Page 274 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

OCTOBER 1951

Individual existence is imperfection, and this individual existence is
worn down through understanding and constant adjustment. That is why it
is so necessary to put off all theories.

If you are caught up in the rights and wrongs, if your mind is engaged
in things external to the self, you will never know reality. But if you are only
concerned with the present you will express that which is perfect, for Life
knows no wrongs or rights, no birth or death, no distinction or separation,

no past or future. IT IS that which Is and I am that. This is why living in the
present is the secret of success and happiness. You will readily see that this
cannot be reached through theories, cults, creeds, for they are the epitome

of separation themselves.
So it matters little to you now what appears external to you when the
present is realized, because this present is in everything, and what is always

present is that which is eternal and the cause behind all manifestation, with this
understanding, doubt, worry, fear disappear.
The material world is the revelation of the Creative Power, both grow

out of the same source. Visible things are the representation of things invisible
so both come from the same source. When you understand this you will understand
the conditions that surround you, and you will no longer be afraid of them.
To realize the great Creative Law that is Ever-present and by conscious

use of this Law, you can operate upon the Universal substance in co-operation
with the Creator of all things. This reveals a far greater power than any
material possessions external to the self can give.

When the material world appears to the onlooker as the reflection of
the Spiritual world where the idea becomes materialized, the material takes on
a greater significance. Where at one time material conveyed only a substance
composed of atoms it now is seen as an intelligence in expression, an

Intelligence that is Ever-present and responds in exact proportion in the lives of
those who live in the present with the mind free from past or future.
This is pure action, an action that is the result of the release of the

Absolute Life expressing itself in man.
Then man will see that he is one with the Creator and with the same
process he brings forth into his life and circumstances conditions and things that

he desires. But if he fails to understand these things he will eventually create a
series of causes and effects and will be caught up in the illusion of his own
separateness and limitation until he finds the Truth or the Ever-present,

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