Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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tion of cancer, arthritis, or whatever. We even through psychological and medical processes have some understanding, or belief, that there are indeed these various degrees of sickness from functional illness to organic disease.
For my part, conceiving as I do the absolute perfection of God, the almighty power of the spirit, I cannot accept that there could be any kind of human situation which could not be transformed by the Father.
Perhaps it is we, on the human level, who created an obstacle in that we recognize, believe, and accept that some things are more difficult to heal than others. For example, we have no difficulty in believing that a cut finger will automatically heal itself. It is easy to believe that prayer might heal a headache, give us peace of mind, take a pain away on some relatively trivial level. It is more difficult, perhaps, for most of us to conceive that God's instantaneous perfection can dissolve a cancer, or cure arthritis or some great deformity.
I find no difficulty in merging functional illness with organic disease. They are all part of the same system, and I believe are all equally open to the healing power to the degree we can accept it and motivate it. I think it is also true that very much organic disease is also the outward form of deep inward tensions and pressures. Not always, but in very many cases this has proved to be so. I think we should be wise always to contemplate the value of spiritual counselling linked with prayer, and the recognition of God's power to accomplish everything.
For instance, I remember one Sunday morning many years ago a lady came to the Sanctuary in a terrible state of mind. She told me that on the following Wednesday she had to go to the hospital to have her breast removed. She was really terrified. I talked to her, counselled with her, described the way God would be with the doctors and nurses and help her in every wonderful way to come