Here a principle is brought to light by which the whole scene becomes uplifted.  It must be acknowledged that the Samaritan's effort did make the whole scene richer.  A traveller had fallen among thieves and lay wounded by the wayside.  A priest, and later a high cast Levite, came that way and took notice, but passed by on the other side.  At last a lowly Samaritan came likewise that way.  He took notice and bound up the man's wounds and took care of him.  The question remains to be answered: In which society would you want to live?  Would you want to live in the priestly society where such human affection and aid is withheld, a world that is darkness within, or would you want to live in the development oriented world of the Samaritan where the scene is uplifted to whatever high plateau is desired?  Indeed, there was development described in the parable.  It unfolded out of the riches that the Samaritan had brought to the scene, and which dominated the scene to the end.  Something had made the type of society the Samaritan had chosen to create by his actions a profoundly richer one than the priest would ever have dreamed of, one that a normal person would naturally choose to live in.

This contrast should be kept in mind throughout this book as the exploration proceeds.  Naturally, the exploration in this book is designed to follow the pattern of the structure for scientific development that was outlined over a hundred years ago by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science.  Her major business was healing.  She had healed individuals of virtually every known disease on the planet by means of a scientific spiritual process that was built on the works of Christ Jesus.  As the process was fundamentally scientific, it could be performed by anyone who made the effort to acquire the requisite understanding of the science and the principles involved.  Many people had become effective healers in this way, during the early period.

When the Samaritan encountered the wounded traveller by the wayside, he did not look away and ignored the human need, but acknowledged the need and responded to it, and in so doing, he acknowledged his own strength and his own riches.  It is encouraging that a few people have recognized the utility of this principle and have applied it successfully to their business operations.   In this case, a principle that had been discovered, had been applied.  Many more such principles remain, yet to be discovered.

Since in today's age the society's problems are vast and its strengths are but faintly developed, the course of exploration in this book is necessarily problem oriented, but with an eye open towards the underlying principles that are violated, because of which the problems are experienced in the first place.  This approach is necessary also for another practical reason.  The reason is, that when it becomes possible for mankind to analyze its history and its deeply rooted mistakes, and society begins to understand the emptiness of its weak and defective systems and the purposes they serve, it becomes more likely, then, that individuals and society understand the strength and potential that lies within their reach to be implemented in boundless development.

Once society begins to understand how its natural development is constantly impeded by artificial means, most of the hurdles that impede it will be cast aside.  Then the society beings to understand the nature of its oligarchy that has assumed for itself the prerogative to control mankind's destiny.  The revelation are not pleasant, and far from royal.  Behind the gilded front one finds a clever but evil lot that robs humanity blind and maximizes its own precarious security by demanding the death of vast masses of humanity whose human development would otherwise impair the imbalance of power their game requires in order to continue the looting.  When this realization begins to unfold, and humanity recognizes its rights and its strengths, humanity may at last find itself encouraged to distance itself from the "Heart of Darkness" that yet wears the gilded royal crown, and choose life over death, take control of its destiny, and create for itself economic security.  The true crown belongs to humanity.  That is where the true royalty of man is found.  It is found in the heroic determination of people who refuse to submit their life to the chaos that results from the schemes of oligarchic rulers.  This is what this volume is focused on, and attempts to help individuals and society to achieve.

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