injury

• healing chemicals

65:4.3Many fea­tures of hu­man life af­ford abun­dant ev­i­dence that the phe­nom­e­non of mor­tal ex­is­tence was in­tel­li­gently planned, that or­ganic evo­lu­tion is not a mere cos­mic ac­ci­dent. When a liv­ing cell is in­jured, it pos­sesses the abil­ity to elab­o­rate cer­tain chem­i­cal sub­stances which are em­pow­ered so to stim­u­late and ac­ti­vate the neigh­bor­ing nor­mal cells that they im­me­di­ately be­gin the se­cre­tion of cer­tain sub­stances which fa­cil­i­tate heal­ing pro­cesses in the wound; and at the same time these nor­mal and un­in­jured cells be­gin to pro­lif­er­ate—they ac­tu­ally start to work cre­at­ing new cells to re­place any fel­low cells which may have been de­stroyed by the ac­ci­dent.

65:4.4This chem­i­cal ac­tion and re­ac­tion con­cerned in wound heal­ing and cell re­pro­duc­tion rep­re­sents the choice of the Life Car­ri­ers of a for­mula em­brac­ing over one hun­dred thou­sand phases and fea­tures of pos­si­ble chem­i­cal re­ac­tions and bi­o­logic reper­cus­sions. More than half a mil­lion spe­cific ex­per­i­ments were made by the Life Car­ri­ers in their lab­o­ra­to­ries be­fore they fi­nally set­tled upon this for­mula for the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment.

65:4.5When Uran­tia sci­en­tists know more of these heal­ing chem­i­cals, they will be­come more ef­fi­cient in the treat­ment of in­juries, and in­di­rectly they will know more about con­trol­ling cer­tain se­ri­ous dis­eases.

65:4.6Since life was es­tab­lished on Uran­tia, the Life Car­ri­ers have im­proved this heal­ing tech­nique as it has been in­tro­duced on an­other Sa­ta­nia world, in that it af­fords more pain re­lief and ex­er­cises bet­ter con­trol over the pro­lif­er­a­tion ca­pac­ity of the as­so­ci­ated nor­mal cells.

• recompense i. with kindness

131:8.4“The wise man uni­ver­sal­izes his heart. A lit­tle knowl­edge is a dan­ger­ous thing. Those who as­pire to great­ness must learn to hum­ble them­selves. In cre­ation the Su­preme be­came the world’s mother. To know one’s mother is to rec­og­nize one’s son­ship. He is a wise man who re­gards all parts from the point of view of the whole. Re­late your­self to ev­ery man as if you were in his place. Rec­om­pense in­jury with kind­ness. If you love peo­ple, they will draw near you—you will have no dif­fi­culty in win­ning them.

• Jesus did not believe real harm could befall him

133:1.4“Ga­nid, I can well un­der­stand how some of these prob­lems per­plex you, and I will en­deavor to an­swer your ques­tion. First, in all at­tacks which might be made upon my per­son, I would de­ter­mine whether or not the ag­gres­sor was a son of God—my brother in the flesh—and if I thought such a crea­ture did not pos­sess moral judg­ment and spir­i­tual rea­son, I would un­hesi­tat­ingly de­fend my­self to the full ca­pac­ity of my pow­ers of re­sis­tance, re­gard­less of con­se­quences to the at­tacker. But I would not thus as­sault a fel­low man of son­ship sta­tus, even in self-de­fense. That is, I would not pun­ish him in ad­vance and with­out judg­ment for his as­sault upon me. I would by ev­ery pos­si­ble ar­ti­fice seek to pre­vent and dis­suade him from mak­ing such an at­tack and to mit­i­gate it in case of my fail­ure to abort it. Ga­nid, I have ab­so­lute con­fi­dence in my heav­enly Fa­ther’s over­care; I am con­se­crated to do­ing the will of my Fa­ther in heaven. I do not be­lieve that real harm can be­fall me; I do not be­lieve that my life­work can re­ally be jeop­ar­dized by any­thing my en­e­mies might wish to visit upon me, and surely we have no vi­o­lence to fear from our friends. I am ab­so­lutely as­sured that the en­tire uni­verse is friendly to me—this all-pow­er­ful truth I in­sist on be­liev­ing with a whole­hearted trust in spite of all ap­pear­ances to the con­trary.”

