THE HEALING CONSCIOUSNESS

We desire not merely to know that such a faith is possible, but to have the faith. It will, I feel sure, be an inspiration to my readers to know that it is possible to use the law of mind not only to secure what we desire, but also to develop the faith by which we speak the word that heals. How many of us have shared the experience of the father who said to the Master Healer,

"If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

"If thou canst!"

echoes the astonished Healer.

"Why, all things are possible to him that believeth!"

"Yes,"

thinks the despairing father,

"to him that believes, but how shall I get this faith?"

Then he cries out,

"Lord, I believe ; help thou mine unbelief. ''

What he really meant was what you and I mean,

"I know it is possible. Help me to know it will be done."

It is to show how faith can be acquired by the same law as health itself that this book has been written. In it, I have told as simply as possible the law of the healing consciousness, showing it to be in perfect harmony with true knowledge and the science of nature and of mind ; showing how results are secured by simply knowing the truth or the law, and how we may use the same law to demonstrate faith itself. It comes out of my own heart and experience, and if it enters helpfully into yours, I shall be glad.

What we are all after is not intellectual persuasion but spiritual realization.

"If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men freely and upbraideth not."

How to Develop
THE FAITH THAT HEALS
By
Fenwicke L(indsay) Holmes,
Los Angeles, Cal., October 15, 1919



(It should be noted that, in this book, "consciousness" is used in two ways. First it means the knower or personal self ; and second, it means that self in the act of knowing or being aware of anything. Healing consciousness, for example, would be knowing health. Says Calkins in "Persistent Problems of Philosophy," page 407, "Consciousness, the personal idealist insists, is a conscious self or person, that is, a unique 'real' which is conscious and which may be regarded as including ideas, but which is more permanent than ideas are, and independent of them. . . . With Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, and Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, Lotze and Renouvier, Bergson and Eucken, Howison, Ward, and Royce, and a great company of philosophers, the writer finds that consciousness is not mere ideas or series of ideas, but that it is the unique subject of ideas.")