“And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth,
thou shalt be as the morning.” (Job 11:17; King James Bible Version (KJV).
Condensed Biblical Account of Naaman’s Spiritual Healing: “Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was
a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and
had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman's wife. Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.” And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said
the girl who is from the land
of Israel.” Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a
letter to the king of Israel.” Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at
the door of (the prophet) Elisha’s house.
And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan
seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I
said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to
me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the
leprosy. Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My
father, if the prophet had told
you to do something great,
would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you,
‘Wash, and be clean’?” So
he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of
the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child,
and he was clean. (See complete
account in 2nd Kings, Chapter 5, of the New King James Bible Version
(NKJV). In ancient times, spiritual
healing came into the human experience from a few prophets who practiced its
principles of existence from a spiritual (meta-physical) level of perception, rather
than from a material (physical) level of perception. Despite the passage of time, spiritual prophets
still exist today, in every part of the globe.
We may run across a few such spiritually-enlightened individuals, now
and then; but most of humanity’s belief still clings to the material, rather
than spiritual, level of thought. Now, since material being
is still the belief of the majority
of Earth’s population, spiritual concepts continue to be ignored by the
masses. In other words, the universal perception
of spiritual-healing practices that the prophets, and disciples of Jesus, revealed
to the world more than two thousand years ago, still haven’t been perceived by
the vast majority of Earth’s inhabitants.
Completely
disassociated from any material substance or other agent of change; spiritual
healing is a higher practice than physical science because it doesn’t rely
upon any material substance or fleshly belief to heal. It must only be understood before one can heal effectively with it; for its origins
have always began and ended in the spiritual realm of being, not the finite,
physical realm. Yet, despite the slow
acceptance of this higher way of healing, spiritual healing still awaits
humanity’s full attention. Thankfully,
it has survived the ages, due to those who understand and practice it. Jesus taught his disciples this spiritual
healing practice, but even they had
to learn the principles of this gift, which must be understood before spiritual
healing can be practiced effectively. These
principles begin with one’s perception of the ‘universal Christ’. The universal ‘Christ’ represents the
true, spiritual, identity of each of us, (which never dies) as opposed to
the material, false sense of identity which seems to end with physical death. It is important to know that ‘the
Christ’ is a universal symbol, or term, that applies to all of us. It represents each one’s ever-lasting identity,
as opposed to our temporary, physical-seeming human identity. In this human experience, we only know our
temporary, fleshly name. When we are
fully awakened spiritually, we’ll remember who we eternally are. Until then, we
are to follow the Master, ‘put on’
our own Christ identity, and gradually awaken to our everlasting spiritual
identity, just as Christ Jesus did. Whatever
our own, ever-lasting spiritual name is, I believe we’ll remember it when we fully
awaken from the false sense of materiality, and realize that we had never died,
lost conscious awareness, nor ceased to be. I believe that it was Jesus’s mission to reveal the dual sense
of identity to humanity. By his own
demonstration, he revealed both his temporary, material identity, (Jesus)
and then his ever-lasting spiritual identity (the Christ). Jesus was showing humanity that our material-seeming
‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ identities were the false
material identities; but the universal Christ-identity represents our everlasting,
spiritual identities. By realizing our own ‘Christ’
identity (sleeping deep within the spiritual memory of each of us) we become a
new creature. Our awakening, (over
whatever time it takes) is to leave the false,
material sense of ourselves behind, and take our place as God’s own spiritual
sons and daughters. Spiritual
healing can then occur when we comprehend our spiritual, (rather than fleshly)
selfhood as God’s own spiritual off-spring, safe in the arms of divine Spirit. But, no one knows when each individual child
of God begins to awaken to his and her Christly, spiritual Self. This revelation occurs in each individual’s belief
system, as one’s own perception of
reality changes, from material, to spiritual realization. A few metaphysical
movements and churches around the globe already practice such spiritual healing,
as was taught by the disciples over two thousand years ago. Mary Baker Eddy’s, “Christian Science” movement,
began in the 1800s. The Mother Church
and headquarters still exist in Boston. Joel
Goldsmith began as a Christian Science practitioner, and later developed “The
