Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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HARRY EDWARDS
laws governing creation, birth, life and death. No healing can take place outside these laws, but within their scope much can be done. Still a healing may not be possible within the total laws which govern our well being.
Every person presents a different problem. With some, healing can be instantaneous; with others, especially with functional troubles, such as diabetes, epilepsy, and so on, time is needed for the healing to induce a beneficial change. Is the healing treatment to be given only once to a patient or must it be renewed?
There can be no set answer to any question like this. With absent healing the healer does not even come in physical contact with the patient. One treatment is often sufficient for conditions where the cause of the sickness is easily overcome. For deep-seated and chronic conditions, a number of treatments is necessary and sometimes should be continuous, to prevent recurrences, i.e. with leukemia, forms of paralysis, and so on. Will the healing process continue if the healer stops treatment?
My opinion is yes. There are so many recorded cures after a single treatment. One cannot imagine a spirit doctor giving up a patient he has been asked to help because the patient is not able to return for further treatments. This also accounts for sick people who progressively get better over a period of time, even though they do not see the healer again. Can reasons be given for the failure of a treatment?
If a patient is losing keenness of vision and continues to overstress the sight by strain of very close work, the good which the healer can bring is negated. If a person suffering from rheumatism sleeps in a damp room, the trouble persists. Then there is the question of age and the slow breaking down of normality.