Page 190 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

JUNE 1950

What the second says is partly the truth but gives little relief to a person
who knows and suffers agony with no means of eliminating the condition.
So we wander along to a psychologist who looks into our minds, mistaking effects

for causes, trying to find this cause and if the cause is found this ends the
matter.
Still we are just as bad as before because when one devil is released
without putting in the Truth, seven other devils may take its place, so we try

Truth teachers, and some say: “Now I will give you some books to read.” So
we read our troubles into the books and become more confused. Another
will say, “you do not give enough. Open your purse and give and you will be

free.” But this is just exploitation of the ignorant who suffer, and when we
do give, we find ourselves with less, materially, but just the same in regard
to our trouble.

This is exploitation in its worst form and many people are bluffed
by it. But the poor sufferers still have their cages. Some may give us phrases to
repeat but this is just another form of mental hypnosis which wills us into a

false feeling of security from which we must eventually awake.
I hope you see the point I am driving at. It is the freedom of Life and
Life can only be free when the individual; frees him or herself by knowing the
Truth about themselves, by discerning that which is not true and disposing

of it as we would an old coat and recognising then our inner reality and freeing
it from all its cages, no matter what they may be, religious or otherwise.
Error produces error, beliefs produce only beliefs. You cannot substitute

one error for another error or one belief for another belief. Life does not need
any of these things. It is free and wants that freedom of expression that is seen
in the little child, for such as these make up the Kingdom of Heaven—the
Kingdom of Freedom.

If we are uncertain of our own judgment we instantly resort to authority
and tradition. This has the effect of weakening our capacity for judgment and
defrauds it of its true aim.

What we need is to become more and more impersonal so that judgment
becomes freed from entanglements. To become strong and free must not appeal to
authority outside ourselves. We must take sole responsibility for all we do, then

we begin to rely upon ourselves.
We must not run away from suffering, we must know what it is, then
we shall be free from it, and this can only be done by a process of impersonal

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