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Chapter 3 - The Christ and Christian Science.The outline for that structure for scientific and spiritual development may be profound in the modern day environment where spiritual matters are all too often discounted to zero, but it was know in ancient times that such a thing exists and needs to be brought to light. The Apostle John foresaw the end of all evil, and he foresaw it on a scientific basis that embraces all relevant history. He described in this context a city, foursquare in shape, descending from God out of heaven. This foursquare shape is a reference to science, to a foursquare matrix for exploring the interrelationships of a wide range of spiritual concepts for the discovering of universal principles and the nature of Truth, or as the Bible puts in Genesis 1, man made in the image and likeness of God. John also refers to a more ancient concept of the same thing, which he refers to as the Key of David which ultimately must be built in consciousness, which King David is renowned for. In today's world it comes to light as Mary Baker Eddy greatest accomplishment, an outlined scientific structure designed for spiritual discovery and boundless scientific and cultural development. Ironically, the proof of this fact is regarded to be in opposition to the institutional structures of Christian Science. This opposition presently bears strongly against the development of Christian Science and its potential for elevating civilization as a whole. With this opposition, ancient history repeats itself. Opposition by institutional structures that see their status quo threatened, and vanishing, on which their authority is anchored, is a typical response to advanced manifestations of divine Science. But this is nothing new. Christ Jesus faced enormous opposition in his time, Mary Baker Eddy faced it agonizingly at her time, John Doorly faced it when he discovered the first traces of the structure for the Key of David had outlined, and so did the author's friend, Howard Meredith, who made some of the major breakthrough discoveries that brought to light many essential parts of Mary Baker Eddy's outline for it. While institutional opposition, itself, does not prove the value of what has been brought to light, the historical precedents cannot be ignored. It hints at the fundamental nature of what has been presented in Mary Baker Eddy's outline. Typically, the advance guard of progress is always met with strong opposition as it challenges narrow perceptions, misbased axioms, and traditions that are based on countless limits that are not rooted in truth, but in opinions and emotions. The historic background of Mary Baker Eddy's work in the quest for Truth and a scientific understanding of it, also puts the Key of David on the map in the perspective of the next logical link in the chain of the forever re-appearing of the divine idea in clearer forms of recognition, and more certain and more powerful applications. The appearance of Christ Jesus was a natural step in this unfolding chain with a long and progressive culture of monotheism in its history that is dotted with many events of Christ healing. The appearance of the historic Christ Jesus was also in line with another strong historical precursor, that of scientific investigation, even the investigation of logic itself as practiced by Socrates, Plato and many of the great Greek philosopher who had set in motion a revolution in looking at the universe with the mind's eye, a truly scientific process that is still shaping thought even today, 2400 years later. While the name, Christ, had not been applied to the early historical perceptions of divine Truth prior to the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, its applicability to the ancient events of spiritual healing is plain. The spiritual history of mankind - with the inclusion of Christ Jesus' illustrations and healings, and that of the apostles' - set up a platform that would channel thought into more spiritual perceptions which in time culminated in Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of the Science of Christianity that enabled the restoration of Christian healing in an industrial and scientific age. The Key of David, according to the name itself, is rooted likewise in that single train of history of the spiritual unfolding of which the emergence of Christian Science is evidently but a mile stone. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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