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The Third Dimension of Spirit - The Development of Science.In the preface, a brief overview of the last 650 years of history was presented with a focus on the development of civilization. A conflict came to light between oligarchism and scientific/technological development. This conflict, too, was recognized to have been in constant development. It began small as a local conflict that developed during the Renaissance between the Empire of Venice and the nations of Europe. Soon, North America entered the scene, and a century after that the conflict expanded and drew into its abyss the entire Eurasian continent and north Africa in two world wars, followed immediately with the globalization of the game to the point that literally all nations of the world have became bankrupted, their economies ruined, their industries largely destroyed, their financial structures driven to the point of disintegration, with their populations being progressively put on the scrap heap as social support structures are eliminated or scaled down to such extremes that the physical existence of some parts of the population can no longer be maintained. This creeping development into chaos appears too irrational to be believable at first glance. This is so, because it unfolded quietly in the background and in small accumulative steps, but also because the operational processes are well hidden or poorly understood, so that the gruesome development as a whole becomes perceived as normal, and is deemed to be resulting from changing world conditions. The result is, that few people stand up and raise their hand, and say, STOP. In order to reverse mankind's drifting into ever greater chaos, one needs to understand in a scientific manner the makeup of the structures that unleash destruction. One needs to understand their nature, their functionality, what supports them, and the fundamental principles of reality that they violate. For this purpose the same structure for scientific development may be applied that Mary Baker Eddy had developed as an aid for generating scientific development in the spiritual realm. After all, wherever there is an honest search for Truth, the focus is on the same fundamental, universal, aspects that underlie reality. Thus, the same development structure applies here, as it did for recognizing the principles underlying scientific Christian healing of disease. As an example for a possible approach to applying this type of structure to exploring political issues, we shall consider the steps necessary for constructing a representative structure through which one can more clearly recognize the underlying nature of the United Nations Organization, as a case in point. We must also keep in mind the relationship of that structure to the structure for the Key of David. It is insufficient to say that the U.N. is useless, or evil, or destructive. Such comments afford little aid in formulating an intelligent approach to dealing with it. But before we begin to do this, a brief review may be required of the fundamental architecture of the matrix and the construction to be put thereon. It was pointed out in Volume 3 that the existence of this structure was recognized by a pattern that Mary Baker Eddy had followed in her books. It was her custom to present all the major structures that she dealt with divided into 16 elements, or multiples of sixteen elements. It was recognized that, apart from this peculiar convention, she had presented a very extensive interpretation of the biblical city foursquare from Revelation 21. And it was further recognized that a four-square structure, likewise has sixteen elements. Also, it was recognized that a four-square matrix presents these elements in a uniquely ordered relationship to each other. Such a matrix is illustrated in Appendix A. As is indicated in Appendix A, the interrelationship of the elements in the matrix can be seen variously. They can be seen as horizontally interrelated groupings, that is, as rows of elements which tie together elements of a common subject, or level, or domain, or "cardinal point" as Mary Baker Eddy identified this type of descriptor for the city. The elements can also be recognized as vertically interrelated into columns of elements, which identify certain types of developments represented by their grouping into columns. Appendix B and C present the identifiers for the columns and the rows as Mary Baker Eddy has defined them primarily in her interpretation of the city foursquare. Some of the definitions shown are also derived from the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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