The task, thus chosen, however, is not an easy one.  Few people are aware of the destructive and murderous structures that have powered the many wars of this century, which also stand behind the modern developments of free-trade spawned global poverty that gives rise to sweat-shops, slave-labor, and child-slavery, while at the same time whole armies of skilled work-forces are rotting in unemployment lines and the physical support structures of the nations are crumbling.  This happens to the point that large masses of people are starving to death, and still people submit and do nothing to change the reality surrounding their life.

Sometimes it appears that people don't know that a war is on until the bombs drop into the backyard and blow the house down.  This is what had happened at Pearl Harbor.  This single even suddenly changed the life of an entire nation and drew it to take up arms.  But the war had really started a long time before that day.  Nobody wanted to see that reality, neither did the masters of the game wish the unfolding reality to become known.  This is how, today, mankind's desperately needed technological and economic development remains prevented.  Here is where the real work must begin.  Here, too, is where one may begin to prove the worth of the scientific development structure that was explored in a theoretical sense in the previous volume.  The demand, now, is to give the proof of the 'pudding' which always lies in the eating of it.

The scientific exploration in the preceding volumes is of little value, in real terms, without a corresponding exploration of the political background against which the course of mankind has been, and is being shaped.  By the same token individual scientific healing has little meaning, nor is it truly possible, when society as a whole is fast becoming destroyed.  Mankind must acquire an understanding of its roots, of where it has been, and where it stands.  It needs to understand all this when the crucial moment of honesty arrives at which society is forced to assess itself, just as the biblical Jacob of old had been forced to do under the stress of his circumstances.  For this reason, the book is devoted to an exploration of mankind's metaphysical history in modern times, which is largely a history of monumental failures.

The following eight chapters are designed to explore the hidden dimensions of this history against the background of Mary Baker Eddy's structure for spiritual and scientific development in its most basic architectural dimension.  In the course of this exploration, of course, one may need to go back and explore the fundamentals aspects of Mary Baker Eddy's scientific development structure all over again.  But as one does this, one will likely do this from a taller point of reference that corresponds to the different context that is unfolding now.

Here we shall begin.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche