Is Healing Also Spiritual?

Anyone can place seeds in the ground and let themfears can be immersed forever.
grow, but a man would be fully occupied making oneNext is Omnipresence.
seed grow, supervising the complex chemicalSince man has observed the Super Intelligence way
activities necessary to life. To do it for one hundredout in space and at the same time buried in the
or one thousand seeds would drive the best humaninfinitesimal atom, he knows that a characteristic of
being crazy; yet without the slightest effortGod must be Omnipresence.
Omniscience supervises a billion seeds. This is theThe significance of this in healing has been
Wisdom with which we deal in spiritual healing.overlooked. Man can readily grasp the concept of
Since it has the necessary knowledge to build a bodyGod as filling distant space; he can carry this over
out of the common materials circulating in theinto a belief that Super-Intelligence fills the
mother's blood, it certainly has not forgotten howatmosphere of the city, for he sees the stars above;
new cells are built. Sometimes it amazes humanity byhe can make it more intimate by imagining that it fills
doing some remarkable rebuilding without humanthe room in which he is, that it permeates his
intervention after man has done his best and failed.clothing; then he can make it intensely personal by
Usually the prerequisite is a human consciousness thatthinking of it as saturating his hear, his skin,
says, "I believe that ALL the wisdom of God ispenetrating within to the most central cell of his
rebuilding this body now."body. In this latter he is supported by the physiologist
Then is needed a power before which this seeminglywho sees the working of Intelligence in the chemistry
intractable condition is nothing.of a single cell. He calls it Intelligence; we call it Infinite
A person may bring himself to regard a seriousHealing Presence. Does it matter if we call it Nature,
growth as of no more moment than a pimple. Peopleor God?
know that pimples disappear after a short time. As aIn one sense our surrender to illness is a denial of
result, they do not fear them, there is some chemicalOmnipresence. We assist in our healing when we
action or some power which automatically seems todeclare, "Right where that trouble seems to be, God
remove them. They know vaguely that there isis, as the Infinite Healing Omnipresence. Not near, not
some chemical action or some power whichall around, but right in the middle of it, filling that spot
automatically seems to remove them. When they areto the limit so that there is no room for anything
able to lift their awareness to this Power to the pointunlike Itself. I surrender myself, thought and body, to
where even the serious condition is seen to be as nothe flow of Omnipresence.
more than a pimple to the Power, they are fulfillingWe have the feeling that Divine Intelligence must
another condition of healing. It might be stated in thishave other interests besides ours.
way: as long as the fear of the condition outweighsAll the undivided attention of Super-Intelligence is
the knowledge of the Power, there is no healing; asconcentrated on Our problem, as though there were
soon as the knowledge of the Power outweighs thenot another person in the universe, nor a blade of
fear of the condition, healing occurs.grass not a star. One of the secrets of Jesus power
Many 'little' things are healed with a partialwas that he considered himself the only-begotten
consciousness and a weak faith, but from time toSon of the Father; hence it was easy to feel that all
time arise conditions which call for not some but all ofthe Father's resources were at his disposal.
the power of God, because the need for aThere is no secret to healing for its method is spread
consciousness of Omnipotence, in which man's punyacross the face of nature.