Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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we would be wise to move much more freely across the religious or spiritual field, knowing that the Lord is there, whether we are prepared to recognize him or not.
I therefore submit these thoughts, very tentatively, and knowing, despite a massive experience down the years, that whatever is suggested by myself or others, the total movement can and must only be towards greater research and experience. We must understand that the movement is through an infinite plane and therefore can only be progressive rather than final. And, if I may say so, one great warning to keep in the forefront of every attempt to explore this area of healing is that it is essentially not an intellectual process but becomes progressively more effective to the degree that love expressed in compassion concentrates every approach to it.
I believe the common denominator through the whole healing experience on earth, including the entire teaching and example of Jesus Christ, is the indefinable Love Factor which transcends consciousness and perhaps which ultimately is the basic motivation of life itself. With great humility and tremendous enthusiasm and, I hope, vision, I submit some thoughts in relation to the questions posed.
What is the primary source of the healing power?
The most significant and startling experience in my life came about without any personal motivation. Although I had long been aware of a simple method of meditation, just being still, I could not claim to know very much about spiritual teaching as such.
One day, quite some time before this work of healing began, I was helping my wife wash the dishes and actually, while putting the knives and forks away in the sideboards drawer, I had what I can only describe as an illumination. I was swept through and through with the most brilliant light I had ever seen. It was like looking straight into the noon-day sun, or the blaze of an electric