Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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HARRY EDWARDS
Does the healer consciously raise his vibrations and generate psychic energy?
A healer can encourage his psychic awareness through meditation and development. The words “psychic energy” are not a definite term which can be described, any more than "psychic force” can be reduced to more definite terms. When a healer is in a state of attunement with spirit, then as a rule his physical energies quiet down; the active mind, which deals with mundane things, falls into the descent, while his spirit mind, encouraging spiritual thoughts and other thoughts of a high nature, becomes ascendant. Therefore, at a time of healing his "vibrations” should be of a much finer order and of a more spiritual quality. Does the healer connect with a healing guide? A pool of cosmic wisdom? Or achieve oneness through prayer?
The answer to this question is yes to all three parts. There must be the spirit healing intelligence who is attuned to the healer in order to establish communication between the spirit realm and the physical realm. The term “a pool of cosmic wisdom” is, of course, applicable to the knowledge and experience that is contained within the phrase “a spirit healing science.” This must take into account all the known forces, whether cosmic or more material, like the force of cohesion, gravity, magnetic attraction, and so on. In addition, the pool of wisdom must also contain knowledge of chemistry and the use of energies and of how energy can be applied to energy.
Concerning achievement through prayer, it must not be forgotten that healing is part of the eternal conflict between good and evil. Disease is evil. Illness is a cause of unhappiness, and therefore is not good. The origin of healing is God, who has given us his Laws of Creation by which we must abide, and from this receive either happiness or unhappiness according to our use of those Laws.