| Dr Magne is the author of The Science of Being Well | | | | power of God, because the need for a consciousness |
| Home Study Course | | | | of Omnipotence, in which man’s puny fears can |
| Anyone can place seeds in the ground and let them | | | | be immersed forever. |
| grow, but a man would be fully occupied making one | | | | Next is Omnipresence. |
| seed grow, supervising the complex chemical activities | | | | Since man has observed the Super Intelligence way |
| necessary to life. To do it for one hundred or one | | | | out in space and at the same time buried in the |
| thousand seeds would drive the best human being | | | | infinitesimal atom, he knows that a characteristic of |
| crazy; yet without the slightest effort Omniscience | | | | God must be Omnipresence. |
| supervises a billion seeds. This is the Wisdom with | | | | The 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 body | | | | distant space; he can carry this over into a belief that |
| out of the common materials circulating in the | | | | Super-Intelligence fills the atmosphere of the city, for he |
| mother’s blood, it certainly has not forgotten | | | | sees the stars above; he can make it more intimate |
| how new cells are built. Sometimes it amazes | | | | by imagining that it fills the room in which he is, that it |
| humanity by doing some remarkable rebuilding without | | | | permeates his clothing; then he can make it intensely |
| human intervention after man has done his best and | | | | personal by thinking of it as saturating his hear, his skin, |
| failed. Usually the prerequisite is a human | | | | penetrating within to the most central cell of his body. In |
| consciousness that says, I believe that ALL the | | | | this 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 seemingly | | | | cell. 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 serious | | | | In one sense our surrender to illness is a denial of |
| growth as of no more moment than a pimple. People | | | | Omnipresence. We assist in our healing when we |
| know that pimples disappear after a short time. As a | | | | declare, Right where that trouble seems to be, God |
| result, they do not fear them, there is some chemical | | | | is, as the Infinite Healing Omnipresence. Not near, not all |
| action or some power which automatically seems to | | | | around, but right in the middle of it, filling that spot to the |
| remove them. They know vaguely that there is some | | | | limit so that there is no room for anything unlike Itself. I |
| chemical action or some power which automatically | | | | surrender myself, thought and body, to the flow of |
| seems to remove them. When they are able to lift | | | | Omnipresence. |
| their awareness to this Power to the point where | | | | We have the feeling that Divine Intelligence must have |
| even the serious condition is seen to be as no more | | | | other interests besides ours. |
| than a pimple to the Power, they are fulfilling another | | | | All the undivided attention of Super-Intelligence is |
| condition of healing. It might be stated in this way: as | | | | concentrated on Our problem, as though there were |
| long as the fear of the condition outweighs the | | | | not another person in the universe, nor a blade of |
| knowledge of the Power, there is no healing; as soon | | | | grass not a star. One of the secrets of Jesus power |
| as the knowledge of the Power outweighs the fear of | | | | was 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 partial | | | | Father’s resources were at his disposal. |
| consciousness and a weak faith, but from time to time | | | | There is no secret to healing for its method is spread |
| arise conditions which call for not some but all of the | | | | across the face of nature. |