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in that way the healer is an agent in the cure, but what I wish to impress upon your mind is the fact that you are as close to the Divine Healing Power as the healer, and that when you learn to open the channels of your thought to its influx, it flows straight from God through you. The true healer is, therefore, a teacher, both consciously and subconsciously, teaching consciously by means of lessons and subconsciously by means of thought transmission, by the sending out of thoughts of Truth and Love.

Suggestion is not hypnotic control of necessity, but is merely thought transmission. The Medical Summary of Philadelphia says editorially: "Suggestion is the moving power in the treatment of disease. Experienced practitioners habitually employ it to advantage of the patient. Prudent friends and callers at the bedside practice suggestion by taking with them the assurance of better things to come. A word of cheer, the reassuring smile, inspire hope — this, too, is suggestion. Rheumatic rings, magnetic healing and divine healing all have their tap-root in suggestion. If, with ability to diagnose disease, and without the aid from coal-tar sedatives and opiates, the physician can relieve such maladies as headache, lumbago, sciatica or the anguish of rheumatic joint, duty imposes the obligation to do so." This shows the trend of the more advanced and liberal in the medical fraternity. They, with us, are coming into a "Clear Vision of the World" which involves the seeing of finer curatives than we find in drugs.