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MULTITUDES HEALEDA symbol of the purifying and harmonising of the qualities of the soul. “And Jesus went about .. preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and sickness. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd." – MATTHEW ix. 35, 36. And the Christ-soul impressed upon the centralised qualities a perception of the coming of the buddhic consciousness; and he also rectified disordered conditions, and harmonised the qualities. The "healing of the multitudes" has just the same meaning as the "healing of the people" spoken of in the Old Testament (2 CHRON. xxx. 20; Ps. cvii. 20); for the raising and co-ordinating of the qualities (people) are the work of the Christ-soul, and the "healing" is personified in Jesus because it is an integral part of the Drama, and symbolic of a necessary step in the bringing together of all qualities into one family, which means that whilst human souls are sick and suffering, the result of discordant qualities, they are not partakers of the riches of God's inexhaustible storehouse of blessings. "The Saviour who was born of Mary came to rectify the passions (or heal the multitudes) of the soul" (Gnostic statement). — HIPPOLYTUS, Works, Bk. VI. 31. The redeeming Higher Self, born of the purified lower nature and brought forth in the soul, came to rectify and subdue the passions and desires, and harmonise the multitude of qualities in the soul. "The Multitude and Diversity of natures in the universe proceed directly from the intention of God, who brought them into being, in order to communicate His goodness to them, and to have it represented by them. And since It could not be sufficiently represented by one creature alone, He produced many and diverse ones, so that what is wanting to the one towards this office, should be supplied by the other." — AQUINAS, Summa Theol. I. |
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