CHAPTER XIX
THE SCOPE OF HEALING
The Law of Destiny
A large and increasing number of medical men are
now convinced that thelaw of destiny is an important
factor in producing disease and retarding recovery,
though they are not believers in the fallacy of an
inexorable fate. They recognize that God does not
willingly afflict us nor aim to get even with the
transgressor; they understand that all sorrow and
suffering are designed to teach us lessons which we
would not or could not learn in any other way. The
stars show the period estimated as requisite to teach us
the lesson; buteven God cannot determine the exact
time nor the amount of suffering necessary; we,
ourselves, have a prerogative,for we are divine. If we
awake to our transgression and commence to obey the
law before the stellar affliction ceases, we are cured of
our mental, moral, or physical distemper; if we persist
to the end of one stellar affliction without having
learned our lesson, a more inimical configuration will
enforce obedience at a later time.
Cancer and consumption are seemingly incurable,
yet there is always a possibility that they may yield,
and they certainly will yield, if the force directed
against them is sufficient. Like all other physical
manifestations, they are the result of a spiritual cause,
and if we can get at that, offset it with something of an