Revelation and Healing marked the beginning of
The Divine Science Movement
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Two ladies, Malinda Cramer in San Francisco, California, and Nona Brooks in Denver, Colorado, who were both in need in healing, had revelations that changed their lives and the lives of many people. The two, who did not meet for a number of years, taught a similar teaching and eventually came together to create one movement. |
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Malinda Cramer’s Story
"He who knows what is truth, speaks of what is as eternal life, And of conditions that have passed away as temporary beliefs."
Under medical care for more than twenty-three years out of twenty-five years of invalidism, Malinda Cramer’s case baffled the best physicians, both in the East and in California, many having pronounced her incurable. Urged to see yet another physician by friends and relatives, she rebelled. “No, I will not see another physician.”
“It was early one morning in the year 1885, during an hour of earnest meditation and prayerful seeking, that I asked the following questions in faith, believing that they would be answered, with a willingness to abide the decision, whatever it might be.
- Is there any way out of these conditions?
- Is there any power in the vast universe that can heal me?
“The immediate and all-convincing response was not an audible voice, but was an intuitive response by the life-giving Spirit, which penetrated the body through and through, and which illumined and vivified its every atom with newness of life. What I head heard of Spirit, with the hearing of the ear, from early childhood became an actual reality, a conscious living presence. As I looked out over creation, I beheld a ‘New heaven and a new earth, old things had passed away.’
“When my friends heard that I was recovering health, they called to ascertain wheat remedy it was that was benefiting me. They found me, as they expressed it, ‘Looking like a new person,’ and asked: ‘Is it possible you are getting well? It is true that you can sit up all day? Can you go upstairs along?’ etc.”
More of Malinda's story can be found in A Record of Myself and Divine Science and Healing available from our book store
Nona Brooks’ story
1886 in Pueblo, Colorado
“I was living with my oldest sister, Mrs. Alethea Brooks Small; I was in very poor physical condition; able to eat only very soft and specially prepared food. Most of our family was in sad condition, both physically and financially.
“A close friend, Mrs. Frank Bingham, had been ill for months, sought out medical specialists in Chicago. They held out no hope unless she remained in Chicago for a year and took a specific treatment. She knew she couldn’t be away from her husband and four children for a year. She was advised to contact a lady in Chicago, an outstanding teacher of spiritual mysticism, Emma Curtis Hopkins. Three weeks of study and treatment brought Mrs. Frank Bingham back to Pueblo, radiant with health and joy. She shared what she knew with friends and neighbors, but we were reluctant, not feeling her message was for us.
“For more than a year I had been praying almost constantly, ‘God give me light.’ One Sunday in our family church, the song was ‘Nearer My God To Thee.’ I choked on the words, ‘nearer my God to thee -- nearer to Thee -- e’en tho’ it be a cross that raiseth me’. My family and I had had all the crosses we could possibly bear. This rebellion caused inner turmoil, but as the song progressed, I realized complete surrender—first of myself—then of the family conditions—so I might be nearer to God.
“Finally, Mrs. Bingham's persistence paid off —we agreed to go to her meetings. We attended several classes, then, it was in the fourth class—
My whole being was completely flooded with a great light--
a light brighter than sunlight, brighter than any other light
I had ever seen!
It filled me!
It surrounded me!
I was conscious of nothing but that intense white light!
“I thought, of course, all in the room had seen the light too, but they had not. I alone had experienced this wonderful light that flooded my entire being; I then discovered I had been healed instantly and completely.
“I love to tell of the blessed change in outlook that came to us; of our remarkable healing, of the quick improvement of the financial situation.
“It was not long before we had systematized the teaching the Divine Science was the first to promulgate: All creation is the expression of God and partakes of the same substance. All of the power and beauty in nature is the result of God’s fiat going forth — “Let there be and it was so.”
To learn more about Nona L. Brooks and Divine Science read: In the Light of Healing and Early History of Divine Science available from our book store.
Divine Science Federation International