Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Curtis A. Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. FREEDOM TALKS No. II JULIA SETON, M.D. AUTHOR OF "CONCENTRATION," "FREEDOM TALKS NO. I," "MARRIAGE," ETC., ETC. Contents I The Secret of Healing II The Risen Self III Transcendentalism IV Psychology of Insanity V The Law Eternal VI The Outside and the Inside of Life VII The Measure of Ourself VIII Perfect Liberty IX Cosmic Therapeutics X Absent Treatments FREEDOM TALKS NUMBER II The Secret of Healing "_In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God_." "_And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory full of grace and truth_." Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and disease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that cannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by natural law take on the form of whatever they have power to comprehend. Health is man's immortal birthright; it is eternal in the universal plan, and it can be made to become eternal in the life of men in just the hour they understand the laws of their own being. There are two expressions of energy in the universe; one is called the constructive, the other the destructive; the one builds up, the other tears down. This must forever be so, for only as matter is destroyed and passed back into energy can the energy pass out again into finer forms. Living in these great universal currents of construction and destruction, man relates himself constantly with one or both through the simple law of his own consciousness, and only as he learns the laws of his own being and consciously places himself in a position of power can he ever hope to escape the results which the negative, destructive currents produce in his body and his environment. Today we know that the world in which we live is nothing but a great sea of energy which, in the undifferentiated, is called God, and in the differentiated is called matter or form, or, to make it more simple, we can call one the energy that creates, and the other the things created from and by this energy. Man and his environment are created by this energy: He is a localized center of force and he becomes the expression in form of just whatever he relates with under the law of cosmic correspondence. We have found that this great energy is also _intelligence_ and is nothing but mind with its various manifestations. We know today that the atoms of the atmosphere are intelligence, and as they touch one another throughout space, it is through this atomic mind that messages are carried, and currents are generated which can heal patients at a distance. Everything in the universe is in a state of intelligent association, and when the atoms become expressed in human form, they pass into that expression of the universal mind known as _human_ consciousness.