The Logia or Sayings of The Master by J Todd Ferrier

Author:J Todd Ferrier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Order of the Cross
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES: The Story of the Blind Man

1 This incident was not what the narrative of the fourth Gospel would make it appear to have been. It was no ordinary blindness with which the man was afflicted. The story itself reveals as much. Had it been the result of defective nerve, or iris, or pupils, it would have been an ordinary case of blindness. But it was not that, but the lack of power to perceive. It was a spiritual blindness, a great Soul limitation that had befallen the one afflicted.

2 This question was in harmony with Jewish belief. They attributed such afflictions to the Divine Judgment. Yet the question meant more, for it implied the doctrine of reincarnation and Karma; it recognised a history in the Soul, and it likewise acknowledged the power of parenthood over the attributes of a child.

3 But the blindness was not due either to the man’s own past, or the way his parents had taken, showing that there are afflictions which arise independently of these. The incident is most striking in that it relates the limitation of the afflicted one to the Divine purpose. Within the man some work had to be accomplished to the end that God might be made manifest in and through him. Who was he? What was he? His name is hidden in the story, for there are some things that may not be told. There were reasons for this silence then, and there is reason now. The fact remains the same that he had been unable to perceive from birth the inner things of the Spirit.

4 Herein is revealed the nature of the blindness, and the means by which it alone could be taken away. “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” and the anointing of the eyes with its waters will restore the power to perceive. For the Pool of Siloam contained the waters of knowledges of one who was sent.

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