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Bad Vibes and Good Vibes - Brother André (Continued)
Over the years I have taught in many different
schools and classrooms in England and across several
Canadian Provinces, and I noticed that in some of them
it was practically impossible to conduct constructive
and useful lessons. There might be one or two
annoying or disruptive students or pupils, but that is
an ubiquitous situation found in any classroom. But
there were some places where the atmosphere just
reeked of years or decades of negative rebellion
against any learning or creative activity at all.
There was a thick wall of indifference and even
hostility, or an uneasy feeling of mental
disturbance. I think the vibrations of year after year
of unwilling learners coming from dysfunctional or
abusive family situations in many cases, had built up
this atmosphere of doom and gloom, and I just could
not function effectively there as a teacher. Perhaps
some of these places were actually haunted by some
former students holding a grudge against a cruel
teacher, or perhaps some unfortunate teacher was
earthbound in his or her former classroom. Whatever
the case, the bad vibes sapped my energy, and I had to
move on to another post.
The same kind of negativity can be found in
places of work, in certain houses and apartments, and
even on outdoor sites. Bad energies linger on from
accident and crime scenes, battles, burial sites and
the discord of political assemblies, just as good
energies are found in gardens, churches, theatres and
concert halls, libraries and art galleries, and some
well-run restaurants.
Good and bad energies can also be found in and
around our bodies, and depending on the quality or our
thoughts and feelings, we may invite in earthbound and
other spirits who may help or hinder us in our work
and quality of living. Positive inspiration comes to
us from the world of spirit, and that is beneficial
and to be sought after, but so also, from another
level, come the undesirable effects of obsession and
possession. Addiction, alcoholism, and bad habits
such as over-eating can attract discarnate entities or
earthbounds who can turn a slim attractive body into
an 800 pound slab of obesity which can scarcely walk.
How can such a thing happen? In many cases it is not
a glandular disorder, but a body inhabited by many
discarnates wanting to experience a physical body at
any price, regardless of the health and well-being of
the original owner of that body! Also, many mental
health problems, especially in old age, with the onset
of diseases such as Alzheimer's, are caused by
earthbounds taking over the vacant mind of the
patient.
So when our spirit healers come to heal any of
the above conditions, they have many factors to deal
with, not only at the physical level, but at the
emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well. Now,
the physical mind and body of the healer may not be
aware of, or see, all these conditions and influences
that have to be dealt with, unless he or she has
clairvoyant abilities, but he or she lets the spirit
doctors and helpers who CAN see take the necessary
steps to eject the intruders, and heal the mental,
emotional and physical disorders. This what I meant
in the previous article, when I said that healing, to
produce a cure, has to undertake a four-part onslaught
against the problem, and not just treat the symptoms
with drugs, herbs, crystals, manipulation, passes,
hypnosis, analysis or psychotherapy, helpful though
these may be.
Bearing this in mind, we could take a look at
some more of the healing work undertaken by Brother
André of Montreal, and see how he had entire faith in
the world of spirit, in the name of St. Joseph, in his
case, to do what was necessary to effect cures for all
kinds of conditions. Richard Rowley
Brother André
(continued). [Reviewed from "The Miracle of Mount Royal" by Alden Hatch. Hawthorn Books, New York, 1959.]
There was a plague of smallpox at the College of
Saint Laurent, and many died. In spite of his
weakness and bad state of health, Brother André went
to pray to St. Joseph in the College’s chapel, and
from that time on there were no more deaths, and the
plague rapidly disappeared.
On another occasion, in 1884, while Brother André
was sweeping the floor a woman suffering from
rheumatism was brought to him. Without stopping his
work, he remarked “Let her walk!” The woman and
her companions asked for some more attention from
him, but he merely continued sweeping while insisting
“You are not sick any more. You can go home.” Then
she did go home, completely cured.
Sick people started to visit Notre Dame, rang the
bell, and hoped Brother Andre would speak to them, or
touch them, and very often they did go away cured.
Then the brother started the practice of giving each
sick person a medal of St. Joseph, and then he took a
little oil from the lamp burning in front of St.
