- 33 - used the words: ‘our friend has fallen asleep’. On both occasions Christ spoke the truth, since Lazarus was not really dead; it was a case of ‘apparent death’. Nevertheless, nothing that I have said detracts from the merits of the case. What Christ did could not have been accomplished by any human power, but only through the power of God. This is true of every case in which Christ recalled the dead to life. Human power was of no avail. The Divine spirits interceded, accomplishing whatever was needed to allow the return of the spirit into the body. Christ, by clairvoyance, observed the work of the spirit world, and at his word, the spirit was reunited with its body and the seemingly deceased arose. It does not occur to you mortals that such things are done in accordance with Divine laws. This is true not only of the raising of the dead, but of all miracles performed by Jesus. When he turned water into wine, for example, this task also was accomplished by the Divine spirit world, and for this reason not even he was able to bring about the transmutation the moment his mother wished it. His ‘hour was not yet come’, because the spirit world had not completed the necessary work. Work takes time, even for spirits. It is because you do not understand these processes that you fail to grasp the meaning of certain words found in the Bible which, in consequence, have been incorrectly translated into your languages. Thus, your version of the Scriptural account of the raising of Lazarus contains a sentence that must impress you as utterly incomprehensible; John 11: 33: ‘When Jesus saw that Mary was weeping, and that the Jews who were with her were likewise in tears, Jesus felt indignant in spirit and he was upset.’ Other translations say, “he was angry”. Why indeed should Jesus be angry or indignant at the sight of the weeping sister and friends of a man who had died? On the contrary. The original text reads: ‘A shivering passed through his spirit and he was shaken’, for when spirits come near you and allow their powerful odic radiations to act upon you, you too feel a sensation of shivering pass through you and actually begin to shake. • The sensation is an agreeable one in the presence of good spirit beings, and unpleasant when it originates from the proximity of evil ones. Such a shivering sensation passed through Christ on this occasion. It was the powerful odic radiations of the spirits about him, who infused him with their strength, through which he consummated the work of the spirits with the summons: ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ • Raising the dead was something that Christ could undertake only when he had been informed by messengers from God that it was His will. All signs that bore testimony to the power of God were manifested solely when they served in some special way to promote the spread of the kingdom of God or to confirm His emissary and the latter’s teachings.
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