• injured boy at Pella

137:0.1Early on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, Febru­ary 23, A.D. 26, Je­sus came down from the hills to re­join John’s com­pany en­camped at Pella. All that day Je­sus min­gled with the mul­ti­tude. He min­is­tered to a lad who had in­jured him­self in a fall and jour­neyed to the near-by vil­lage of Pella to de­liver the boy safely into the hands of his par­ents.

• injured boy at Pella

137:1.1Dur­ing this Sab­bath two of John’s lead­ing dis­ci­ples spent much time with Je­sus. Of all John’s fol­low­ers one named An­drew was the most pro­foundly im­pressed with Je­sus; he ac­com­pa­nied him on the trip to Pella with the in­jured boy. On the way back to John’s ren­dezvous he asked Je­sus many ques­tions, and just be­fore reach­ing their des­ti­na­tion, the two paused for a short talk, dur­ing which An­drew said: “I have ob­served you ever since you came to Ca­per­naum, and I be­lieve you are the new Teacher, and though I do not un­der­stand all your teach­ing, I have fully made up my mind to fol­low you; I would sit at your feet and learn the whole truth about the new king­dom.” And Je­sus, with hearty as­sur­ance, wel­comed An­drew as the first of his apos­tles, that group of twelve who were to la­bor with him in the work of es­tab­lish­ing the new king­dom of God in the hearts of men.

• injured boy at Pella

137:1.4The par­ents of the in­jured lad who lived at Pella had be­sought Je­sus to spend the night with them, to make their house his home, and he had prom­ised. Be­fore leav­ing An­drew and his brother, Je­sus said, “Early on the mor­row we go into Gal­i­lee.”

• not resisting or combating i.

140:3.14“I am send­ing you out into the world to rep­re­sent me and to act as am­bas­sadors of my Fa­ther’s king­dom, and as you go forth to pro­claim the glad tid­ings, put your trust in the Fa­ther whose mes­sen­gers you are. Do not forcibly re­sist in­jus­tice; put not your trust in the arm of the flesh. If your neigh­bor smites you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Be will­ing to suf­fer in­jus­tice rather than to go to law among your­selves. In kind­ness and with mercy min­is­ter to all who are in dis­tress and in need.

• not resisting or combating i.

140:8.4Je­sus had great dif­fi­culty in get­ting them to un­der­stand his per­sonal prac­tice of non­re­sis­tance. He ab­so­lutely re­fused to de­fend him­self, and it ap­peared to the apos­tles that he would be pleased if they would pur­sue the same pol­icy. He taught them not to re­sist evil, not to com­bat in­jus­tice or in­jury, but he did not teach pas­sive tol­er­ance of wrong­do­ing. And he made it plain on this af­ter­noon that he ap­proved of the so­cial pun­ish­ment of evil­do­ers and crim­i­nals, and that the civil gov­ern­ment must some­times em­ploy force for the main­te­nance of so­cial or­der and in the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice.

• refrain from despising material means of healing

164:3.153. But Je­sus had a third rea­son for re­sort­ing to these ma­te­rial means in con­nec­tion with this unique trans­ac­tion: This was a mir­a­cle wrought purely in obe­di­ence to his own choos­ing, and thereby he de­sired to teach his fol­low­ers of that day and all sub­se­quent ages to re­frain from de­spis­ing or ne­glect­ing ma­te­rial means in the heal­ing of the sick. He wanted to teach them that they must cease to re­gard mir­a­cles as the only method of cur­ing hu­man dis­eases.