The mountain climber is rewarded with widening vistas as he ascends. Meanwhile, the things below assume less and less significance as they gradually fade from sight.
Christ Jesus occasionally went up "into a mountain," the Gospels tell us. This symbolized his dwelling place in the consciousness of heaven, harmony —above the dreams of mortal sense. In communion with God, with Soul, he received the divine power that healed the sick. This power cast out devils of depravity and even raised the dead.
The crowds sometimes found him on a mountain, and he healed them right there. "And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them." Matt. 15:30; His was a mountaintop mentality, expressing the Christ-principle he so fully represented. Those who came to him were lifted to a higher sense of Life as God and were thus able to drop the false beliefs of sickness, infirmity, suffering.
