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Unity of the Truth: The Science Against Political Apathy.The reason for the subtitle "The Science Against Political apathy" has deep roots. It might appear, linguistically, that the title should read: "The Science for Political Alertness." A positive title is stronger. The problem is, that this positive title does not inspire a productive focus. Focusing on the transition towards divine reality is not by itself sufficient to start the drive for invalidating the destructive processes. Scientific, spiritual alertness, being an aspect of Truth reflected in man, is the default state, the natural state, that comes to light when destructive impositions have been removed. Therefore, the object of divine Science, in which Truth is final, must be to dismantle whatever impedes Truth's manifest in man. The focus, therefore, must be on dealing with the causes of apathy, even though not a single aspect of anything real supports them. Apathy is built on a construction of lies which defeat consciousness, all of which must be thoroughly dealt with for apathy is erased. When the United States of America was founded as a sovereign nation-state, the people gloried in their advanced moral government. However, they did so without addressing the much more difficult issue of invalidating evil. The feudal system that had become attached to the monetary system had remained subtly intact, and had been carried like a virus into the fabric of the new society where it caused its damage slowly in the background to the point that it now overwhelms the structure of the nation. Mary Baker Eddy's focus in healing is always a balanced process of recognizing the nature of evil, and then dealing with the cause of the evil, in the divine context of absolute Truth. The element that has been identified as Healing system has been associated in Appendix A6 with the Glossary term Valley, which Mary Baker Eddy defined in part as follows: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." (Psalm xxiii. 4.) ... "Christian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud and blossom as the rose." The same balanced focus is evident in the painting and verse from Christ and Christmas that pertain to the political element, labeled Conservatism. The painting is called "Star of Bethlehem." It shows a dark night-sky, filled with clouds, but the clouds are parted, and through the clearing shines a star. The poem reads: Fast circling on, from zone to zone,-- Bright, blest, afar,-- O'er the grim night of chaos shone One lone, brave star. The grim night of chaos is still there to be dealt with. Conservatism must be dealt with. Scientifically, it is synonymous with night, or as Mary Baker Eddy has put it, with grim night and chaos. Indeed, this is what conservatism accomplishes. While the star shines above the night, the night is still there, and the task to be alert about its impositions never ends. In Appendix A6, this element is associated with the Glossary term Devil, defined as, "Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: 'I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind,--a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god and put into the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after its own image.'" The 'devil' of course is mental. As the element Conservatism is mirrored in the element Oligarchy (the mentality of oligarchy or oligarchism), it is not surprising to note that tribalism (which the oligarchy employs to create chaos) is a facet of conservatism that reflects itself in Mary Baker Eddy's definition for the appropriate element with a reference to a "tribal god." With this, she combines a far ranging material definition of a very limited view of man. Alexander Hamilton understood a great deal about the power of the genius of man, but he failed to counter the image of limitation and conservatism, which is even now, barely recognized as a factor. Mary Baker Eddy calls it: "evil; a lie; error." This is strong stuff, not to be ignored. Alexander Hamilton would have done well, had he placed his reality-based economic structure under the relative protection of the Constitution. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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