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have got to such a white heat tint, no matter what; miracles he might have performed, Jesus would have been stoned whenever he appeared among the Jews, who we veritable monomaniacs on the subject of their so-called religion. Giving way therefore, to the prejudices of his followers, and being all things to all men, Jesus, too, bold this Paschal—or Passover—feast, knowing the annual observance thereof to be of no value, as the Kabbalistic secret which intended that the entire life should be passed living on unfermented bread and fruit juice, had been altogether overlooked by the people. Jesus possibly hoped that when the Pharisese heard of his observing their Passover-feast, their wrath against him would abate, as he, too, conformed with their ceremonial.
The external Manifestations of the Divine Soul have the twofold purpose of vivifying and rectifying. Where there is an insufficiency of God in any individual, the Divine Soul, radiating her influence in all directions, would be attracted to and fill up the vacuum. Where perversities of individuals demanded correction, the Soul impelled Jesus to drive parasitical spirit out of man’s body, which is the temple of the living God, with as little ceremony as Jesus expelled the parasites from the temple in Jerusalem.
Perverse spirits were blinded by the dazzling light of man in his rightful state. As all Beings should be, even as he was, under guidance of the Divine Soul, Jesus at once showed them the greatness of their perversity in obsessing other Beings, and thus preventing both of them from Divine Union.
The Manifestations of Soul Power expressed in healing Magnetism were of wonderful potency, while the human spirit was united with and a passive instrument of the Divine Soul, as pertaining to Red or Divine Magic; while psychological performances pertain to White or human Magic.
During Christ’s early infancy, the Divine Soul radiated already her beneficent influence in all directions, and it is repeatedly asserted in the Apocryphal Writings, that many were healed from the immediate surroundings of the infant. But, if the Wire Men worshipped on that account one of his swaddling clothes, as is recorded, then they were not very wise.
As my respected friend and Hierophant truly observes: “Disease is Nature’s remedy for man's wrong life and abuse of herself.” Simple natural disease being already halfway cures, when the doctor steps in and as usual drives back into the organism the pus matter which nature is actively engaged in throwing out; then the disease becomes complicated, aggravated, and chronic, if not absolutely deadly, as all who have been under treatment of any of the member» of the dominant school of medicine have experienced. The Jews of the time of Christ were not blessed with the murderous, ignorant Medical Faculty of the present period; consequently, the sick among them bad generally such simple diseases as could be healed by the powerful Magnetism of a Divine Adept. But if Jesus should now come among us, or rather, should anyone attain to the Adaptship of Jesus Christ, he would find it impossible to effect lasting cures by mere Magnetism. Magnetists and Healing Mediums, however successful they may be with the simple-living country folk, when they come o populous cities they can produce but comparatively little effect upon the wrong living and drugged town people. The diseased can be easily healed, hut not so the drugged and diseased. Nevertheless, if they adhere to the rules of a right life, they, too, can be healed in the course of time. Therefore, the rapid miraculous cures that were performed by Jesus, could not—even by a Divine Adept—be repeated at the present time, upon patients suffering from medical nut-practice, for obvious reasons.
The palsied, the sick man at the pool of Bethesda, the man with the withered hand, the centurion’s servant, the various blind and dumb men, the daughter of the Phenician, the dropsical man, the lepers, were not necessarily suffering of disease« caused by medical mal-practice, they were at once healed by the pure and powerful Magnetism of the Divine Adept. The mm who was born blind must have had eves, however toe the lids may have been joined together. Similar win the healing of the deaf man; the organs were perfect, but clogged. Where Jesus was unsuccessful would of course not be mentioned by the Evangelists, excepting what occurred amongst his own people.
The many demoniacs, or obsessed individuals, were healed by the mere appearance of the Divine Adept for as owls shun the light, so must perverse spirits fly before the Divine Soul.
The individuals said to be dead were simply in death-trance, as Jesus ever openly told. But what, could the people know of the death-trance at that time, when even the medical men of the present age can not distinguish the dead from those still latently living.* “I say unto thee, arise,” said Jesus to the widow’s son, and as the magnetic contact brought him back to life, “he that was dead sat up.” “The maid is not dead but sleepeth,” said Jesus of Jairas' daughter, and repeated the same words at abort. The restoring of Lazarus to life was blended with clairvoyance. Jesus saw that Lazarus was not but in the death-trance, and said, “our friend Lazaraus, sleepeth, but I go that. I may wake him out of sleep.” Surely no admirer of his truly God-like life will call him Liar!
It is well known that Apollonius of Tyana awakened a maid that was about to be buried in the death-trance, but not so well known is a similar case that occurred in our own times, where a woman, who was enceinte, would have been buried had not an Adept, who is known to me, brought her back to life in quite the same wise as Jesus or Apollonius ban done, namely, by seeing clairvoyantly that the woman was not dead, and by awakening her from tie death-trance. In this cam the woman gave, subsequently, birth to a child, and there were thus two lives saved, from one reputedly dead one.
Feeding the multitude was evidently a manifestation of Soul Power, although aspiring Spirits may tore assisted. It would appear as if Jesus twice fed multitudes, and if he could perform this miracle once, he could assuredly repeat the act several times.
Walking on the waters and calming a storm, going unperceived through the midst of the enraged Pharisees, also full under the category of Divine or fed Magic. The miraculous draught of fishes would h an easy act of clairvoyance.
Changing water into wino was a psychological trick that any powerful Magnetist could imitate, and the countrymen upon whom this was performed coral easily be psychologised, even en masse, by the powerful magnetism of Jesus. This was a feat of White or human Magic: it had no Divine object, and was merely a freak for the occasion. In the before cited Gospel of the Infancy, we find other instances of the powerful psychologizing feats of Jesus. While, as a child, playing with other children, who wot forming birds out of loam, he psychologized his playfellows so, that his birds seemed to chirp and fly away. The object of such performances generally decide whether they are Divine, or of human origin. Where a great good is accomplished thereby, they ire Divine; where they are seemingly purposeless, they are simply human.
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* A simple test of ascertaining death is, breathing (see Miss C. Leigh Hunt’s Instructions) upon the heart for from ten minutes to half an hour; if there are no symptoms of life that performance, there is no fear of burying alive.