Jesus: Lazarus Is Whole Again

Jesus: Lazarus Is Whole Again

03.05.2008

Dream:

I am sitting with Lazarus* outside the rich man's gate. He is lying on the dusty street and has scores of ugly, seeping, filthy ulcers with maggots squirming in them. His greasy, matted hair is full of grime. Black broken teeth dot his foul looking mouth. I am talking to him about how I have 'changed the prescription of my glasses' over the last couple of years, and affirm that I am now seeing life differently, in a much more positive light. I am talking to Lazarus as if he were an old and dear friend that I hadn't seen in awhile. I confide in him that "I'm basically, fundamentally happy now!" When Lazarus hears this, that I am happy right down to my core, he sits bolt upright and declares with tremendous relief in his voice: "Oh, that's good!" I notice that suddenly all his ulcers have disappeared, his skin has healed and glows like new. The maggots that were feasting on his sores have dematerialized completely. Lazarus is whole again.

*Luke 16:19-31

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in fine linen robe and passed every day in splendid luxury. And there was a certain poor man whose name was Lazarus; and he was laid at the gate of the rich man, suffering with ulcers. And he desired to fill his belly with the fragments that fell from the rich man's table; and the dogs also came and licked the man's ulcers. And so it was that the poor man died; and angels transported him to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being tormented in hell, he raised his eyes from afar off and saw Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom. And he called with a loud voice, and said: Abraham, my father, have pity on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and moisten my tongue; for behold, I am tormented in this flame. And Abraham said to him: My son, remember, that you received your good things during your lifetime and Lazarus his evil things: and now, behold, he is here at rest and you are receiving stripes. And with all these there is a great barrier between us and you; so that they who would pass from here to you, cannot; neither can they pass from there to us. He said to him: I beg of you, therefore, my father, that you would send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, that he may go and protest to them lest they also come to this place of torment. Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. But he said to him: No, my father Abraham: but if one shall go to them from the dead, they will repent. Abraham said to him: If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not believe, though one should rise from the dead. (Peshitta)

** The name Lazarus means, He who God has helped.

Lazarus is the Latinized version of the Greek Lazaros, which is a translation of Eleazar in Hebrew and Lazar in Aramaic.

In another dream I was addressed as Lazarus.