SO THE POWER TO DEMONSTRATE
Question—As we reach higher levels in consciousness do we
gain more power to demonstrate?
ANSWER—Undoubtedly. The more inclusive the consciousness the greater its possibility. One can give only what he has; if he wishes to experience more, he will have to become more.
THE WILL AND THE IMAGINATION
Question—What are the relative parts played by the will and the imagination in treatment?
ANSWER—One is just as important as the other. Without direction by the will, imagination becomes mere day-dreaming. The imaging faculty of the mind is creative; it builds and molds, makes the mental form, conceives the desire consciously or unconsciously. When the imaging faculty is used in treatment of illness or inharmony, it recognizes only the true body of perfection which the Perfect Life made. Holding the patient in this recognition of perfection, is the work of the will for his healing. He is consciously connected by the practitioner with his own good.
NECESSITY OF POSITIVE BELIEF Question—Why did Jesus say, "Go and tell no man?"
ANSWER—He knew that the consciousness of the man whom he had just helped could very easily slip back into its negative state by listening to any denial of his healing. His thought, not being substantial enough, might become submerged by negative suggestion.
"RESIST NOT EVIL"
Question—What is the meaning of the saying, "Resist not evil?" (page 50)
ANSWER—Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person. The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly non-resistant. It can wear away rock, and sweep all before it.
When Jesus said: "Resist not evil," he knew the Father to be All, and to be Good; he realized that all the power so-called evil had, was that which was given it by man. Not being a creation of God, it had no real life, no entity, but would affect a man's life so long as he believed in it, as a power. Seeing through evil, or the illusion, to the truth, he counseled non-resistance.
Religious Science recognizes the power of Mind to build according to the belief held in It. Therefore, following the advice of Jesus, it refuses to believe that evil has any reality of its own, but that its only claim to existence is that given it by the belief of man.
Evil is MAN-CREATED, while God, the Eternal Goodness, knows nothing about it. He is too pure to behold evil and cannot look upon it. Evil is the direct and suppositional opposite to good and has no reality behind it or actual law to come to its support. God tempts no man.
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