Healing Substance in Form
Buffalo, New York
April 29, 1936
We
have learned that God composes the whole manifest universe of one
Substance, called lifesparks, which are infinitely
variable in
their combinations. These combinations determine the different
forms that Substance takes in this material world of form.
To discover why Substance has assumed some alien physical form,
we must look for the answer in Mind and its operation within the
individual
consciousness. We cannot find the answer in the conscious mind
of one who is determined to be healed, who prays night and day
for that
healing, who in all ways follows Law. So our search forces us further
back, into the involuntary, unconscious realm of subconscious mind,
into the subsoul portion of the Living Soul.
Not until we discovered this vast, still largely-unexplored realm
of subconscious mind could we understand the origin of disease,
why one person would have an instantaneous miracle of healing while
another
continued for years in the same old state of mind or body. The
answer could not be found on the outer, since both individuals
seemingly
prayed just as hard, had desires just as determined and led lives
just as pure.
We store every thought, everything seen or heard, all the pictures
an unguided, unbridled imagination can build in this realm of subconscious
mind. It all lays waiting for something outside to knock at the
door, for subsoul to push it open and come trooping out, much to
the unsuspecting,
unprepared individual’s surprise.
Freedom
Versus Repression/Suppression
As
students of the master psychologist, Jesus the Christ and followers
of the Law he taught, we know subsoul
must be freed
of its burden.
Light must penetrate this darkened corner of mind so the whole
Living Soul may ascend to its Maker, taking back every part
of itself.
We learn that this process is natural: Vagrant thoughts swarm
into consciousness, often shocking the self-satisfied person.
The subconscious
also holds many records of matters we have only seen or heard
and in which we have not actively participated.
Subsoul has only one method of releasing itself, which is exactly
as a seed or bulb opens and sends shoots to the surface for
light. The doors of memory open (dreams being the most common “door-openers”)
and out and up shoots that which needs release – old repressions,
old memory impressions of thought, emotions or imagination.
In the “good old past,” when such thoughts finally reached
our surface consciousness, we probably repressed them, immediately
disowned them and closed the door to their release without asking
to whom they did belong, if not to us. We hide such thoughts again
because we do not like them, they embarrass us, we fear them.
Someone who is very sweet and good may suddenly find his or
her conscious mind full of thoughts of darkness and limitation,
often
hate-full
thoughts about a loved one or friend. A happy, joyous person
may suddenly see a “black” picture of something terrible
happening, which is common.
Usually, people are heartily shocked the first few times. Then,
growing more accustomed to such thoughts, they move to the
next step – fear.
Unresolved, such fears will grow until they finally take possession
of a previously happy, joyous-natured person.
An individual may become preoccupied with a single dark idea,
obsessed to the exclusion of every other idea or form of living.
This can
happen because subsoul is always trying to jettison the past.
This happens because through lack of understanding, we do not
lift such
ideas into Light when they appear to ruffle the surface of
conscious mind.
Such dark thoughts are nothing more than a dirty, musty corner
we must air and made ready for the bridegroom. Our conscious
mind hastily
shoves such dark thoughts back into the subconscious-unconscious
realm of mind and slams the door shut on them. Then, subsoul’s
only alternative is to pop them up again at the first opportunity,
for the Law in this unconscious realm is to seek the Light.
We may play this little involuntary game of pushing negative
thoughts down again into the subconscious until we develop
what we call
a “dual” or “split” personality,
first one and then the other using the conscious mind. “A double-minded
man is unstable in all his ways.”
Anything that “touches” us or “moves” us, “bothers” us
or “gets to” us belongs to us. It comes from the unconscious
for us to lift. When we feel that something of this nature does not
belong to us now, we are right in one sense: It is just part of our
past. We do not want to give it any more power in our lives today.
Yet ignoring, denying and pushing such thoughts back and down gives
the past power over us today.
Denial infuses dark thoughts with new life. Constant denial
feeds and sustains them with new Substance. Denial is a form
of fear.
Yesterday has no part in our present activities, unless we
renew yesterday’s
power. Yet each past impression must be sublimated and remade
into Light.
Conscious
Lifting
Consciously
lift the unconscious. Any memory impression of darkness that we
unconsciously hold in the subconscious realm
of subsoul
must obey the same law of nature that guides plants, birds
and animals
in evolution – to seek the Light. So memory impressions
must and do resurface until we work them out.
We must seek new methods to lift and erase them from the
records of our past lives. Erasing them may take time.
If the memory
impression is deep, then it will take time to erase it
fully from subconscious
memory. Deep memory impressions include thoughts of family,
heritage, disease, lack of success or old fears held often
or for a long
period.
