Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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BROTHER MANDUS
5.9
Then, suddenly, with an excited voice, she said, “Oh, praise the Lord. I'm healed!” She got on her feet and quickly walked around the Sanctuary. She raised her arms. She was full of excitement. She had been instantaneously healed of a condition which all human skills had not been able to overcome for so many years. I simply looked at her with wide-open eyes, startled, before such an extraordinary miracle.
When she had gone I sat down in the presence of the Father. And in that moment I knew something which I have never had cause to retract throughout all these years. In that moment I had seen an invisible, almighty power floodlight a broken life and bring it into instantaneous wholeness. I therefore knew that man, and an inexperienced man in my case, could speak to the Lord and establish communion in such a way as to release this divine perfection.
I realized that this must be everyone's ability because the only factors observable to me had been simple prayer, inadequate knowledge, simplicity, and compassion for someone in need. I also knew, in those moments, that somewhere in this direction, with man in communion with his Creator, must lie the general state of well-being and health and infinite good – that this should be perhaps the natural state of man — that divine healing could in a way hold the “be all and end all” objective of spiritual experience or Christianity. I saw quite clearly that in this whole area of spiritual experience must lie the prevention of so much human disease and disaster, and that, in the end prevention was even better than miraculous cure.
Beyond that again I knew in that illumined moment that somewhere in this direction must lie the full fruitage of human experience. I saw that man was destined to be little less than the angels, that he would some day enter into a full and marvelous partnership with the Lord to be