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Section 1—Healing Power and Its Source
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earth produce its bounties, and year by year continue its motion
around the sun. An unseen hand guides the planets in their circuit
of the heavens. A mysterious life pervades all nature—a life that
sustains the unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, that lives
in the insect atom which floats in the summer breeze, that wings
the flight of the swallow and feeds the young ravens which cry, that
brings the bud to blossom and the flower to fruit.
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Laws of Physical Life
The same power that upholds nature is working also in man. The
same great laws that guide alike the star and the atom control human
life. The laws that govern the heart’s action, regulating the flow of
the current of life to the body, are the laws of the mighty Intelligence
that has the jurisdiction of the soul. From Him all life proceeds.
Only in harmony with Him can be found its true sphere of action.
For all the objects of His creation the condition is the same—a life
sustained by receiving the life of God, a life exercised in harmony
with the Creator’s will. To transgress His law, physical, mental,
or moral, is to place oneself out of harmony with the universe, to
introduce discord, anarchy, ruin.
To him who learns thus to interpret its teachings, all nature
becomes illuminated; the world is a lesson book, life a school. The
unity of man with nature and with God, the universal dominion of
law, the results of transgression, cannot fail of impressing the mind
and molding the character....
The heart not yet hardened by contact with evil is quick to rec-
ognize the Presence that pervades all created things. The ear as yet
undulled by the world’s clamor is attentive to the Voice that speaks
through nature’s utterances....
The unseen is illustrated by the seen. On everything upon the
earth ... they may behold the image and superscription of God.—
Education, 99, 100
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Nature’s Message
All nature is alive. Through its varied forms of life it speaks to
those who have ears to hear and hearts to understand of Him who is