Christian Healing

...fail to trace back to the Causing Mind the many symbols that make up the visible universe. The material forms we see around us are like the chalk marks of a great problem being solved by the One Mind. To understand that problem and catch even a small glimpse of its meaning, we must grasp the ideas that these chalk marks represent. This is what we mean by studying the Mind behind Nature. Humanity is mind, and we are capable of understanding the plan and specific ideas of the Supreme Mind.

Divine Ideas are humanity's inheritance—ideas full of every possibility, because ideas are the foundation and cause of everything that we desire.

With this understanding as a foundation, we easily perceive how "all that is mine is yours" original: "all mine are thine." This is a reference to John 17:10, suggesting that the resources of the Divine Mind are fully available to the individual.. All the ideas contained within the One Father Mind are at the mental command of every child of that Mind. Go behind the physical object into the mental realm where it exists as an inexhaustible idea; then you can draw upon it forever and never empty the source.

With this understanding of the potential of the Primal Cause The "Primal Cause" refers to the original source or first principle of all existence, identified here as God or the One Mind., we find it a simple matter to solve the problem of life—the key to the situation being ideas. Thus, life as it is expressed is activity; in its essential Being, it is an idea of activity. To make life appear in the visible world, we only need to open our minds and thoughts to the Divine Idea of life and activity, and behold! all visible reality obeys us. It is through this understanding, and its practice in various degrees, that people have acquired...