|
In a very real way, all of this progress is the outcome of divine Science. Divine Science is not a thing specific to religion, or even a specific religion. It is a thing that is native to universal humanity, or as Mary Baker Eddy has put it, it is "encompassing the universe and man." She also described it as "the true idea of God."
This concept has even become a central element at the leading edge in modern politics. The American Statesman and economist, Lyndon LaRouche states bluntly, that unless it becomes acknowledged that "man is created in the image of God," and unless this acknowledgement underlies a nation's policy structures and their objectives, even that of all nations, humanity will destroy itself by the inevitable consequences of its belief in limitation and impotency. And Lyndon LaRouche does more then just talk. He is currently fighting a war for making this fact more universally understood as a means for averting the dangers of the greatest financial collapse in history that has begun throughout the world, that threatens to bankrupt and disintegrate the entire world-financial system, and with it the state of civilization that has become essential for the physical existence of most of humanity.
More than a hundred years ago Mary Baker Eddy challenged mankind to deal with its belief in limitation. This challenge is incorporated in one of the major elements of the Glossary of her most profound work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which holds the most major element of building blocks for a structure for scientific development that she outlined in the book, but had never directly presented.
The topic of mankind's belief in limitation is focused on by her with her definition for the term Euphrates. The river Euphrates is one of the four rivers described in Genesis II. In her Glossary to the textbook these four rivers stand in metaphor for the four fundamental aspects that define humanity: Its ability to create and appreciate beauty and culture; its ability to honor and respect; its ability to overcome beliefs in limitation; and its ability to govern and enrich its existence by the recognition and application of the laws of the universe.
It appears that the most difficult one of these aspects to deal with, is mankind's ability to overcome its belief in limitation. The belief creates boundaries beyond which those who are bound by the belief, cannot move. The encumbered person appears to be boxed in by limitations. However, once the shifts in consciousness occur by which the boundaries are overcome, great freedoms are being realized.
It may be useful to note at this point that the shifts that break down barriers, as far as history has shown, do not occur in the manner of a linear progression. An example of this is found in Mary Baker Eddy's own life. Mary Baker has been of ill health for decades in her early years, and although she was a dedicated student of the Bible from childhood on, her health problems were not healed by her studying until that profound overturning in consciousness took place by which she was totally healed. And this occurred in the space of a moment. Christian Science healing occurs mostly in this manner, often spontaneously.
The same type of process can also be observed on the larger scale of world history. The unfolding of the Renaissance in the 15th century is such an example. For many centuries, up to the middle of the 14th century, nearly all people on possibly all continents, lived miserable primitive lives as serves, slaves, or worse. Their very existence was 'owned' as property by the various rulers who ruled during the dark ages. All this changed when certain young boys, who copied manuscripts in monasteries, suddenly rediscovered the thinking of Plato, and discovered in this manner the process of discovery. Out of the success story a type of public education system was created, called the "Brotherhood of the Common Life" that had the effect to create for the mind a new horizon, which in turn created quite a few geniuses. These were the forces that laid the foundation for the Golden Renaissance which became the greatest period of scientific, cultural, social, and technological advances in all of human history.
Next Page
|| - page index -
|| - chapter index -
|| - Exit -
||
|
