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ShareTruth is eternally and unchangeably complete, but to human consciousness it is constantly growing. The only changeable factor related to it, is the ever-expanding capacity of the mind of man for its fuller recognition.
Every new development of any importance finally comes into its abiding-place only through friction, misapprehension, and opposition. What there is already occupies all the space, and there is no place for a newcomer, especially if it be a disturber.
Every new development, even in physical science, has had to traverse a thorny path before coming into an assured position. The authority and self-sufficiency of existing institutions never leave any corner vacant.
It would be illogical to expect any exception to the rule, in the reception of so radical an advance as mental healing or, more correctly, the recognition of the law of mental causation. It is an intruder. If admitted, its philosophy will necessitate a re-examination of systems which are dignified by hoary antiquity and eminent respectability.
Institutions that have exercised unquestioned authorityinstinctively feel that their infallibility is called in question. Piles of ponderous, dusty tomes thereby become mere relics of bygone speculation.
While mankind generally, as individuals, earnestly desire to find the truth, formulated systems, backed by prestige, literature, and authority are ultra-conservative. They yield not an inch, except by compulsion. When final acceptance becomes imperative, the New, after being freshly christened, is dovetailed in as a part of the Old.
You are assured that it is but a modification of what was there before, and that they always thought so. The fact that spiritual healing was regarded by the primitive church as the natural outward attestation of the inner higher life, seems to have no significance to the church of today.
From Ideal Suggestion through Mental Photography by Henry Wood
