Editorial February 18, 1911 Issue

THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALING

John B. Willis

There is a sense in which it would be a mark of the highest presumption for any one to say that he apprehends and can explain the operations of Spirit; nevertheless, Jesus' teaching unquestionably warrants the conviction that we may know "the deep things of God."

That the Master had a clear understanding of the divine nature and activities is manifest, since this alone explains his marvelous power to still the waves, heal the sick, and raise the dead; yet, in his letter to the Ephesians St. Paul definitely indicates that, even as Christ Jesus apprehended the truth about his Father, so may we, for Paul speaks of a time when all believers shall come "in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God," that knowledge which the Son of God possessed, "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;" and this knowledge of Truth and its law is possible here and now, for the apostle adds that it is to equip us to "grow up into him in all things."

In thinking of this subject every one is sure to be greatly profited by a study of the inferential significance of Jesus' statement, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," together with St. Paul's declaration, "Henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more." Our Lord could not have made so definite an assertion as the above had he not been assured, first of all, that truth is the universal emancipator; and yet, if we accept his statement, we are thereby compelled to accept the idealistic interpretation of nature as a whole.

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