Five Great Healers Speak Here

Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
There are many who believe in an ethical life but cannot easily accept the logic of karma and the concept that illness has come to them because they have harassed somebody in the past. If it is at all possible, the healer should try to teach such people to be more than ethical, to be compassionate and devote more time to benefitting others. If they begin to live on that level, they will reduce the effect of the previous actions and feel better.
People like Hitler and others, who have massacred human life, may return as lepers or be forced to suffer horrible seeming injustice. In such cases karma can be compared to a toll bridge, and the patient cannot escape paying the toll even if he has taken a healer into his car.
Nobody can heal or cure any person with heavy karma that is carved in stone. He can only be helped to modify that karma by becoming aware and learning to build for the future from where he is now. The laws of the universe cannot be upset. Can unconscious people, babies and animals be healed by the efforts of a healer?
His presence will help just as a healing light is good for all living things including plants. But it must be remembered that a sick child's spirit has chosen his illness.
We cannot believe that God is partial to a few healthy people and not to the children who are born in Vietnam, for example, where they suffer the effects of war, or in Africa where they die of starvation. Those who believe that God creates each life new minted and that all people come directly from his house do not have an answer to this cruel injustice. So we must understand the logic of karma and that we suffer for it whether it was accumulated yesterday or a hundred years before, and that in each life we are given an opportunity to redeem it. Christ said, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
The malefactor who believes otherwise gives himself