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Considered to be one of the greatest spiritual healers Britain has ever known, Harry Edwards had a remarkable career of healing spanning thirty years.

Unlike Mary Baker Eddy, his was a “hands on technique” similar to the therapeutic touch of Delores Krieger. He could reputedly achieve miracles straightening twisted limbs, restoring sight and hearing, and curing disease. On occasions “absent healing” would be employed where, like Edgar Cayce, Edwards would effect a cure while hundreds of miles away.

Like so many others in the field of spiritual healing he had no medical, surgical or psychological training, and his gift manifested itself in the most unexpected and unusual way. During the first World War, while serving as a major with the Royal Sussex Regiment in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), he was called upon to treat the aged and ailing mother of a local sheikh. With only a primitive first aid-kit available to him he administered a potion of carbolic toothpowder, laid his hands on her and prayed fervently. A few days later the old lady recovered — Harry Edwards had discovered the power of prayer.

Some years passed however before he put his healing powers into general practise when he became involved with a Spiritualist church in Ilford, Essex. In 1934, while attending another spiritualist church in South London, he was told that he had undoubted powers and that there were spirit guides willing to help him. The guides proved to be the spirits of Lord Lister, the founder of antiseptic surgery, and Louis Pasteur, the great French scientist. From then on Edwards never looked back and his miracle cures became legend. He set up his Spiritual Healing Sanctuary at Ewell, in Surrey, where he would talk quietly to his patients and lay hands on the affected part of the body.

So many people were seeking his attention and writing to him that he had to engage a full time secretary and extra staff to answer the thousands of letters he received. In 1946, he moved his ministry to a large house set in fourteen acres of woodland at Shere, near Guilford, and as his fame spread was patronised by important personages and royalty.

In his book Thirty Years a Spiritual Healer, Edwards gives graphic details of some of his miraculous cures - among them, a man cured of advanced tuberculosis while the healer meditated many miles away from the hospital.

After a visit to South Africa and Rhodesia where he gave well attended demonstrations of healing in Johannesburg and Bulawayo, he returned to England to continue his remarkable work until his death on December 7, 1976.

Comment:

There Is no medically verifiable evidence to suggest that Harry Edwards, Mary Baker Eddy, Edgar Cayce or any other faith healer has ever cured anyone of anything other than complaints of a psychosomatic nature.