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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
No Incurable Disease
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[Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters]
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There is no such thing as a "disease" or incurable
condition. These activities, weaknesses, or abnormalities
to which the medical profession gives name are but the
efforts of the God-given inner intelligence to deal with
conditions that the individual has produced by his failure
to understand the Truth and to recognize himself as the
perfect child of God, and to live by the divine law of
life. Anything that does not measure up to the Christ
pattern of perfection can be changed. Anything that the
ideas of God-Mind, expressing in the mind of man, have not
produced can be dissolved into the original nothingness by
the understanding application of the power of spiritual
thought and the resultant spiritual action.
Doctors, of course, judge by appearances, founding their
opinions upon the study of effects, and drawing their
conclusions from the outworking of mistakes the patients
have made.
No one who has awakened spiritually and is seeing his
threefold being in the light of Truth would speak of
disease as something of itself. He would not think for a
moment that the mind was fixed in old race beliefs or
errors, nor that his body was unresponsive to the Spirit.
So when someone comes to us who has had a doctor
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diagnose his illness, we ask him to turn from the doctor's
opinions and verdict and cease to think of the name he gave
to the condition that existed at the time of the
examination and treatment. We ask him to cast out the
assumption that this condition would not be changed and
done away with, just as one would refuse to hold to and to
think of some unworthy and untrue thing that he might have
heard spoken as he walked down the street.
He is to begin at once to rejoice that he is the offspring
of God, that the life and the substance of his body and the
perfect pattern of that life and body are gifts of God,
gifts that are in reality inseparably one with His own
being, the very essence of God-life and God substance and
God intelligence. It is God's plan, you know, to have the
creation picture forth, express His ideas, qualities, and
being. It is our purpose in being here to become conscious
of and to express in our lives the true pattern and
qualities of our Father-Mother.
We know very well that God would not create a person with
imperfections and shortcomings and disease. We also know
that God would not create automatons without free-will and
the privilege of exercising their powers of sonship. Just
as we give our children--in our own thought of them and in
our endeavors to have them live as they should that they
may come forth clothed perfectly--the best that we can
conceive, and then permit them to unfold their powers and
faculties and their body temples as the inner intelligence
and
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life prompts. We give them the best instruction we have to
offer, but if we are wise, we permit the Spirit within them
to develop the soul, that it may express their individual
gifts.
We accept the God-given perfection. We wave aside the past
mistakes and the untrue suggestions, and fix undivided
attention upon the Creator and the inner pattern of
perfection. In this lies the success of spiritual
treatment. We bring all the mental attitudes and the
centers of consciousness, and even the physical structures,
to this high place in mind where we see as God sees and
where we name all that is within us according to the
patterns and uses for which these soul qualities and their
outpicturing have been created.
We prayerfully consider all our living habits to get a
better understanding of their purposes and to know whether
or not they are chording with the divine law of health. We
consider whether or not we are worrying or fearing
anything. We look back of the conscious mind into the realm
of the subconsciousness, or memory, to determine whether
there is anything that took place in the past that is
continuing its disturbing influence through the unconscious
expressions of mind. Much of the habit side of life is made
up of these past experiences and trainings. Many things we
do daily are not consciously thought out but are the
continuation of something impressed upon us long ago.
We rejoice and remember that we have the God-power
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to change conditions, the God-love to express
Christlikeness, and we work lovingly and diligently with
whatever we find in ourselves or our environment that falls
short. Keeping the attention centered in the Christ Mind,
we are able to see beyond appearances to the impulses of
the soul, which is always urging us in our efforts to make
use of what God has given. To the degree that we let Christ
be lifted up, in the same degree shall we rid ourselves of
that which may have been pronounced incurable or may have
seemed to us a disease that was incurable. Let us remember
what Jesus Christ said, "With God all things are possible"
(Mt. 19:26), and let us listen until we hear within, "Is
anything too hard for Jehovah?"
Any thought that is not based on the eternal reality,
Truth, has no existence. If we believe in disease we are
believing in something that has no substance or reality.
When we dissolve the belief out of our minds and in its
place establish the realization of the one presence and
power of good, and exercise our faith in health as the one
presence and power within us, we shall feel the conviction
that we are the expression of the health that God is.
This powerful conviction of oneness with divine wholeness
will become abiding--nothing can take it from us. "God is
love," and His love has cast out of the mind and heart all
fear. There is no room for doubts and fears because God as
love and health reigns supreme in us.
We set to work to change any and everything that
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we may find does not measure up to the best that our new
light shows us. We know that it is of much more importance
to change and to do that which is best for our progress and
our health, than to be smugly consistent, or to make the
excuse that we have always done a thing and that it is too
late to change. The moment we discover something
undesirable in our minds or our lives we should seek to
make the changes necessary to bring the desirable into
manifestation.
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