Life of Ahmad — Page 313
as JESUS as IS DEAD 313 crucifixion, and in some cases, we are told, survived for a week after the infliction of the penalty. Jesus, a sensitive, that is peculiarly a sufferer, after the flogging and burden-bearing, naturally swooned under the pain of the crucifixion. There is no mention in the 'Letter' of any wound in the feet, or any healing treatment applied thereto. If Jesus were, therefore, as the 'Letter' states, a member of the Order of the Essenes, and were befriended, as far as the rules of the Order would allow any public activities in apparent opposition to the State, by members of his Order, what is more natural to suppose than that he was shielded from having his bones broken by the soldiers, and his body carefully laid away in the sepulchre of another Essene and, by arts of healing well known to the Order, restored to consiousness and to active life again? The actual flowing of water and blood from the wound in the side is a great physiological proof that life was not extinct in his body at that time. ' H. Spencer Lewis has writren a Mystical Life of Jesus , in which he states that Jesus as did not die on the Cross and that the Essene physicians helped him to regain strength and vitality.