Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
Karma-making in this lifetime.
I will go further into the subject of karma and the vibrations and reactions for good or evil that we are adding to ourselves in this particular lifetime.
Your body, together with the spirit that inhabits it, is like a sitar. If you do not understand the instrument, you cannot create music. You have learned your way around the world but you are still a mystery to yourself. If it were not so, you could perform miracles, for the human mind has an infinite resource which you have so far only encountered in vivid glimpses, short as heat lightning but held fast in the memory forever, for they were the reality of your life's experience.
All any teacher can do is show you the path. You have to walk it alone. You must find your own way, and for this you have been given great, pure guides. If Christ was to be born again, what could he tell you that he has not already told? What could he show you that he has not already shown? I do not understand why people are always waiting for Christ to be born again, or Buddha to return, and so on. They have already given us their instruction. We have the treasure map, the chart, and the compass. What more? Their mission is over. Now it is our mission.
Before we start out on it, we must understand what we carry with us, what is in our bodies and our souls, and the concept of the subjective mind and the objective mind. The objective mind deals with matter or your material, physical self. The subjective mind is like a mirror, a reflector returning to the body what you reflected in the mirror. Nothing will be sent back but what you have sent in. However, it may reflect upon you in a different way.
Psychologists refer to the conscious and subconscious mind and have many other names. You could think of it as the surface mind and the inner mind, but it is always the same old mirror into which you reflect your thoughts