Editorial January 19, 1974 Issue

Instantaneous Healing

Carl J. Welz

Healings comparable to some of those brought about by Christ Jesus occur today. But generally they are thought of as exceptions to natural law. In fact, with the rapid rise of the material sciences many people find it difficult to accept spiritual healing as a science. A phenomenon of an emotional state called faith, yes, but not the result of fixed laws that can be studied, understood, and applied.

Jesus' healings did set aside what is believed even today to be natural law. But in truth they were demonstrations of law, not exceptions to it. How, possibly, could the representative of the creator contradict the laws of creation? What he did was prove that the conditions he healed were contradictions of divine law. It was disease, decrepitude, sin, death, even a destructive storm at sea, that were unnatural. Through his understanding of divine law he restored the natural health and harmony of man. The conditions he healed were illusions his understanding destroyed—not only for himself but for those who were witnesses to them.

It was Jesus' understanding of the divine Mind that enabled him to change the evidence. And it is the understanding today of this infinite Mind that enables us to heal in the way he did. God is divine Mind. His creation is Mind's infinite idea, and the laws that govern that creation are laws of perfect Mind. Whereas material law, so-called, always involves probabilities and imperfections—health being normal but disease in some instances being normal too—divine law involves only certainty and perfection. The whole structure of what is called material creation is built on probabilities; but divine creation is absolute.

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