when the result goes against every facet of conventional perception.
The Science of Christian healing
It can happen that one stumbles into a healing that one can neither repeat nor is quite able to fully understand. In this case, as in any other case, one may be forced to go back to the beginning, to the basics, to the Science involved, to update one's model in consciousness in accord with what has been recognized as a facet of divine Truth, and start anew, and so to claim the scientific substance of that experience.
If the principles of science are to be applied to the spiritual realm, three significant features must emerge that reflect the accepted principles of science.
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.1. The fundamental underpinning of reality (this includes all that is commonly associated with the term, God) must be recognized as Truth.
.2. It must further be recognized that ultimate and absolute Truth (or God) is touched upon only to the degree to which its nature is experienced in individual lives. At this stage of searching for the truth of being in one's experience, one must be alone with God.
.3. It must further be acknowledged that all aspects of Truth pertain to mankind universally, as there is but one Truth that encompasses all reality.
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Under the umbrella of Science attached to Christianity, mankind as a whole, has but one God or Truth that no one fully understands. In this regard, Science presents itself as an open door for individuals to evaluate their experiences and perceptions, and to correlate them in their own consciousness with revealed absolute statements in the form of platforms or texts established by the most able scientists in the field. Out of the depth of the many documented facets of Christ Jesus' works and his sayings, all embodying aspects of his Christ Science may be drawn on for the healing work of today's Christianity. Still, the concept of metaphysical healing is revolutionary and the mental discipline demanding.
In this work of spiritual researching for the truth, there is a strong protection required to keep the spiritual unfolding in thought from being influenced by the many mental impositions that flood the world in this age of an information revolution that also opens up the channels of universal thought control. This protection is also required for individuals working in the various churches. Protection from the will of others and their individual range of perception which may unfold from their own individual needs. There is no group work possible in this Science that would be ethical. The development of human society is not wrought by controlling one another, but by the sharing of ideas on the basis of an scientific interchange of discoveries and experiences, as through this book.
The need for the protection of individuals, nations, even religion itself, from the grasp of direct or manipulative controls, has been recognized by Mary Baker Eddy, and provided for under a By-Law enshrined in the Church Manual. Still, she could not enforce the By-Law, and cause it to be obeyed, which would be a form of control in itself. The By-Law will be fulfilled naturally, through growth in spiritual understanding which prohibits the willful control of one over another. While the church By-Laws specifically forbid any official control of one church over another, or individual over another, significant control is being imposed none-the-less.
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