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In the healing work one often finds that
certain kinds of tumours are nothing but a great build-up of morbidity.
Somebody might feel deprived of love or deprived of recognition all through
life, and feed their thought on this sense of being deprived. I saw a woman
once with an enormous tumour, which was really so big that you would think she
was just about to be delivered of a child. Her sister persuaded her to come
along and have a talk saying, 'Well, you might as well die under him as under
the doctors,' which was cheerful! She came and had a talk and she told me this
long tale of how life had robbed her of her happiness, her sense of
contentment; everything worthwhile had all been taken from her bit by bit.
Feeding her thought on that grief had just built up and built up it had
literally become a 'child' in her womb, a lump of grief, of discontent. So when
we talked together I asked her, "How did you know that contentment and joy and
satisfaction were yours if you had never actually experienced them in human
life?" 'Oh,' she said, 'I suppose they must have been in me anyway really'
those things.' Then she asked, 'Do you mean I didn't really need to go through
all those periods of loss and sadness in order to discover that my God-being is
complete and satisfied and content?' I said 'Well, I don't know if you needed
to or not, but the fact is that what you really are is built into you from the
beginning.' 'Oh,' she 'How wonderful,' and in a little while she said, 'I know
I am healed' She went home and I heard from her in a day or two that the tumor
had dissolved back into water or whatever it was made of, and just passed out
of the system. To paraphrase the twenty-third Psalm, her soul was restored.
These things can happen because our true
selfhood, or soul,is not ours; it is because God is Soul. God being the Soul of
man means that we are, in reality, the embodying of contentment,of
satisfaction, of tranquility and poise. Just like the television screen that
has violence thrown upon it, and yet it never registers or becomes part of the
screen itself; it is all gone in a wink. So our selfhood in Soul remains
untouched by what the world throws at it. The rule of Soul is that our divine
selfhood is undisturbed, self-complete. It is a selfhood that springs from the
very selfhood God. Now that is a spiritual law, and we can all invoke it.
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1989
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