The physical support structure called, medicine is also shown in the painting.  In association with it, humanity is shown as put into a wheel chair.  Ultimately, this is what organized terrorism is designed to accomplish.

The painting, Christmas Eve, describes vividly and accurately the current makeup of organized international terrorism, so much so that it becomes evident that Mary Baker Eddy must have been fully aware of the fundamental characteristics of the terrorist structure that was fast unfolding even in her time, a hundred years ago, through the British centered operations of Bentham, Palmerston, Mazzini, and Shelburne, - which characteristics she had accurately documented to be recognized when needed.  She was evidently aware that the official press would not likely ever document this structure, thus she did it herself in a manner that would survive the centuries.

Naturally, the structure that she indicates in the painting also applies to the upwards transition that this element is able to furnish.  The upwards diving force, of course is no longer terrorism, but may be termed scientific political activism which, of course, rests on the same three pillars of support: Science, 'Theology,' and 'Medicine.'

Appendix A9 puts the nature of terrorism into perspective with scientific political activism.  It shows that terrorism is transitional towards anarchy, and scientific activism is transitional towards Scientific Christianity, the platform for the sovereign nation-state.  Whatever drives terrorism, therefore, defeats the institution of the sovereign nation-state.  By the same principle, whatever drives scientific activism builds, supports, and protects the sovereign nation-state, and defeats terrorism.  This driving force may be termed scientific political alertness, which is the corresponding unmanifest in the first column.  This alertness is built on scientific discoveries of fundamental principles, through which the human genius asserts itself and brings the scene into accord with the demands of reality.

The opposite to political alertness, of course, is political apathy.  As Appendix A9 shows, it is this scientific political apathy which drives terrorism, and which also sets the mental stage for the transition of thought to accept conservatism.  Conservatism and terrorism, together, create anarchy.  This coincidence happens naturally.  It is not possible for instance that terrorism creates anarchy while the mental background of society is centered on classical humanism.  The transitional structure, called Healing systems, is therefore a tremendously important element, possibly the most import one of the whole interlocked process of which terrorism is but one aspect.

The fact that mankind has had so little success in fighting terrorism, indicates that the complex interlocking structure of which terrorism is an aspect, is far from being understood.  When a factory owner is stoned to death by the Shining Path terrorist gangs of Peru, or a child is murdered for its family's social status, this barbarism has roots that go far beyond the city of Lima where these types of crime are committed, or the borders of Peru.  They may be traced to the elitism of London that evolved out of the old colonial days of slave trading and dope peddling.  Indeed, the Shining Path terrorist cult lives by dope proceeds, and it operates slave-labor camps in the Andies stocked with the native populations of the Ashaninka Indians, which are killed should they dare and try escape or become sick.  The roots of terrorism may also be traced to the press which molds and guides public thinking, which, unfortunately is also controlled by the oligarchy so that public thought is channeled into political apathy and towards conservatism.

Mary Baker Eddy had some scathing words to say about the press, even a hundred years ago, as the following excerpt from her writings shows.

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