Editorial March 10, 1973 Issue

"Healing through ..."

Carl J. Welz

In this issue we present the last of fifty-two short articles on "Healing." They tell of some of the ways in which the inspiration of divine Love can lead us to apply the truths of Christian Science.

People often ask, How do you heal? What do you do? Is there more than one way to give a treatment? Because of the constant flow of glorious spiritual ideas from Mind to man the ways to pray in Christian Science are numberless. But they are identical in substance. Praying for a healing by acknowledging the allness and goodness of God, for example, is rightly done from the same basis as praying by denying the reality of error. In either case by expressing the consciousness of spiritual reality our denials and affirmations, specifically as well as generally, destroy the error in question. In every case, spiritual sense overcomes material sense, and because of this the method of treatment can be understood by anyone who reaches out to divine Mind in enough humility to have his human thought spiritualized.

The reaching out may take form in many ways—some examples are a desire to escape the suffering that results from believing in material personality, a longing for a more permanent sense of Life and intelligence, logically reasoning one's way out of the finite into an understanding of the infinite, or simply feeling a love for Truth. The reaching out is always individual, and the spiritual sense that appears as a result is individual, as is the method one seems to employ in applying the truth that comes in response to the reaching. Different ways of praying are human ways of viewing the one divine way—the truth of the one Mind and its perfect manifestation, man. The infinite variety of good appearing in human experience illustrates and demonstrates the infinitude of Mind.

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