Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
the right character of energy is applied to obtain the necessary chemical change in the person's locked joint.
This principle can be applied to all physical afflictions. With mental disorder, the directive guiding influences must reach the mind to cause a change in the outlook of the person and so help to overcome the primary cause of the trouble. The source of the healing must therefore be of a non-human nature, which we call spirit.
For a healing to take place, communication must be established by the healer with the spirit source of the healing. This is why it is necessary for a healer to have the faculty of establishing communication through attunement with spirit, to act as the means by which the healing is sought, and in contact healing to provide the means for the transmission of remedial energies to the patient.
Because there exists a state of communication between the realm of spirit and physical life here, there must be a medium which connects both forms of life. If that medium can basically be said to be energy, this can well be the clay and stone of spirit life as well as it is for physical life.
To effect a change in the chemical status of a part of the body, such as the arthritic joint, then the corrective energy must be an ordered arrangement of elemental atoms, structured into molecules which can change the status of the calcium carbonate, which is the principal agent of arthritic cement. When this is directed to the patient's joint, the change takes place, the status of the cement is altered, and the joint is freed for movement.
Obviously the human intelligence is necessary, first, to make contact with the spirit healing intelligences, and secondly to act as the channel necessary to convey the spirit-formed healing energies to the patient. What is the difference between magnetic and spiritual and faith healing?
Spiritual healing is healing from spirit. This has no