It is plainly evident that the plaintiffs are embittered over unwise decisions that may have squandered three hundred million dollars in an irrational fashion.  It had to be pointed out that not a single democratic principle was violated by the actions of the Directors.  "The finest structure of democracy offers no guarantee against unwise policies.  It is a fact of history that Adolf Hitler came to power within the democratic structure.  In order for democracy to function, more than a casual measure of individual responsibility is required to protect society within the structure of democracy.  The German people could have been alert and could have refused Hitler's bid for power.  Likewise, the donors of the church funds had the right and duty to assure that the funds would be used wisely.  The donated funds could have been restricted to specific purposes.  The occurrence of a catastrophe in government, usually involves a lack of individual alertness to responsibility of the governed.  In the case of the church, its By-Laws demand no more than a single dollar per year to be donated for unspecified purposes.  The structure that Mary Baker Eddy has set up is a wise structure.  It teaches alertness and responsibility, without which the structure (like all aspects of human living) cannot function.  If the court were to intervene in the makeup of this structure, the court would destroy the purpose that Mary Baker Eddy had evidently intended for it; and in so doing the court would rob mankind of a vital pillar for the advance of civilization."

Mary Baker Eddy's carefully laid out domains of authority are for the protection of the individual and society.  For instance, when we deal with the many complexities of oligarchic lies versus the truth about God and man, our approach to the situation must be precise to the technicalities involved.  In such a case we need to transact the laws of reality.  In the domain where we transact, the fundamental principles of law has been discovered.  Here, everything is black or white, true or false, real or deceptive.  There is no room in this domain, for individual choices.  The distinctions between 'black' and 'white' are clearly predefined by the laws of reality that have been discovered and put into place.  On the moral level, however, one needs to conduct oneself in accord with the best established procedures and to the best of one's abilities.  Here, we reach upwards to the scientific and the absolute, and work with the highest attainment of the ages and the greatest degree of wisdom.  Here, there is room for choices and room for constant progress.  In this domain we have moved away from the black and white world of dealing with the absolute depravity of lies versus truth, where the choice to be made is predefined by fundamental law.

On the next higher level, the level of Science, we should neither aim to conduct nor transact.  In the realm of scientific perception the whole concept of choices becomes irrelevant.  Here we aim to discover what exists and put into practice what we find for the advancement of humanity.  It is scientific fraud to predetermine what the outcome of discoveries shall be.  Here, we institute.  And in the highest domain where we interface with the absolute, man becomes the creator.  We organize our universe according to certain principles we have discovered, and so create a facet of reality that literally has never existed before.  All technologies are creations of the human intellect, reflecting the creative infinite divine Principle or Mind.

These various domains of activity, now, may be related to another structure that Mary Baker Eddy has documented in Science and Health, on page 115, which, transposed to the matrix appears in Appendix H.  A word of caution is in order, here.  There appears to be no relationship between what appears in Appendix G about the domains of activity and what appears in Appendix H.  Indeed, there is no relationship between the two if Appendix H is perceived to represent a progression.  In reality, there exists no such a progression.   What we have here again, are four uniquely defined domains of action, each of which we deal with constantly, and simultaneously.  After all, anyone who views a house or a tree deals with all existing geometric dimensions simultaneously.  He perceives width, depth, and height at the same instance.  In the spiritual realm, however, we operate not in a three dimensional universe, but in a four dimensional universe.  Thus, the chart in Appendix H opens the door somewhat to perceiving the nature of the fourth dimension, of Spirit.

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