Peter and John, the Scriptures relate, healed a man who was "lame from his mother's womb."Acts 3:2; He had been born a cripple, but the disciples proved that the power of the Christ, Truth, is able to overcome a condition of lameness despite its long duration or supposed incurability.
The understanding that matter never had a perfect form—that, indeed, matter never existed—leads us to see that it can never become de-formed. As Peter lifted up the lame man, we, too, need to lift our consciousness to see man's identity as completely spiritual—to behold man, not as a mortal trapped in deformed matter, but as an immortal idea, never having been in matter.
Peter and John had already witnessed Christ Jesus' demonstration of the nothingness of matter and the eternality of Life. And when the people wondered how this healing occurred, the disciples indicated that it was through no power of their own but through the Christ-power that this man was made whole. The healing Christ brings to light the true identity of man and proves the imperfect, material concept to be illusive, unreal.
