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Chapter VI: The Principles of Pranic Healing.1991
all races of people today, even among the savage races. It seems to have
arisen from an instinctive conviction in the mind of man, that healing lay in
that direction.
The Indians, the Egyptians, the Jews, the Chinese, of ancient days, were
perfectly familiar with this form of healing. In Egypt the ancient carvings in
the rocks show healers treating patients by placing one hand on the stomach,
and the other on the back. And the early explorers of China report that
similar practices were common there.
The Old Testament is full of instances of this form of healing. And we also
find cases mentioned in the New Testament. St. Patrick is reported to have
healed the blind in Ireland, by placing his hands upon their eyes. St. Bernard
is reported as having cured eleven blind people, and to have enabled
eighteen lame persons to regain the use of the limbs, all in one day; and
in Cologne he is reported to have cured twelve lame people, also three
dumb persons, and ten deaf ones, all by means of the laying on of hands.
The history of the early church is full of instances of this sort, and making
allowance for the romantic tales that always arise in such cases, we may see
that much good and effective work was done by these people, in this way.
Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, is reported by history to have had the power
of curing colic and diseases of the spleen, by touching the persons affected.
The Emperor Vespasian is said to have cured nervous diseases, and lameness,
blindness, etc., by laying on of hands. Hadrian cured people having dropsical
diseases, by applying the points of his fingers to them. King Olaf healed
instantaneously by laying his hands upon the sufferer. The early kings of
England and France healed goitre and throat affections by the “King’s touch.”
In England there was a disease called “the King’s evil,” which was thought to
be curable only by the touch of the King.
The Courts of Hapsburg were believed to be able to cure stammering by
a kiss. Pliny reports that in the ancient days there were men who cured the
bites of serpents by the touch. Numerous religious celebrities cured disease
by the laying on of hands. In England, Greatrakes created quite a sensation,