FOREWORD
Charles Fillmore
Jesus Christ Heals
Much has been written and said about the healing methods that Jesus used in
His very striking cures of physical ills. The generally accepted theory is that
they were miracles, but to this there have been many objections, among them
Jesus' promise "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
So many millions have claimed that they believed on Jesus, yet not only have
they failed to heal others but they have gloried in sickness and finally death
under the assumption that it was the will of God.
Few have dared even to suggest that Jesus applied universal law in His
restorative methods; for on the one hand it would annul the miracle theory and
on the other it would be sacrilegious to inquire into the miracles of God. So it
has been generally accepted that Jesus' great works were miracles and that the
power to do miracles was delegated to His immediate followers only. But in
recent years a considerable number of Jesus' followers have had the temerity to
inquire into His healing methods, and they have found that they were based on
universal mental and spiritual laws that anyone can utilize who will comply with
the conditions involved in these laws. This inquiry has led to the conclusion
that man and the universe are founded on mind and that all changes for good or
ill are changes of mind.
Ages of thought upon the reality and solidarity of things have evolved a
mental atmosphere that has produced the present material universe. These and
millions of other concepts are the work of men and not God, as is popularly
supposed. However they all rest on the original God-Mind and can be restored to
the perfect law and order of that Mind by those who free themselves from their
mental entanglements with materiality and identify their thinking with that of
the Mind that is Spirit. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free."
It is taught in the Bible that Jesus was born into the human family to save
its people from extinction; that, according to Paul, as in Adam all died so in
Christ shall all be made alive. A psychological study of the whole situation
proves this to be virtually true. Millions have accepted Christianity on faith
and have found peace of mind and spiritual satisfaction without understanding
the fundamental mind principles on which the redemptive system rests. This is
proof that there is more to Christianity than the surface acceptation of Jesus
as mediator between God and man.
We are all in mind related to a great creative Spirit that infuses its very
life into our minds and bodies when we turn our attention to it. We have
mentally wandered away from this creative Spirit or Father-Mind and lost contact
with its life-giving currents. Jesus made connection for us, and through Him we
again begin to draw vitality from the great fountainhead.
Ability to pick up the life current and through it perpetually to vitalize
the body is based on the right relation of ideas, thoughts, and words. These
mental impulses start currents of energy that form and also stimulate molecules
and cells already formed, producing life, strength, and animation where inertia
and impotence was the dominant appearance. This was and is the healing method of
Jesus.
Although the Bible repeatedly refers to the creative power of the Word, men
have not dared to think that the creative law is universal and could be taught
to any man who would discipline his thoughts and words and center them on
God-Mind. Jesus gave His whole attention to God, so much so that He claimed He
did not even originate the words that He spoke: they came from the Father. By
careful thinking and wholehearted concentration on God, Jesus made such complete
union with creative Mind that His body was transformed in the presence of His
disciples. He taught that men would eventually reap the reward of every word
they uttered. "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
shalt be condemned."
Perfect health is natural, and the work of the spiritual healer is to restore
this perfect health, which is innate and can be spoken into expression. Our ills
are the result of our sins or failure to adjust our minds to Divine Mind. "Man
hath authority on earth to forgive sins." When the sinning state of mind is
forgiven and the right state of mind established, man is restored to his primal
and natural wholeness. This is wholly a mental process, and so all conditions of
man are the result of his thinking. "As he [man] thinketh in his heart, so is
he."
No book, not even the Bible, covers all phases of human thought. Therefore
the mental panacea for every ill is beyond the description of words, but Jesus
Christ epitomized in His own consciousness all the thought processes necessary
to man's complete restoration. So it is taught that Jesus Christ is the Word or
Divine Logos in which is contained all the original creative essence.
The truth that divine man is manifest God is the great mystery hid for ages
and generations and now revealed in Jesus Christ.
