Practical Metaphysics or The True Method of Healing E-Book

M. J. Barnett

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Practical Metaphysics or The True Method of Healing

M. J. Barnett

CONTENTS

PREFACE

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto yon some spirit­ual gift, to the end ye may be established.”— Rom. 1:11.

To present an old truth in a new form is a privilege cheerfully accorded to all. Truth may assume as many forms as there are varieties of intelligence to receive it.

The fact that the seven notes in music have been presented to us in thousands of combinations, by dif­ferent orders of genius, does not deter us from forming still other combinations with the hope of touching some chord in the human heart hitherto untouched, or of reaching some intelligence hitherto unreachable Every demand creates a supply.

We do not need to apologize for saying again what has already been so well said.

Jesus did not hesitate to offer us truths that had for ages been embodied in the literature of the East. He did not hesitate to give us the Pater Noster as a model of prayer, because Hillel had already offered it to the world before he came. He did not consider it deroga­tory to his teachings to enrich them with literal quota­tions from the Talmud and other sacred books. The whole beautiful life of Jesus was a manifestation of truth, but he did not pretend to create truth. Truth cannot be created. It has always existed. It is here and now to every one of us. If our spiritual vision is not yet sufficiently developed to behold it readily, we must grope for it and find it as best we can, always helping one another in the search.

The wave of spiritual truth that is now sweeping over the western world is bringing refreshment and vitality to thousands of tender and living souls, which, like the green sapling in the tempest, yield to its quickening force. Those, however, who stubbornly deny and defy it, will be only bruised in the conflict, as the dead tree is snapped in twain by the rushing wind.

Those of you who are dead, wake up to life! Life is within you. Summon it forth! The cry of Lazarus, come forth ” is ringing in the air today as clearly as it was eighteen hundred years ago. The Lazarus, the real being, that appears dead but is yet alive, can come forth at the sacred summons. The divine spark that is surely within you can kindle into a flame that shall vivify your whole being. If you have not yet discov­ered that spark within yourselves, search for it with all diligence, and your search will surely not be in vain.

If during the perusal of the following pages certain inquiries should arise in the mind of the reader, we should be happy to receive them, in the hope of being sufficiently illumined from the Source of all Light, to be enabled to reply to them, weaving the reply into the texture of our next work.

CHAPTER I

THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL LIFE

“For with thee is the fountain of life.” — Ps. 36:9.

Metaphysics, as the root of the word implies, is the science of that something in us which is beyond the physical. Metaphysics has too commonly been re­garded as dry speculation concerning the working of mind, and held in reserve as the monopoly of polite scholarship, and in no way referable to practical, every­day life. No knowledge is valuable that is not practi­cal. Nothing is more practical than real metaphysics, which teaches the true relation of that something in us beyond the physical—the immortal part of us — to God, who created us, and to the universe in which we are placed. As we are every moment the creature of God, we are every moment in need of the knowl­edge of our true relation to him. As we are every moment in the universe, we are every moment in need of the teaching that enables us to adjust ourselves to that universe.

Metaphysics is rightly defined to be the science of mind over matter. It teaches the mind to assume its rightful province in dominion over matter. The main­tenance of this true order of life has, in all ages of the world, been proved to result in sanity of mind and body. The great question, then, is how to maintain this divinely established order of our being. It is in no instance done without watching and working, even if accomplished—as it may be — without suffering. With spirit in full command of its servant matter, we are in that condition which brings us into true relations with the Eternal Being, we are in that atti­tude which opens us to the influx of the all-pervading life-principle.

The existence of an ever-present life-principle is universally acknowledged. It is one and the same under whatever name it may be designated; whether it be the “Nature” of the materialists, or the “Od” of Baron Reichenbach, or the “ Vril ” of Bulwer-Lytton, or the Divine Influx from the Lord” of Emanuel Swe­denborg, or the Akasa” of the Adept Brotherhood of India, or any one of that list of names in the book of Hermes: “The Divine Thought,” “The Celestial Ocean” The Ether flowing from Hast to West” The Breath of the Father ,” The Life-giving Principle ” The Holy Ghost

All life, in whatever kingdom it may be found, is sustained from this universal fountain so variously designated; and if at any time matter ceases to imbibe its due supply, it becomes inert and dead. Matter has no life in itself. Our material body is alive, as we say, just in proportion to its capability of receiving from this fountain of life, and it is capable of receiving from this fountain of life just in proportion as it is dominated by that something in us beyond the physical, which in its divine essence is called soul and in its dual mani­festation is called mind and spirit, the intellect and the affections, the male and female principles.

How comforting it should be to think that the power to be wholly alive is all within ourselves, that we can make slight effort and have partial health, or we can put forth all our energy and enjoy mental and physical health in its fullness and perfection.

There is no time when, there is no place in which, this life-principle may not be found. There are only conditions in us which open us to it, or close us against it. It is the atmosphere of the soul, as the air we inhale into our lungs is the atmosphere of the body. It per­meates every crevice and every tissue of our souls, as the physical atmosphere permeates every crevice and every tissue of our bodies, if we permit it to do so. It is above us. It is below us. It surrounds us and presses in upon us on every side. It is even eager to be admitted. It is freighted with divine love, with divine intention to bless and to heal, if we will only allow it to do so.

We have first to believe that this power exists, and then with the turning of the mind towards it grows a faith in its saving efficacy, which faith increases with the working of the power, until it becomes that positive knowledge which opens wide the portals of the soul and makes its atmosphere one with the universal ether.

CHAPTER II

DISEASE ONLY IN MIND

“Not that which goeth into the mouth; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.” — Matt. 15: 11.

Only that which is within us, which is in the mind or in the heart, can harm us. No external thing can gain a hold upon us unless it find some point of affinity within us. All defilement, all disease, arises from within.

Before you can practically set to work to make your body whole by healing the mind, you must at least listen to the great truth that disease originates in mind. All are willing to admit that some diseases are created by a condition of mind, but many assert that other dis­eases are wholly physical; that they are conditions of body irrespective of mind. In what are usually termed nervous ailments, even the materialist can trace the working of metaphysical law, for it lies so near the surface. But the deep and complex causes in mind which just as surely produce the whole list of so-called physical ailments, he cannot discern, for they are further below the surface than his science is able to explore.

We say you must listen to the truth that disease originates in mind; for if you are not yet opened to spiritual things, you cannot be expected to do more at first than give truth an unprejudiced hearing. You cannot be expected to be convinced of any truth through the intelligence of another person. Spiritual truth must come to you through your own spiritual perception, as intellectual truth must come to you through your own intellect. It is the office of the practical teacher to enable you to gain a knowledge of truth by your own practice, and not by the practice of another person. But in order to begin the practice of metaphysics rightly, you must start on at least the sup­position that in mind is the cause of all effect in matter, not necessarily your mind, but some mind or minds. You must, therefore, direct your healing energy exclu­sively to mind, to the entire ignoring of matter. You must regard yourself as only a spiritual being.