Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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HARRY EDWARDS
Can unconscious people, babies, and animals be healed by the efforts of a healer?
Babies and young children very often respond more easily and quickly to spirit healing than adults. This may be due to the fact that their minds have no fear of the sickness and they are less inhibited than adults. I believe that babies can be helped even before they are born, especially to overcome any tendency that may exist in the family for loss of a sense, such as sight or hearing. This implies a much wider field for research, to discover the extent to which genetic tendencies can be influenced by informed spirit guidance before birth. We have the evidence that genetic tendencies can be changed by spirit when we observe, as part of a plan, the change for the better of a person who is unloving, even sadistic—the change from inflicting cruelty and suffering into kindness and thoughtful consideration.
My last thought on this question is that, because babies and children and animals are excellent subjects for spiritual healing, it proves that healing must be a spirit science and is not just a result of faith. Can a scoffer be healed in spite of his refusal to take the healing effort seriously?
The answer is yes. Spiritual healing is superior to all of men's ideas, “scoffing,” conventions, or different religions. We have seen on so many occasions not only scoffers but atheists and others who have no religious feelings or faith respond just as readily as people who possess religious convictions.
Spirit healing does not exist exclusively for Roman Catholics, Protestants, Mohammedans, or any other section of people. It is God's gift to all His living creation. The views their minds hold pertain to earthly conceptions in physical life, but healing is of another (spirit) dimension. The views of the patient really have no association with the healing forces. This equally applies to the heal