Page 410 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

NOVEMBER 1953

ourselves to blame. Whatever our mind accepts, without consideration or
examination, so do we condition ourselves and we will surely out-picture
that conditioning. How necessary then it is for us to be wide awake and

alert, to “watch and pray.”
Our wellbeing exists in that foundation which is happiness, health
and abundance—the Ever-present. When we do not eat of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil we take hold of the Tree of Life which is

Eternal. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is of man’s own growing
and dies with the self, for the self must die before the greater Self comes
into being, for when we cling to Life we have to deny the self. By so doing,

our right thinking produces what we delight in. This is “action.”
We do not have to seek out Reality, It comes directly, silently and
the mind that is capable of receiving Reality is blessed. Therefore health,

happiness and abundance are not created, they are always existing in the
present. To live in the present, which is action, with no past or future which
is “reaction,” this is living in the abundant now which alone is Reality.

It is widely recognised by those who know, that Invisible matter can
be condensed into a solid mass by mind action, that it undergoes chemical
changes as a result of mental changes. So when considering the cause and
cure of any disease, whether it be of mind or body, we must bear in mind

that matter is plastic to our thoughts.
By complete understanding of our mental processes we will be able
to dissolve away any condition that is the result of error.

There is a great difference between words and action. There is what
I call verbal appreciation and then there is real understanding. We all verbally
appreciate that Love, Affection, Goodwill is the only solution, the only way out
of the mess we are in today, and because you are thoughtful you will agree,

but why don’t you act? For the simple reason that verbal response is identified
with the intellectual response and it is only superficial.
Intellectually you have grasped the idea and it remains in the intellectual

level, so there is a division between the idea and action that cannot be bridged.
This is why the cultivation of ideas merely creates counter-ideas. Although
ideas may bring about a revolution it will not be a real transformation of the

individual and therefore of society because you merely react, but do not act.
If we dwell in the intellectual level we merely create ideas, but this
is not action, it is merely reaction. We must examine ourselves to see if we

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