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Esoteric Healing - Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease





The Sacred Art of HealingI do not intend,
in this treatise, to deal with the pathology of disease, with its systems and their
maleficent [100] indications. These are fully covered in any ordinary medical treatise and
textbook and I, my brothers, am no trained physician or medical authority, nor have I the
time to be engrossed with the technicalities. What I am concerned with is to give the
world some idea of the true and occult causes of disease and their hidden origins, and
with the work of healing, as it is carried on and sanctioned by the Great White Lodge.
The work
is, in reality, that of the judicious use of energy, applied with love and science. All
that I tell you is the result of experiment. Such healing falls into two categories:
In magnetic healing, the healer, or the healing group, does two things:
He attracts to the healing center that type of energy which will counteract the disease.
This is necessarily a vast subject and one of deep scientific import. Certain types of ray
force can be used with certain types of disease, necessitating the use of certain specific
centers for the distribution. These we shall consider and outline when we come to the
section entitled The Seven Modes of Healing.
He attracts to himself and absorbs those forces which are producing the disease, drawing
it forth from the patient.
This latter process necessitates a careful guarding of the healer from all contamination
by the disease, so that the forces can find no place in his body. There must also be the
supplying of fresh energy to the patient, in order to take the place of that which has
been withdrawn. This process sets up a definite interplay between the healer and the
patient. There is consequently some real [101] danger in this work of occult healing, and
for this reason the healers in training should bear in mind that they will work as a group
and not as individuals. The free circulation of force produces good health in the
individual or group. The free circulation of force between a healer or a healing group and
the person to be healed can produce the cure of disease, provided it is the destiny of the
man to be healed at any given time and his cooperation is given when possible, though this
is not really essential. It facilitates more rapid results in many cases. In others, the
patient's anxiety can negate the desired effects.



In
radiatory healing, the process is simpler and safer for the healer simply gathers
power into himself and then radiates it out on to the patient in the form of a steadily
outflowing stream of radiant energy. This stream of energy should be directed to the
center nearest to the location of the disease.
In this work there is no risk to the healer, but if the element of will enters into his
thought or the stream of energy projected is too strong, there may be danger to the
patient. The impact of the force which is being radiated upon him may not only produce
nervous tension, but may lead to an increase in the power of the disease and its
intensification by stimulating the atoms and cells involved in the activity of the force
responsible for the trouble. For this reason beginners must avoid any concentration upon
the disease itself or the area in the physical body involved and carefully keep all
thought in abeyance, once the preliminary work has been done, for energy ever follows
thought and goes where the thought is focused. [102]
The healers have to determine the effectiveness of what they are attempting and the
potency of their united group work and of the force which they can wield. They have also
to discover their ability to keep the will in the background and to send the healing
radiance out upon a stream of love-energy. Have ever in mind that love is energy and that
it is a substance as real as dense matter. That substance can be used to drive out
diseased tissue and provide a healthy substitute in place of the diseased material which
has been eliminated.

They will, therefore, in the first cycle of work, attempt the radiatory method. It is
simpler and far more easily mastered. Later, they can experiment with the method of
magnetic healing.
You will now see the purpose of the rules anent the modes of healing which I gave early
in this series of instructions. You will realize why, in this radiatory work, the linking
process involves the soul, the brain and the entire aura or the magnetic field of
individual or group activity. The mind is not mentioned or involved, and the brain acts
solely as the focusing point of the love and the healing force to be projected into the
stream of energy which issues from the ajna center.
The healer will, therefore, keep all the forces focused in the head, and his attention
must be concentrated there also. The heart will be automatically involved, as he will be
using the energy of love - at first entirely.
Let us now tabulate the rules under which all healing groups must work. I would like to
interpolate here that it is not always necessary or possible to meet and work together in
group formation. This work can be carried forward efficiently and potently, if the members
work as a subjective group; each should then follow the instructions each day [103]
and as if he were working in his group in tangible form. This real linking is brought
about by imagining himself as in the presence of his brothers. If they were to meet as a
group upon the physical plane, it would be hard to prevent the dissipation of force
through discussion, through the ordinary pleasantries of meeting, and through the physical
interplay between personalities. It would be inevitable that there would be too much
conversation, and the work done would not be adequately effective. From the physical
standpoint, they work alone; from the true inner standpoint, they work in the closest
cooperation.





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