Chapter 21
THE SUPERMINDCharles Fillmore
Teach Us To Pray
I join with all the hosts of heaven in declaring that only the good is true, and that good health everywhere is made manifest.
The rich substance of the kingdom of God is pouring its plenty perpetually into my mind and affairs, and I am in all ways prospered.
THAT MAN in his spiritual nature is leagued with supermind realms is taught freely in the Scriptures and can be proved to the satisfaction of anyone who will submit to the required mental discipline. That these supermind forces are not always used to bring about good is no argument against their existence. Anyone who develops spiritually in any way breaks into realms of thought energy superior to the intellectual and can incite to action subtle causes that mystify the average on-looker. For this reason every Christian metaphysician should acquaintance with these facts about the supermind, which occupies so great a place in Truth demonstrations.
The question is often asked if the Indian medicine man or the African witch doctor uses the same force that the Christian healer does. The answer is yes. There is but one primal life in which we all exist and which we use as we will. The way in which we project this force determines whether we are Christian or pagan. If our thought is to destroy, we are pagan. If our thought is for peace, we are Christian. This law is operative not only in the nations but in every individual. As we are taught in our Bible, God originally guided man to think good only; but man was tempted and chose to be free and think for himself. This freedom threw the whole race into a mental vortex of “good” and “evil,” hate and love, war and peace. Christ is the Prince of Peace and Satan is the devil of destruction.
These good and evil states of consciousness form the heavens and the hells of the race, and we go in mind to heaven or hell every time we mentally project the thoughts that “chord” with that particular state. Only a supermastermind can overcome this law of mental affinity and set up in our earthly discordant thought atmosphere a consciousness of peace and love. Jesus was able to do this, and when we think of Him, the Christ in us “tunes in” to the Christ in Him and we are saved from the destructive forces that tear soul and body asunder.
The mental harmony of Jesus not only radiates throughout the earth but reaches into the heavens, where it taps the glory of the Son of God. When we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ or decree His presence and power in our spiritual work, we effect a reunion with His supermind and its tremendous ramifications in heaven and earth, and our own meager spiritual ability is augmented a thousandfold. Jesus understood and used this law of thought affinity when He claimed that the works He did were not His but the Father’s within Him. It was in this consciousness that He proclaimed, “All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.” He also affirmed a like spiritual unity for His disciples and for all those who proclaim Him as their spiritual leader. His last promise was “And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” This is found in the 16th chapter of Mark, where it is also written, “And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.”
Peter and John developed marvelous healing power when they spoke the magic words to the lame man at the gate Beautiful: “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” “And immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received strength. And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk.”
For two thousand years those who have had faith in Jesus and proclaimed their faith in His name have had proof that He is present as a dynamic life-giving force. Men and women with no previous healing power have suddenly become healers of marvelous ability. They do not claim to understand how the healing is done. They know only that through the exercise of faith and their word the spiritual quality in them is fused into unity with the power of Christ and the work is marvelously accomplished.
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