As spiritual factors become understood, the Darwinian theory of evolution will come to be recognized as substantially more unrealistic than the Newtonian theory of nuclear physics is regarded today in the light of modern discoveries, such as quantum mechanics.  Darwin's work may be likened to the first step of a child in a world filled with potentials for discovery.  What he had discovered was quite revolutionary against the background of 18th century mentality, but he stopped there, and strangely, the world's enquiry into the unfolding of life stopped with him.  His theory became a standard that would never be changed, though it is hopelessly crude in that it ignores the impact of unfolding intelligence on the development of life, which is certainly a factor, and may well be the major factor of all.  If the factor of intelligence is brought into the equation of the development of life, reflecting the actions of infinite Mind, then, a whole new identity comes to light, for mankind, which lifts the human species far above the animal stage of existence, to the threshold of infinity itself.  This may explain why Darwin's theory was carefully maintained as a standard, for it is politically undesirable for the oligarchic ruling powers that the development potential of mankind, which is truly boundless, be universally recognized.

Mary Baker Eddy defines the term, MAN, scientifically as "the family name for all ideas, - the sons and daughters of God."*(Science and Health 515:21)  This description, though scientific in nature, is still metaphoric.  Mary Baker Eddy recognized the universe as unfolding metaphysically, rather than physically.  Thus, metaphors must be used to enable thought to escape from the limitations that all material perception impose.  With her advanced perception of man, as a spiritual being founded on a boundless basis of divine reflection, Mary Baker Eddy went 'miles' beyond even the most advanced structures of her time, most of which were still spell bound by the limits of the materialism of Darwin's theory or related theories such as the Newtonian theory of nuclear physics.  Mary Baker Eddy's perception goes beyond even the more advanced views of quantum mechanics that are dealt with today, in which the so-called atomic 'particles' are recognized as being but structures of energy and order that somehow happen to function harmoniously.  Mary Baker Eddy's metaphysical work goes beyond even the wholeness theory put forward some years ago by David Bohm, Professor of Theoretical Physics, who sees a few steps beyond quantum mechanics and recognizes a universe existing of interacting patterns of mere ripples on a vast background of immense latened energy, of which consciousness is an integral part.*(Wholeness and the Implicate Order - 1980 David Bohm, Ark Paperbacks, London)  Mary Baker Eddy saw a universe that she understood to be idea, an image of Mind, the reflection of Spirit, Life, and divine Principle.

Whereas the most advanced theoretical physicist and naturalist never healed a cancer or a broken bone, Mary Baker Eddy healed such ailments on a routine basis by realigning thought in accord with the revealed spiritual image of man that Christ Jesus had demonstrated as reflecting Truth.  Her way of healing was an advanced scientific spiritual process in which metaphysics was taking the place of physics.

She writes about her own healing: "These facts enjoin the First Commandment; and knowledge of them makes man spiritually minded.  St Paul writes: 'For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.'"  And she adds the following: "This knowledge came to me in an hour of great need; and I give it to you as death bed testimony to the day-star that dawned on the night of material sense.  This knowledge is practical, for it wrought my immediate recovery from an injury caused by an accident, and pronounced fatal by the physicians.  On the third day thereafter, I called for my Bible, and opened it at Matthew ix. 2.  As I read, the healing Truth dawned upon my sense; and the result was that I rose, dressed myself, and ever after was in better health than I had before enjoyed."*(Miscellaneous Writings 24:1)

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