existence in your brothers.This strengthens the Holy Spirit in BOTH
of you because it is a REFUSALto acknowledge fear. Love needs
only this invitation. It comes freely to ALLthe Sonship, being what
the Sonship IS.By your awakening TOit, you are merely forgetting
what you are NOT.This enables you to remember what you ARE.
HEALING AND THE CHANGELESSNESS OF MIND
The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities.
It is therefore a means for developing POTENTIALS,which is quite
apart from what the potential is used FOR. THATis a DECISION.
The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that
they need no elaboration here, but the Holy Spirit’s decision to use
the body ONLYfor communication has such a direct connection
with healing that it DOESneed clarification. The unhealed healer
OBVIOUSLYdoes not understand his own vocation.
ONLYminds communicate. Since the ego CANNOTobliterate
the impulse to communicate because it is also the impulse to create,
the ego can only teach you that the BODYcan both communicate
ANDcreate, and therefore does not NEEDthe mind. The ego thus
tries to teach you that the body can ACT like the mind, and is
therefore self-sufficient. Yet we have learned that behavior is NOT
the level for either teaching ORlearning.This must be so, since you
CANact in accordance with what you do NOTbelieve. To do this,
however, will weaken you as teachers ANDlearners because, as has
been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you DO believe. An
inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught AND POORLY LEARNED.
If you teach both sickness ANDhealing you are both a poor teacher
ANDa poor learner.
Healing is the one ability which everyone can develop and
MUSTdevelop, if he is to be healed. Healing is the Holy Spirit’s form
of communication, and the ONLYone He knows. He recognizes no
other because he does not accept the ego’s confusion of mind and
body. Minds can communicate, but they CANNOThurt.The body in
the service of the ego can hurt other BODIES,but this cannot occur
unless the body has ALREADYbeen confused with the mind. This
fact, too, can be used either for healing or for magic, but you must
remember that magic is ALWAYSthe belief that healing is HARMFUL.
7 THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM