Page 370 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

APRIL 1953

We must see clearly that the tempo of life we create mostly on the
material, emotional and scientific planes has increased during the last decade.
The pendulum has swung too far without the compensating balance of a

developed mental and spiritual consciousness.
Thus the destructive mental outlook of the individual has become a
crystallized basis for human reactions. The emotions of fear, envy, greed,
selfishness and vanity, have created a confused mental condition which

prohibits constructive and creative reactions. The result is the slow but sure
out-picturing on the physical plane we see in the world today.
Is it not so that the mass of individuals has created higher false values

of temporal and temporary things while only a few seek with ecstasy and
enthusiasm the peace, love and harmony in Spiritual understanding? But
Spiritual understanding only comes through the process of understanding

ourselves which is not an isolating process.
To “Be” is to be related and there is no such thing as living in isolation.
It is the lack of right relationship that brings about conflict, misery and strife.

If we can create true relationship in however small our world may be, it will
be like a wave extending outwards all the time.
If we can bring about a transformation of our relationship with one
another, not a superficial, but a radical transformation, then we will begin

to actively transform the world which is ourselves. But real revolution is
not in accordance with any particular pattern, either of the right or the left,
but a revolution of values, a revolution of values away from temporal and

temporary things and the influences of environment, to values of that which is
Eternal and Ever-present Reality.
To find these true values that will bring about a radical transformation
and regeneration it is essential to understand ourselves. Self-knowledge is

the beginning of wisdom, therefore the beginning of transformation and
regeneration.
This understanding is spreading to all parts of the world, but it is not

as deep as it should be to become an uplifting force. Because although most
of us are discontented, our discontent is merely a channel to bring about a
certain result instead of setting us aflame causing us to question Life and

the whole process of existence.
Therefore it is more important to us to find these things out for ourselves
because self-knowledge cannot be given to us by another, nor is it found in

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