Answers for your life from the Great Spiritual Masters

Power to Heal

The power to heal can be obtained only as we learn to trace things out from their source. Supremacy over every
discord can come only in the degree that we understand that they do not come from God.

The divinity that shapes your destinies is not a mighty person molding you as a potter molds his clay, but a Mighty
Divine Power—within and all around you and around and in all substance—which is yours to use as you will. If you do
not realize this, you cannot have confidence in yourselves. The greatest cure for in harmony is the knowledge that it
is not from God and that God never created it.

The brain has the quality of receiving and recording the vibrations of any object that the eye conveys to it. The
vibrations of the lights and shades and colors are all recorded. It also has the quality of reproducing these vibrations
and projecting them out again, this time through the inner vision, then we again see the picture the eye has
conveyed. You are reproducing this in your camera every time you expose a sensitized plate. That plate receives and
records the vibrations that the object you wish to photograph sends out. After the vibrations are received and
recorded on the plate, you must fix the results on the plate if they are to become permanent so that you can see
them.

It is the same with thought, word and act. Each selective set of brain cells takes up and records its corresponding set
of vibrations and when these vibrations are repeated and projected, they can be reproduced just as they took place if
the cells are held directly to their duty.

There is also another set of selective brain cells that can receive, record, and fix the vibrations of the thoughts, acts,
motions, and pictures that other bodies or forms send out. These vibrations can be again reproduced and projected
and you can so arrange these cells that you can reproduce the words and motions of these bodies or objects and even
the thoughts of those that send them out. Through these cells you can assist others as well as yourself to control their
thoughts. It is through these cells that accidents and calamities are brought about, such as wars, earthquakes, floods,
fires and all the trouble that mortal man is heir to. When someone either sees a thing happen or imagines it as
happening, the corresponding vibration is fixed in the cells, sent out to be impressed on the corresponding cells of
other brains, then again projected back until the thing is so fixed that it happens.

All these things can be avoided if the thought that sustains them is immediately withdrawn and the vibrations are not
allowed to be fixed upon those brain cells. Those particular vibrations cannot be projected again. It is through this set
of cells that all calamities are foretold.

There is still another set of selective brain cells that receive, record, and fix the vibrations of the thoughts and
activities of Divine Mind, wherein all the true vibrations are created and sent out. This Divine Mind, or God, pervades
every substance and is always sending out divine and true vibrations and, if we hold these cells to their true office,
we are able to receive and send out the same true and divine vibrations that we receive from Divine Mind. We do not
have the Divine Mind, but we have the cells that receive and project the vibrations of the Divine Mind.

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