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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
The Subconsciousness
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Most of us have had to meet and deal with some of the
subconscious holdings. Most of us have had so many years of
arduous training in mortal beliefs, in the convictions of
the intellect and senses, that we have very fixed
subconscious states of mind, which have their
correspondences in the activities of the soul and in the
physical structures.
Wherever beliefs in materiality, in the power of disease,
or in adversity of any sort have been allowed to settle
into mind and result in formations of flesh or in
functional activity, it takes great illumination--and not
only illumination but earnest, constant identification of
ourselves with Jesus Christ and His wonderful humility and
obedience, and with the spiritual knowledge of mastering
the physical elements--to dissolve these beliefs. But as
long as there is in our subconscious minds (our memory and
habits of thinking) that which does not chord with Truth
(God, good, the only presence and power in all and through
all), we keep meeting it in some form or other, and we
shall be obliged to keep using Truth and the power God has
given us to change our minds if we are to cast out the old
and establish a new order.
So long as we remember experiences that were unhappy, as we
saw them once and still see them and
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speak of them, we will be unable to demonstrate joy and
prosperity and health in our lives. Because of lack of
understanding, these seemingly unkind things have made
negative impressions upon our souls. Whatever has been
impressed upon our souls will work out in our bodies and
affairs. Because the activities of the mind in its contacts
with Divine Mind and also with the world of appearances and
the minds of others, build the soul, which in turn forms
the body through which it carries out its impressions and
the urge from within; the soul's desires and impressions
also make the conditions under which we live.
Understanding this law of mind action will help us to see
why we have the experiences we have, and why we react to
them, and why it is important to go to God-Mind for more
light and love and life and substance. We have the power to
change our soul's impressions, our subconscious, through
the indwelling Christ Mind, and so change our bodies and
their functioning and also the conditions about us.
It gives us renewed strength and confidence to realize that
every thought of Truth that enters our minds is taking up
its abode in our subconsciousness and is working itself out
in our flesh as harmony and radiant health. Our body
temples are the fruit of our minds. The truths that we hold
in mind redeem and heal our flesh.
In Spirit and in Truth we are now and always every whit
whole. By getting false thoughts out of the way, and
keeping the image and likeness of wholeness ever
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before our mind's eye, and trying to feel that we are
healed, health becomes irresistible and it is bound to
manifest.
When a soul is encouraged to develop the mental faculties
and to open the heart to a great feeling of love for
humanity, it opens up the subconscious door that allows it
to peer into the past. Before we are free from the
shortcomings and the ignorance of the race mind, we must
awaken to the fact that these things exist and that we are
connected with them, until through the Jesus Christ Mind we
swing clear of them and establish ourselves in a
consciousness of life, light, freedom, and love.
We do not attain this place of life, light, freedom, and
love by allowing the soul to dwell upon these shadowy
things of the past or by trying to recall the experiences
through which we have come. Should we dwell upon such
things, we would sink back into them. We must begin at once
to rejoice in the light that is come to redeem our
subconsciousness from the shadows of error and fear and
superstition and mistakes. The race mind with which we are
connected because of common experiences and beliefs
suggests that we know not whence we come, nor where we go,
nor yet how to direct our way along the path. Looking at
life through this limited thought, it does seem gray, and
we appear to grope our way and to leave much undone. But
there is a new and wonderful way to view life; Jesus Christ
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lived so eagerly the light that came to Him day by day that
life ceased to be a gray mystery to Him. He saw Himself and
others in a new light. He understood why He had been born
into the world. He knew where He was going. In fact, He
knew that He was not going anywhere, in the sense of
separation and distance. He knew that He was merging
Himself with the race mind so that He might abide with us
and bring us into the same wonderful light in which He
dwells.
When we cease to think shadows and lack of knowledge and
begin to call to mind the teachings of Jesus Christ, the
light will shine for us. We will not care to peer into the
past, nor to recall its experiences. We will know that all
that measures up to the mark of helpfulness will abide with
us. We will be content to realize that when our growth
makes it necessary for us to have something out of the
subconscious, it will come without disturbing us, without
depressing us.
The sensitive soul sympathetically attuned to the mind and
feeling of humanity suffers greatly, when the mental vision
opens, at exposing the soul to contact with the experiences
of humankind during the past. For this very reason it is
imperative that each Truth student should prayerfully seek
to enter into the Jesus Christ consciousness of the
omnipresence of God, the good. When we can look at life,
present and past, through eyes that see only God and good,
we can keep our poise. We see not frenzy of ignorance and
anxiety, the mists of seeming failure, the gray of lack of
love and wasted life. Rather we see the warmth and light
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of the great solar system that is of creative Mind's
planning and that keeps working the miracle of growth; we
see the radiance of the Son of God shining through the Son
of man and men and women everywhere, perhaps a little here,
a little there, but shining surely to bring forth the
fruits of His planting.
We are the children of the Creator of this wonderful
universe.
I do not believe that the lily feels the terrors of
darkness down at the bottom of the pond, nor does it allow
the mud and water that shut out much of the light to keep
it from appropriating the good that is provided for it, and
pushing surely and intelligently upward to the freedom and
light that were there for it long before the bulb began to
swell and burst. I am sure that the lily is "conscious"
only of the foods in the earth and the warmth and
helpfulness of the sun and air.
I am sure that if we allow the intelligence within us to
appropriate only the good and that which keeps us looking
up, we too shall be conscious of good only, and we will
grow just as perfectly as the lily.
If we do as Jesus suggested, turn to the Holy Spirit (the
whole Spirit of God) and seek to know good only, we shall
grow just as surely and as perfectly into the Christ
consciousness as Jesus did. I do not say that we can take
our frequently translated Scriptures and depend on them
entirely for instruction and guidance. But we may depend
always on the Holy Spirit of Jesus
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Christ, which is ever here with us, to give us whatever we
have need of.
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