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As noted in previous volumes the flow in this structure is from the outside towards the center, from the unmanifest towards the manifest, and from there to the center, which thereby becomes enormously enriched. This enrichment is then reflected outwardly into all four directions, Northward, Eastward, Southward, and Westward. This outflow has no limits. Therefore, with Volume 6b, the series may end, though the process of unfolding has no end in itself. Its effect is sure to expand into all possible directions.
Volume 6b has been given largely a political focus for this reason, for it is there where the effect of scientific and spiritual unfolding must ultimately be felt. To the degree that it transforms this scene, civilization becomes uplifted. If it does not transform this scene, civilization is doomed to collapse into poverty, impotence, and an homogenous sea of insanity.
The transformation of policies by which the nations of the earth govern themselves, yea, by which the nation-states were created that enable people to govern themselves, determine the collective future that all people share. If spirituality determines the shape of these policies, as was the case during the great periods of renaissance, a rich future lies ahead which sets up a stage for advanced spiritual discoveries and endless progression. If, however, mankind's spirituality is sufficiently kept in the background, then spirituality will have no guiding influence on the shape of the policies that effect human existence more deeply than all other factors combined. Consequently, a new dark age may creep upon humanity that promises to be darker than the darkest in its past.
Mary Baker Eddy symbolically highlighted this final frontier in which infinite Spirit finds its fullest reflection, by creating the Christian Science Monitor. The launching of the Monitor was her final contribution for the advance of humanity. Ironically, the underlying structure for scientific and spiritual development that is essential for the role the Monitor to be fulfilled, could not have been presented by her at her time, and so it remained hidden. This was evidently not her choice, but a choice that was imposed upon her by the decaying world environment in which the spirit of the Renaissance had been defeated and new counterforces to spirituality were fast gaining mankind's attention.
It is interesting to note the unyielding discipline that Mary Baker Eddy had exercised as she kept the greatest of her achievements wrapped in silence for over twenty years until she took it with her to the grave, as it were. The world's convention is to put one's greatest achievement on a pedestal and set it on a 'hill' for all to see. Evidently, Mary Baker Eddy understood that this course was not an option in her case. She evidently knew that by promoting it, it would become lost. It would have been but faintly understood, and this only by a few, if it would have been understood at all. Most certainly, it would not have been subjected to further development. Over the years it would have become but another icon of Mary Baker Eddyism and so be rendered as a useless relic of the past. Thus, the greatest of her achievements would have died for all practical purposes long before it would have produced any positive effects.
When she speaks of that higher dimension that lies above the line, plane, and height of Science, above the conventional dimensions, she appears to point to an aspect that brings all the lower dimensions to light and gives them vitality. But what, specifically, is this higher dimension? One cannot describe it as Science, because science is an aspect of the lower dimensions that opens the mental gate to the infinite. Science, itself, is not found in the absolute realm.
The problem with Science is, that it is impotent by itself. Mankind has pursued numerous avenues of science, and yet it has not been able to raise itself by these out of the abyss that gave mankind centuries of war and long periods of economic self-destruction. Science can open the door to a higher dimension only when the desire and determination exists to advance the leading edge of civilization in this direction. Instead of doing this, however, science has become reshaped in recent years to justify regression, rather than development; to justify conservatism and austerity, rather than the realization of mankind's potential; to justify depopulation, rather than the creation of advanced infrastructures for living. In other words, science is not a constituent element of the absolute domain. It can be the highest element in the development of human thought towards the infinite, but in the absolute domain of infinite Spirit and infinite Mind, the concept of science has no meaning. It is meaningful for human development, but its has no meaning in the absolute sense. Science is not its own driver, it merely reflects the motions of infinite Mind to the degree these motions are accepted.
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