There are today many cults professing to have healing powers; but
whether they are named "Christian," or "Mental," or "Spiritual," or
"Divine Science," or whether the place of healing be in some shrine
sacred to an accredited saint, or only in the presence of the patient
receiving the benediction; they all operate under the same law; there
is no other.
Jesus was the great transmitter to humanity of a knowledge of the power
of divine healing; he never specialized. He never said: "I have cured
your liver complaint, or your lungs are healed," etc., according to the
ailment of the person seeking his aid. He only told them: "Thy [own]
faith hath made thee whole." It was spoken of God long ago: "He
healeth all our infirmities." The quality and the amount of personal
magnetism possessed by the healer--the transmitter of the divine
healing--does make a vast difference in the results of such efforts.
The "Nazarene" was devoid of egotism, and selfishness, and his desire
to heal and bless humanity was with him an overwhelming passion.
That Jesus knew the value of right physical habits is evidenced by the
way he had of admonishing his patients to "go and sin no more," that
is, stop breaking nature's hygienic laws. He had all along told them
that right thinking was necessary to right doing.
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The transcendentalism of one age, shorn of the peculiar shading given
to it by the individuality of the mind through which it first manifests
itself, becomes the hard "common sense" of the next.
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What is Truth? Truth is God. God is Truth. Nothing in the universe
could exist for one instant unless it had in it some faint intuition of
truth, and it is this that we are here to discover.