POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MIND The mental healer works upon the theory that All is Mind; that every object in existence is an individualized form of the Universal Mind in one degree or another of development or evolution; that the human mind is the highest type of evolved intelligence, and that it can express more and more of health and perfection through appropriation of the qualities of the Divine Mind, of which it is a self-conscious expression.
The healer is consistent with this premise in regarding the body as mind also, negative mind to be sure, but a substance potent with vitality and intelligence, every cell of which is capable of manifesting a degree of perfection and of acting in harmony with every other cell for the healing and perfecting of the whole.
This places the human being in the aspect of a living battery of mental energy, the thought power being the positive pole and the body the negative pole. Through the constant action of thought power, the individual is polarizing the thought substance from the Universal Mind, and the body responds to the thought power and organizes the cells to conform to the characteristics of the mental qualities individualized. In other words, the character of the individual is expressed in every cell of one’s nature, because 37