What is Divine Healing?

The power to heal is a gift bestowed by the Eternal Love alone, and if it should seem to belong to the individual healer, it is only because the Divine Love is able to make use of some special faculty with which that one has been endowed.

To heal truly is to get at the cause, which is usually deep-seated in the mind or in the emotion of the individual, and by a true spiritual pathology, to proceed from there outward, driving the trouble out of the vehicle through healing the cause of it in the mind, or in the emotion, or, it may be, in the love-principle, or even in the higher will.

When the mind is distraught, nothing can give it equipoise but the touch of the Divine Hand. We use the simile “The Divine Hand” for the Father-Mother touches through projecting into the suffering mind that which will generate an atmosphere of peace.

The Divine touch reaches the shores of the mind through the generation of such an atmosphere. Nothing can restore equipoise of the mind but the consciousness of your childhood to Him. Doubt is a shadow; and the shadow is the result of deflected polarity in you.

What do we understand by Divine Healing? It means that the whole Being, from the very innermost center to the circumference of the life, becomes touched by the Divine impress, from the Divine, and grows into a state of perfect equilibrium, in which state alone the Divine can be truly expressed within us and through us. Anything that comes short of that vision in its outlook and purpose is so far short of the real meaning of Divine Healing.

Be ye healed! And in life be as His healed and His Healers. From Him, bless all unto healing.

The above excerpts are from the booklet Spiritual Healing, a compilation of writings by J. Todd Ferrier.


The Healing of Doubt

What is doubt? It is the shadow cast by uncertainty. It fills the mind with fear. It is not the Godly fear that is Divine Awe, but the fear which is dread begotten of uncertainty. Many are uncertain of the Mystery within them. They are uncertain of their Childhood to the FATHER-MOTHER. In many, thoughts of unworthiness people the mind when they think of the Path they have taken, and they come to doubt whether such healing can come to them as will bring Spiritual and Divine stability, and bring to the mind that true balance such as will be expressed in perfect trust of the Infinite Love and Wisdom of the FATHER-MOTHER.

When the mind is distraught, nothing can give it equipoise but the touch of the Divine Hand. We use the simile The Divine Hand; for HE touches through projecting into the suffering mind that which will generate an atmosphere of peace. The Divine Touch reaches the shores of the mind through the generation of such an atmosphere. Nothing can restore equipoise to the mind but the consciousness of your Childhood to HIM. Doubt is a shadow; and the shadow is the result of deflected polarity in you. The deflected polarity produces atmospheric conditions that cast shadows which fall upon the threshold of your mind.

Like the disciples of old time in the allegorical story, who toiled all night in uncertainty and caught nothing, you search for the meaning of Life’s experiences; yet it is done with uncertainty. The shadows of doubt are floating from side to side of your mentality. There is a lack of true equipoise in the reality of the vision. The passing circumstances of the daily round affect you, till you are shaken oft-times as those who are upon the Great Sea of Life, seeking but finding not. For, like the disciples who are said to have been with the Master in the little ship (and as told in other beautiful allegories of the Soul in its journey and travail) you forget the Presence who is with you, just as they did so soon after He talked with them. As soon as the spiritual conditions changed, the elemental conditions played upon them, with the result that they forgot Who was with them. Like them you feel the conditions. When these change from a tense spiritual atmosphere to ordinary elemental conditions, you forget Who is with you. Here I mean the Presence; for the Servant is only the vehicle of the Message, and the Message is of HIM Who is the Presence, even the LORD of Being.

“Children, have ye naught to eat that ye sorrow so? Come and dine with Me.” It is the LORD HIMSELF Who speaks. Why be doubtful? Have perfect trust. The Vision of the Presence is with you. When the Light of that Vision falls upon the mind’s shadows, they are chased away. The Vision brings the mind back into a state of equipoise. The mind finds balance in the Reality.

When will you all get to that state of sublime Reality? May it be hastened in you; for then the passing breaths will have no power to shake you as the reeds are shaken by the wind. Even the storm-winds upon the shores of your Life will have no power to make you change to a state of doubt, fear and dread lest the little ship of your Being should be engulfed. For your vision of HIM will be so full, so inwardly resplendent, that you could not doubt HIM any more. Forget not in the hour of your mental travail Who it is that is with you. Try to remember Who it is that is present as the Holy Guest in the very constitution of your Being.

Quotation from the Herald of the Cross Vol. 14 (pp. 3-5) by John Todd Ferrier.
© The Order of the Cross


The allegory referred to above is the “Stilling of the Storm”
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