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Spirit healing must work!SPIRIT HEALING MUST WORK WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE TOTAL NATURAL LAWS
Harry Edwards, one of the world’s greatest ever spiritual healers, explains why healing sometimes seems to fail. Then he goes further, pointing out that this gentle therapy also demonstrates mankind’s spiritual basis:-
Why do some healings fail? This is perhaps the hardest question to answer and the hardest lesson for the beginner to learn.
It seems paradoxical that a healing occurs with one disharmony while another seemingly identical state does not change. A baby with deformed feet has one foot made perfect, but not the other.
It is stranger still when one sees a chronic diseased condition made better when a much lighter complaint of similar character does not respond.
There is, of course, no one answer to this problem. We can advance probable reasons for certain cases and that is all.
Let us work upon simple formulae. Because we live in a physical world, we must always react first to the effects of physical laws.
If we put our hand in the fire, it will get burned. If we get cold and wet, we will probably catch a chill. If dirt gets into a wound, it will turn septic. If we are unwise in our mode of life, we will suffer.
A healing is the result of qualitative forces overcoming the ill effects produced by physical or spirit self unwisdom.
Healings may be likened to a contest between the corrective healing forces and the effects produced by physical stress.
When the healing forces gain the mastery, the trouble goes. Until this takes place, no healing will result. As the healer does not heal, he should not blame himself if a healing doesn’t result.
In chronic conditions, the physical results may have become too strong or the patient’s powers of recuperation too weak to allow healing to take full effect.
The ravages of disease, as with rheumatoid arthritis, may have produced physical deformities, such as joints welded together.
When such an advanced physical change has taken place, the healing is prolonged and in some cases seems to be of little avail as one looks at a given condition, like an unyieldable locked hip or knee.
The process necessary to obtain a cure is the gradual changing of the physical state. The time available for this to take place may not be sufficient before passing occurs.
Spirit healing must work within the framework of the total natural laws. Healing cannot make the old young again. With age, senile conditions can set in.
While healing will maintain the weakened state in its best possible condition or render help in other ways, it cannot restore youthful prime, for this is contrary to the law governing age and decay.
A patient may be living unwisely, but possibly this might not be his fault. For example, a sufferer from rheumatism may be living in damp accommodation.
A mother who needs rest may be compelled to work beyond her strength. A person with weak vision continues to cause eye-strain in his employment.
These people may be receiving spirit healing and good can be done, but it will be nullified by the way of life. We must always react to physical effects first.
Then there is the patient who will not help himself. With many illnesses, arthritis, for example, continual physical treatment is necessary.
If the patient surrenders himself to the disease and makes no effort to help himself or to receive treatment from others, the healer must not be blamed if little or no progress is seen.
When there has been surgery and the normal functioning of the body interfered with, the healing is unable to produce normality.
A patient might be responding well to spirit healing when he is persuaded to undertake medical treatment, which proves to be detrimental and the good work achieved will be undone.
With absent healing, a patient may write once or twice daily and fail to maintain contact with the healer. This is another good reason why some healings do not progress.
Spirit healers are not all powerful. They cannot ride roughshod over the universal laws. If they could, they would have power over life and death. This factor must be realised.
In extreme conditions, spirit doctors will do all they can, give easement to the body, peace to the mind and render such assistance in the ways that are known and open to them.
A further reason may be that the disharmony is so strongly entrenched within the spirit self that the physical state cannot respond fully and vice versa.
At times, disharmonies, such as those arising from glandular imbalance, are part of the very nature of the individual, as are hereditary tendencies.
Healing guides do, however, bring about as great a degree of change as becomes possible to provide the best state of health under the circumstances.
It has been seen many times that when healing has been asked for, say deafness or another local complaint, and this does not yield, there is great benefit given for other ill-conditions.
The deafness may not yield, but there is great improvement in the general health or mental outlook yet the healing will be deemed to have failed because the deafness persists.
The failure of a healing is not the healer’s fault or responsibility, if he does his best. It is not a matter that he can decide.
He may see his own loved ones suffer while strangers will be healed. He must learn to accept the position, but this should by no means shake his confidence in the healing powers of the Spirit.
Healings should be judged by the successes rather than otherwise. The majority of patients are those for whom medical science can do no more.
Generally, they have received the maximum treatment doctors can give and are told that nothing more can be done. If success is seen with but one of these, then all the time spent in development will have been more than worthwhile.
Because we do not understand the full capabilities of spirit healing or its limitations, it is not possible to give any set answer to this problem.
Each case is an individual one. The many factors that concern the ability of the patient to receive the healing rays and to respond to them may each play their part in success or seeming failure.
Another point to be remembered is that even after a period of healing when little apparent progress is made, it is impossible to determine what the condition of the patient might have been had he not received help. There may have been deterioration and greater pain.
It may often be that guides do remove the cause of the disease, but the physical effects have become part of the physical structure or habit of the patient’s mind.
This applies particularly to causes within the spirit self. If the physical mind persists in holding on to past experiences, especially with mental anxiety or fear conditions, then the blame is not with the guide or healer, but with the patient.
It can be rightly said that healings will take place when the conditions are remedial within the scope of both physical and metaphysical law, time factor permitting.
Also the patient must conduct his way of life wisely and co-operate with the healing effort by taking advantage of the progress achieved and by following advice given to him by the healer.
If a doctor is unable to help a patient any more – or even if he makes a grave mistake – he is still honoured. When the healing guides produce a healing, let us thank them.
If they cannot, let us thank them just the same, knowing that the non-success is in spite of their efforts and honour them all the more.
Some healings take place immediately; others need varying periods of time. Some patients do not seem to respond at all while others there is improvement and betterment in various ways.
Sometimes the results of the healing are not seen until a later date, indicating that time is needed for the process of change to take place.
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