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His development was so far advanced at the point when he went public with it, that his works were regarded as evidence of supernatural power, neither of which he ever claimed to possess. He spoke of God as his 'Father' and the 'Father' of all, as exemplified in the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father which art in heaven...." The Gospels tell us that he referred to himself as "the son of God" (such as we all are) but also as "the son of man" (the divine idea, man reflecting God, as we too should recognize ourselves). He worked diligently to explain to the people in so many ways what his works really represented and what they implied for the status of mankind. As it was, most people could not 'hear' his words. He gave them demonstrations, but they could not 'see.' "How long shall I be with you?" he once said in an apparent moment of frustration. "Having eyes, see ye not? Having ears, hear ye not? ... How is it that ye do not understand?"*(Mark 8:18,21)
The people did understand something, however. For nearly a century after his days, Christianity carried out significant metaphysical healing work in his name. They had seen, something. They had heard, something. Though they did not understand the deep aspects of the Science of divine metaphysics that had motivated him, they had none-the-less gleamed enough of his example to achieve that shift in perception that broke the yoke of linear thinking sufficiently for metaphysical healing to be realized.
Linear thinking, in this regard, is a type of perception that begins with a certain materially oriented premise that identifies oneself as fixed in time and space, that allows no conclusions that cannot be deduced from this premise of primitive material originality which encumbers the human thought with walls of limitations. Jesus' deep awareness of divine Truth, the Christ consciousness, was not bound to these self-imposed limits. Spiritual phenomena are manifests of timeless laws that operate in the sphere of reality outside the linearity of material time based concepts of development.
The development of scientific Christian healing.
The scientific shift in consciousness, towards the truth, is not bound to the boundaries of the ages, but reaches across these boundaries, uniting all ages at which even a glimmer of a perception of Truth leads to scientifically based discoveries that opens thought to infinity. Such shifts usually occur in moments of dramatic upsets that cause the required shift in consciousness to be achieved, which breaks the relevance of time based linearity that would render Christ Jesus' examples as irrelevant in a modern age. Such an event took place in the life of a New England woman in 1875 who had fallen on an icy street and lay dying from what was diagnosed as a severe spinal injury. She remained in a state of unconsciousness for a day, having been taken to a physician's home. After she regained consciousness, she was taken home as she had requested. On the third day, in what appeared to be her final hours, she reached for her Bible. She related later that she read the story of one of Jesus' great works of healing. Most likely, she re-experienced in her own consciousness that unique process that had taken place behind the scene, that Jesus had tried to explain to the people two thousand years earlier. She related, that she found herself suddenly healed.
The change took place in the space of a moment of inspired contemplation. She had known and studied the biblical texts before, but with little healing effect, even though her health had been precarious for many years. Suddenly, at that moment of her greatest need, something had caused a shift to a more receptive state of consciousness that opened the mental door to discoveries that had not been made before.
People, in such situations, tend to believe that these realizations were driven from an intelligence higher than their own, which is scientifically impossible because intelligence is inherent in the structure of the universe, in being, and is imbedded in one's relationship to God, to Life. Intelligence is not inherently a personal possession or creation, or the product of personal mental development, but is a fundamental aspect of man in the image of God. However, mankind needs to develop access to it, and to develop applications for is through developments in Science..
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