HOW IS HEALING ACCOMPLISHED?
page 19, paragraph 3
HOW IS HEALING ACCOMPLISHED?
III. The Function of the Teacher of God
3 Not once do the advanced teachers of God consider the forms of sickness in which their brother believes. 2To do this is to forget that all of them have the same purpose, and therefore are not really different. 3They seek for God’s Voice in this brother who would so deceive himself as to believe God’s Son can suffer. 4And they remind him that he did not make himself, and must remain as God created him. 5They recognize illusions can have no effect. 6The truth in their minds reaches out to the truth in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions are not reinforced. 7They are thus brought to truth; truth is not brought to them. 8So are they dispelled, not by the will of another, but by the One Will with itself. 9And this is the function of God’s teachers; to see no will as separate from their own, nor theirs as separate from God’s.
Purpose
What a great paragraph! First, we are reminded that there is no difference between the forms the sickness might take. One is not harder to heal than another. The reason this is so is that they all share one purpose. I am reminded of the question, “What is it for?” This is all that matters, not the form itself.
Illusion
Then Jesus expands on what he has said before about how to be helpful. The teacher of God understands that the problem is in the mind not the body. They know that this one has forgotten who he is or he could not be sick. The teacher of God knows that we are always just as God created us and anything else is an illusion and that the effects of illusions are illusions as well. How could it be that one illusion is more real than another illusion? That’s just funny.
Joining Wills
So we help by allowing the truth in our mind to reach out to the truth in our brother’s mind. In this way, the illusion is not reinforced. In this way the illusion is brought to the truth so that it can be dispelled, not by my will overcoming another’s but through the power of God in us. This is our function, to see the teacher’s will is joined with the patient’s will, which is joined with God’s Will.
Extending Love
Here is how this looks in my mind for someone on my prayer list who needs a job:
- In my mind I see her perfection expressed as a skill set that someone else needs.
- The perfect company is being magnetically drawn to each other in my mind.
- She is joyfully joining with that company and the people working there, each to the other’s benefit, in my mind..
It is such a happy picture that I love thinking about it. It is love finding its way to love, expressing itself in the way most useful at this time and in this place.