Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
war, when children are born maimed through some wrong drugs, when murders and violence and all these terrible things take place? Where is this God of love? Why doesn't He stop it?”
It is certainly true that we live in a world of great turbulence and are besieged with every kind of problem, disaster, disease, and man's inhumanity to man. What is not understood is that free will in itself carries a tremendous responsibility. We are here to learn how to live, how to use our thinking capacity to create good situations, and how to develop the most ideal personality. If God could just intervene and cross the boundary of our personal free will, then we would simply be puppets. We could not be individuals in our own right.
Beyond even the personal responsibility and choices of free will, there are also the national and world collective aspects of the same free will functioning throughout the social structure. In other words, it is man's individual or collective choice which sets wars into motion. It is man who comes into conflict with his neighbor and perhaps, burns his heart out. It is man who so often chooses a violent course, or a drug scene, or becomes involved in worry and stress which can tear down the physical structure.
It is necessary, therefore, to realize this great truth in order more adequately to realize how our own minds are vital in the release, through prayer, of divine action into the midst of the healing scene. Here again, to the degree that we become complicated or uncertain or inhibited, to that degree do we perhaps constrain the full movement of the spirit in response to our prayers. I think that that is why Jesus talked so much about absolute love, a great simplicity of faith, and an acceptance that prayer means the release of infinite perfection into any situation. We have to make the choice of the degree of faith, the degree in which we recognize the Almighty Spirit. All these fac