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Jesus Christ Heals
Foreword
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[Jesus Christ Heals]
[Charles Fillmore's Works] [Unity on the Web Home Page]
Much has been written and said about the healing methods
that Jesus used in His very striking cures of physical
ills. The generally accepted theory is that they were
miracles, but to this there have been many objections,
among them Jesus' promise "He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also." So many millions have
claimed that they believed on Jesus, yet not only have they
failed to heal others but they have gloried in sickness and
finally death under the assumption that it was the will of
God.
Few have dared even to suggest that Jesus applied universal
law in His restorative methods; for on the one hand it
would annul the miracle theory and on the other it would be
sacrilegious to inquire into the miracles of God. So it has
been generally accepted that Jesus' great works were
miracles and that the power to do miracles was delegated to
His immediate followers only. But in recent years a
considerable number of Jesus' followers have had the
temerity to inquire into His healing methods, and they have
found that they were based on universal mental and
spiritual laws that anyone can utilize who will comply with
the conditions involved in these laws. This inquiry has led
to the conclusion that man and the universe are founded on
mind and that all
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changes for good or ill are changes of mind.
Ages of thought upon the reality and solidarity of things
have evolved a mental atmosphere that has produced the
present material universe. These and millions of other
concepts are the work of men and not God, as is popularly
supposed. However they all rest on the original God-Mind
and can be restored to the perfect law and order of that
Mind by those who free themselves from their mental
entanglements with materiality and identify their thinking
with that of the Mind that is Spirit. "Ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free."
It is taught in the Bible that Jesus was born into the
human family to save its people from extinction; that,
according to Paul, as in Adam all died so in Christ shall
all be made alive. A psychological study of the whole
situation proves this to be virtually true. Millions have
accepted Christianity on faith and have found peace of mind
and spiritual satisfaction without understanding the
fundamental mind principles on which the redemptive system
rests. This is proof that there is more to Christianity
than the surface acceptation of Jesus as mediator between
God and man.
We are all in mind related to a great creative Spirit that
infuses its very life into our minds and bodies when we
turn our attention to it. We have mentally wandered away
from this creative Spirit or Father-Mind and lost contact
with its life-giving currents. Jesus made connection for
us, and through Him we again begin to draw vitality from
the great fountainhead.
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Ability to pick up the life current and through it
perpetually to vitalize the body is based on the right
relation of ideas, thoughts, and words. These mental
impulses start currents of energy that form and also
stimulate molecules and cells already formed, producing
life, strength, and animation where inertia and impotence
was the dominant appearance. This was and is the healing
method of Jesus.
Although the Bible repeatedly refers to the creative power
of the Word, men have not dared to think that the creative
law is universal and could be taught to any man who would
discipline his thoughts and words and center them on
God-Mind. Jesus gave His whole attention to God, so much so
that He claimed He did not even originate the words that He
spoke: they came from the Father. By careful thinking and
wholehearted concentration on God, Jesus made such complete
union with creative Mind that His body was transformed in
the presence of His disciples. He taught that men would
eventually reap the reward of every word they uttered. "For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
shalt be condemned."
Perfect health is natural, and the work of the spiritual
healer is to restore this perfect health, which is innate
and can be spoken into expression. Our ills are the result
of our sins or failure to adjust our minds to Divine Mind.
"Man hath authority on earth to forgive sins." When the
sinning state of mind is forgiven and the right state of
mind established, man is restored to his primal and natural
wholeness. This is wholly a mental process, and so all
conditions of
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man are the result of his thinking. "As he [man] thinketh
in his heart, so is he."
No book, not even the Bible, covers all phases of human
thought. Therefore the mental panacea for every ill is
beyond the description of words, but Jesus Christ
epitomized in His own consciousness all the thought
processes necessary to man's complete restoration. So it is
taught that Jesus Christ is the Word or Divine Logos in
which is contained all the original creative essence.
The truth that divine man is manifest God is the great
mystery hid for ages and generations and now revealed in
Jesus Christ.
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