The power of an idea unfolds only in the thought that the idea evokes.  The first decade after the discovery of the major part of Mary Baker Eddy's outline for her structure was a period of momentous overturning.   Outmoded perceptions were swept aside.  Progress was almost explosive as the research went into several directions all at once.  This also had a parallel in world at large.  The period in which this happened was a period of tremendous overturning in the world, as if the thought processes inherent in both developments supported each other.  This was the time when the cold war was brought to a halt by the strength of a single profound idea born by a single man's refusal to accept limitations.

Everyone insisted that the cold war couldn't be stopped, but it had to be stopped if humanity was to survive.  In the early eighties the nuclear confrontation had taken on a most frightening dimension, driven by the growing insanity by which the greatest nations on the planet had trusted their security to a doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.  As the weapons became more powerful, faster, and increasingly more accurate, the time span that separated peace from total Armageddon had shrunk to but a few minutes that one could count with the fingers of ones hands.  So short was this time-span that no rational response was possible.  The confrontation had become so insane that something simply had to be done, and fast, before an irrational reaction would wipe out all life on the planet.

It was against this background, during this period, that Lyndon LaRouche pioneered the idea of creating a technological defense against nuclear weapons based on the application of new physical principles.  It took a tremendous uphill battle to promote the idea, but it was eventually adopted by U.S. President, Ronald Regan, under the title: Strategic Defense Initiative.  The idea was that if the Soviets could be persuaded to participate in the development of such a system, humanity's security could be guaranteed and all nations would benefit from the momentous development that would be needed to create such a defense system.  Lyndon LaRouche also understood, and he made this personally clear to the Soviet delegation with whom he was in negotiation for the U.S. government, that any attempt on their part to pursue a project of this scale on their own would deplete their economy in five years and collapse the empire.  Either way, he concluded, that humanity would be saved.

As it was, the Soviets chose the second option, and five years later, as predicted, the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, self-defeated.  The point is, that the goal that the nations of the world had spent countless billions for, creating the most dangerous weaponry that has ever been produced, had failed to accomplished what was accomplished by the leadership of a single man with a scientifically based idea.  In a very real sense, his understanding of economics rested on the foundation of his discovery in "divine science," namely that man is indeed created in the image of God as had been recognized at the time of the Renaissance.  His understanding of the power of reason, on this premise, was the factor that reshaped the physical world.

The deep searching spiritual work that was done in the political sphere was coincidental in time with the break-through in the scientific arena that the author's friend was working in.  The two developments were unfolding in parallel, although unknown to anyone at this time.  It may well be possible that the mental processes that were pursued in these diverse fields for discovering fundamental principles had been mutually supportive.  It may have happened that the reconstructing of Mary Baker Eddy's outlined structure for scientific development had been a contributing factor for the development of the mental moves that ended the Cold War.  It may have happened that LaRouche's research work towards his goal may have contributed to the unfolding discoveries that were made in the sphere of divine Science, and vise versa.

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