Counsels on Healing Mediumship

I.

(Paris, March 12, 1867. – Desliens Group. – Medium: Mr. Desliens.)

As has already been said to you many times in the various instructions, healing mediumship, together with the faculty of clairvoyance, is called to play a great role in the present period of the revelation. They are the two agents that cooperate with the greatest force in the regeneration of Humanity and in the fusion of all beliefs into a single belief, tolerant, progressive, universal.

Recently, when I communicated at a meeting of the Society, where I had been evoked, I said and I repeat it: everyone possesses more or less the healing faculty, and if each one were willing to devote himself seriously to the study of this faculty, many mediums who are unaware of themselves could render useful services to their brothers in humanity. At that time, the hour did not permit me to develop my whole thought on this subject; I shall take advantage of your appeal to do so today.

In general, those who seek the healing faculty have as their sole desire to obtain the restoration of material health, to restore freedom of action to such and such an organ, hindered in its functions by some material cause. But know it well, that is the least of the services this faculty is called to render, and you know it only in its first fruits and in a completely rudimentary manner if you confer upon it this sole role… No, the healing faculty has a nobler and more extensive mission!… If it can restore to bodies the vigor of health, it must also give to souls all the purity of which they are susceptible, and it is only in this case that it can be called curative, in the absolute sense of the word. It has often been said to you, and your instructors could never repeat it to you too much, that the apparent material effect, the suffering, almost always has an immaterial morbid cause, residing in the moral state of the Spirit. If, then, the healing medium attacks the body, he attacks only the effect; the primary cause of the ill remaining, the effect may reproduce itself, whether under the primordial form or under some other appearance. Often there lies one of the reasons why such and such a disease, suddenly cured by the influence of a medium, reappears with all its accidents as soon as the beneficent influence withdraws, because there remains nothing, absolutely nothing, to combat the morbid cause. To avoid these relapses, it is necessary that the spiritual remedy attack the ill at its base, as the material fluid destroys it in its effects; in a word, it is necessary to treat the body and the soul at the same time.

To be a good healing medium, it is necessary not only that the body be apt to serve as a channel for the reparative material fluids, but also that the Spirit possess a moral strength, which it can acquire only through its own improvement. To be a healing medium, it is therefore necessary to prepare oneself not only by prayer, but by the purification of one’s soul, in order to treat the body physically by physical means, and to influence the soul by moral strength.

A final reflection. They advise you to seek by preference the poor, who have no resources other than the charity of the hospital. This is by no means my opinion. Jesus said that the physician has as his mission to care for the sick and not for those who enjoy good health. Remember that, in the matter of moral health, there are sick people everywhere, and that the duty of the physician is to go everywhere his help is needed.

Abbé Prince of Hohenlohe. n II.

(Society of Paris, March 15, 1867. – Medium: Mr. Desliens.)

In a recent communication, I spoke of healing mediumship from a broader point of view than the one considered until now, and I made it consist rather in the moral treatment than in the physical treatment of the sick, or, at least, I joined these two treatments into one. I shall ask you to allow me to say a few words on this subject.

Suffering, disease, death itself, under the conditions in which you know them, are they not more especially the lot of the worlds inhabited by inferior, or little advanced, Spirits? Does not moral development have as its principal aim to lead Humanity to happiness, by making it acquire more complete knowledge, freeing it from the imperfections of every nature that retard its ascensional march toward the infinite? Now, by improving the Spirit of the sick, are they not placed in better conditions to bear their physical sufferings? By attacking the vices, the evil inclinations, which are the source of nearly all physical disorganizations, are not those disorganizations placed in the impossibility of reproducing themselves? By destroying the cause, one necessarily prevents the effect from manifesting again. Healing mediumship can, then, comprise two forms; and this faculty will not be at its apogee, in those who possess it, except when they unite in themselves these two ways of being. It may comprise solely the material relief of the sick and, then, it addresses itself to the incarnate; it may comprise the moral improvement of individuals and, in this case, it addresses itself to Spirits as much as to men; finally, it may comprise the moral improvement and the material relief: in this case, both the cause and the effect may be victoriously combated. Indeed, in what does the treatment of obsessing Spirits consist, if not in a kind of influence similar to healing mediumship, exercised conjointly by mediums and Spirits upon a disincarnate personality? Thus, healing mediumship embraces at the same time moral health and physical health, the world of the incarnate and that of the Spirits.

Abbé Prince of Hohenlohe.

III.

(Paris, March 24, 1867. – Medium: Mr. Rul.)

I come to continue the instruction I gave to a medium of the Society. Why did you doubt that I had come at your appeal? Do you not know that a good Spirit always feels happy to help his brothers of the Earth on the way of improvement and progress?

Today you know what I said of the considerable role reserved for healing mediumship; you know that, according to the state of your soul and the aptitudes of your organism, you can, if God permits you, cure either physical pains or moral sufferings, or both. You doubt whether you are capable of doing one or the other, because you know your imperfections; but God does not require perfection, absolute purity, of the men of the Earth. On that account, no one among you would be worthy of being a healing medium. God asks that you improve yourselves, that you make constant efforts to purify yourselves, and He takes into account your good will. Since you seriously desire to relieve your brothers who suffer physically and morally, have confidence, hope that the Lord will grant you this favor. But, I repeat it, do not be exclusive in the choice of your sick; all, whoever they may be, rich or poor, believers or unbelievers, good or wicked, all have a right to your help. Does the Lord deprive the wicked of the beneficent warmth of the Sun, which warms, revives, and vivifies? Is light refused to whoever does not prostrate himself before the goodness of the Almighty? Cure, then, whoever suffers, and take advantage of the good you have brought to the body in order to purify the soul that suffers still more, and teach it to pray. Do not be disheartened by the refusals you may encounter; always do your work of charity and of love, and do not doubt that the good, although delayed by some, will never be lost. Improve yourselves through prayer, through the love of the Lord, of your brothers, and do not doubt that the Omnipotent will give you frequent occasions to exercise your mediumistic faculty. Be happy when, after the cure, your hand clasps that of your grateful brother; and may both of you, prostrate at the feet of your celestial Father, be able to pray together to thank Him and adore Him. Happier still when, met with ingratitude, after having cured the body but powerless to cure the hardened soul, you raise your thought to the Creator, for your prayer will be the first spark destined to kindle later the torch that will shine before the eyes of your brother cured of his blindness, and you will say to yourselves that the more a sick person suffers, the more attention the physician must give him. Courage, brother; hope and await that the good Spirits, who direct you, may inspire you when you begin the application of your new mediumistic faculty among your brothers who suffer. Until then pray, progress through moral charity, through the influence of example, and never let the slightest occasion escape to enlighten your brothers. God watches over each of you, and he who today is the most incredulous may tomorrow be the most fervent and the most believing.

Abbé Prince of Hohenlohe.

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