During the earlier volumes of this book series the focus in healing was trained on uplifting the individual spiritual identity of oneself and others.  The series would be incomplete if one were to stop at this point.  Nor did Mary Baker Eddy suggested such an ending.  She has added a dimension to the identity of man that has bee ignored throughout all times, that carries man's universal identity of infinity in the unity of one.  She lays out the following proposition for practical proof: "There is but one I, or US....  All objects of God's creation reflect but one Mind."*(Science and Health 588:11)

Christ Jesus presented a parable once that illustrated this very same principle.  He spoke of a hypothetical king who praised his servants with these words:

Matthew 25:34-46
  34 Then shall the King say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world:
  35 For I was an hungred, and ye
gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink: I was a stranger,
and ye took me in:
  36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
  37 Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
an hungred, and fed thee? or
thirsty, and gave thee drink?
  38 When saw we thee a stranger,
and took thee in? or naked, and
clothed thee?
  39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in
prison, and came unto thee?
  40 And the King shall answer and
say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.

As it was, Jesus also presented the king's comment to those who did not meet this expected minimal requirement.  He may have referred to the universal denial of the value of man, the oligarchic ideal that identifies man as but a worm or an economic resource for looting.  In this context the story of the king's return continues:

  41 Then shall he say also unto
them on the left hand, Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels:
  42 For I was an hungred, and ye
gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and
ye gave me no drink:
  43 I was a stranger, and ye took
me not in: naked, and ye clothed me
not: sick, and in prison, and ye
visited me not.
  44 Then shall they also answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
an hungred, or athirst, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto
thee?
  45 Then shall he answer them,
saying, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of
the least of these, ye did it not
to me.
  46 And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: but the
righteous into life eternal.

In this principle we see the principle of universal Life reflected, not Darwinian socialism.  We see the higher power reflected in the common life of humanity.  We see its tallest manifest in universal humanity.  In this universal manifest is life.  Without this manifest and its dynamic unfolding, society collapses as it must when its supports are rejected.  It falls back into the mire of feudalism where life is darkness and social stability means hopelessness and death.  If the world-population level is murdered back to where it was in the primitive ages, the resulting poverty will not increase the spirituality of whatever faint remnant may remain of humanity.  The dynamic collapse will not manifest itself in freedom, but close the door on Christian metaphysics or any other effect that human intelligence normally has on the physical economy that supports human life.  Mankind will find itself in such a situation, damned.  It will have closed the door to the infinite idea that represented in "man" and its manifest in human living.  Unfortunately, the process of shutting mankind down has already begun.  If this process is not halted, it's consequence will be everyone's doom.

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