Healing throug your own Strength
The Third Testament - Chapter 43 - Illness, Heiling and Renovation
Healing through
your own Strength
8. You ask that I heal you, and
truly I say there is no one better than you yourselves to be your own doctor.
9. What good would it do if I
heal you and remove your suffering, if you do not withdraw from your errors, sins,
vices and imperfections? It is not pain that is the origin of your ills, but your
sins. Behold there the origin of suffering! Fight against sin, withdraw it from
you, and you will be healthy, but that is for you to do, I only teach and help
you.
10. When through your conscience you
discover the origin of your afflictions and establish the means to combat it,
you will feel the Divine strength in abundance, helping you to triumph in the
battle and win your spiritual freedom.
11. How great will be your satisfaction
in feeling that through your own merits you were able to liberate yourselves
from pain and also win peace. Then you will say: O My Lord, your word was My
balsam, your Doctrine has been My salvation! (8, 54 - 57)
12. My people, the true healing balsam
that is able to heal all illnesses originates from love.
13. Love with your spirit, love
with your heart, and love with your mind, and you shall have strength enough to
heal not only the illnesses of the body or to give consolation for small human
miseries, but will also know how to resolve the spiritual Mysteries and the
great anguish, confusion, and remorse of the spirit.
14. That balsam resolves the
great trials, illuminates, calms sorrows, and melts away the chains of
oppression.
15. Men who have been brought to despair
by science shall return to health and life with the touch of that balsam; the
spirit that has parted shall return at the word of love of the brother who
calls. (296, 60 - 63)
16. Abolish pain. The life I
created is not painful; the suffering comes from the disobedience and faults of
the children of God. Pain is a characteristic of the life that dissolute men
have created.
17. Elevate your gaze and
discover the beauty of My works; prepare yourselves to hear the Divine concert.
Do not exclude yourself from the feast. How will you participate in that delight
if you isolate yourself? You will live sad, tormented, and sick.
18. I wish you to be harmonious notes
in the universal concert. I wish you to understand that you sprang from the
source of life, and that you feel My light is in all consciences. When will you
come to the maturity necessary to say: "Father, subordinate My spirit, as
well as My will and My life, to Yours?"
19. Do you understand that this
you cannot see while your senses are sick and your spirit selfishly isolated
from the path.
20. You live under the torment of
illnesses, or of the fear of contracting them, and yet, what is a physical illness
compared to an error of the spirit? Nothing, if the spirit knows how to raise
itself up; for in My charity you shall always find help.
21. Just as the blood runs
through your veins and gives life to the body, so too the strength of God, like
a torrent of life, passes through your spirit. There is no reason to be ill if you
comply with the law. Life is health, joy, happiness, and harmony,and being ill
you cannot be a
storehouse of the Divine goods.
22. Whether unhealthy in mind, heart,
or body, the Master tells you to ask your spirit, which is a child of the Almighty,
to return to the path, to heal your ills and help you in your weakness. (134,
57 - 59)
