Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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HARRY EDWARDS SPEAKS
Before I gladly answer the list of questions put to me by Nancy and Esmond Gardner, I think it well that the postulates that govern the science of spirit healing should be clearly stated in order that the answers to the questions be understood.
Like all other forms of healing, spirit healing is a science, a spirit science, and healers should know something of this in order to cooperate intelligently with the healing process. Healers need to appreciate these fundamental postulates and laws which govern healing.
The source of spiritual healing is God, who created the perfect laws that govern life. Sickness follows the transgression of these laws.
The purpose of spiritual healing is to stimulate man's latent divinity, so that he lives in harmony with God's laws and, automatically reaping the result, fulfills the reason for earthly life. Spiritual healing, therefore, helps to accomplish the divine intention for man's spiritual pro
gress.
The postulates which follow are concerned with the fulfillment of the divine purpose.
Every change in the universe is the result of lawgoverned forces. Nothing takes place by chance or without a reason. Thus our bodies are subject to definite laws which control our health from birth to the grave. Spiritual healing is the result of law-governed healing forces that induce change.
To effect any change purposefully, intelligent direction is needed to administer the law-governed forces to the