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Keep A True Lent
Chapter 3
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The House Not Made with Hands
Chapter 3
WE, AS METAPHYSICIANS, take special care that we are
logical in our reasoning. We hold that all Truth has its
origin in Divine Mind. Whatever we can conceive as being
true must manifest itself in creation, and if the creation
seems to fall short of the divine perfection in any way, it
is a fault on our part--either we are not seeing the whole
of it, or we are lacking in understanding. And if we hold
to our logic that the good can create nothing but good, it
will bring us to the right conclusion. Holding to this
logic, we find that there are two steps in creation--mind
ideates that which it later brings forth in the outer, just
as a man works out in his mind his invention before he
makes the model. God is the all-potential mind. God creates
first in thought, and His idea of creation is perfect, and
that idea exists as a perfect model upon which all
manifestation rests. The body of man must rest upon a
divine body idea in Divine Mind, and it logically follows
that the inner life substance and intelligence of all flesh
is perfect.
But you say, "I do not have a perfect body; my body is not
perfect, I can see that it is material." It may be that you
do not understand; that you fail to discern the "Lord's
body," which failure, Paul said, is the cause of weakness
and sickness and death.
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We have a perfect body in mind, and this perfect mind-body
expresses itself through our I AM, or the Christ in us; it
brings itself into manifestation just as fast as we let it,
just as fast as we perceive God in the flesh.
The real source of life is within you. Go within and close
the door of materiality. Talk to God about your life
problem; begin to release your hidden energies. Make it a
daily process and talk little about what you are doing. The
incorporation of divine life in the millions of cells
composing your body was accomplished in conjunction with
Spirit, and the release should be under the same law. If
you want to see the real expression of Divine Mind in your
body, all you have to do is mentally to image it. Put your
I AM identity into it and affirm that the perfect body as
idealized in God-Mind is now made manifest in your hands,
in your feet, in your heart, and in every part of your
organism.
Is this good logic? Will it work? Of course, it will. This
is the real secret of metaphysical healing. In the
beginning the Word was God, but the Word became flesh and
dwelt among men, and they saw Jesus' body, His glory and
His perfection. Jesus Christ was the Word of God made
manifest. Jesus saved His body from dissolution and raised
it up to the heavenly estate, which is substance so pure
that no disintegrating force can be found in it. This gives
an importance to the body beyond the usual estimate. People
think that soul salvation is the object of
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the Christian life, but Jesus and Paul laid great stress on
the ability of man to "lay it down, and . . . take it
again," even this "temple of the living God."
Can we save our body from death? Yes--by seeing it as the
very temple of God; and this means more than looking at it
as if we were looking through a telescope. We must see our
body with our mind. We must see it with something more than
the intellectual mind. We must see it with Jehovah, the
Christ within us.
When the perfect man is conceived in pure reason, the
reason of Spirit, and man sees himself as he is in
God-Mind, the Lord's body begins at once to appear. We can
all see our body with the "single" eye that Jesus spoke of,
and through faith in the reality of the invisible body
regenerate the flesh. The body is wonderfully obedient to
the I AM. It hastens to do its bidding and is renewed and
transformed by thought. But so many of us see our body as
it appears to mortal sense, unaware that the real
continues, while the seeming passes away. We know that we
are healed by right thinking, that we can and do raise sick
bodies and restore them to health. Where is the limit to
healing? There is no limit. Why can we not go right on and
perfect the body idea as conceived in Divine Mind? This is
where pure reason and logic sustain us. It makes no
difference how many people die, or are going to die; the
logic is good if it proves the healing of a single illness.
It is indeed uplifting to know that
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there is a divine power behind this universe, that there is
a true God; that life has more meaning than the mere piling
up of material things; that we can become the real man, and
all the pure ideals can be fulfilled here and now.
The real body of God is a living body. Above all, it is a
beautiful body, a temple. And God Himself is in that
temple, and it is not necessary to have any light but His
light, the light of life and health. It is wonderful how
quickly our body responds to a thought of life and health,
how we can feel a flow of health instantly if we hold the
right thought. Just closing our mind to outer things and
holding the thought that we are the perfect manifestations
of Divine Mind will often heal our body of its illnesses.
Disease is not natural. We must let it go, relax, and let
Spirit carry on its perfect work in us; and all at once
evil or sick conditions disappear, and we are whole. Those
who have had divine healings tell us that their best work
was done by simply letting go and realizing that there is
but one universal Mind and that this Mind makes a perfect
body for every man.
We see this proved again and again in the healing power of
nature. All doctors admit that the body is restored to
health naturally, that neither they nor drugs do the actual
healing. What causes the body to be restored? The divine
idea of perfection. Our body really is the temple of the
living God. The so-called material body has within it and
about
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it the divine perfection. We should not make any
separation. We should hold that our body is spiritual and
hold nothing else. We must carry out that living true Word
which every one of us knows to be the offspring of Divine
Mind. "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us."
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