One of the most tragic features of the so-called carnal or human mind is its blindness to Truth, to reality. This supposititious mind believes that it inhabits an earthly tabernacle called the body for a number of years; and then,—but it cannot tell what may happen afterwards. Men have ever been a riddle, an inscrutable enigma to themselves. It is true that glimpses of the real nature of man have throughout history been caught by certain of the world's sages; but human reason, unaided, has never been able to pass the boundaries of material sense to penetrate to the simple truth: it has needed revelation to do that.
And revelation has come through what may be called the religious faculty,—spiritual sense. This sense, which is entirely apart from the material senses, which testify to the phenomena of matter, alone bears witness to spiritual Truth. Through it men have become "religious"; that is to say, through spiritual sense men have gradually discovered the true nature of God and His creation, man, and learned to worship the creator. In the process they have often wildly blundered; for all the while they have had to battle against the material senses bearing altogether misleading and false testimony, arguing incessantly for the reality of the temporal and finite. The Bible shows the nature of the struggle from the time when men first dimly realized that there is only one God up to the marvelous revelation which Christ Jesus had, when Deity was made known as the loving Father, the divine Spirit, everlasting Truth.
The Prophet of Nazareth was extraordinarily endowed spiritually. So much so, that Spirit's allness was known to him as never any one had known it before; and with the understanding came the knowledge of the unreality of matter and its so-called laws. Others before Jesus may have sensed the truth in some degree, and, accordingly, may have been able to gain possession of a faith great enough at times to perform "miraculous" deeds, but he was the first to possess that spiritual understanding which was adequate to annul material phenomena on the basis of constantly acting law. The healing of disease or sin was no chance affair to Christ Jesus; every case of healing resulted from his knowledge and application of the laws governing spiritual or real being.