Infinite Way” movement, which still works out of California. There are several other
movements that have taken some healing principles from these early churches, and
try to mix physical and spiritual methods together. But since spiritual healing depends upon
one’s own belief and understanding of God’s forever, invisible
presence, mixing one’s belief with contrary beliefs is more likely to cause
confusion and be ‘a hit or miss’ proposition…like riding on a teeter-totter:
some days you’ll feel up, some days you’ll feel down. So, if spiritual healing doesn’t feel right for
you, as yet, it’s best to use whatever physical healing method does feel right for you. Don’t give up on any physical methods that
feel right for you, until you fully understand
the spiritual method of healing. Now, when understood and practiced
from a purely meta-physical, (rather than physical standpoint) spiritual
healing has no equal. So, let me tell
you why it works. It works because it is
a paradox. Spiritual healing works
because in the invisible kingdom of God, there is never anything to heal. God’s Kingdom is always harmonious and forever
invisibly present with us, even though we do not perceive it with our limited,
material senses of perception. Nothing has
ever harmed our heavenly home, nor ever harmed even one hair on anyone’s head,
despite all the material evidence to the contrary. No has ever died, or lost any part of themselves. No one ever will. Physical being, whether projecting sickness
or health, is still an illusion of materiality and a false identity. Here’s why any material
sense of being is false belief. The
Bible says, “For in Him, we live, and move
and have our being;” (Acts 17:21; (KJV). But our
true being isn’t in a fleshly form. We
are God’s spiritual children, forever alive and well, even when we physically feel sick, and even when we seem to die. For when we leave this
earthly experience, in what is called death, nothing of us really dies. Our material bodies simply turn into dust and
evaporate, for they were never our true bodies to begin with. We are spiritual, not material
beings. Our substance of body is
spiritual, not material. We’ve always
been spiritual beings. Our physical form
was like a car we drove; but although it may be beaten up from a wreck, we were
still safe inside, because God’s
spiritual children can’t be hurt, or dead.
So, (to repeat) when we ‘pass
away’ from this human (material) life experience, we are still, spiritually,
intact. We are still intact because we
are God’s spiritual children, and we cannot die. Spiritual substance never dies. We are, and always were, spiritual, not
material beings. This temporary time we’ve
spent in this earthly experience has not hurt us; it was like a school, of sorts…or
it’s like going to camp. I’m pretty sure
we are in this earthly ‘school’ experience to learn what TO do, and what NOT
to do. We are God’s own infinite
images and likenesses. We are the divine,
spiritual off-springs. We’re in an earthly dream-state to awaken to who we really are, and what we really are. Here’s a bit more to
digest: It’s my strong belief that, to
advance spiritually, we must learn to be completely
and absolutely non-destructive. For,
the kingdom of God would self-destruct from within if there were any
destructive elements in it. Nothing can
kill, or harm, whatever, nor whomever, God has created. It’s a Spiritual Law to be ever-lasting. This is the reason we’re still asleep in this
material-seeming dream of temporary existence.
We’re living in a collective dream of materiality, until we begin to
awaken from it and purify ourselves of any and all erroneous beliefs that we
may be living with in this human experience. It’s not written down,
anywhere that I know, but I believe that we each have to accept the harmony and
universal Love of God’s creation; otherwise we’ll delay our awakening. We’ll be human dwellers, (maybe for several
human life spans) living with the twins
of good and evil for a long, long time. We have to spiritually awaken to all that is
good, and reject all that is bad, within
ourselves, not the world. For the
world is merely made up of what we all collectively make of it. Human reality must awaken to Divine Reality,
until all destructiveness has been washed away from us. Slowly
but surely, each year goes by with more and more individuals around the globe
perceiving our spiritual, rather than material identities, as individuals
awaken to their own ever-lasting Christly-identity. This spiritual consciousness (called the
Christ Consciousness) sleeps, deep within each of us. It is our very connection with God. Many people will go through
their material, life experience without yet awakening to their higher,
ever-lasting Self. Many other people
will begin to perceive this higher Self within their own deeper consciousness during
this present life experience. Time doesn’t
matter. What matters is that the Christ
Consciousness within us knows when we are ready to pursue any spiritual
path. Whenever we want to advance
spiritually, in any way, that still, small voice will move us in that direction
of spiritual advancement. This innate divine
consciousness within us is our real Self.
So, sooner or later, when most of our material beliefs of wants and woes
fade from our belief systems, we shall all have an awakened consciousness of
our higher Selves, and realize that we were never, really, fleshly creatures to
begin with…we had just believed that
we were. And while we ‘slept’ in our
material dream of existence, with all its good and evil material beliefs, we
were still, always and only, just whom God made us to be. |
