Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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direct connection with faith healing, which is dependent upon the self-determination and will-power of the sick person to get better. If all spiritual healing depended upon "faith," then we could not see babies, children, and third parties healed as they are. Faith healing is more likely to be associated with magnetic (or cosmic) healing. Magnetic is a wrong word to use to describe this process, but I will continue to use it for the sake of convenience.
Magnetic healing is the direction of his cosmic strength from a healer to a patient, to overcome weakness and to give him new strength and vitality to build up his resistance, and so assist him to combat the sickness. For the reasons that cosmic healing is associated with the cosmic forces that eddy round and about us, it pertains to the physical realm and not to the spirit. Cosmic forces can be taken into the body through the ductless glands, particularly the psychic gland which has its commencement at the base of the nose, and proceeds alongside the spinal cord, and thence continuous with the nerve network throughout the body. A typical example of cosmic force consists in the solar rays which give all living things the energy they need, i.e. the chlorophyll through the breathing of the leaves of trees. When we purposely respirate, with the feeling and knowledge that one is absorbing into one's reservoir the cosmic strength that is available, then we build up our energies tremendously. It is these energies that a magnetic healer has the ability to transfer to a weakened patient.
There is no special intelligence behind the transference of these energies, except that of the healer's good intention to help the patient to recover and gather strength and vitality. In this connection the transference of his cosmic energies into the patient can be extremely helpful. A magnetic healer should, however, be fully aware of the means by which he can replenish his energies, mainly through purposeful respirations, in order to avoid becoming depleted himself after a healing.