Article April 3, 1943 Issue

The Science of Being—Its Relation to Healing

MAURICE W. HASTIE

When our Master, Christ Jesus, did his glorious healing works, he proved that the understanding of man's spiritual perfection removes the illusion of disease and error and brings to human apprehension the harmony of man in the Science of being. Spiritual healing is the demonstration of the truth of being. In place of mortal mind's false concept, the divine idea is proved to be present and supreme.

When Jesus healed a blind man, he did much more than destroy belief in blindness; he emphatically demonstrated the unchangeable spiritual faculty of vision. Jesus said to the blind, "Receive thy sight." It was as much as to say: "You have sight. Receive what is always yours and what is already here. Receive thy sight—already possessed, because already created." And he who was blind received—accepted without delay or argument—his sight.

Spiritual faculties do not depend upon matter for their expression; they are expressions of Soul, God. Jesus was not changing matter to heal blindness. He ignored matter as power, reality, or person, and insisted on the Science of man's being as all that could be expressed in man or as man. Thus he showed that the spiritual faculties of being are present and permanent, that real sight never departed from man, and that the human need was to have this spiritual fact revealed.

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