Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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instrument through which the healing power can flow to the patient. If in healing a difficult condition the trouble yields only partially, the healer has to learn not to try to do further healing himself. He should know that he has not the healing intelligence which knows the way to administer the right energies which will make the given condition yield, in order that a satisfactory change can be made.
Is it necessary to make a diagnosis?
The simple answer is that it is not necessary, the reason being that it is not the healer who administers the healing treatment but the healing intelligence or guide. It is the healing intelligence that brings about the change for the better, and he must know what is needed and must make his own diagnosis in order to determine the right character and strength of the energies that are needed to overcome the cause and the symptoms of the trouble.
Of course in healing many causes of trouble are obvious, such as one sees as the result of a stroke and other forms of paralysis, as well as difficult movements through arthritis, very poor breathing, etc. The healer will convey to the healing intelligence that is listening the impressions that his mind receives from the appearance of the patient. No healing can be truly successful unless the cause of the trouble is overcome, for we comply within the inescapable law of cause and effect, and, until the cause of a sickness is overcome, then the symptoms will surely follow.
It is natural enough for a healer to desire to be the agent for the healing of a specific trouble, but he should always remember that the act of healing is putting into operation a spirit science of a far more involved character than the physical sciences known by medical men. Of course this is more easily seen when one considers the healing of an affliction or a disease that is medically incurable, which means that medical science and the wit