Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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BROTHER MANDUS
seeking to help humanity. My only plea is that we might all be one together and thus know we are contributing to the total whole of man's experience. That is why our work is known nowadays world-wide as an entirely ecumenical and research work, with no “axe to grind," no conditions, just loving fellowship and friendship in prayer to share with everyone everywhere.
From that base I think I can more adequately attempt to express some thoughts in relation to the various aspects of the questions raised. Why is a Human Channel Necessary to Conduct the Healing Power?
I believe that the great gift of God to man is that, although we are part of the one spirit, the one Divine Mind, we have relative free will within the overall and eternal will of God. We could not even be individuals without this right of choice. We create our personalities by the kind of thoughts we have. We choose our thought and action and reaction to environment as we see fit and within the light of our knowledge at any one time.
We all make many mistakes and observe the penalties for our wrong thinking, our violation of divine laws. We observe that when we are positively oriented, when we are filled with love, things are better. In other words, we are personalities in our own right within the universal mind or spirit. In fact, each person at any point in his or her life is basically a product of all thoughts since the moment of miraculous birth into this environment, plus the essence of the thought and experience of our forefathers. I feel that we all need to know and believe in the significance and responsibility of this free will. It is so easy to lose sight of true spiritual values by rebelling against difficult or dark experience.
People often say to someone like myself: “Yes, all this spiritual truth is very beautiful, but why talk to me about a God of love when millions of people have been killed in