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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1000
“plain people” were regarded by Him as the salt of the earth, and they, in
turn, regarded Him as their champion and advisor. And especially to the
sick did He devote His time and powers. He made many marvellous cures,
a few only of which were recorded in the New Testament narratives. The
occult legends state that these cures were of daily occurrence and that
wherever He went He left behind Him a trail of people healed of all kinds of
disorders, and that people flocked for miles to be healed of their infirmities.
The Gospels relate that He cured great numbers of people by the simple
process of laying on of hands (a favorite method of occult healers) “he laid
his hands on every one of them and healed them.”
It is related that at Capernaum his attention was directed toward a
madman, who suddenly cried out, “I know Thee, Thou Holy One of God,”
whereupon Jesus spoke a few authoritative words and cured him of his
malady, by methods that will describe the nature of the man’s psychic
disturbance to any advanced student of occultism. Demoniac possession is
not believed in by orthodox Christians of today, but Jesus evidently shared
the belief in obsession held by students of Psychism and similar subjects,
judging from the words He used in relieving this man from his malady. We
advise our students to read the Gospel records in connection with these
lessons, in order to follow the subject along the old familiar paths, but with
the additional light of the interpretation of Mystic Christianity.
The growing reputation of Jesus as a healer of the sick soon taxed His
physical powers to the utmost. He felt Himself called upon to do the work
of a dozen men, and His nature rebelled at the unequal task imposed upon
it. It seemed as if all Capernaum were sick. Her streets were crowded by
seekers after health and strength. At last He perceived that His work as a
Teacher was being submerged in His work as a Healer. And, after a period
of prayer and meditation, He put aside from Him the claims of humanity for
the healing of physical ills, and turning His back upon the waiting patients at
Capernaum, He once more started forward on His pilgrimage as a Preacher
of the Message, and thereafter would heal physical ills only occasionally, and,