by Jules Cern

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True Healing

This was demonstrated in the case of a student of Christian Science who had been suffering for many months with what was believed to be an alarming organic ailment, which at times threatened him with death. It might have been medically diagnosed as a disease of any of the so-called vital organs of the body, as it seemed to affect all of them. But the alert Christian Scientist does not submit to a medical diagnosis. Christian Science shows that disease is never a condition of mortality, but a quality of mentality, a false belief of a so-called mortal mind. Mrs. Eddy states it in these words in Science and Health, "A physical diagnosis of disease—since mortal mind must be the cause of disease—tends to induce disease." Clearly, if disease is magnified in one's thought, it might be magnified in one's experience. Disease is not disintegrated matter. It is degenerated thought. It is basically a false thought that man is a mortal in the first place, to sin, suffer, and die, in the second place. Therefore, it is never physicality which needs healing, but mentality.

Conclusively, it is not physicality which needs to be diagnosed, but mentality. It is never a clearer concept of disease which is needed. The need is a clearer concept of God, and of man as God's perfect, non-physical, wholly spiritual idea. Christ Jesus stated it concisely in these words, "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." That is, whosoever believes that there is mortal life to save, will believe that there is mortal life to lose. But whosoever relinquishes his false, mortal sense of life for the Christ, the perfect, spiritual idea of Life, shall have it.

Now, the Christian Scientist had been struggling to heal himself of a physical condition. However, the suffering and incapacity had persisted. Then one day it came to him so clearly that he had not gone quite far enough with his acceptance of the truth of being. He thought he had accepted God as infinite Spirit, without a single element of matter or physicality. But—he had not accepted his own true identity as being without a single element of matter or physicality. He had acknowledged infinite Spirit as being All, except right where a physical concept of himself seemed to be. He had been saying that he was God's spiritual idea, but had been believing that he was physical. He had been believing that physicality could be the image of Spirit. He had been believing that he could be an exception to Spirit's being all. But then he realized that there are no exceptions to Spirit's aliness, and no exceptions to man's being wholly spiritual. Thus he saw that he must mentally let go of physicality, good or bad, as a concept of his identity. This did not imply a loss of identity, but freedom from a false concept of identity. When this unfettered and unconfined awareness of Spirit's aliness unfolded, he joyously declared aloud, "Dear God, thank You for being so completely infinite Spirit, I'm going to acknowledge that right here, right where I seem to have a physical body, there is nothing but Spirit—even if it kills me." Well, it didn't kill him. It cured him.

He had left no place for an unlikeness of God in his thought. So there could be no place for an unlikeness of God in his experience. He had wholeheartedly accepted his true identity as a perfect spiritual idea of divine Mind, instead of clinging to an imperfect, physical concept of mortal mind. Many years have passed since that healing, and he has enjoyed continuous harmony and vigorous activity ever since.

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