Page 109 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

I am not giving you a new doctrine nor am I forcing upon you any
new or old authority for this would be a limitation. The main thing is to free
yourself from all that frustrates you in the present, and to do this effectively

it is necessary to question the things that you hold dear and precious, so that by
inviting doubt you will be able to discern what is real and what is not real,
so that only that which is of true value will remain.
The fact that you have divided Spirit and matter in your mind, you

imagine that Spirit dwells in some far-off unknown locality, and where the
Spirit is there only can happiness be. But Spirit is here and now. It is your
Real self and only lives in the present and is the cause of all activity. When

this is understood the way to happiness is opened.
If you ignore the physical or material and live in the ‘theory’ of a
separate life in the Spirit in some far-off place unknown, you can never help the

world you are in.
Life is One, you cannot divide It, there is no ordinary or extraordinary
Life. Immediately you try to divide Life you are caught up in limitation and

frustration. You cannot divide Life into that which is manifesting and that
which is un-manifest, for it is the same Life. You cannot separate the Life
in you from the Life in God, for there is but ‘One’ Life and ‘one’ God.
You cannot divide the inner from the outer or the outer from the inner,

or the visible from the invisible nor can you separate cause from effect, when
you have understood this then the way to happiness is opening up to you.
Form is not Reality but Reality is the cause of form and is within and

behind all form. To attain to true happiness you must not seek the form itself
but realise the Life that is behind and within all form, and it is this Life which is
Ever-present.
The “present” to the troubled heart is freedom. Bondage is living in the

past or future. Realize the present then you will know that it is physical laws
that make good and evil realities, when in themselves they are but images in
the mind. We are told that we must let go of the Tree of Knowledge of Good

and Evil and cling to the Tree of Life that will become to us as a Spring of
Living Water rising up to Eternal Life.
Life remains Itself no matter in what form it expresses Itself, yet the

form is not separate from Life for the manifestation is but the Living Energy
of that Life. When this is known, solid matter no longer is to us just a piece of
something, but is the expression of the Life that is within ourselves. The

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