WAS JESUS A HEALER?

Yes and no.

He was not a healer in the usual sense of the word.

His therapy was rooted in the mystery of his own Christhood. In the human being Jesus, the cosmic Christ was reincarnated, and in Him dwelt "all the fullness of the Divinity", as Paul of Tarsus said. Since in the Divinity there are no diseases, it is therefore supposed that there could be no diseases in the most perfect emanation of the Universal Divinity, in the Christ-Logos.

And this Christlike immunity radiated through his human personality. It is not found in the four Gospels, in the Gospel of the apostle Thomas, nor in the Apocrypha, any word about diseases in Jesus. And his perfect health infected the sick who were receptive to this contagion.

Humans are used to talking about the contagion of disease - but perfect health is more contagious than any disease. The perfect health of Jesus beneficially infected the sick.

There is also no evidence in the Gospels that Jesus had campaigned to heal all the sick in Palestine, much less in the Roman Empire, as he could have done with his healing powers. He never sought a sick person; he only healed those who sought him. He knew that illness is the effect of guilt, individual or collective, and no one, not even Jesus, has the power to abolish the guilt of others against the will of the guilty. What he did in the three years of his public life was to show the guilty, the path to abolishing or preventing their own guilt.

Certain philanthropists must be surprised that a man with such a healing power has not become a professional healer.

Jesus knew that the real evil is not in the body but in the soul and that it is no use repressing the effects as long as the cause persists. In Genesis, it was said that sickness and death are the sinner's creations and Paul of Tarsus repeats that the "wages of sin are death."

Hence this indifference of Jesus in the face of disease. He is much more master than a doctor.

When Mary of Bethany anointed Jesus with a vial of precious essence, Judas and other disciples incriminated Mary for this "waste", claiming that one could have sold that essence and helped the poor. But Jesus defends his disciple's "waste" by saying, "You will always have the poor among you, and you can do them good whenever you will - but you will not always have me."

This attitude of Jesus is hardly comprehensible to those who know only material beneficence and know nothing of spiritual beneficence, which seems to them waste or absurd mysticism.

Jesus gave the utmost importance to the ideal man who was devised by the Elohim of Genesis, which, to this day, has not prevailed in humankind. Flattening the paths of the soul is, for Jesus and the future Christlike humanity, more important than healing the physical body of the Adamic humanity. He never refused to heal those who sought him but has never shown interest in organizing a systematic campaign to cure all the illnesses of men of his time. From the heights of his Christlike vision, he was most interested in proclaiming the Kingdom of God, and once established, not only evils but, above all, malice, the cause of all evils, would cease. This is the genius logic of Jesus, hardly comprehensible and acceptable to many Christians.

The new humanity of the future will be men made in the image and the likeness of God, without blame, without diseases, without compulsory death.

This ideal humanity continues to be thwarted by the serpent of intellect and mind, and while the power of darkness has power over men, perfect humanity will not arise, because to this day, the vast majority of humanity still crawls on the barren plains of mediocrity and considers ridiculous and absurd all that rises above that level.