From – The Master Speaks
by Joel Goldsmith
Excerpt-Chap 2
From original unedited manuscript

Reality of Spirit/White Poodle
Does wrong thinking then appear outwardly as sin, disease and death? No, it does not. It appears merely as an appearance or a belief in that, and you accept that appearance or belief as if it actually were out there. In other words, can a person who is hypnotized into believing that there is a white poodle on the platform, ever produce a white poodle there? No! All the hypnotized thinking in the world will not produce a white poodle. It will only produce an appearance, or belief, which they say is a white poodle. Wrong thinking will never produce sin, disease or death, because there are no such things. You are not a creator. Only God is a Creative Principle, and It only creates in Its own image and likeness. Therefore your wrong thinking and the world’s wrong thinking will never produce sin, disease or death. It will only objectify that belief as an illusory picture like our white poodle, and then look at it and say, “How am I going to get rid of it?” It is not even here. There is no such thing as sin, disease or death. And all the wrong thinking in the world that you can do will not produce any. But the universal belief in a selfhood apart from God does produce these erroneous pictures, which we see as claiming to have substance and law and reality – which they have not. All they are is as unreal as the white poodle that the hypnotized man believes he is seeing. Remember, he is not seeing it. HE BELIEVES he is seeing it.
And there is no way to get rid of that white poodle except to awaken the man out of the hypnosis. How do you do that? One with God is a majority. And if there were one metaphysician in that audience who would laugh out loud and say there is not a white poodle to get rid of (or even think it) that hypnotized man would awaken out of the dream. It is only because all are in agreement with him – the blind leading the blind – that it happens. But if someone would consciously realize that there is nothing here but hypnosis, that would awaken him to the fact that hypnosis is not a power. It is a belief in a power apart from the One Mind.
Therefore, whenever you are confronted with any form of disease, sin, death, lack or limitation, please be quick and realize, “That is a hypnotic picture, and I do not have to do anything about it.” With this you can very well have an instantaneous healing. And even if you do not, your sticking to that truth will ultimately remove it.
We must realize that there is no disease; there is only hypnotism; there is only a hypnotic picture appearing as a disease, which we are accepting in our thought as a disease. Spiritual healing is not using the power of good to overcome the power of evil. Jesus answered the impotent man: “Rise…. and walk” (John 5:18). This was not using a power to heal disease; it was saying, “There is no such power.” He did not use the Power of God to do something to Pilate or to the crucifixion. He said, “Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above” (John 19:11). Then he let them crucify him – and then he proved it.
A spiritual healer is not one who develops a technique of using truth to overcome error; of using treatment to overcome disease. The spiritual healer is a state of consciousness, an individual, who knows that God Alone is the Reality of all Being, and that anything else is a state of hypnosis. And merely the recognition that he is dealing with a state of hypnosis, rather than with a person or with a condition, is the healing consciousness.