Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
At Divine Healing Services in many countries I have gone to great lengths to destroy the illusion that only certain individuals, like myself, have healing power. For this purpose I have constantly exemplified, for example, the unified prayer power of an entire congregation released in prayer on behalf of the sick who have come to the service. Time and time again one will witness an instantaneous healing. Someone will get up and walk out of a crippled or sick condition. Not, I emphasize, by the special prayers of a gifted healer but by the compassion of a congregation focusing their attention upon the perfection of God shining in the life of someone afflicted. Is Healing an Inborn Gift or One That a Dedicated Student Can Acquire? What Qualities are Needed to Become a Channel for Healing? What Disciplines Would You Recommend?
I can only say in all humility that it is an experience which anyone can move into according to the degree of belief and acceptance.
The main problem is that most people believe in their inadequacy. Even though this gift belongs to everyone, relatively few people place much faith in their own ability to pray for someone else with any particular expectation of miracles happening in the one for whom they pray. The real need in these days is to help sweep away this sense of inadequacy, this uncertainty factor.
The essential qualities for healing, I emphasize again, are a great love for God and love for people. Healing takes place on the wavelength of loving. Jesus recognized instantaneous union and communion with God on a wavelength of compassion, which is love in action, the perfection manifested in instant healing. Love is the key to all healing. Therefore if one seeks to be a dedicated student, if one seeks to be a channel for healing, then one must be essentially a channel for love. The greatest miracle of all is that, irrespective of our intellectual