Josè did not reply. Yes, he did see. But what he saw was the beautiful, animated girl before him. And the thought that he must some day be separated from her was eating his heart like a canker.
“Well, then,” went on the girl, without waiting for his reply, “if a mortal’s mental concept of sight is poor, why, he will manifest poor eyes. If the thought-concept were right, the manifestation would be right. Wouldn’t it?”
Josè suddenly returned to the subject under discussion. “By that I suppose you mean, chiquita, that the babe’s thought, or concept, of sight was all wrong, and so he came into the world blind.”
“Not at all, Padre,” she quickly replied. “The babe had nothing to do with it, except to seem to manifest the wrong thoughts of its father, or mother, or both. Or perhaps it manifests just simply bad thoughts, without the bad thoughts belonging to anybody. For, you know, we none of us really have such thoughts. And such thoughts don’t really exist. They are just a part of the one big lie about God.”
“Then the babe sees?”
“Surely; the real babe is a child of God, and sees.”
“But the human babe doesn’t see,” he retorted.
“But,” she replied, “what you call the human babe is only your mental concept of the babe. And you see that mental concept as a blind one. Now un-see it. Look at it in the right way. See only God’s child, with perfect sight. And, Padre, after a while you will see that babe seeing things, just as we do!
“Don’t you understand?” she exclaimed, as he sat looking fixedly at her. “Don’t you see that if you have the right thought about the babe, and hold to it, and put out every thought that 287 says it is blind, why, your right thought will be externalized in a mental concept of a babe that sees? Don’t you know that that is exactly what Jesus did? He didn’t affect the real man at all. But he did change the mental concepts which we call human beings. And we can do the same, if we only know it, and follow him, and spiritualize our thought, as he did, by putting out and keeping out every thought that we know does not come from God, and that is, therefore, only a part of the lie about Him. Here is a case where we have got to quit thinking that two and two are seven. And I have done it. It is God’s business to make our concepts right. And He has done so––long since. And we will see these, right concepts if we will put out the wrong ones!”
“Well?” he queried lamely, wholly at a loss for any other answer.