may be rare, but are yet the celestial blossoming of man, — the result of the past, the prophecy of the future.
Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is a separate intelligence from God, and obey this unerring Principle of Life and Love. Jesus acted boldly against the accredited evidence of the senses, against Pharisaical creeds and practices. He refuted all opponents with his healing power.
We never read that Jesus made a diagnosis of a disease, in order to discover some means of healing it. He never asked if it were acute or chronic. He never recommended attention to laws of health, never gave drugs, never prayed to know if God were willing that man should live. He understood man to be an immortal, whose Life is in God, — not that man has two lives, one to be destroyed and the other to be made indestructible.
The ancient Hindoo philosophers understood something of this Principle, when they said in their Celestial Song, according to an old prose translation: —
The wise neither grieve for the dead nor for the living. I myself never was not, nor thou, nor all the princes of the earth; nor shall we ever hereafter cease to be. As the Soul, in this mortal frame, findeth infancy, youth, and old age; so in some future frame will it find the like. One who is confirmed in this belief is not disturbed by anything that may come to pass. The sensibility of the faculties giveth heat and cold, pleasure and pain; which come and go, and are transient and inconstant. Bear them with patience; for the wise man, whom these disturb not, and to whom pain and pleasure are the same, is formed for immortality.
Jesus kept the commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” He rendered “unto Cæsar the
