Is Healing Also Spiritual?

Dr Magne is the author of The Science of Beingall of the power of God, because the need for a
Well Home Study Courseconsciousness of Omnipotence, in which man's
Anyone can place seeds in the ground and letpuny fears can be immersed forever.
them grow, but a man would be fully occupiedNext is Omnipresence.
making one seed grow, supervising the complexSince man has observed the Super Intelligence
chemical activities necessary to life. To do it forway out in space and at the same time buried in
one hundred or one thousand seeds would drivethe infinitesimal atom, he knows that a
the best human being crazy; yet without thecharacteristic of God must be Omnipresence.
slightest effort Omniscience supervises a billionThe significance of this in healing has been
seeds. This is the Wisdom with which we deal inoverlooked. Man can readily grasp the concept of
spiritual healing.God as filling distant space; he can carry this over
Since it has the necessary knowledge to build ainto a belief that Super-Intelligence fills the
body out of the common materials circulating inatmosphere of the city, for he sees the stars
the mother's blood, it certainly has not forgottenabove; he can make it more intimate by imagining
how new cells are built. Sometimes it amazesthat it fills the room in which he is, that it
humanity by doing some remarkable rebuildingpermeates his clothing; then he can make it
without human intervention after man has doneintensely personal by thinking of it as saturating
his best and failed. Usually the prerequisite is ahis hear, his skin, penetrating within to the most
human consciousness that says, "I believe thatcentral cell of his body. In this latter he is
ALL the wisdom of God is rebuilding this bodysupported by the physiologist who sees the
now."working of Intelligence in the chemistry of a single
Then is needed a power before which thiscell. He calls it Intelligence; we call it Infinite Healing
seemingly intractable condition is nothing.Presence. Does it matter if we call it Nature, or
A person may bring himself to regard a seriousGod?
growth as of no more moment than a pimple.In one sense our surrender to illness is a denial of
People know that pimples disappear after a shortOmnipresence. We assist in our healing when we
time. As a result, they do not fear them, there isdeclare, "Right where that trouble seems to be,
some chemical action or some power whichGod is, as the Infinite Healing Omnipresence. Not
automatically seems to remove them. They knownear, not all around, but right in the middle of it,
vaguely that there is some chemical action orfilling that spot to the limit so that there is no
some power which automatically seems toroom for anything unlike Itself. I surrender myself,
remove them. When they are able to lift theirthought and body, to the flow of Omnipresence.
awareness to this Power to the point where evenWe have the feeling that Divine Intelligence must
the serious condition is seen to be as no morehave other interests besides ours.
than a pimple to the Power, they are fulfillingAll the undivided attention of Super-Intelligence is
another condition of healing. It might be stated inconcentrated on Our problem, as though there
this way: as long as the fear of the conditionwere not another person in the universe, nor a
outweighs the knowledge of the Power, there isblade of grass not a star. One of the secrets of
no healing; as soon as the knowledge of theJesus power was that he considered himself the
Power outweighs the fear of the condition, healingonly-begotten Son of the Father; hence it was
occurs.easy to feel that all the Father's resources were
Many 'little' things are healed with a partialat his disposal.
consciousness and a weak faith, but from time toThere is no secret to healing for its method is
time arise conditions which call for not some butspread across the face of nature.