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It appears that Mary Baker Eddy cautions humanity to accept nothing less than the correct concept for itself that differs totally from the petty trivialities of interpersonal relationships.
The correct sense of man's identity can be understood as a type of "fixed address" that defines clearly where one stands in infinite terms, or in terms of sonship with God. This "address" defines where on is, or what one considers oneself to be an integral part of. Here is where the third sentence of the definition of "son" becomes extremely important. As a month has been identified as "son of a year" so man and all life must share a common address under the identity "Son of God" and be regarded as such in all aspects. Then we may begin experiencing this reality.
Of course, the opposite concept, the erring or mortal concept, defines man as "son of the flesh," a type of subjective being like the woman in Genesis 2 who was fashioned by a "lord god" from a rib taken from man. Here, the "son of a year" concept becomes important, likewise, as it sets apart the opposite perception from the real nature of man's sonship with God. In the fleshly sense man is an isolated being, and is at best loosely attached to God in the nature of an appendix. This reflects the interpersonal concept of sonship in which a son plays the role of an appendix to the father. But this role can never be found in the fourth dimension, of Spirit.
If the "son of a year" concept causes the vital shift in consciousness that defines man as the "Son of God" in the manner that the Hebrews referred to a month as "son of year," then the concept has been well applied. The fact is, no other definition in the Glossary brings this facet to light. Only one definition comes close, and this has no meaning without the scientific sense of man's unity with God pre-established in consciousness. This definition defines the "I, or EGO," which contains the statement: "There is but one I, or Us...." The ancient Hebrews might have said, there is but one "year," though many months are sons of it.
In this context the "son of a year" concept has nothing to do with repentance, except, perhaps to establish the object for repentance. Repentance is not something that one can force with human will. It results from letting in the light of spiritual understanding by which the true nature of all universal sonship with God becomes understood. Then the false is left behind and consciousness becomes cleansed of all the age old accumulations of mortal rubbish.
In a technical sense, Mary Baker Eddy's definition of son represents a rare class of multidefinitions, each of which represents a very unique principle that is far from being understood, even remotely so, because the absolute does define infinity. Therefore, this dual definition that deals with absolutes cannot be expanded beyond two. Unlike the concept of justice, which needs to be expanded evermore with associated concepts such as truth and love before it becomes meaningful, the basic duality of sonship cannot be expanded one iota without the whole concept becoming lost. In the absolute sense, there is either Truth, or there is error. This dual polarity is fixed.
Lyndon LaRouche, who speaks often about man as "created in the image of God," would do well to take the concept fully to the fourth dimension, of Spirit where man comes to light as "Son of God" in the sense that a month is seen as "son of a year?" It appears that the scientific foundation for this shift has not been fully established. But neither does he see man as an appendix, or even a highly advanced appendix. There is a spark of truth unfolding; and a spark of truth is often enough to work wonders in the human realm. It provides glimpses of reality that cause quantum jumps to be made.
Mary Baker Eddy's scientific note about the nature of man's sonship with God, apparently was necessary, because humanity is even now far from laying that foundation by the strength its own discoveries of the truth. Much "shit" has been piled up in the arena of humanity's self-identification. This "ship' large prevents the transition of thought to a higher dimension. It needs to be cleaned up. Lyndon LaRouche has cleaned up a lot of it in the political world. In so doing he has caused the kind of progress that should have been made a century earlier. Still, he is fully aware that the dawning of mankind's day has barely begun.
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