What About This Body? – Part 2 of 4
Chapter 9
Let us assume that John Jones has asked for help for a physical condition. He may have mentioned that his problem was influenza, which at that time was raging throughout his community and may have reached almost epidemic proportions. In your treatment, your first recognition is that this is a suggestion of a selfhood apart from God, and that leaves you free to forget the patient and the condition. The entire truth that you know is about God, and the entire treatment remains on the level of God:
If God is infinite being, there is no other being; there is no John Jones-being separate and apart from God. There cannot be God as infinite being and some other being besides God. God is an all-inclusive good and beside that Good there is nothing else.
Furthermore, if God is infinite, God must include all law and be the only law. That eliminates all possibility of any law other than the law of God. Therefore, in the spiritual kingdom, no laws of matter can operate; in that Kingdom, there can be no law of infection or contagion; there can be no laws of material evil: There is only God-law, spiritual law – perfect, complete, harmonious, all-enforcing, and self-enforcing. There is nothing to oppose the law of God, nothing to contend against it. God alone is law.
God is the only life, the life of individual you and me. The life of God can never be sick or weakened, nor can it be subject to external influences of any nature other than God.
Your entire treatment is kept in the realm of God, in the realization of God as individual life, individual mind, individual law, Spirit, substance, and of God as the only cause. If God is the only cause, God must be the only effect; and if God is the only effect, that ends the treatment right there. You have nothing to meet now but God – God as Cause, God as Effect, God as Life, God as Law, God as all true Being.
By means of the first half of this treatment, you have lifted yourself above fear and above the appearance. The appearance was a John Jones with a claim of the “flu,” but by remaining in the realm of God’s completeness, you have long since lost any thought of John Jones and his problem. You are now tabernacling with God and his angels. You have come to the end of your part of the treatment, and you now take the attitude of listening as if you really expected to hear a voice.
Sooner or later there comes a deep breath, a “click,” sometimes a message, but usually something of a nature that brings release. The responsibility is gone and now rests on His shoulders. That ends the treatment as far as you are concerned, and you can now dismiss it because God is on the field, and it is no longer your responsibility.
Six or eight or twelve hours later, John Jones may call and report, “I am feeling worse,” or “I am feeling better,” or “I am completely free.” If he is completely free, that is the end of it. But if he is worse or if he is just the same or feeling some better, you may feel led to give him another treatment. And so you will go back again, not in the same words or thoughts, but always keeping your conversation in heaven, always keeping your treatment on the level of God. Realize the truth only about God because any truth you know about God is the truth about you or me or John Jones. That is a natural corollary of the infinity of God. God is infinite, and, therefore, there is no you or me or John Jones except as, in, and of the Godhead. No one can be outside of God if God is infinite, and being a part of and in God, whatever truth is known about God is the truth about individual being.
End of part 2