When John sent to demand " Art Thou the Coming One? Jesus answered, "Carry tidings to John as to what ye saw and heard; that blind are recovering sight " etc. " By recounting deeds instead of repeating his words " he, in modern phrase told them, as the most conclusive answer, to give a " report of cases. In the same spirit was his answer when the Jews quarrelled with his theology—" Even though ye believe not Me, believe the works." On all occasions his supreme appeal was to " works — that is to "cases" of healing.
Again Jesus said, "I am the way," and, "A disciple is not above the teacher; but when perfected every one shall be as his teacher." This phrase, and all that portion of his discourse in which it stands, was directed against spiritual pride, the pharisee thought that looked with depreciation on the healing application of Truth to the multitude. In the injunctions " physician heal thyself," " first cast out the beam out of thine own eye" and to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye of personal sense,—individual demonstration of the Truth of being, as the only healing and the way to heal, is brought out. Demonstration is individual, but becomes manifest in relation. No man liveth unto himself, but in a universal consciousness. The law of relation with others, or spirit of demonstration, is set forth in the statements, "If any one wishes to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all;" "If then I washed your feet—the Lord and the Teacher—ye, too, ought to be washing one another's feet. For an example I gave you, that according as I did for you, ye, too, should be doing." Jesus' method and spirit rebuke conceptions of Theology according to claims of intelligence in human intellect, and that would separate it from Love that works the " works of the Father." " Can a blind man guide a blind? Will they not both fall into a ditch?"—was Jesus' summing up concerning theologians that do not heal.
Science and Health says in the same line, " More than profession is required for Christian demonstration. Few understand or will adhere to his divine precepts for healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disciple to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye,—that is to set aside cherished beliefs and practices."
