Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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tors come into manifestation according to the level we know them to be true.
There is one other reason why a human channel is often very valuable. Since love is the flux, the continuous flowing of union with God and union with other people, there seems to be an all-consuming yearning in the spirit to establish deeper and more harmonious and happy relationships between people. That, after all, is the very essence of the Christ teaching and the essence of all religions on earth.
It is significantly true that when people are in serious trouble, whether of sickness, or intense worry, or catastrophe, it is very difficult under the pressure of the situation calmly to contemplate and believe in the infinite peace and perfection of God shining in their midst. The pain tends to blot out the calm awareness of infinite perfection. The conscious mind takes up the pattern of the imperfect and finds great difficulty in serenely observing and accepting the instantaneous presence and perfection of God as the complete answer.
People, often thousands of miles away, write in or make contact asking for help. The healer and the people in our Sanctuary become still before the Father and pray for the sufferer. This prayer in unison seems to be one of the great methods of divine healing, bearing the one in trouble up into the midst of God and really believing and knowing that because we are in prayer, something wonderful is set into motion. At that point the movement of the spirit can take over and sometimes produce an instantaneous healing, more often a progressive healing, and whatever else, a movement of infinite and multiplying good to help the person on the level of his or her need. What is the Difference Between Magnetic and Spiritual and Faith Healing?
I would find it very difficult indeed to differentiate. There is always the temptation to define, to isolate, to