The Method of Divine Healing

         The modern society of today has sought to eliminate the truth of Divine Healing by exhibiting material medication, treatment and a suggestive of a cure.  Consequently there must be a positive “believe” in the very operation of these methods.  Now, it is not the intention of the author to discourage the use of modern procedures, for our Heavenly Father is the creator of all healing.  I will therefore examine the broad principle that  appears to be common to the various methods of divine (mental) healing, and to ground the readers in those general principles on which all conscious use of the creative powers of thought is based.

Now the principle laid down by all mental healers, in whatever various terms they may explain it, is that the basis of all healing is a change in belief.  The sequence from which this result is as follows:-the subjective mind is the creative faculty within us, and creates whatever the objective mind impresses upon it; the objective mind, or intellect, impresses its thought upon it; the thoughts is the expression of the belief; consequently whatever the subjective mind creates is the reproduction externally of our beliefs.  Accordingly our whole object is to change our beliefs, and we cannot do this without some solid ground of conviction of the falsehood of our old beliefs, ^[1]superstition, and of the truth of our new ones, and this ground we find in that law of causation which I endeavor to explain.  The wrong belief which externalizes (the attribute to causes outside the self)  as sickness is the belief that some secondary cause, which is really only a condition, is a primary cause.  The knowledge of the law shows that there is only one primary cause, and this is the factor which in our own individuality we call subjective or sub-conscious mind.  For this reason I have insisted on the difference between placing an idea in the sub-conscious mind, that is, on the plane of the absolute and without reference to time and space, and placing the same idea in the conscious intellectual mind which only perceives things as related to time,  and space.  Now the only conception you can have of yourself is the absolute, or unconditioned, is as purely spirit, not hampered by conditions of any sort, and therefore not subject to illness, and when this idea is firmly impressed on the sub-conscious mind, it will manifest it. The reason why this process is not  successful at first attempts is that all our life we have been holding the false belief in sickness as a substantial entity in itself and thus being a primary cause, instead of being merely a negative condition resulting from the absence of a primary cause; and a belief which has become ingrained from childhood cannot be eradicated at a moment’s notice.  We often find, therefore, that for a time after a treatment there is an improvement in the patient’s health, and then the old symptoms return.  This is because the new belief in his own creative faculty has not yet had time to penetrate down to the innermost depths of the sub-conscious mind, but has only partially entered it, Each succeeding treatment strengthens the sub-conscious mind in its hold of the new belief until at last, a permanent cure is effected.  This is the method of self-treatment based on the patient’s own knowledge of the law of his being.

But “there is not in all men this knowledge,” or at any rate not such a full recognition of this knowledge which will enable them to give successful treatment to themselves, and in these cases the intervention of the healer becomes necessary.  The only difference between the healer and the patient is that the healer has learnt how to control the less self-conscious mode, while the patient has not yet attained to this kowledge; the healer substitutes his own objective or conscious mentality, which is ell joined to intellect, for that of the patient, and in this way to find entrance to his sub-conscious mind and impress upon it the suggestion of perfect health.