Page 424 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

JANUARY 1954

In ignorance we live in a competitive mentality, we try to grasp Reality
through accomplishment, we create the high and the low, the leader and
the follower, we think of Reality as a reward for righteousness, we think it

can be attained through time and we maintain a constant division, the high
and the low, the successful and the failures etc., etc.
The wise do not think of men in terms of division, the foolish are
caught-up in the social and religious division of man, but those who are

conscious of this division know it to be false and stupid and therefore it drops
from them. The wise see that the misery in the world is caused by division
of man into various groups, the ignorant perpetuate this misery.

We must be aware of this division of man in all planes of exis-
tence,—religious, national, social political and material. The division of
man in any sphere is the result of ignorance, which breeds dependence and

fear. Fear prevents understanding and puts an end to communion, to true
relationship. It is a living death.
Is it not a fact that you turn to others for guidance because of your

inward poverty, you turn to books, to pictures, to leaders to strengthen you? Yet
you are ever in hunger, ever seeking, but never finding. In the Creative Being
of Reality alone is there the cessation of conflict and sorrow, and Reality comes
into being when we have discerned all that is false.

But separation and strife will ever be maintained as long as there is a
“becoming.” This craving to become is born of ignorance, for the present is the
Eternal. The Ever-present is the only Reality, only in the “oneness” of Reality is

there completeness. This is Creative Being and there is no other but the “One.”
Only in right means can Reality be discovered for the means is the
end. The means and the end are inseparable, wrong means will never end
in right means. Only through self-knowledge is there the discovery of the Real.

It does not lie through another. No one can lead you to it, none can deliver
you from your own sorrow. The authority of another is binding; only in utter
freedom from all authority, from all that is false is the Supreme to be found.

To be free we must live in time, timelessly. Then the Divine man will
appear for he is here now in the Ever-present Life through which the Infinite is
operating.

It is only when we understand the false do we realize the perfect
Spiritual state of man. It comes forth of its own free will when there is no
hindrance through separation in man’s mind. Made in the image and likeness

of God we are as we really are.

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