Article April 27, 1899 Issue

Questions and Answers

Was the man healed at the gate of the Temple Beautiful a real man, liberated from a false belief?—J. L. S.

Every man is a real man. Every individual in the reality of his existence is an eternal idea of the eternal God—God's image and likeness. The man imaged forth to the material senses, the mortal vision, is not the image and likeness of God, or the real man. The lame, halt, blind, decrepit man, as he appears to mortal sense, is not the real man. In proportion to the disappearance of these untrue conditions, the true appear, and in this proportion the real man is becoming manifest. The man healed at the gate of the temple was a vastly better manifestation of the God who is perfect, than was the lame and infirm man who sought material aid for the relief of his infirmity. His reality as a son of Spirit was thus asserting itself as against his unreality as a son of matter. As a son of matter he sat at the gate of the temple, lame, shriveled, and bent. As a son of God, he arose, stood erect, and went into the temple "walking, and leaping, and praising God."

This Biblical incident is a most beautiful and striking illustration of the two states of consciousness—that depicted by the poor, bound beggar, and that shown by the man freed by the power of God.

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