The fundamental elements of spiritual healing, which were revealed to Mrs. Eddy following her healing in 1866 of a physical condition pronounced by competent medical opinion to be incurable and probably fatal, the result of an accidental fall on the ice, were used by her throughout the remainder of her courageous and selfless life of unremitting and tireless energy in presenting her discovery to the world.
In her work entitled "Unity of Good," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 25), "The elements which belong to the eternal All,—Life, Truth, Love,—evil can never take away." This is comforting assurance regarding the impotence of error or disease to take control of any situation through lack of the required ingredients. No one can ever be deprived of the elements of healing, for they are unceasingly at hand.
Christ Jesus demonstrated this glorious fact by healing the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, where the water was believed by popular superstition to contain the required healing properties. The master Christian proved that his spiritual method of healing was more effective than that which the sick man had been seeking for thirty-eight years. Undoubtedly the Saviour was quick to discern in the patience and persistence of the man the presence in his consciousness of certain spiritual elements which could be used to open up further avenues of thought through which the liberating flood tides of divine Love could be poured in.
