Is Healing Also Spiritual?

Dr Magne is the author of The Science of Being Wellpower of God, because the need for a consciousness
Home Study Courseof Omnipotence, in which man’s puny fears can
Anyone can place seeds in the ground and let thembe immersed forever.
grow, but a man would be fully occupied making oneNext is Omnipresence.
seed grow, supervising the complex chemical activitiesSince man has observed the Super Intelligence way
necessary to life. To do it for one hundred or oneout in space and at the same time buried in the
thousand seeds would drive the best human beinginfinitesimal atom, he knows that a characteristic of
crazy; yet without the slightest effort OmniscienceGod must be Omnipresence.
supervises a billion seeds. This is the Wisdom withThe significance of this in healing has been overlooked.
which we deal in spiritual healing.Man can readily grasp the concept of God as filling
Since it has the necessary knowledge to build a bodydistant space; he can carry this over into a belief that
out of the common materials circulating in theSuper-Intelligence fills the atmosphere of the city, for he
mother’s blood, it certainly has not forgottensees the stars above; he can make it more intimate
how new cells are built. Sometimes it amazesby imagining that it fills the room in which he is, that it
humanity by doing some remarkable rebuilding withoutpermeates his clothing; then he can make it intensely
human intervention after man has done his best andpersonal by thinking of it as saturating his hear, his skin,
failed. Usually the prerequisite is a humanpenetrating within to the most central cell of his body. In
consciousness that says, “I believe that ALL thethis latter he is supported by the physiologist who sees
wisdom of God is rebuilding this body now.”the working of Intelligence in the chemistry of a single
Then is needed a power before which this seeminglycell. He calls it Intelligence; we call it Infinite Healing
intractable condition is nothing.Presence. Does it matter if we call it Nature, or God?
A person may bring himself to regard a seriousIn one sense our surrender to illness is a denial of
growth as of no more moment than a pimple. PeopleOmnipresence. We assist in our healing when we
know that pimples disappear after a short time. As adeclare, “Right where that trouble seems to be, God
result, they do not fear them, there is some chemicalis, as the Infinite Healing Omnipresence. Not near, not all
action or some power which automatically seems toaround, but right in the middle of it, filling that spot to the
remove them. They know vaguely that there is somelimit so that there is no room for anything unlike Itself. I
chemical action or some power which automaticallysurrender myself, thought and body, to the flow of
seems to remove them. When they are able to liftOmnipresence.
their awareness to this Power to the point whereWe have the feeling that Divine Intelligence must have
even the serious condition is seen to be as no moreother interests besides ours.
than a pimple to the Power, they are fulfilling anotherAll the undivided attention of Super-Intelligence is
condition of healing. It  might be stated in this way: asconcentrated on Our problem, as though there were
long as the fear of the condition outweighs thenot another person in the universe, nor a blade of
knowledge of the Power, there is no healing; as soongrass not a star. One of the secrets of Jesus power
as the knowledge of the Power outweighs the fear ofwas that he considered himself the only-begotten Son
the condition, healing occurs.of the Father; hence it was easy to feel that all the
Many ‘little’ things are healed with a partialFather’s resources were at his disposal.
consciousness and a weak faith, but from time to timeThere is no secret to healing for its method is spread
arise conditions which call for not some but all of theacross the face of nature.