Tribulation will be experienced globally during the coming years, and effort spent solely in sympathetically administering to emotional or mental suffering and in applying temporary remedies to the growing external symptoms of a world ailing from an internal, spiritual sickness, is not perhaps the most expedient exercise of one's labour in these exceptional times. Patching up the multiplying wounds of humanity, while being both a necessary and noble duty, is becoming an extremely daunting task for humanitarians today, and soon enough there will not be a sufficient supply of band-aids to go around, or indeed nurses to apply them!

Due to the tangible results of their ministrations, many healers today may fancy that they accomplish a complete service. However, in the majority of cases and upon closer scrutiny such a view may be seen to be erroneous. Once relieved of the symptoms of their ailment - be they physical, emotional or mental - most people tend to become quite satisfied; they often revert back to their routine pattern of living and so fail to begin a search for the underlying causes of their illness. If discovered and understood, however, the essential reasons for their trouble would indicate an appropriate new direction in life for them to take in order that they may move forward while simultaneously effecting a permanent remedy for themselves.

The majority of individuals today seek healing for themselves alone, i.e., with selfish motives. Such personal objectives will not serve to raise their vibratory rate of consciousness; indeed, to the contrary. It may be that certain curative applications do free patients so that their spiritual seeking and service can then proceed unimpeded. However, should a greater understanding of the essential causes of disease fail to be elicited in addition to personal relief, then in light of that which presently looms upon mankind's horizon and when regarded spiritually, such treatment is without lasting value. Should the complete solution be absent from healing services, if the root-cause is left unaddressed and re-education neglected, then temporarily-cured symptoms of illness will only reappear in one form or another, for true healing must necessarily include right understanding.

The purpose of disease is not merely to provide humanity with an opportunity to discover how to eradicate it! Disease is an effect of a corresponding cause. It therefore bears within itself an important lesson for its creator, a lesson that cannot be learned as long as one's attitude toward the self-created disease is antagonistic, as long as one wishes only to stamp it out. However, in remedying the cause of the problem by learning the lesson, the effects of disease will eventually disappear by themselves, never to return. Such is true and permanent healing.