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Chapter 4: (column 4) Love, versus the War on Justice.In the previous volume, Volume 3, we had looked at the inherent link between the definition for the columns of Mary Baker Eddy's pedagogical structure, that have a significance that drives the entire structure towards the center, as shown in Appendix 1, and towards the central definition for the entire structures as Love, Truth, and Soul, so that the entire structure is required to give meaning to these terms. One may wonder if there is any practical significance to all of this, on the personal as well as on the political sphere. The answer is, Yes! Love, Soul, and Truth, are all closely related to the parameters of human existence, so that each must have a deep significance in people's life. All of these terms, Love, Soul, and Truth, are representatives of a deeper-seated reality than that which the eyes beholds. Their substance cannot be seen, measured or quantified, but they are expresses, and they are more profoundly expressed than we may realize. If we were to withdraw them, civilization would collapse. In a sense, these terms that are defined by the entire structure stand as checkpoints in unison. If one is missing in our expression the human structure doesn't function. Then civilization is in danger. In fact, as we had recognized earlier, the terms have little meaning in the absolute sense, but when brought into context with daily living, they present themselves as the heart and soul of what really defines man. Take away a single one of these aspects and human existence is essentially dead. Civilization disintegrates. Individual living decays into endless cycles of conflicts, destruction, and disease. If society chooses not to embrace these fundamental pillars of human existence in the form of universal love, universal truthfulness, and universal humanity acknowledged in the universal brotherhood of man all reflecting the single universal divine, then we have nothing to build a civilization on. The resulting lack of justice will be a trap in which society looses its freedom and vitality and gets ground into dust. Justice, in fact, is the end result of the combination of the factors Love, Truth, and Soul becoming manifest in our living. Anyone who aims to destroy civilization, as empires do in order to maintain their impositions of inhumanity by which empires exist, will wage a war against justice. Ironically, quite often this war is waged in the name of justice whereby the concept itself becomes destroyed. In the fourth column of Mary Baker Eddy's pedagogical structure we deal with the whole concept of God. The fourth column has been labeled by Mary Baker Eddy, "divine Science." This combined concept acts like an actuary regarding our spiritual heritage in God, our oneness with God. It brings to light a great privilege and promise, but also a great responsibility to be just to God and thereby with ourselves. This term Being which Mary Baker Eddy had originally included in her list of synonyms for God, really ties the concepts of Love, Soul, and Truth into a concrete practical unity. It becomes the corner stone of it. Everything rests on it. The divine Being is expressed in Love, Soul, Truth, and reflected in our being. This quality of being divine in nature as a human being may be defined as justice, as being honest and precise about the divine reality underlying human existence. If one commits murder, for instance, one commits an injustice on a vast scale, perpetrated against an individual, against God, and against oneself, because the reality of divine Being ties the whole into one. The scientific concept of justice is therefore tremendously important. Another aspect enters into the equation of justice as we take it into the third dimension of applicability. This aspect is the gate that applies for this column which symbolically sets the goal for justice. This gate has been defined by Mary Baker Eddy as "The star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient." The star is that phenomenon that led the Wisemen to the manger of Jesus where they beheld the beginning of a new epoch in human unfolding. This is what justice is associated with. It is associated with sensitivity to the underlying reality of spiritual existence, to the majesty of the human intellect, to the power of reason, to creativity, to the dignity of the human being as an aspect of divine Being coming to light on this planet. Justice is one of the foundation stones for human development, economically, technologically, scientifically, morally, and socially. Without justice, civilization has no meaning. Destroy justice, and civilization is on the road to collapse. This points to the underlying reason why the oligarchic forces that would reduce the human presence on this planet to a dramatically smaller society living in the poverty of feudalism and colonialism, is actively waging war on justice. In fact, feudalism and colonialism are fascist systems, and fascism is but the manifest of injustice. Therefore, in order for the oligarchy to reduce the status of society to prevent any chance for a new renaissance in the world, injustice must be promoted to such an extreme that it becomes an accepted norm that few people will become upset over. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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