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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. THE ANTAGONISM OF THE CHRIST-PRINCIPLE AND DISEASE, OK THE HEALING POWER OF JESUS. By the Christ-principle, or that by which Jesus became the Christ, I mean a spiritual intelligence. It is not science or knowledge on the plane of sense; it is not a knowledge imparted by instruction from without, and imported into the mind, but arises from within, -- the God-light in the soul, the living Word. Nor is it knowledge alone, a coldly luminous intellectual state, like moonbeams reflected from the snow fields on a winter's night, but it is an interior light that has in it the warmth of a Divine love. That Jesus, after the age of thirty years, exhibited a marvelous power of healing the sick without medicine, and which so far surpassed the power of his contemporaries as to be deemed miraculous, is a well-established fact, and as well certified as the principal facts in the life of Alexander or Caesar. It is not improbable in itself; and many marvelous cures have been effected in every subsequent age, and even in the century in which we live, that render it entirely credible. On this subject I cannot do better than to use the language of Dr. Hase, with some additions of my own. These so-called miracles cannot contradict the laws of the world, which are the constant expression of the Divine will, and the established Divine order. Therefore, amid all apparent contradictions, we must seek for an accordance with law. According to the Gospel narratives, his acts of healing were not always unconnected with bodily contact, the imposition of the hands or other outward means. (Mark vii: 33; viii: 23. John ix: C. Mat. viii: 16; xvii:21.) In this way they may have some relation to Rabbinical or Essene methods of cure, and in some measure..