Healing
by Principle
Edna Lister’s speech for the Opening Session
International New Thought Association Congress,
July 12, 1959, San Diego, California
"In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." "In
the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was
God." Many different schools of thought have given "words,"
which they have claimed is "the Word." One word cannot express
all Principle. "In the beginning" all of God was the Word,
therefore all Principles were contained in the Word as God. When we
really accept and fully understand these statements of truth, we will
need no healing because they are statements of complete perfection
that only ignorance and disobedience to Principle can set aside, or
need healing.
So the Word was a vast Emanation or a composite Vibration of all Principles
and Laws, the same Laws we have been rediscovering for ourselves as
metaphysicians. The Word as God is the Source Principle upon which
we draw for all our healing power. We cannot take Love, Wisdom, Faith
or Joy and set them aside and say "this is the Word." Each
is a Principle, and part of the Universal Principle. All Principle
is the immutable, undeviating, changeless foundation upon which our
healing power is based, as well as the foundation upon which all universes
are established.
Metaphysics and science move along side by side under changeless,
workable Laws. Lincoln Barnett, in "The Universe and Dr. Einstein,"
explains exactly and scientifically what happens when we have had
healing. Scientists at first thought that "mass" was one
kind of substance and "energy" was another. Under Einstein’s
Law of Relativity, they have found that mass, energy and light are
the same substance in different rates of vibration. Mass is slow,
energy is faster, and the Light above that is a high rate of vibration.
Metaphysicians have always known that "God is everywhere evenly
present and available in all His parts, attributes and qualities."
We know that all disease is a stagnation of life in the body cells.
Healing under the Principle of Faith raises the actual cellular vibrations,
"mass" is changed into "energy," and we have a
miracle. Einstein’s mass-energy theory has explained the resurrection
of the body of Jesus. On the Mount of Transfiguration, he showed Peter,
James and John that he could raise his physical mass body through
energy into Light. Every healing we have is a resurrection from "mass,"
the heavy body substance, into "energy." Perfect unconquerable
faith can do this for us now as the "greater works." Do
we believe this? No one is apt to move from mass through energy and
float off as Light for a while yet. We don’t need to worry that
we’ll get "too good" too soon!
The world of science challenges metaphysicians today. Science is doing
the "greater works," more so than metaphysics. What will
we do to equal that? "In the beginning was the Word" of
all Power. Today it is still the Word of all Power. Science calls
this atomic power, and metaphysicians name it the Christed Energy
of Light, and it is pure, unchangeable Principle that cannot fail.
Do we fail? Are we afraid of it? Are we like the timid little boy
who, when asked what he wanted to be, said "I want to be a scarecrow
so I won’t be afraid"? If we hide behind the scarecrow idea,
we find that when we should be standing firmly upon Principle, we
are stuffed with straw instead of fortitude. We need not be afraid
of doing the "greater works" by speaking the Word of the
Power of the "beginning."
The Principle of Faith all truth is not an emotional "bubble
bath," where we get excited occasionally when we hear a sermon,
a lecture or read a book. Nor is it a "mental amendment"
to our past life, where we take it out, think about it or make a trite
statement about it once or twice a day. Truth is no substitute for
anything, but a Principle to live by as an entirely new way of life.
It is a reconditioning, a reconversion into a New Age image and likeness
of God as "in the beginning." It is a surrender of self-desires
and self-will, both moving into the "House of the Lord"
to become the "I AM" of the Christed one. Desire then becomes
intuition, moving "beside still waters" of Spirit, while
will becomes pure illumination of Wisdom and turns itself into the
"green pastures" of growth and cosmic expansion.
Principle already has our passport waiting for us in the House of
the Lord. "I AM" accepts it, and the door opens to all health,
success and glory. Do you believe that this is your "new beginning?"
Now is an escalator moving us up into the House of the Lord where
Principle can recreate again and again what it created in the beginning,
where we stand, in the ultimate Glory, with a youthful, singing heart!
You are as immortal now as you ever will be, for you are formed by
Principle of this one Substance and the "Word was God."
