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==Healing==
==Healing==
===Introduction===
===Introduction===
1. Prayer has both aids and witnesses which make the steep ascent more gentle and more sure, easing the pain of fear and offering the comfort and the promises of hope. Forgiveness' witness and an aid to prayer, a giver of assurance of success in ultimate attainment of the goal, is healing. Its importance should not be too strongly emphasized, for healing is a sign or symbol of forgiveness' strength, and only an effect or shadow of a change of mind about the goal of prayer.
1. [[Prayer]] has both aids and [[witnesses]] which make the steep [[ascent]] more [[gentle]] and more sure, easing the [[pain]] of [[fear]] and offering the [[comfort]] and the [[promises]] of [[hope]]. [[Forgiveness]]' witness and an aid to prayer, a giver of [[assurance]] of success in ultimate [[attainment]] of the goal, is [[healing]]. Its importance should not be too strongly emphasized, for healing is a sign or [[symbol]] of forgiveness' [[strength]], and only an effect or [[shadow]] of a [[change]] of [[mind]] about the goal of prayer.
===The Cause of Sickness===
===The Cause of Sickness===
1. Do not mistake effect for cause, nor think that sickness is apart and separate from what its cause must be. It is a sign, a shadow of an evil thought that seems to have reality and to be just, according to the usage of the world. It is external proof of inner "sins," and witnesses to unforgiving thoughts that injure and would hurt the Son of God. Healing the body is impossible, and this is shown by the brief nature of the "cure." The body yet must die, and so its healing but delays its turning back to dust, where it was born and will return.
1. Do not mistake effect for cause, nor think that sickness is apart and separate from what its cause must be. It is a sign, a shadow of an evil thought that seems to have reality and to be just, according to the usage of the world. It is external proof of inner "sins," and witnesses to unforgiving thoughts that injure and would hurt the Son of God. Healing the body is impossible, and this is shown by the brief nature of the "cure." The body yet must die, and so its healing but delays its turning back to dust, where it was born and will return.
