Christ Jesus' appearance on the human scene had been prophesied hundreds of years earlier. Spiritually discerning people were expectant. They knew that the world was going to be given a Saviour. And it was. Christ Jesus was this Saviour. But it was not in some general or abstract or futuristic sense that Jesus was "Saviour." He healed people. He demonstrated that divine Truth is practical—that Truth is always present to save. He showed how every single individual on earth is finally going to be unshackled from every single mortal limitation.
Not only was the Master's arrival foreseen; his acts of healing were also foretold. And what was it that enabled him to fulfill the prophecy that he would be a healer? There are many ways that question could be answered. But any complete answer would have to include the point that this man had a spiritual origin.
What does such a statement mean? How natural it is to think first of the virgin birth. Here was an event that literally set aside the most basic assumptions of biology, chemistry, physics. This was a profound occasion in human history. But what brought about this virgin birth? Here one approaches the issue of fundamental significance. The virgin birth itself was an effect; it was the divinely impelled outcome of a sacred experience within Mary's consciousness. This experience was divine revelation—God revealing Himself to pure and receptive thought. The eternal Christ, Truth, acting on Mary's thought, enabled her to discern God as the author of individual being.
