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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1004
presence of Jesus is not known, but it must have required great strategy on
his part, for such people were not permitted to pass in and among crowds
of other people. But in some way the leper contrived to come face to face
with Jesus as the latter walked alone in meditation, away from his followers.
The loathsome creature raised its repulsive form, the picture of human
misery and woe, and confronting the Master, demanded from Him the
exercise of the Gift of Healing. No doubt of His power was in the leper’s
mind—his face shone with faith and expectation. Jesus gazed earnestly into
the distorted features that shone with the fire of a fervent faith such as is
rarely seen on the face of man, and touched with this testimony to His power
and motives, He moved toward the leper, defying the laws of the country,
which forbade the same. Not only this, but He even laid His hands upon
the unclean flesh, defying all the laws of reason in so doing, and fearlessly
passed His hand over the leper’s face, crying aloud, “Be thou clean!”
The leper felt a strange thrill running through his veins and over his
nerves, and every atom of his body seemed to be tingling with a peculiar
burning and smarting sensation. Even as he looked he saw the color of his
flesh changing and taking on the hue of the flesh of the healthy person. The
numbness departed from the affected portion of his body, and he could
actually feel the thrill and tingle of the life currents that were at work with
incredible speed building up new cells, tissue and muscle. And still Jesus
held His hands against the flesh of the leper, allowing the life current of
highly vitalized prana to pour from His organism into that of the leper, just
as a storage battery of great power replenishes and recharges an electrical
appliance. And back of it all was the most potent, trained Will of the Master
Occultist directing the work.
And then He bade the healed man depart and comply with the laws
regarding purification and change of garments, including the appearance
before the priests to receive a certificate of cleanliness. And He also bade
him that nothing should be said regarding the nature or particulars of the