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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Understanding the Body
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Jesus says, "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt. 5:48). Paul says, "Your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you
have from God . . . glorify God in your body" (I Cor.
6:19-20). Unity says, "God in the midst of you is mighty to
quicken, to cleanse, to heal, to restore to wholeness, to
prosper. Look within yourself to the Christ Mind for the
light that will flood your soul and enable you to see
yourself and your affairs in right relation to God and your
fellow human beings."
Seeing is the discerning capacity of the mind. By taking
time for quiet meditation, and by confidently claiming
oneness with God-Mind, we keep the avenues of our minds
open to the divine plan for us. There is a divine law of
mind action that we may conform to, and that will always
bring satisfactory results. There is also a physical side
to the operation of this divine law. The body and its needs
must have our consideration. We must not drive the body or
neglect its normal needs.
This body is the result of our use of God-given faculties
and powers. We have needed such a temple, and the soul has
built it. Sometimes we fail to remember that the temple is
for the use of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes the belief in
lack or darkness or time comes
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in to cause us to do things which are not good for the body
temple. When there is evidence of disobedience, we should
not seek to whip the body into submission and comfort by
outer means or by mental treatment. We should prayerfully
seek the understanding of the soul's need and bring
ourselves into harmony with God-Mind.
Sometimes we become so intent upon some outer form of
success that we keep our eyes fixed upon the partial good.
Sometimes that which we undertake does not progress as we
had dreamed, and we are tempted to see walls of limitation
or the darkness of opposition. Sometimes in the effort to
accomplish that which we feel we must do we are unfair to
the body, until it calls a halt.
Whatever the cause of the appearance of negation, turning
the attention Godward, with willingness to look into all
phases of daily living and to make such adjustments as are
wise and loving toward the body, will quickly relieve all
strain and congestion and allow the free flow of life to
renew nerves and structures. The body responds to changes
of mind; and when this is accompanied by truly wise living
habits, the conformity to true ideas of life and power and
love and substance and intelligence will renew it and make
it every whit whole.
We must see the life of God in our flesh. Any form of
denial of God-life and intelligence or of the physical
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organism, any thought of the flesh other than as of God's
pure substance, congests and irritates the body. This is
double-mindedness, which consists in believing in evil as
well as good, in perceiving and thinking about evil, or
undesirable conditions, or lack, or failure, or calamity of
any sort. Double-mindedness weakens the eyes and dims the
vision, and we do not clearly perceive that which is our
perfection in God-Mind.
To look about one and see evil and imperfection is sinful.
That which we mentally stamp a thing is registered in our
own flesh.
The eye is the outer evidence of the ability of the mind to
discern and understand. A strong, unclouded, perceiving,
and discerning mind attuned to Truth is manifest in strong,
healthy eyes and clearness of sight; for one who perceives
the Truth will live by the law of Truth.
"I am God . . . the Holy One in your midst" (Hos. 11:9).
God in the midst of us is mighty, and when we look toward
God in faith, God binds up, harmonizes, and strengthens
whatever places need to be adjusted and restored. God, the
Holy One in the midst of us, is that power which creates
and is irresistible to renew and to make wholeness
manifest. When we are full of faith and cooperate with this
restoring principle of our being, God's work of restoration
never ceases its activity in us. God seeks always to
restore harmony,
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strength, life, wholeness in that which He has created. Our
holding thoughts like these and communing with the
indwelling Presence in the silence gives to the healing
Christ within the best possible opportunity to do His work
quickly. We do not at a time of renewal overtax the body
and its energies, because we need to use the vigorous life
of Spirit to build up our body temple. Let us pour out upon
our organism blessings of praise for the good work it is
doing in establishing wholeness. Let us think of ourselves
as already manifesting perfection in mind, soul, and body,
and give thanks that divine order is now established.
"I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless" (Gen.
17:1).
The Father within is saying, "Be thou perfect"; and His
word has fulfilled its mission of restoring the body with
His own vital livingness.
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