Peace Within Yourself: The Meaning of The Book of John by Joseph Murphy

Author:Joseph Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

(1) Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (2) (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) (3) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. (4) When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. (5) Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. (6) When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. (7) Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again, (8) His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? (9) Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. (10) But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

Mary and Martha represent two states of consciousness, the outside and the inside, the material and spiritual. Mary refers to the inner or subjective side of life. Martha refers to the objective phase of life. Mary means also love of the spiritual values of life; Martha is the desire to minister to the physical needs of the sick and needy.

Lazarus is the brother (desire) of Martha and Mary (two aspects of consciousness, the conscious and subconscious mind). Lazarus represents the dead state within us. Our desire or ideal is dead because we have not made it alive or did not know that our consciousness could resurrect and make alive that which we claim and feel as true within. Lazarus is our dead, frozen, withered conception or desire which we have been trying to materialize for a long period of time. Man may have a disease; this is the dead state; health is not dead, but it is asleep in the man who is ill. Spiritual awareness represented by Jesus goes to awaken the dead state. The outer senses tell you that the body is diseased, but the spiritually awakened man proclaims, “I have been asleep to health. I am going to awaken out of this slumber and hypnotic spell of race belief.”

The fifth verse means that love is a unity. Love is an emotional attachment. It is becoming absorbed in the reality of what you pray for, or mentally identifying and uniting with the thing desired. The steps of prayer are first, recognition of the Spiritual Power, second, acceptance of our desire, and third, the conviction in the reality of the unseen idea.

(14) Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. (16) Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

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