Book Title: Five Great Healers Speak Here
Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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________________ BROTHER MANDUS in silent prayer. We have to flow easily with the spirit, and be as free as the wind of the spirit. Then the Father will direct His energies, His inspiration, His guidance, for the highest well-being of the patient through the channel He has chosen in the intercessor. In this context one must also recognize the healing techniques and great human skills as expressed through the entire medical profession. The greatest error we can ever fall into is to isolate oneself from the whole field and concept of healing. The Father will and does work through all channels of compassion, and this includes doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, hospital staffs, and every other person or place where the object is to serve humanity. Many great discoveries will be made when there is a clearer concept and understanding of the spiritual nature of man. Then we shall have a great partnership of minister (healer), doctor, and patient linked in healing intercession and divine action flowing through all these channels. What Is The Role Of The Patient? The patient is, of course, all-important in the sequence of divine healing because this is where the need is. The whole attention of the intercessor is dedicated to a living rapport, a glowing partnership in love, with the patient for the well-being of the patient in every possible way. That is why counselling, inspiration, friendship, fellowship together in a spiritual project become so important to the patient. The whole effort, from a human point of view as well as from a divine point of view, is to break the patient free from the inhibiting influence of the mental-emotional causes of any disease and, of course, from the disease itself. The essential vision and teaching as revealed by Jesus Christ are absolutely in line with the patient's needs. That is to say, anyone who becomes totally committed to

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