How will we know when we erase a memory record? When it
is gone forever, when we no longer remember it, when it
never
enters
our conscious
mind again. This is our sign that we have overcome this
cloud of darkness, completely melted by the heat of our
burning
desire and
changed into Light.
Every denial adds another dark thought to the pile already
in the subconscious mind. One affirmation crosses out or
overcomes just
one dark thought. Since we always begin with a subconscious
full
of memory impressions to overcome, we may go on for years,
seemingly standing still. Yet this apparent standstill
is not real, for
only a small ray of the Christ Light will ultimately melt
any barrier
of utter blackness. All Light needs is plenty of time!
While we deny disease or another negative, we are not free
from the blackness, whether it is an idea of illness or
a critical thought about a loved one or an enemy. Denial
is
proof-positive
that we
definitely
accept a disease or negative is still there.
Cure
the Idea
If
we believed, consciously or unconsciously, when we asked God to
heal us, then we could not still remember we had
the darkness.
So
what we really need to cure is the idea.
The Substance involved, no matter its present form,
will instantly snap back to unalterable perfection,
no matter
how un-Godlike
it appears. Substance is perfect now, even when we
do not like its
present form, because the One Substance can never become
imperfect. We can
only send Substance into an imperfect mold built from
our own dark, negative thoughts, pictures and desires,
our
doubts and
fears.
Some individuals can cure an idea with one statement
and the body shows a miracle. Other individuals may
take years
to cure
an old
idea. Many people have a “hospital” idea ingrained so
deeply that only an illness requiring hospitalization will cure it.
Sometimes, only surgery will cure the fear of an “operation” idea.
After we work out the idea, after we have dramatized
and played it, prayer steps in and completes the work.
Nevertheless,
the
Substance removed in the operation was already perfect
and exactly like the
new-grown Substance we use in physical healing.
Unless we have cut out the idea as well, it will grow
again, perhaps in another form. An idea that determines
the mold
causes any disease
or “growth” into which we pour Substance. Doctors and
hospitals are only agents the Father uses to rid subconscious mind
of fear ideas so great that nothing else can erase them.
When we have a change of heart or reconsider old ideas,
the One Power can finish the healing. Only we can cure
ourselves
of disease
ideas.
God’s Healing Power cannot work until our desire for Light
or a cure is strong enough to reach the Light. Until we fan the spark
of desire into a flame, the same old game of “up and down” will
continue.
The flame of desire in the heart consumes old ideas,
and reaching ever higher, soon contacts the down-pouring
white
Light of
the Christ. In an instant, Light makes all old things
new.
“
Forgetting those things behind” is turning from the dark to
the Light, which is “getting” Light from above “for” healing
instead of more darkness of confusion. When we never again consider
the past, we forget it.
To get the new for the old seems simple, doesn’t it? When we “let
go and let God,” we find ourselves suddenly so filled with
life that we forget any old weakness, we are cured.
Waiting for God to heal us, asking God to heal us is
not enough. We must so desire healing that it means
more to
us than our
need for air, food or drink.
“
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your might.” This means loving with
the whole Living Soul, the combined subsoul, egoic soul and Oversoul
acting as the Three-as-One. Not with part of our mind part of the
time but all our mind harnessed in twenty-four-hour-a-day service
with strong, continued, determined effort to lift all emotional Desires,
Imagination and Thinking.
Then Power expresses as activity in the physical cells.
Our metabolism speeds its functioning. As our bodies
tear down
old cells, it
builds new cells in their place. This rebuilding works
as a lengthy earth
process or by a quick heavenly process called instantaneous
healing. We make the body whole and perfect after the
original design
in God’s
image and likeness.
Power is Divine Action, Divine Activity and all the
passive waiting in the world will not take its place.
We “wait upon the Lord” in
the sense that we know, even when we cannot see that
Divine Law is working in us and through us, both to
will and to do.
Ignore
the Appearance and “Act
as If”
Ignore
the outer “seeming” of
appearance according to earth understanding and allow
faith to wait upon the Lord in the
High Place. Establish soul consciousness in the Oversoul’s
heart center of poise while your lips form words
of praise. Send prayers of ever more love in ever-increasing
gratitude.
Believe you now have what you desire and have asked
for or decreed as God’s will for you. This is letting Power act
as you. Mind-Substance
used as thinking and planning begins its perfect work at once under
Divine Law.
Power-Substance begets action, faith as the “substance of things
hoped for” that the cells themselves use to build or rebuild
into the body or affairs. We operate under the Trinity of fundamental
Principles and apply just One Substance of healing to all life and
its forms.
Only two actions are possible to Substance – we may raise or
lower its rate of vibration. When we raise the
rate of vibration, Substance expands until it passes beyond visibility
(from ice to
steam). When we lower the rate of vibration, Substance
condenses and absolutely crystallizes into form (from steam to ice).
