Christ Jesus had created such a platform on which God and man were deemed one in being, which he became the Exemplar of. He defined man as Godlike in quality and proved his assertion with his healing power. That frightened Rome. Whatever uplifts the humanity of mankind to a high level of worth and even god-like quality has always frightened empires in any age. The Roman Empire killed the historic Jesus to halt the influence of this truth. When that failed they fed the Christians to the lions in great spectacles of gore to discredit the Christ idea. And when this failed, they embraced Christianity and turned it upside down. They turned it into a vertical religion that puts man at the bottom and God (Truth) on top and far out of reach, and in-between a mediator or messenger that tells mankind what the truth is. This task of the messenger was theologically assigned to the Christ, and since the Roman had killed the Christ they appointed themselves to that role of telling mankind what the truth it. The 'empires' still play this game.

But there was woman who stood up and temporarily halted this game. She lived more than a hundred years ago, a woman from one of the New England States. History suggests that she might have played a vital role in shaping the course of history itself. She gave mankind a scientific platform for discovering the truth for itself. The New England woman, named Mary Baker Eddy,  had developed a spiritual science that put God and mankind back onto a lateral basis, a kind of new branch of Christianity, that she had utilized extensively herself for scientific metaphysical healing based on clearly defined principles, of which she said the strongest is (universal or divine) Love. She had become a renowned healer on this basis, and more than that, she had been able to teach others to heal likewise, and many had done so all across the world. It wasn't until decades after her death that somebody made a profound discovery that seemed almost unrelated. It was discovered that the historic timeframe of her work from 1866 till her death in 1910 coincided with the one single narrow window of peace in historic time when the endless seeming train of war, violence, and atrocities against mankind had stopped, and had remained stopped until 1913.

History tells us that a discontinuity occurred in 1866. The U.S. Civil war had ended. The republic had been saved. Slavery had been abolished. The British Opium Wars against China had ended just prior to that time. Even the long train of history of horrors of the Spanish Inquisition that had blacked the face of humanity since the 1400s on had just a few years prior to this time. For 45 years a new sense of humanity had brought peace to the world (with a few minor exceptions) and that peace was coupled with a profound sense of universal love. A few years after her death the halted train of war, violence, and atrocities against mankind started to roll again and hasn't stopped since. Of course history itself provides no empirical evidence of any connection between the 45 years of peace and her profound religion of love that became manifest in wide-spread healing in that period, and its own possible connection with the preceding national fight of love against slavery and the defense of the nation against its re-enslavement to colonial rule. History provides merely a coincidence in timing. Nevertheless it is interesting, if not useful, to take a look at what this woman of the religion of universal love had to say on the subject of theology since theology is being grossly abused once again for tearing our world apart. The steps from war to peace may involve a wider and deeper transition from theology, philosophy, and empire to science than has ever been imagined. After all, as Cusa of the Renaissance pointed out, "there is only one Truth."