Illness And Its Worry
Shall we hear again the words "Verily, I say unto you, rise up and walk"? Many might say "No," but as now all can seek and find, it may be possible.
When one is anxious about someone else who is sick, that is about the worst possible thing that they can do to the individual: to sit by their bedside and say, "I am sorry, dear, I am very sympathetic towards you." That sympathy does not have much strength with it and does not touch anything deeper than the actual brain of the individual, while sitting there the worry element in the subconscious mind can reach the subconscious mind of the patient that needs direct and wonderful help from someone else's soul.
To heal oneself
The one sitting by the side of the bed can heal without saying a word or help the individual to heal themselves, by talking to them that if the soul has love, peacefulness, tolerance, kindness and understanding, that can bring such a lot of light to the soul, the soul itself will heal the body and make all things bright.
The value of these things is without price, and one cannot pay enough money to feed the soul of anyone; the only way one can feed the soul is by being the example of all that is good and not thinking about the self but thinking far more of other people and of the help they need, that will in the end bless the one who fills the need and encourages them.
This does not take away from the giver. There are many people who lean on another because they do not wish to follow any advice that they are given. They feel that if someone comes to them and offers to give them healing that the healer can do it all. The minute one leans life force is taken from the healer and they feel tired; all can build the light, the healing will come in relaxation.
The ten blind men
I would mention very clearly the fact that even the Master himself could not continue with healing for any and everyone if they did not help themselves. There was a need to help themselves from which today we consider that in the atmosphere there is very little healing, there was more at that time until others stopped it. But Jesus himself gave healing to ten blind men. Nine went into the city with their friends, happy and laughing and enjoying the situation with friends and neighbours and relatives and so on.
By so doing it took away the healing that was being given. There was nothing that could be anywise near the healing in the situation that they put themselves into after the healing had taken place. There was one only, one man, and he went for quietness into the local church; there he gave utmost and grateful thanks for what had happened to him, and he sat there and gave thanks within himself until it was solidly in his subconscious mind, and when it was set he went to his home. He did not forget because it was in the mind, then he had to take it in to sleep with him to where he had been able to retain the healing, and there he increased his soul because of what he had done; by increasing his soul, the next day would find him still with good eyesight, but the other nine found that they had been taken back and they were blind again.
They would certainly not blame themselves
Of course they blamed the Teacher, they would blame the healer, they would say he was not very good, they would certainly not blame themselves, and yet the truth was they had killed the healing that had been given to them by what they followed the healing with, losing the backing they needed.
The one dear man thought to bless and thank Jesus for what he had done; thanking God for all that had happened and knowing that it was going to bring happiness and brightness into his life, and therefore to continue to bring that brightness, happiness, contentment, tolerance, patience and all the good things and add them into his soul. His soul would become brilliant with light and the healing would continue so strongly that he could in his turn help others who wanted to know what he had done. He would no doubt tell them, "I was so thankful, I could not help saying how thankful I was."
I cannot stay with you
The Master could not help himself with regard to the situation that people put him in and that could very well be repeated by some people in the earth today. He had fed the five thousand, people were no longer hungry and he had said to them, "Now, I cannot stay with you. I must go and fulfil my inward self so that I can carry on with the work I am doing." He had not said it in so many words to the people who wanted him to heal them and to talk to them in the way that he had talked to them before. They did not want to hear about what he wanted.
He got up and left them; he went to the wilderness to seek comfort, to seek something to feed his soul and to build it up so that he could continue his work. Of course the people had not taken any notice of what he said, they wanted him to come back and to do the healing for them; they did not want to do anything towards helping it and they most certainly would not wish to be obedient to what he asked them to do. 'What good would that do?' so they thought, as many people do today when advice is given.
But - and there is a very big 'but' here - the people did not go. If they had done and they had gone to their home, like the little man did who went and gave thanks in his heart, if they had been thankful for what Jesus had done already and in their heart said they would like to do the same thing, they would like to help the people in the same way that Jesus had and their own subconscious mind put thoughtfulness and created blessing and love, peace and tranquillity, quietness and so on, then by building this up everyone in that crowd that had been fed by Jesus could have been healed. It is as easy as that.
I hope you will get great blessing
It is the way one thinks, and the way one feels that makes all the difference. If we think nothing about the thanks of many things, when we want someone to do something for us, we not only at the time say "Thank you," but do we thank them afterward? Do we when we go to bed say, "Thank you, thank you very much and I hope you will get great blessing for what you have done for me today!" a really blessed peacefulness to give such a message to another person.
By helping people to understand that all things have a start, everything has a cause and when Jesus went into the wilderness to rest and it is said there the devil tempted him, the cause was all the minds of the people who were gathered together, who tried to have Jesus back with them. Jesus had retired to overcome his tiredness of body because he was only a man and his soul could be taken from him by the many people that were thinking about him and drawing from him any and everything they could take.
The devil, it is said in the Bible, could have given him anything. But Jesus wanted nothing and the tempter told him to turn the stone into bread because he was hungry. He answered him that, "I have bread that ye know not of." By that he meant the wonderful feeling of love in his soul - the bread is what nurtured the inward self, giving him strength for what he was able to do for other people.
He did not have to ask the devil for anything at all. The devil promised him that he could have anything in the earth, that all the jewels in the earth could be his. He said he had all the jewels he wanted. No more could be given him. Everything, like mercy, peace, patience, tolerance, contentment, generosity and understanding are all jewels, jewels that will be put to oneself if caring and using the characteristics the jewels represent. If this is not done by the self, they cannot be carried out and therefore there is no blessing that is with them.
It is possible today to follow the teaching of that time. At last, one can follow without being harassed and possibly killed as the Teacher and his disciples were mercilessly treated and died. Many years have passed and that which has been pushed on one side is now open for all to see in those who now are building the soul and find that miracles still happen.
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