Joel S. Goldsmith - Metaphysical Healing

H ealings are always in proportion to our understanding of the truth about God, man, idea, body. Healing has nothing to do with someone out there called a patient. When anyone asks for spiritual help or healing, that ends their part in what follows until they acknowledge their so-called healing. We are not concerned with the so-called patient, the claim, the cause of the illness or its nature, nor with his sins or fears. We are now concerned only with the truth of being the truth of God, man, idea, body. The activity of this truth in our consciousness is the Christ, Saviour or healing in fluence.

Failure to heal is the result of much mis-knowledge of the truth of God, man, idea, body, and this mis-knowledge stems primarily from orthodox religious beliefs which have not been rooted out of our thought. Few realize to what extent they are blinded by superstitious or thodoxy.

There is only one answer to the question, What is God? and that answer is I AM. God is the Mind, the Life of the individual. Any mental hedging or inner reservation on this subject will result in ultimate failure. There is but one universal I whether it is being spoken by Jesus Christ or John Smith. When Jesus revealed: He that seeth me seeth him that sent me, he was revealing a universal Truth or Principle. There must be no quibbling about this. You either understand this truth or you do not and if you do not there is no need for you to seek any further reason for failure to heal. The revelation of Jesus the Christ is clear. I am the way, the truth, and the life. Unless you can accept this as a principle, therefore as the truth about you and about every individual, you have no foundation upon which to stand. The truth is that God is the Mind and Life of the individual. God is the o nly I.

Next comes the question, What is man? and the answer is that man is idea, body, manifestation. My body is idea, or manifestation. Likewise my business, home, wealth these exist as idea or manifestation, expression, reflection. For this reason and for no other my body is the exact image and likeness of my consciousness and reflects or expresses the qualities, character and nature of my own consciousness of ex istence.

So far then we understand that I am God; that God is the Mind and Life of the individual; that my body exists as the idea of God. God, or I AM, is universal, infinite, omnipotent and omnipresent; therefore, the idea body is equally indestructible, imperishable, eternal. It was never born and will never die. I shall never be without the conscious awareness of my body; therefore, I shall never be without my body.

When we look out upon the world with our eyes we are not beholding our bodies, we are not seeing this infinite divine idea body, we are beholding a more or less universal concept of the idea. As we see a healthy body, a beautiful flower or tree, we are seeing a good concept of the idea body, flower, tree. When we see an aging, ailing body or withered flower or decaying tree, we are beholding an erroneous concept of the divine idea. As we improve our concepts of idea, body, manifestation, we term this improving of concepts, healing. Actually nothing has happened to the so-called patient or his body the change has come in the individuals consciousness and becomes visible as improved belief or healing. For this reason the healer alone must accept responsibility for healing and never try to shift the blame for non-healing onto the person who asked for help. That individual is I AM, Life, Truth and Love, and his body exists as perfect spiritual eternal harmonious idea subject only to the laws of Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit and it is our privilege, duty and responsibility to know this truth and the truth will make free every person who turn s to us.

As individual, infinite spiritual consciousness, I embody my universe, I embody or include the idea body, home, activity, income, health, wealth, companionship, and these are subject only to spiritual law and life. The body is not self-acting, it is governed harmoniously by spiritual power. When the body appears to be discordant, inactive, overactive, changing, paining, it is always the belief that the body is self-acting; that it of itself has the power to move or not move, to ache, pain, sicken or die. This is not true. The body is not self-acting. It has no intelligence or activity of its own. All action is Mind action, therefore omnipotent good action. When we know this truth, the body responds to this knowing or understanding of Truth. No change then takes place in the body because the error never was there. It is entirely exchanging a concept for the truth that already is, always has been and ever will be. Remember there is no patient out there and nobody out there to be healed, improved or corrected. Always it is a false concept or belief to be corrected in individual thought.

When we begin to understand that the body is not self-acting; that it responds only to the stimulus of Mind, we can disregard so-called inharmonious bodily conditions and abide in the truth that Life is forever expressing itself harmoniously, perfectly and eternally as the divine ide a, body.