Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
feel better, but you will not be healed, because inside the subjective mind you are all negative. The healer's influence remains for a little while then fades, because ultimately the objective mind must reflect the selfcentered cruelty that has been mirrored upon it, and this reflection will result in disease or depression.
Your mirror receives and stores and, when the time comes, it sends back—“Take it away, I have stored it long enough!” So, if you have wished for somebody's illness or been pleased over his misfortune, then your objective mind has sent a thought of illness into your mirror. Sooner or later, your thought will be sent back, mirrored upon you.
A doctor, teacher, or healer will use different methods on you, none of which will work for very long. You may read books or listen to sermons that will tell you to think positively and be cheerful. This treatment may work well enough to banish your present discomfort, but as one form of your sickness goes another arrives. Forms change as you go from heart disease to back pain to high bloodpressure and so on. Just as long as the things that you have sent to the subjective mind are still there, so long will it keep on sending them back to you.
You must go to work on your mirror. There are four ways of consuming the kind of karma which you have accumulated in this life time.
1. Recognize yourself. You have done some things that are wrong; that is why you feel sick, out of rythmn. Do not stop with this thought. If you stop there you feel guilty, and if you feel guilty you will call yourself a sinner, and that is not good. It will reflect back in the mirror. Only become aware and recognize. To do this is to go forward, as you understand that you have acted and thought in ways that have not been good and they have worked through you like a boomerang.
Thoughts are living boomerangs and must be disci