Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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subject. For example, man must direct the force of electricity to produce a given result within the laws which govern that force. The effective administering of a healing force requires intelligent direction.
Through spiritual healing, “incurable” patients are cured. The term "incurable” signifies that medicine can do no more, that earthly wisdom is exhausted, and the patient is condemned to suffer without hope of recovery. Thus when a spiritual healing succeeds with an “incurable,” it denotes that a wiser intelligence than that of man is responsible for the law-governed, ordered change. If this intelligence is not earthly, then it must be of the spirit. The intelligent direction of a healing force originates from the spirit realm.
A diversity of human ills, from mental sickness to cancer, from nervous breakdowns to cataract, from blue babies to arthritis, are successfully treated by spiritual healing. This denotes that the directing intelligence is able to diagnose the cause of the affliction and to determine the correct character and strength of the healing force needed to remedy each given condition. In a successful healing, the directing intelligence is able to ascertain the cause of disease and knows how to administer the remedial force to induce a state of beneficial change within the patient.
There are physical laws which control the material world. As there must be order in spirit life, so there are spirit laws. The administering of a spirit healing force must conform to its laws, just as physical laws govern physical forces. The physical and spirit laws combined come within the definition of the total law. No healing is possible outside the confines of the total law.
One law is that harmony must exist between spirit, healer, and patient, between transmission of a force and its conscious or unconscious reception. Furthermore, the receiver must be in attunement with the transmitter.