Article July 19, 1947 Issue

A VITAL POINT IN HEALING

WILL B. DAVIS

The realization that death cannot occur in the realm of divine, always present, eternal Life empowered Jesus of Nazareth to come forth from the sepulcher and present himself to his followers. It was this same understanding that man's life and continuous right activity are dependent on God, and not on a matter body, that made it possible for him to heal disease and raise the dead.

In the following statement, on page 75 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy explains the process of thought which enabled Jesus to raise Lazarus from the tomb even though for four days all his friends had considered him to be dead: "Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again," In further explanation of this vital point in the Science of Christian healing she continues, "Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have resuscitated it."

The momentous revelation that enabled Mrs. Eddy thus to explain the method of healing which Jesus employed, had made it plain to her that the real man does not live in a material body, and therefore cannot die out of it. She had learned to make a clear distinction between the mortal, human sense of man and the spiritual man, who is God's eternal image and likeness. Jesus awakened Lazarus through the recognition that his real selfhood was as permanent and perfect as God, its creator. Spiritual man does not become sick and then get well again. He does not die so that he may rise to eternal life. God's man is at one with Spirit always, and cannot actually live in, or through the medium of, a matter body. Matter does not create life, nor can matter take it away.

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