Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
define God, the Christ, divinity, cosmic consciousness, we are dealing not with a knowledge of ultimate truth but rather one of increasing awareness and discovery.
I emphasize this because in my humble view I believe it is imperative. In this whole field of research and adventure (for that is what it is) we are moving into new dimensions of thought and experience. This can only be accomplished in our day and age, in the midst of a great acceleration of the evolutionary process, by helping each other to be very flexible in our thinking, and totally ecumenical in all our concepts and dogmas.
I believe that we are rapidly moving towards an awareness and acceptance that no one group, no one church, no one religion has it all, either in precept or experience. For too long we have witnessed the terrible confusion and often conflict throughout the religious scene, world-wide. There is an urgent need for a new understanding of the great Law of Love and therefore a total acceptance of the universal nature of man that abides and is fulfilled in the Fatherhood of God. This transcends every closed mind and narrow doctrine. It leads inevitably into new dimensions of thought and experience.
As always, the individuals, groups, and nations can only progress according to the light of their visionaries. The need today is to lift our vision to the true significance of divine healing and feel the impact and necessity of full obedience to spiritual principles by which alone so many of our basic problems can be healed.
Perhaps the greatest contribution in the field of divine healing is that it breaks down barriers between religions and denominations. When by experience one finds healings taking place in every kind of situation, from a group of Africans on a hillside to a sophisticated church in New York or London, without any regard to the definition of religion or denomination, one is impelled to realize that