Dr. J.H. Christ, SOG

One of the ways I spend some time with my 90-year old mother is to take her to church on Sunday mornings. It’s a little Episcopal church whose original congregation has now dwindled down to about 25-30 folks my mother’s age. The church has been taken over by an Hispanic group who, although still Episcopalian, are closer to Pentecostals, complete with karaoke electronic music, hand waving, dancing girls and salsa arrangements of the mother church’s sacred hymnal. All of this to the great dismay of the blue hair set.

Now the Hispanics are wonderful people and in a show of respect for my mom’s generation they have two Sunday services, an earlier, more traditional one in English for the old folks and a full blown Spanish language hootenanny a little later on. The same, Hispanic, preacher serves both congregations and there’s enough spill-over of the music and hand waving to make the whole scene entertaining. Combined with some good preaching, it’s a Sunday morning well spent.

Which brings me to the subject of this tome; Dr. Jesus H. Christ, SOG (Son Of God) the healer. At today's service, a part of the Gospel went like this:

And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she sad, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”…

Now it goes on from there into another statement from Jesus, the one that spawned faith healing, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace; and be healed of your disease.” But that’s not where I want to go tonight. I want to explore the first element, where Jesus was aware that power had gone forth from him.

Back in the old days, when I was in college, I read something about Jesus the physician that explained many of his medical miracles as good doctoring. The story at the time was ( I have no idea of the truthfulness of this.) that there were three letters from one of the apostles that dealt with all of Jesus’ miracles and that two of the letters were locked up in the Vatican, but the other surfaced in Constantinople and bits and pieces of it have been leaked over the centuries.

I can only remember one example, but it goes something like this:

There was a village where many of its citizens were beset by the devil. The devil dwelled inside of them and was making them ill. Jesus came to town and ordered everyone to fast for x days. When everyone was on the verge of starving, he ordered bowls of goats milk placed in the sun so by the end of the day it was fermented to high heaven. He ordered the afflicted to get down on their hands and knees and inhale the aroma from the milk. Do not drink it. Inhale it only.

It was reported that after a time, the devil began to emerge from the mouths of the afflicted and Jesus grabbed the devil by his head and bashed it against a rock killing him. He would then pull the devil out of the victims body and cast it away.

The interpretation is that the people had tape worms, and by starving the worms they could be enticed by the smell of the milk to abandon their hosts and thusly, be pulled out and killed.

Now there’s an entirely different vision of Jesus the healer, the one alluded to in the story above.

At some point I became interested in Theosophy. Theosophy is a “religious” philosophy created by the Rosicrucian Society (which is a whole other story). It is heavily influenced by Hindu. Theosophists look at Jesus as a "Regulator", one of several who have walked the earth. The Buddha, Muhammad, Gandhi, etc.

Regulators come to earth to straighten things out. Some do it simply by the example of their being. Some have the ability to actually rearrange bodily molecules by the power of their energy. A Regulator has so much positive energy that it is palpable and you can feel it in their presence. People can generate this energy too, but not nearly on the scale of a Regulator.

If a Regulator touches you, all of your systems, all the little molecules that make up your body, they would assume their proper place and function and whatever your ailments and afflictions are, they would be gone. You would be healed.

Now, I might think this was all a bunch of hooey if I hadn’t myself experienced such energy, albeit on a much lower level. But still, it was palpable energy.

I was once invited into an inner prayer circle at a Buddhist monastery. There were several monks and the guru. There was no mistaking the positive energy in that room. I don’t think I have ever been more at peace. Without a sound, the energy of the Monks immediately brought me to a serene calmness and clarity. It was a “cosmic” harmony. A harmony with “being.”

If one can imagine that everything we know of is nothing more than density of energy… from air, to water, to rock, to us… simply different densities of enery (it may help to think of gas instead of energy)… then you can imagine how those little vibrating molecules can be moved around like a magnet moves around the tiny metal shavings in an Etch-A-Sketch. If you can imagine that, then it’s not too difficult to take the next step and imagine a healer. A Regulator. Someone, or something, that can literally move around the little electrically charged particles that make up your body so that every one of them is in its proper place and function. Sort of a super tune-up.

Now, let’s take one more step. If you can imagine this all encompassing, permeating energy, then you have the basis of String Theory.

If you have the basis of String Theory then you have the basis for cosmic order and… you have the basis of a "Prime Mover", or… Intelligent Design.