There is the well-known, duly authenticated case of
Madame Bire of France, recorded in the archives of the
blind;
medical department of Lourdes, France. She was
the optic nerves were atrophied and useless. She visited
Lourdes and had what she termed a miraculous healing. Ruth
Cranston, a Protestant young lady who investigated and wrote
about healings at Lourdes in McCall’s magazine, November,
1955, writes about Madame Bire as follows: “At Lourdes she
regained her sight incredibly, with the optic nerves still lifeless
and useless, as several doctors could testify after repeated
examinations. A month later, upon re-examination, it was
found that the seeing mechanism had been restored to normal.
But at first, so far as medical examination could tell, she was
seeing with ‘dead eyes.”” I have visited Lourdes several times
where I, too, witnessed some healings, and of course, as we
shall explain in the next chapter, there is no doubt that healings
take place at many shrines throughout the world, Christian and
non-Christian.
Madame Bire, to whom we just referred, was not healed by..
the waters of the shrine, but by her own subconscious mind,
which responded to her belief. The healing principle within her
subconscious mind responded to the nature of her thought Belief is a thought in the subconscious mind. It means to
accept something as true. The thought accepted executes itself
automatically. Undoubtedly, Madame Bire went to the shrine
with expectancy and great faith, knowing in her heart she
would receive a healing. Her subconscious mind responded
accordingly, releasing the ever-present healing forces. The
subconscious mind, which created the eye, can certainly bring
a dead nerve back to life. What the creative principle created, it
can recreate. According to your belief is it done unto you.