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A case for extremism.While incomplete conspiracies, such as in case 2, and 3, cause but a major annoyance to society and no mortal danger, incomplete pursuits of the truth have tragic results, as the loss Alexander Hamilton's economic system illustrates. A good measure of extremism in pursuit of Truth and life, is not only highly desirable, but is essential. In fact its an essential aspect that must become common if mankind is to survive in the long term, if Scientific political alertness is to mean anything more than just a nice concept for philosophic contemplation. In Appendix A6, at the position corresponding to World Development Organization we find the central concept identified as Burial which Mary Baker Eddy defined as "Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation. Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light." Facing the central identifier we find the terms Urim and Thummim defined as follows: URIM. Light. "The rabbins believed that the stones in the breast-plate of the high-priest had supernatural illumination, but Christian Science reveals Spirit, not matter, as the illuminator of all. The illuminations of Science give us a sense of the nothingness of error, and they show the spiritual inspiration of Love and Truth to be the only fit preparation for admission to the presence and power of the Most High." THUMMIM. Perfection; the eternal demand of divine Science. "The Urim and Thummim, which were to be on Aaron's breast when he went before Jehovah, were holiness and purification of thought and deed, which alone can fit us for the office of spiritual teaching." The highest element in the upwards oriented environment is World Development Organization, and burial tells us about the necessity of putting corporeal and physical sense out of sight and out of hearing. Urim and Thummim tell of light and perfection something which can never be achieved within the parameters of physical sense. Development has a spiritual and infinite base. The personal sense cannot define the underlying majesty of man as a discoverer and creator. Completeness, likewise, has an infinite base, for completeness means all-inclusive from extremity to extremity. Extremism in the truth moves contrary to the nature of corporeal sense. This extremism is a spiritual quality. When it operates in human affairs it comes to light as "Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light." The immortality of man rests in the spiritual realm, which has its correlative manifest in the spiritual, scientific, and technological development of the world, from extremity to extremity. Without this extremism, the universality of divine Principle has no meaning, and so, Truth has no meaning. Unless extremism in the truth becomes a universal thing among mankind, and its manifest in the prosperity of mankind becomes all-inclusive, the foundation of development is a lie. Every day that the economic development of Africa, or Russia, or Ibero America, is denied, or even a single nation of Africa, or a single tribe or society of that nation, or a single person of that tribe or society, is denied the freedom to develop the universal potential of man in the image of God, a day is wasted, and a step has been taken towards universal poverty and the possible self-extinction of man on this planet. Let us heed the demand for scientific extremism on which human existence on this planet depends. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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