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The title for the
novel, Roses at Dawn in an Ice Age World, could just as well have been, How to
Melt a Frozen Land, or Bringing Warmth to a Low Energy Environment. Those titles
would have worked. Raising the energy level in a humanist system isn't a
familiar process as it happens too rarely. It appears that Mary Baker Eddy
encountered the same difficulty in describing the indescribable. Chapter 4 of
the textbook, Christian Science versus Spiritualism, isn't really focused on the
subject of communing with the dead, the "spirit of the departed"
as a spiritualism would have it. Facing the world's convention built on small
minded perceptions she may have felt in many ways like talking to the dead, but
as in spiritualism, there is no scientific justification for concern with such
dimensions, for in real terms there is but one Mind that is the forever
reference point for all communication, difficult as this may seem to be to
accept.
That Mary Baker Eddy
wasn't focused on the irrational concept of communing with the dead when she
refers to spiritualism is evident in the metaphoric image of the 4th element in
her illustrated poem, Christ and Christmas, that sequentially corresponds with
the 4th textbook chapter. A totally different kind of seeking comes to light
there, and the focus is on the discovery of the dimension of Spirit, the one
Spirit that combines all and is reflected in all. In this high-powered
environment the concept of communicating with the dead in every form becomes
totally invalid. This doesn't mean that the concept of history is invalid. There
have been some profound 'high-energy' humanist environments in history,
synonymous to melting the Ice Age. Christ Jesus was the center of one. In
exploring this history we come closer to exploring the dimension of infinite
Spirit and the demands of divine Spirit in our age.
Mary Baker Eddy
responded to the demands of divine Spirit, do we? The scene in Christ and
Christmas, of Seeking and Finding, is reminiscent to the scene of the little
upper room that she had rented in which she wrote her manuscript for the
Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The
light that she found didn't come from the past. It came from a brighter source
that actually uplifted the past. Her textbook set a new stage that actually
invalidated a lot of outgrown concepts of the past that had remained as rigid
for long periods as if frozen in ice. Her work brought the energy of Spirit to a
humanist scene that had been dead and motionless on spiritual issues for far too
long. The high-power spiritual environment that she created became a light that
coincided with the brightest period of peace in the world in the modern age as
far back as the periods of renaissance that have been far too rare. In this
sense the novel, Roses at Dawn in an Ice Age World might also be seen with the
title, Seeking and Finding the Power of Peace. Of course it wasn't called that,
because the logical and sequential connection of the novel with the 4th element
of the foursquare structure that Mary Baker Eddy has outlined, hadn't been
recognized until just recently.
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