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Today's devotees, who offer their life to the snake in the service of its lie, which includes most of the conservative oriented environmentalist movements, should heed the experiences that mankind suffered as it looked kindly on the snake. Likewise should mankind take heed, not to listen to the voices of the servants of the snake. Mankind would do well to remember how costly it was to fight the madness of Hitler that the snake had enthroned, yet little did it realize even, then, that before the guns fell silent, the snake had already replaced that dictator that it had enthroned earlier, with a much more powerful dictatorship under its own command.
One more element stands out to be considered in the relationship between the politically defined elements and their Glossary defined equivalent. This is the political element, called Democratic government. The Glossary term Year has been chosen to relate to the equivalent element, as shown in Appendix A6. Mary Baker Eddy has defined the term, year, in part as: "...space for repentance." This presents a very rare concept of democracy as a 'healing' system. The textbook chapter that is sequentially related to this element, is none other than the chapter "Recapitulation," which furnishes the the interface between the matrix and the 26 (bi-annual) topics of the Christian Science lesson sermons that form the basis for individual work. How this repentance is to be accomplished may be gleamed from the applicable painting and verse from Christ and Christmas. The painting it titled, "Truth versus Error." The painting shows a palacious dwelling that has a party going on inside, with the 'woman' of Apocalypse knocking at the door with the astonishing demand: "Just take me in! No mass for Me!"
Does this painting, and the verse's focus on a "no mass" syndrome, point to a need for a new and higher democracy in which the focus on right supersedes the focus on might?
The full verse is as follows:
To-day, as oft, away from sin
Christ summons thee!
Truth pleads to-night:Just take Me in!
No mass for Me!
Of course we do have the two upwards oriented environments to guide this upwards transition. Here the two corner-stones are Classical humanist education and Scientific government. These two upwards oriented environments and their corner-stone for building them, are once again apparent in the biblical creation story in Genesis. In chapter One we find the Bible's spiritually based concept of creation. The overriding factor in this story is infinity. Also, again, the two environments (representing the two sides of the matrix) are separately presented. The story begins with the first environment, represented by the demand Let there be light. This demand is also the foundation of humanist education. The demand "Let there be light!" has nothing to do with today's "repeat after me" type of education.
In the spiritual metaphor of creation, the response was presented as positive. This response reflects the inevitable progressive unfoldment of creative dominion. Mind spake, and it was done! It reflects, man, as created by an active process of self-unfolding intelligence. Material evolution, which ignores the vector of Mind in the unfolding process, has man drawn from the dust of the ground, but Science points to a higher 'evolution' of the self-unfolding manifest of the nature of Mind, unfolding as man, a vector of the process of creation that inevitably draws to the infinite, to infinite Mind, reflecting the grand Creator, or creative Principle, or God, or the "Unified Field" as the Physicist Dr. David Boehm envisioned fundamental reality.
Thus we have the two environments light and Principle presented in clear detail by an ancient author of the spiritual creation story, that evidently predated the age of barbarism. The author of that story may have stood at the threshold of man coming into full recognition of his cognitive abilities, who had reason to celebrate the wonders and the power of man's mental capacity as an obvious reflection of a much larger and truly infinite domain.
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