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This is a hard concept to swallow, isn't it? Mary Baker Eddy appears to have been totally aware that the required shift in consciousness, from a material to a spiritual basis, is not easily made, but she also recognizes that this shift is inevitable, for progress will demand that the search for Truth continues until its absolute is realized.
That Mary Baker Eddy is correct in what she is saying, can best be understood when we bring the currently perceived identity of man, and of life itself, into this context. So, what do we see as being largely accepted in public thought about man?
Seen in broad terms, man is regarded as a worm, feeding of the earth. I am exaggerating a bit, but basically, this is how mankind has come to regard itself. The radical environmentalism of today has created that perception. The radical environmentalism, in turn, has been artificially created as a tool for human devolution. If the assumption were true, which is paraded today before mankind, that man lives fundamentally by the good graces of the Earth, 99.9% of today's population would not exist. In terms of its productive capacity to support human life, the Earth is fundamentally a dessert. Since the earliest stages of civilization, the very existence of man has had a mental basis. The creative intellect of the human mind has reflected itself in the creation of tools for hunting and agriculture, which has lifted man above the Earth bound plain of a scavenger and gatherer type of existence. Man's spiritual quality of reason has enabled the creation of a civilization whose population density, even at the very earliest stages, surpassed the so-called carrying capacity of the Earth. What identifies man most fundamentally, therefore, which is man's prime characteristic, is a mental base on which the human civilization was founded from the beginning. Man is not fundamentally material, therefore, as though he were the child of the dust of the Earth. Man's being has a mental base. This infinite basis has been developed consistently throughout all generations, reflected in a constant increase in technologies based on new discoveries of fundamental principles which enabled man to lift himself above the dust of the earth. The civilization that man has created is a reflection of the identity of man, and must be so understood in its Science.
To the environmentally brainwashed activist the site of a nuclear power reactor providing power for homes and industry, or a dam across a river providing water for irrigation, stirs a fascist outrage based on a fear that these products of the human genius destroy the earth on which human existence depends. The fact is, that the existence of humanity has depended on the power of reason and the creative capacity of the human intellect from the very beginning of civilization. The fact is, that this human genius is replenishing the earth. The fact is, that a single nuclear power plant provides the equivalent in energy resources that a forest would the size of Western Europe, by burning wood. The fact is, if it weren't for modern methods of energy production all continents would long have been denuded to supply the need for fire wood. The fact is, man's basis for existence lies in the mental and spiritual realm, rather than a material and Earth-bound foundation.
To the scientifically conscious individual, the sight of an irrigation project, or of a nuclear power generating station becomes a visible element of that person's own identity as a human being. The products of the human genius are a part of who we are, and they project an image of man as being fundamentally mental and spiritual, rather than Earth-bound and material. The very denial of this fact creates a feeling of poverty and hopelessness, and a fascist rage aimed at protecting a myth. This ongoing promotion of a devolutionary myth, will reflect itself in a very significant devolution in the standard of living. This is the consequence of a fundamental self-denial resulting from a mental blindness to one's own innermost nature.
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