1. No one can pay for therapy, for healing is of God and He asks for nothing. 2It is, however, part of His plan that everything in this world be used by the Holy Spirit to help in carrying out the plan. 3Even an advanced therapist has some earthly needs while he is here. 4Should he need money it will be given him, not in payment, but to help him better serve the plan. 5Money is not evil. 6It is nothing. 7But no one here can live with no illusions, for he must yet strive to have the last illusion be accepted by everyone everywhere. 8He has a mighty part in this one purpose, for which he came. 9He stays here but for this. 10And while he stays he will be given what he needs to stay.
2. Only an unhealed healer would try to heal for money, and he will not succeed to the extent to which he values it. 2Nor will he find his healing in the process. 3There will be those of whom the Holy Spirit asks some payment for His purpose. 4There will be those from whom He does not ask. 5It should not be the therapist who makes these decisions. 6There is a difference between payment and cost. 7To give money where God’s plan allots it has no cost. 8To withhold it from where it rightfully belongs has enormous cost. 9The therapist who would do this loses the name of healer, for he could never understand what healing is. 10He cannot give it, and so he does not have it.
3. The therapists of this world are indeed useless to the world’s salvation. 2They make demands, and so they cannot give. 3Patients can pay only for the exchange of illusions. 4This, indeed, must demand payment, and the cost is great. 5A “bought” relationship cannot offer the only gift whereby all healing is accomplished. 6Forgiveness, the Holy Spirit’s only dream, must have no cost. 7For if it does, it merely crucifies God’s Son again. 8Can this be how he is forgiven? 9Can this be how the dream of sin will end?
4. The right to live is something no one need fight for. 2It is promised him, and guaranteed by God. 3Therefore it is a right the therapist and patient share alike. 4If their relationship is to be holy, whatever one needs is given by the other; whatever one lacks the other supplies. 5Herein is the relationship made holy, for herein both are healed. 6The therapist repays the patient in gratitude, as does the patient repay him. 7There is no cost to either. 8But thanks are due to both, for the release from long imprisonment and doubt. 9Who would not be grateful for such a gift? 10Yet who could possibly imagine that it could be bought?
5. It has well been said that to him who hath shall be given. 2Because he has, he can give. 3And because he gives, he shall be given. 4This is the law of God, and not of the world. 5So it is with God’s healers. 6They give because they have heard His Word and understood it. 7All that they need will thus be given them. 8But they will lose this understanding unless they remember that all they have comes only from God. 9If they believe they need anything from a brother, they will recognize him as a brother no longer. 10And if they do this, a light goes out even in Heaven. 11Where God’s Son turns against himself, he can look only upon darkness. 12He has himself denied the light, and cannot see.
6. One rule should always be observed: No one should be turned away because he cannot pay. 2No one is sent by accident to anyone. 3Relationships are always purposeful. 4Whatever their purpose may have been before the Holy Spirit entered them, they are always His potential temple; the resting place of Christ and home of God Himself. 5Whoever comes has been sent. 6Perhaps he was sent to give his brother the money he needed. 7Both will be blessed thereby. 8Perhaps he was sent to teach the therapist how much he needs forgiveness, and how valueless is money in comparison. 9Again will both be blessed. 10Only in terms of cost could one have more. 11In sharing, everyone must gain a blessing without cost.
7. This view of payment may well seem impractical, and in the eyes of the world it would be so. 2Yet not one worldly thought is really practical. 3How much is gained by striving for illusions? 4How much is lost by throwing God away? 5And is it possible to do so? 6Surely it is impractical to strive for nothing, and to attempt to do what is impossible. 7Then stop a while, long enough to think of this: You have perhaps been seeking for salvation without recognizing where to look. 8Whoever asks your help can show you where. 9What greater gift than this could you be given? 10What greater gift is there that you would give?
8. Physician, healer, therapist, teacher, heal thyself. 2Many will come to you carrying the gift of healing, if you so elect. 3The Holy Spirit never refuses an invitation to enter and abide with you. 4He will give you endless opportunities to open the door to your salvation, for such is His function. 5He will also tell you exactly what your function is in every circumstance and at all times. 6Whoever He sends you will reach you, holding out his hand to his Friend. 7Let the Christ in you bid him welcome, for that same Christ is in him as well. 8Deny him entrance, and you have denied the Christ in you. 9Remember the sorrowful story of the world, and the glad tidings of salvation. 10Remember the plan of God for the restoration of joy and peace. 11And do not forget how very simple are the ways of God:
12You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. 13And then God sent His Son to give it to you.