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Jesus healed the sick, cured the diseased. Why decry the feat (when others do the same) as "merely" using an occult power, and as a deviation from the highest path of attainment, becoming an obstacle to it? For this is the criticism by Advaitic Vedantins. This criticism is unfair. If it is right to cure a man by physical means--medicine, for example--then it is right to cure him by mental means, and drawing on still deeper powers is in the same line of progression. The Advaitins grant that a physician may attain the highest truth. Is a physician like Paracelsus, using both physical and mental remedies, plus his own spiritual power, and therefore capable of helping more people more effectively, to be denied this possibility?

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 5 : The Healing Power of The Overself > # 69