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Unless we work from the consciousness of
the universe being one whole we shall never understand the bits that it
includes. We read the other day an article from a South African newspaper
saying that Smuts' philosophy of holism is very relevant for the problems of
society today, because it is only by working from the ideal of wholeness that a
proper allocation of the parts within the whole can possibly be brought about.
It is not a matter of trying to get bits to come together that makes harmony
but working from the whole in consciousness.
When you transgress the law and you are
brought into the law court you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. It is as though human law recognizes that just saying
truth is not enough, it has got to be whole, and it has got to be nothing but
the truth.
"1 will restore health unto thee .. saith
the Lord," (Jer 30:17). I will restore health, wholeness, totality. In that
wholeness of Truth our bodies, our affairs, are not many little bits. Our body,
for example, is one coordinated, harmonized, compound whole, in which
everything fulfils the purpose for which it was intended within the collective
totality. It is always an integrated whole.
At one time when we were in California,
we had a dramatic experience of this point. As a boy was leaving for school one
day, he slammed the door but left his finger in the door and it was severed.
His mother took the boy and the finger and rushed to get the doctor to sew them
together again, because sometimes, if they do this quickly, it will knit. The
boy's mother was not a Christian Scientist, but the grandmother was, and she
telephoned to ask me to help her to maintain her thought at a point of
spiritual peace during this experience. She told me what had happened and I
said, 'Well, there comes into my thought Jesus' words, Thou art made whole
'Oh,' she said, 'made whole, of course, we are made whole if we are made in the
image and likeness of God.' So we stayed with that, the grandmother and I. In
the meantime the doctor sewed on the finger and day by day the mother took the
child to have it dressed, and the finger got blacker and blacker, and at the
end of the week the dead tip came away with the bandage. Everybody was pretty
sick at heart because neither the doctor's skill nor the grandmother's
Christian Science had been effective in this case. But that very weekend the
whole family were together and they were amazed to see, under their very eyes,
a new finger grow up. They saw the white of the bone come up first, then the
flesh formed, and then the nail. I t is very encouraging to have healings like
that, but what was really interesting and instructive to us all was to see how
and why the healing happened. By trying to stick two broken bits together there
was no healing. But by working from the consciousness of the wholeness of Truth
which declares to man, "Thou are made whole," then the healing could come
about. That is surely the same principle on which Jesus heals the man when he
says to him, "Wilt thou made whole?" and then, "Behold, thou art made whole"
(John 5).
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