“[King Nebuchadnezzar] answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. ” (Daniel 3: 25.)
“Christian Science translates Mind, God, to mortals. It is the infinite calculus defining the line, plane, space, and fourth dimension of Spirit.” (MW 22.)
The mightiest men of Babylon were roasted alive as they threw the three Hebrew children into the fiery furnace. The unharmed children suddenly discovered they had not entered into a space defined by standards of mortal length, breadth, depth. Instead, they had entered the fourth dimension beyond the jarring testimony of the three-dimensional world, and the form of the fourth-dimensional being that unbound them and walked among them was the Son of God.
This incident changed a whole nation, a whole empire, in fact. Note that King Nebuchadnezzar did not simply say, “I now warmly welcome the worship of the God of Israel into the pantheon of all the religions of the world so that we all can live in harmony with one another.” No. The king’s decree was absolute: no one should worship or serve any other god but the God of the three Hebrew children.
King Nebuchadnezzar’s absolutism runs parallel to that of John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (Emphasis added.)
And Mrs. Eddy was equally absolutist: “The thunder of Sinai [the Ten Commandments] and the Sermon on the Mount are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in their course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of heaven on earth.” (SH 174.)