21) If I put the operation on the blackboard, 2 + 2 = 3, then 2 + 2 = 5, will you worry about 3 and 5 by trying to determine the exact answer? No, you’ll look at these numbers, then you’ll take care of the fact that 2 + 2 = 4 and the two extremes, 3 and 5, will disappear. The figure below or above the correct answer has nothing to do with the reality of the principle. It is only by linking the principle and the situation that a fair answer is possible. Our conceptions of health and disease are all inferior to the perfection that is enshrined in the foundations of the universe. What remains inferior to perfection will never be like him. You are dealing with something that is not connected to either of these extremes. “Be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect,” this is the correct test.
22) Most human beings fail in their supposed demonstrations, because they express their ideal of perfection and then return immediately to the notion of opposites. “If your eye is holy, your whole body will be bright.” Lot’s wife returned and her body turned into a block of salt. “Now, in the future and forever, see only perfection,” said Jesus. As soon as we establish perfection, Christ stands dominant. Everyone works to build perfection, because reality in the mind is the form of its manifestation.
23) The effect of true spiritual treatment does not depend on the degree of development or flourishing of the person “cared for” we do not have to worry about his conscience, because it is based on the opposites, otherwise the subject would not be ill. The spiritual reality is and, as soon as we place ourselves in perfection, our consciousness is also perfect.
24) Uttering the word never produces a hypnotic effect, for it is the essence of the true nature of any creation. The treatment, or the fact that the Word is pronounced is not a projection of our health ideas to counteract the disease. This last step is hypnotic. Pronouncing the word is only telling the truth, proclaiming what has always been and will always be true of every individual, state, situation, in principle. Self-hypnotism settles when we express ourselves with the imperfect concepts produced by the human spirit.
25) It is not necessary for people who are sick or in need to ask to help them or to be aware that you are sending them the floor. If you emit it on the waves of Christ, you are only presenting to them their own innate perfection. You liberate yourself and free them also, because you face reality. You do not fight against the will of an individual when you work with perfection, because it is the purpose of all being. On the contrary, you liberate his will from its chains, bad habits and erroneous concepts. By doing so, no so-called “influence” intervenes. It is simply a matter of appealing what has always existed, until all the individuals concerned simply perceive that this is the reality.
26) The word is always powerful when we consider it as the Spirit, for in taking this decision, we forced it to only Power. We are both the power and the one who expresses it, and only we determine what that word will carry with it. The power of medicine is exercised in exactly the same way. It is only “the carrier” the means by which the patient’s mind widens to admit the creative authority of the universe. God is in the doctor, the patient or the medicine. Any individual, regardless of his or her status or profession, only needs to project perfection, and an intense work of this ideal would definitely cure our world.
27) There is no harm in using an intermediary to try to remedy the needs of suffering humanity. There are many steps and methods, but only one power. If our ideal is Perfection, we will reach a point where there are no more intermediaries. The instrument employed by an individual indicates only the progress he has made in his own mind, in relation to the most effective means of admitting Perfection in his being. We believe that this must happen through a medication, or affirmation, but whatever the way it is used, it is the Perfection of the principle that surface. Only spiritual ideals can contain the total measure of power that exists in the divine principle, because the more important a container is, the greater its capacity for transport. When the container and content merge -Perfection- , then the container is complete on all planes.