The Power of Faith

Even today when the intellectual temper of the intelligentsia is too often that of materialistic skepticism, we come across remarkable incidents which modern science cannot account for. The unbelievers scoff and ridicule or try to explain it all by using big technical terms which fail to explain and only explain away. The credulous in awe whisper, "a miracle!" and yet feel somewhat ashamed and sometimes rather fearful.

The fact is that our modern knowledge, while it may tell us about the external side of nature and the outward man, is still ignorant of the inner forces which exist in both. "Spiritual and divine powers lie dormant in every human being," says H P Blavatsky, "and the wider the sweep of his spiritual vision the mightier will be the God within".

Most people today deny the very existence of the Inner God and are thereby blinded to its manifestations. Face to face with expressions of the Divine, they prefer to deny or ignore. The many "providential" escapes; the varied strange and remarkable "interventions"; the so-called coincidences – all can be traced to their real source, the Spirit in Man.

Many of these unexplained occurrences are made possible through the power of faith. But what is faith? What does the modern man know of faith and its workings? What are the ingredients of faith? What did the ancients mean when they affirmed that "with faith all things are possible"? The educated intellectual is likely to laugh and say it is all ignorant superstition: 

© `The Theosophical Movement’ (April 2002) published by Theosophy Company (India) Private Limited, 40 New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400 020, India. Reprinted with permission.

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