The Mystery of Healing
Nona L. Brooks
Mysteries,
1924.
Divine Science Federation
Int’l
3rd Printing, 1977.
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Reprinted by Permission
Mankind has
looked upon healing as a bodily process,
and there has always been a sense of the
mysterious attached to it. Among
primitive peoples there are rites and
medicinal herbs that are thought to hold
within themselves the power of restoring
men to health. As you see, faith in
something is necessary. While men are
believing in these means of restoration,
they are shrouding them in mystery. How
we have worked to take life out of the
natural and to surround its observances
with the supernatural. Now we are coming
to see that there is no supernatural, for
the natural is God in action.
Divine
Science is revealing to us two things:
first, that healing is not a physical
process but, spiritual realization; and
second, that health is not a condition of
physical well-being only but the
realization of a state of wholeness in
the individual. Healing is the turning
from the belief in disease to the
realization of God’s Presence and
Perfect Activity. God is health. Do I
hear you asking, “Since God is
health and God is omnipresent, what is
there to be healed?” There is only
one condition to be healed--our
misconceptions.
When we
understand form, our point of view on
healing becomes clearer. In the old
thought what was called form or matter
was considered susceptible to all kinds
of ills. Healing, consequently, meant a
righting of wrong conditions, a changing
of disease into health. Divine Science
holds that Substance is God and that form
is Substance in manifestation; hence,
form is declared incorruptible because by
nature it is perfect. God is being
rediscovered. In the light of Divine
Science, we see omnipresent Spirit
manifesting in an infinite variety of
forms. We believe in the perfection of
the manifest because God is everywhere.
We know that imperfection is only our
misconception. Form is the expression of
God; it is Spirit manifest, and Spirit is
perfect, true, and harmonious.
As the
misconception, dualism, passes, and the
true conception of One Presence and Power
takes its place, the unity of all life is
being revealed as well as the perfect
nature of all God manifestation--and
there is no other. Divine Science
recognizes the unity of the universe, and
form and Spirit, not as two, but as one.
Just so long as we persist in thinking in
terms of two powers, there will be a
mystery about all manifestation. So long
as we emphasize the power of mind over
matter, we are holding on to a dualistic
conception; we are proclaiming the
existence of two powers. There is danger
in this; it retards our development.
While
healing to the mental scientist is
brought about by exercising the power of
mind over body; to the Divine Scientist
health is the natural state of the
individual and is only waiting for his
realization of perfection as his divine
heritage. Health always is universal, but
we do not always realize it.
Mental
healing does not differ so much from the
old conception of healing the body by
external means, for the mental power of
one person is supposed to restore another
to health. Spiritual healing is
realization; it does not bring about
anything but realizes what is already
there. The greatest thinkers are agreeing
that there is only one Power and its
activity is the Universe and that we are
one with this activity everywhere.
Divine
Science sees God’s creation like
its Creator, eternally perfect, and
untouched by human thought. The creation
of God is eternal; the misconception
about it is temporal. Spirit is always
expressing in terms of perfection; there
is nothing that needs healing in
God-Life. Where God is, there Substance
is, whole and perfect, and God is in all
places at all times. There is no place
where God is not. What is it, then, that
is ill and sinful? It is only our thought
of the body; it is not the Body, the
temple of the living God; and remember
there is only One Body--the God-Body.
Divine Science knows one
Substance--Spirit--and one
Mind--Universal Intelligence. You and I
are included in this Mind. All that we
see with true vision is Spirit brought
forth.
Men are not
creators; there is but one Creator--God.
Men are sharers in creation which is the
very presence of God-Power: Wisdom, Love,
Truth, Light. We see what we believe; we
believe in imperfection of all kinds, and
we see it; hence, there is to you and to
me, sickness, lack, sin, as long as we
see these. If you are seeing with a
limited vision, God seems limited to you.
God seems to be a fluctuating power,
sometimes in the ascendency, other times
under the domination of another power
called evil. It is as we think that we
experience.
Divine
Science teaches that men cannot recreate
or rebuild tissue. Tissue is always
perfect and does not need restoring;
neither can they reshape or restore a
body to health. The body does not need
this, for it is always perfect. They can,
however, accomplish wonderful results by
right thinking, and glorify the world
with great healing power by consecrated
thinking which brings realization of
perfection. Body is Mind in
manifestation. Do we believe this? If we
do, you and I are healed. Body is perfect
as its Source; it can not suffer, be
sick, or die. Jesus said, “Be ye
perfect, as your Father in heaven is
perfect.” He meant this. Since ye
are perfect, why not realize your
perfection. Right thinking restores us in
consciousness to our normal
state--perfection, although we seem to
have been straying far from it.
We are
responsible for our wrong thinking as
well as our wrong doing. Difficult
experiences are the results of
misconceptions about our bodies and our
affairs. Ignorance is blindness; it is
darkness. And in the darkness, yes, even
in the twilight, things assume grotesque
shapes; a tree stump takes on the
semblance of a huge bear, and until our
vision is cleared, we fear the bear on
the path before us as much as if it were
a bear. To us it is. So it is with the
body when we see it through the shades of
twilight-thinking; it seems to have many
ills; it does not look to us in the
half-light like the God-Body. Why? Is it
the Body or is it our misconception of
it? Since we believe that there is only
One Substance, God, and that our bodies
are Substance in action, these are in
truth perfect. We see the body
imperfectly and say that it is sick, when
we look through the dimmers of sense
experiences. Remember always that the
senses give us only a partial report of
the true state of anything. Let us look
with the eye of Spirit, the single eye,
and our bodies shall be full of
light.
Misconceptions are shadows that fall
across sunlit paths only to flicker away.
We are emerging into the full light of
truth to see that man is perfect Being.
When we realize this, we are healed.
Faith in God makes us whole; health is
wholeness, and it is our normal state.
There is no mystery in healing for God is
Health.
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