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The seven synonyms for God: Gates for redemption.In earlier considerations, related to Appendix A14, the applicable points of reference have been associated with the three lower rows. Within this range, we have explored two upward oriented environments, and two downward oriented environments. In other words, we have explored a confrontational system centered on the cardinal point Christianity. This confrontational system puts the Christ (or Christ Science) at the upper extreme, and Christian Science (the Science that deals with human error) at the lower extreme. The confrontation in this system is essential to be understood in divine Science. It represents the classical confrontation of understanding versus depravity that evolves around understanding the nature of God. This confrontation has been well explored, such as by exploring the confrontation between Scientific government versus Oligarchy, for example. As mentioned before, Mary Baker Eddy explored this confrontation in a three part structure in which she defined the three essential degrees of mortal mind, which she called the "Scientific translation of mortal mind."*( Science and Health p.115) This structure is represented in Appendix E. As shown in Appendix E, Mary Baker Eddy added the following comment: "In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as God's image appears." This comment indicates that a transition occurs in the spiritual realm of Science and understanding, which introduces a higher point of reference to consciousness. This higher point of reference is identified in Appendix E as Mary Baker Eddy's "Scientific translation of immortal Mind." The same domain is represented in Appendix A14 by the highest row of the matrix, representing the cardinal point The Word of Life, Truth, and Love.*(Science and Health 577:13) As briefly mentioned before, through this shift, redemption occurs. Fundamentally, every form of scientific Christian healing is a process of redemption. It is revealed in Christian Science that mankind suffers for its mistakes, and that this suffering continues for as long as mankind persists in making the mistakes that it suffers from. This should be self-evident, but is not. The same should be understood to be true, individually, which is even less understood, as related to disease. Redemption, then, is a process that gives mankind a second chance to do things correctly, to come to terms with its mistakes by perceiving its actions from a higher point of reference in order that the failures may be dealt with. The four elements that are found in the top row of the matrix, which gives us this higher platform or point of reference, where the elements are labeled Genius and its manifest Man, and respectively God (divine Spirit) and the corresponding manifest, defined as In (obsolete in reference to Spirit), so that the manifest of Spirit is Principle). These four elements become the opening gates to the environment of the forth dimension, of Spirit, the type D environment. The type D environment, in turn, contains no elements that deals with oppositional, erroneous, and defective concepts. When we shift our point of reference to this level, we leave the confrontational environments behind. This is enormously important to recognize. It changes the environment of the matrix. It changes the way one responds on the human scene. The confrontational environments literally disappear when the absolute of divine Truth and its proper reflection in man and the universe is understood. The absolute of Truth leaves no options, no room for opinions, no room for error. Science, like the Christ, opens the portals to Truth, where mankind is governed scientifically and correctly. Instead of a confrontation we have the lawful unfolding represented by a unified environment made up of an upper part, defined as the divine unmanifest or idea, and a lower part, defined as the corresponding manifest or reflection. Appendix A16 shows this new integrated environment and the mechanics that create it. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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