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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
The Way to Health
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Paul said, "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind"
(Rom. 12:2). In renewing the mind and bringing it into
accord with Divine Mind, in which we all have individual
consciousness, one needs to understand the character of the
one Mind and the Truth of being as the Creator has
established it. Then it is well to understand where one has
been making mistakes judging by appearances, accepting
illusions, working contrary to Principle, using the
faculties in ways not intended by the Creator. These
mistakes and misuses of one's God-given faculties are what
we term the causes of human inharmonies. The change of
causes also changes the effects.
When the individual keeps his mind in tune with God-Mind,
he knows constant harmony, order, success, and health. By
following the teaching of Jesus Christ and seeking guidance
of the Most High he does not leave room for a negative
thought to enter. Health, or harmony, is the one presence
and the one power in the universe.
The Creator is continually doing His work of restoration
throughout His creation, in every man and in every woman,
for He put His children into the world to manifest His
wisdom, harmony, joy, health, perfection--all that He is.
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When we learn how to cooperate with this all-powerful
Spirit of restoration, nothing can stand in the way of our
manifesting the health that belongs to us by divine right.
During periods of communion with the Father in the Holy
Spirit, it is possible for the individual to know the way
of peace and prosperity and freedom from all condemnation
or anxiety or injustice, and the way of health and
continued strength and youth. Study of Truth, prayer for
greater realization of Truth, brings one into this divine
order described above. This is the rebirth spoken of in
Scripture, and is the way into the kingdom.
All this may seem at first glance to be a roundabout way to
health, but it is really the most direct way to health and
all other good. We as individuals lose health, or peace of
mind, or other desirable states by our failure to know how
to identify ourselves with God the Father, and to use His
gifts to us, and to let Spirit express through all our
faculties and powers.
First of all, in seeking a way to health we need to see
clearly that God is omnipresent, as omnipresent as the very
life in which we live and move and have our being; as the
very substance out of which our bodies are formed and
nourished; as the very intelligence that is within us, in
every nerve and brain cell and structure of the body; as
the very love that draws together and holds in perfect
harmony (if we will only allow it) all the elements of our
being; as the very light that radiates through us to bless
and help others, the light that
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enables us to understand ourselves and others and all God's
creation, so that we may always think the Truth, the true
state of all the creation.
Whenever we have an experience of sickness it is evidence
that we have been letting go of our hold on the gifts of
God. We have ceased eagerly to appropriate and analyze and
assimilate and make use of the life of Spirit through our
thoughts, our words, our acts, our living habits.
We need to stir up and quicken our senses and give them the
baptism of the new life in Christ Jesus. Our organism has
been asleep from disuse and lack of vital interest in
living--not merely in eating and drinking and sleeping and
being entertained--but in the vital issues that have to do
with bringing ourselves into the full-rounded Jesus Christ
expression of life.
In seeking the way to health we are to pray for an
understanding of our oneness with God, to claim it. We are
to study this relationship so that we may know how to lay
hold of the abundant life and intelligence and substance
and love of God, and build these into our souls and bodies,
that we may perfect our expression.
The eyes are the physical organs that are the out-picturing
of the capacity of the mind to discern mentally,
physically, and spiritually all that is. Seeing is a mental
process; and the eyes are the instruments that register
what the mind has been trained to think and
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to behold. When our mental processes are in perfectly
harmonious accord with the ideas of Divine Mind, our sight
is perfect and our eyes function properly.
The ears represent the instruments of the mind through
which we receive instruction from God's mind. Hearing is
the receptive capacity of the mind, and only as a person is
open and receptive to the voice from within and willing to
be guided in all ways and at all times by this voice of
wisdom, is his hearing sense lifted to the spiritual plane
and being put to the use God intended. Listening within for
the still small voice with a mind consecrated to obedience
trains the ears to their true function.
The nose is the physical organ that is the outpicturing of
the detective capacity of the mind. The sense of taste is
also mental in reality, discriminating, appropriating. The
senses are built to enable the mind to function in its
capacity to find that which is good for the soul and body,
and to direct the individual toward the appropriation of
it. The mind that is in tune with the true being, the
Christ self, is not interested in ferreting out evil, nor
in dwelling upon the undesirable in any way.
With our feeling sense we are to feel for God, keep our
attention on Him and train our faculties, senses, emotions,
feelings to comprehend His radiations, His qualities as
they express in our consciousness and body and affairs.
Then do we feel God, His presence of love, life, joy,
wisdom, power, and the expressions of these God ideas so
positively and so fully that we are quickened,
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and radiate the very things our minds hold so that our
world too feels the presence of God.
The one who is truly seeking that which is of God is
expressing the good and the true in thought. He does not
think adverse thoughts, nor believe in impurity of any sort
in the self or in others. And so this sense of smell and
the sense of taste are powers of God-Mind, which is ever
working to connect us with our good.
Baptizing the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting,
and feeling leads to natural intuition and spiritual
insight and the power to identify ourselves with the
absolute (God, the good). All the senses work in the realm
of mind, but all have their physical side and use. We use
what they tell us in our thought world. That which we think
of ourselves or of others, or of creation in general, we
build up the belief in and begin to register in our souls
and bodies. That which we habitually see mentally, our eyes
begin to visualize, and the cell structures of the organs
are affected and built according to the vibrations set up
by the thoughts. This is true of the other senses and their
organs. Our negative thoughts and emotions (feelings) react
upon the parts of the body that have to do with phases of
life that they touch.
The way to healing is first of all to re-educate the
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mind and to establish the Truth in all the faculties; then
to see the reality of the body and its functions and to
stamp every part with the perfect pattern, which is
God-given and known as the Christ man, the out-picturing of
the Christ ideas in individual consciousness; then to study
the living habits and make them conform to the truth that
good only is real and abiding and truly active.
Heretofore the individual may have gone to physicians and
surgeons to receive their suggestions and treatment. He now
goes to God-Mind, which the Holy Spirit promised by Jesus
Christ makes known. He holds to the truth that his body is
pure and alive and perfect in every part, because he wishes
to use this perfect mental pattern to direct him in his
treatment. He then looks into his thought habits to see
that they are prompted by faith and divine love and wisdom
and life and joy and freedom. He looks into his living
habits to see that he is taking good care of the body and
meeting the requirements of its many departments and
functions. He acquaints himself with the different parts of
the body, and learns what it is they are truly built for.
He learns what each needs and supplies them.
He formulates prayers based on the Truth of his being, and
uses these prayers faithfully in order to feel them in the
mental side of his body. He realizes that he is
re-educating his mind and that he is reforming the physical
structures.
God not only has created the earth and us, but
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God is actually the very essence of all that we see about
us and all that is within us. We are the free agents, who
must learn to take and combine His ideas and the manifest
materials into the soul and body we are to use. We are not
sitting off here doing something by ourselves and
occasionally asking God, outside of us, to help. In reality
God is working out through His offspring that which He has
conceived to be the ideal creation and life. But He has
given us the power that He is, just as any wise father
gives his son full freedom to become the son he feels sure
that son will be. He gives him the best start he knows how
to give and then leaves it with the son to use his
heritage, to make his own way in life. And that is just
what God is doing with us. When we make health, wholeness,
holiness the dominant thought of our minds, re-educating
our physical senses to their true purpose, our body temples
will be sure to manifest their God-given perfection,
because our bodies are the fruit of our minds.
Thus we remake our consciousness so that it will correspond
with God's perfect idea of us. Our part is to consecrate
our senses to the Truth and train our thought children to
express joy, love, faith, wisdom, life, and health.
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