Joseph’s statue and rubbed it on the person’s outer
clothing, not actually on the diseased limb or wound.
Towards the end of his life, André admitted that the
medal was merely metal, and the oil merely olive oil
from the lamp, but it made the sick people think more
about St. Joseph and so strengthened their faith.
So many people came to the college to be cured
that the parents of the students were afraid their
children would be contaminated and catch all these
diseases, doctors complained, and even the church
authorities in Rome were worried. But André stubbornly
persisted with his healing work while refusing to take
personal credit for it. He said, “How stupid
people are to think that I, Brother André, make
miracles. The good God makes the miracle, Saint
Joseph obtains them. I am only the wire which
transmits their blessings.”
In 1896 the church acquired more land on Mount
Royal, and over the years the shrine to St. Joseph,
the chapel and then the great Oratory were developed,
Brother André always giving a helping hand along with
many volunteers. One of these was a man dying of
stomach cancer, as thin as a wraith. André gave him a
good meal and all traces of the cancer disappeared,
and the man worked for many months on the site.
One year the brother was visiting a nearby
community and a youngster of five or six limped up to
him on one crutch and asked to be cured. André told
him to get his mother’s permission. The boy ran over
to his mother, cured, completely forgetting about his
crutch!
In July, 1909, Brother André left his post as
porter at Notre Dame after thirty years there, and
went to Mount Royal to reside near his shrine to St.
Joseph, where he remained to the end of his days.
There he first cured Father Clement of near blindness,
merely telling him to read his breviary that night,
and that the next day he would say the mass. And so
the Father served as Curate and then the Superior at
the Oratory, able to read the services and carry out
his duties at Mount Royal for the rest of his life.
One time a man was carried in to see the brother,
because his back and legs were twisted so that he
looked like a frog, and one side of his face was
paralyzed by nicotine poisoning. He very soon was
cured, walking out tall and straight, his face relaxed
and perfectly normal.
Still complaints continued to be made against
this “ignoramus” effecting miracle cures. A group of
Catholic and Protestant doctors said he was
endangering the health of the people of Montreal,
caring for sick people when he was not a doctor. The
newspapers labeled him a charlatan. But in spite of
this negative publicity, people continued to come for
cures. The Board of Health set up a commission to
look into his case, and although they could not
collect scientific proof of the cures, they were able
to conclude that “the most extraordinary happenings
which we have studied seem indeed to be the result of
a supernatural intervention due to the goodness and
power of Saint Joseph.” Father André was allowed to
continue healing.
Many people attes
ted to the extraordinary energy
surrounding the little man. He was only a small man
for a healer, not like William Gray of California, or
Harry Edwards of England, who were large men enjoying
robust health. The electric energy which was emitted
from William Gray’s hands during healing often left
burn marks on his patients. But around Brother André
at times was a strange light, as many witnesses
attested. Paul Corbeil appearing before a tribunal
said, “One night I accompanied Brother André to his
little chapel. After our prayers at the moment when he
had closed the door I saw him standing in the attitude
of one turning the key. For several seconds, as he
stood there immobile in the obscurity of the night, he
was illuminated by white rays of light such as we see
depicted in the paintings of the saints. That created
an extraordinarily unforgettable impression in me.”
Some years later, a friend of the brother, Adélard
Fabre, had a similar experience. “It was about
half-past nine in the evening. I saw Brother André
kneeling on the floor of the nave of the Oratory at
the foot of the Communion rail. He was enveloped by
light. I was standing about six feet from him. He
was in the light, I was not. There was no light in
the Oratory except the lamp before the sanctuary. Far
back, some votive candles were burning. The stream of
light covering a distance of twenty feet stopped at
the brother. The statue of Saint Joseph was in
obscurity, but the luminous rays seemed to be parted
by the statue. Later Brother André moved to the altar
of the Holy Virgin, next to the main altar. He was
still enveloped in light. As he left the Oratory to
go to his room, the light disappeared.” The light had
come from no worldly source. There was no moon even,
that night.
To be continued.
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