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Chapter 8 - The ParadoxTatsuhiko joined the ongoing dialog. He said he was puzzled by a paradox. He said that the most scientifically advanced religious thinkers have all defined humanity as the image of God, especially the most modern of them, Mary Baker Eddy, who defined God with seven profound synonyms, as Mind, Soul, Love, Spirit, Truth, Principle, and Life. "How would Helen relate these to the matrix," he asked, "and how would one 'pray' to this God?" Ross answered that question. "To me, the answer is obvious," he said to Tatsuhiko. "Mary's prayer has always been self-centered; that is, focused onto oneself. In most religions, people seek to influence God to be more kind to them, to bestow on them certain favors asked for in prayer. Mary invalidated that concept. Her prayer is Plato's method. Her payer begins with the highest concept of the nature of humanity. Her prayer is designed to uplift the individual perception to the level of that reality. The divine Mind, then comes to light as our Mind; the divine Soul, as our Soul; the divine Spirit, as our Spirit; the divine Life, as our Life; the divine Principle, as our Principle, or divine Love, as our Love; even divine Truth, as our Truth. Her seven synonyms for God are seven synonyms that define the nature of humanity. All of them are reflected in Helen's lateral lattice, individually and collectively, both in its design and in its manifestation. Nor would one ever dream of praying to the lattice. That doesn't work. What works, is that ones love feeds into the lattice and enriches the brilliance of the light within it. True prayer isn't an exercise performed by beggars, it is an exercise that focuses on ones own riches within to enrich the universe in which we live, in which the lattice unfolds." Ross pointed out that John, the Revelator, had seen a similar lattice which he perceived in the form of a matrix that he wrote about in the second last chapter of his book, the Apocalypse. "In this book John foresees the end of all evil resulting from society's scientific self-recognition. His prediction about the functioning of this process was that the kings of the Earth would bring their glory and their honor into it. Obviously, he wasn't referring to any oligarchic royalty, but to the royalty of humanity, which is the light of Helen's lattice. This larger, all-embracing concept goes far beyond the general welfare principle that is enshrined in the U.S. constitution. It becomes something much taller. It becomes an affirmation of the very nature of man." Ross told us that Mary Baker Eddy had recognized John's matrix and had developed it into a complex pedagogical structure. Then, she 'poured' into this structure everything that she had discovered, created, and established, by which every element of her work, including her pedagogical structure itself, becomes enriched, and humanity becomes enriched with it by the light of her work that illumines the image of man. "That, in a nutshell, is how we relate to one-another," said Ross. "We relate to one-another through the channels of our love, with which we bring our light and our honor into the city, into the lattice, and thereby into the unity of our humanity in which we all have our being." "That makes us angels," said Olive, "as we bring light to the Earth." "Oh, that makes the whole of humanity angels to each other," said Indira. "That uplifts the very concept of what angels are," said Ushi. "Anton would likely say, if she were here," said Sylvia: "I bring myself into this lattice, as a woman, and that makes me an angel too. That is a huge contribution." "And Erica would likely say," added Ross, "that she brings both her science into the lattice, and herself as a human being. More than that, she cannot do. More than that, no angel can do." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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