Utilizing God's healing power in individual experience depends on individual inspiration, on spiritualizing thought through gaining increased understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. God is demonstrable Principle, and His laws eternally govern man's real and only being. Man's real being is his reflection of divine Spirit, his imaging forth the qualities of his perfect creator. Divine revelation, gained through scientific prayer, demonstrates the power of God's laws.
Mortal mind, the fictitious opposite of divine Mind, or Spirit, entertains beliefs in the reality and power of matter and evil, and feelings of fear, envy, self-will, resentment. These manifest themselves as discordant or diseased material conditions. Scientific prayer, based on God's perfection and man's complete at-one-ment with God, silences mortal mind, the cause of disease. Such prayer is spiritually inspired; it includes new, fresh, increasingly clearer views of man's eternal likeness to God.
In such spiritually inspired prayer a formula would be of no help. Webster defines a formula as "a set form of words for use in a ceremony or ritual ... a conventionalized statement intended to express some fundamental truth or principle . . . recipe, prescription." There is nothing conventionalized or ritualistic in the kind of spiritual prayer effective in healing the sick. How, for example, could the repetition of a formulated group of words, not arrived at through genuine revelation, transform erroneous mortal thinking to the spiritual understanding of God?