The only
alternatives possible in any healing are raising
or lowering the rate of vibration of Substance.
Balancing
the Inner and the Outer
A
clear distinction lies between the inner and the outer. Any illness
or unlikeness to God is
an altogether
lowered
rate
of vibration
we cause by closing our “outer” body
to the great “inner” River
of Life. We form our physical body of the One
Substance vibrating at a lower rate than Mind.
Therefore, we must consider the physical
in any healing.
Fever is an outer vibration of some cells vibrating
too rapidly for the rest of the body, which
registers as
confusion, congestion,
irritation,
inflammation or some sort of eruption. In all
cases of mental confusion, fevers and congestion
of cells,
the
inner vibration
must be physically
lowered to outer stillness. Simultaneously,
the white Light of the Christ lifts the whole
body’s rate of vibration.
For instance, an imbalance of Love and Wisdom
manifests as an imbalance of alkalies (bases)
and acids in
the physical glands
and their
secretions. So, we regain a normal body balance
(60% alkaline and 40% acid) by
rightly using the food substances provided
by the One Mind.
Energy
Conversion
Life
consists of taking that which is not self and using physical processes
to convert it
into the physical
body
in the renewing,
rebuilding processes of cells. This is
our perfect share in working out our
own salvation while we wait upon the Lord
in the high place. We must breathe the Holy Ghost
to renew
the
spiritual activity
in
every cell
or we have no life. Our bodies use everything
we eat and drink as Energy and Substance
for rebuilding
the
body temple.
All quickening, vitalizing Power comes
from above. When we separate the inner
from the
outer, we
lower the rate
of vibration
of our
body, affairs or consciousness into the
static ice stage. When we refuse
to accept the outer physical as the Divine
Process for creative life on earth, when
we want to leave
it all
to God, we most
surely lower
the rate of vibration of our Substance,
physical-material body or affairs, toward
lifelessness.
The Neophyte’s vow is to make the body a fitting dwelling place
for the soul. Many lesser vows, including breathing, drinking water
(at least two quarts a day, besides other liquids and what we use
in bathing), resting, including diversions, re-creation and sleep
and exercise come under this.
When we fail to observe these lesser Neophyte
vows, then the body automatically responds
to the physical
Trinity
of Emergence,
Maturity
and Decline (a Trinity of Earth Urges).
Condensation of Substance in the cells
is why elderly
people shrink in
size.
Lowering the rate of vibration and condensing
Substance causes the process of “from
him who has not shall be taken away even
what he has.” If it is too much trouble
to live in proper obedience to Neophyte
vows, our body will automatically respond,
the rate of
vibration will lower, the cells condense
and the ice stage inevitably descends.
This lowers the rate of vibration of brain
cells and memory,
thinking and other processes slow. This
creates a debt to Law.
Healing
Is “Letting”
We
do not need descension. All we need do at any place along the Path
is to
become aware
that being
healed
is possible.
Healing is “letting” the
Mind of God operate as our thinking and
planning. Healing is “letting” the
Power of God quicken us into a Divine
Desire for activity. Healing is “letting” the
Substance of the Spirit vitalize the
very cells into the ability to change.
Letting is the cleansing,
purifying process of Spirit.
The thinking and planning phase of “letting” changes
subconscious habits of illness, lack or any limitation into a flaming
desire to be whole. “Letting” in turn opens the physical
cells or affairs to the Power-full recreation of their Substance
into perfection.
Once we free subsoul or subconscious
mind of all old memory impressions
of falseness,
darkness
and
repressions,
nothing
earthly can penetrate
our barrier of Light to touch us or
move us. Then we may say with the full
soul-conviction
of all
truth “none of these things
move me,” for we no longer have any affinity for them. Light
attracts only Light.
If old thoughts and fears arise for
lifting while we are praying, we instantly
stop
and lift them.
The secret
of
freedom is never
again to try to close these old ideas
into the subconscious “dark
room.” Lift the old into the Light, and continue lifting while
such thoughts come into the conscious mind. Until we completely erase
them from memory, we will remember them. We forget old thoughts and
fears when we completely erase them.
What pays our spiritual debts? Sublimation,
cleansing and lifting subsoul, making
right all our old
records. We make
(transmute)
all past darkness into Light while
lifting our subsoul to become One
with our egoic soul. Thus, we become
a Creator-servant of the One Mind,
One Power
and One Substance.
Mind, Power and
Substance
are
perfect. We shall become so when we
let them use us.
Free the past. Let it come up. Lift
it up. Let God use you in the present.
Praise
up.
Then shall
your
future
be as bright
as
all
your highest dreams of glory!
