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Esoteric Healing - Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease





C. Frustrated IdealismThere are, however,
certain diseases which appear in the physical mechanism and which are definitely rooted in
the fact that activity (which is the result of thinking specifically) has been colored and
conditioned by the emotional life of the individual, and the emotional life is a fruitful
source of disease and of establishing wrong rhythms. It is therefore the predominance of
the astral force, and not of the mental energy, which really causes the physical trouble.
I am not referring here to the diseases of the nervous system and of the brain, which are
the result of over-stimulation and of the impact of energy (often from the mind and the
soul) upon an instrument unfitted to handle it. These we will consider later. I refer
simply to the following sequence of events in the psychological life and the consequent
resultant activities:
Disease is a form of activity.
Mental activity and energy produces (through the power of thought) certain registration
of plans, idealisms and ambitions.
This energy, blended with astral energy, becomes dominated and controlled by astral
reactions of an undesirable kind, such as worry over non-accomplishment, the failure to
materialize the plans, etc. The life becomes consequently embittered.
Disease then appears in the physical body, according to the predisposing tendencies of
the body and its inherent, inherited weaknesses. [96]

You will note that, in reality, the mental body, and the power of thought, have in no
case been the cause of trouble. It has been caused by the obliteration of the original
thought and its stepping down to the level of emotionalism. When this stepping down and
eventual control by astral forces does not take place, and the thought remains clear and
untouched upon the mental plane, there may be trouble of another kind, due to a failure to
"carry through" the thought into effective action upon the physical plane. This
failure produces not only the cleavage in the personality so well known to the practicing
psychologist, but also a cutting off of a much needed stream of energy. As a consequence,
the physical body is devitalized and falls heir to bad health. When the thought can be
carried through to the physical brain and there becomes a directing agent of the life
force, you will usually have a condition of good health, and this has proved true whether
the individual thought has been good or bad, rightly motivated or wrongly oriented. It is
simply the effect of integration, because saints and sinners, the selfish and the
unselfish and all kinds of people, can achieve integration and a thought-directed life.
The second question asks whether an individual or a group can heal by thought power.
Most certainly the generalization can be made that an individual and a group can heal
and that thought can play its potent part in the healing process, but not thought alone
and unaided. Thought can be the directing agency of forces and energies which can
disrupt and dispel disease, but the process must be aided by the power to visualize, by an
ability to work with particular forces as is deemed advisable, by an understanding of the
rays and their types of energies, and also by a capacity to handle light substance, as
it is called. To these powers must be added the ability to be en rapport with the one to
be healed, plus a loving heart. In [97] fact, once these conditions are met, too much use
of the thinking faculty and too potent a use of the mind processes can arrest and hinder
the healing work. Thought has to condition the initial incentive, bringing the
intelligence of the man to bear upon the problem of healing and a comprehension of the
nature of the one to be healed; but once it has aided in focusing the attention of the
healer and the healing group, it should become a steady but subconscious directive agent
and nothing more than that.
The healing
is accomplished, when possible, by the use of energy rightly directed and by detailed
visualization; love also plays a great part, as does the mind in the early stage. Perhaps
I should say that a loving heart is one of the most potent of all the energies employed.
I have brought these two questions to your attention because I am anxious for your
minds to be clear upon these problems before you start any group work in healing.
Thought neither cures disease nor causes it. Thought must be employed in the processes,
but it is not the sole or the most important agent. It is on this point that many groups
and healers go astray. The mind can direct energy and this energy can, in its turn,
produce over-stimulation of the brain and of the body cells and so cause nervous trouble
and sometimes brain disease, but the mind itself and thinking, per se, cannot cause
disease and trouble in the physical body. As the race learns to think clearly and
definitely, and as the laws of thought begin to control the racial consciousness, disease
- as we now know it - will be greatly lessened and more and more people will achieve
integration. Where there is integration there is the free play of force and of energy
throughout the material body. The problems of stimulation will, however, steadily increase
with the growing sensitivity of the physical man and the developing focus of his
consciousness in the mind nature. This will go on until [98] man learns how to handle the
higher energies and to recognize the need for a rhythmic life, paying attention to the Law
of Periodicity.
In healing
work, certain rules should be mastered and followed by the healer. I have given three
important rules already. Briefly they are as follows, and I am dividing the first one into
its component parts for the sake of clarity.
1a. The healer must seek to link his soul, his heart, his brain, and his hands. Thus
can he pour the vital force with healing power upon his patient. This is magnetic work.
1b.
The healer must seek to link his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation. Thus can
his presence feed the soul life of the patient. This is the work of radiation. The
hands are needed not. The soul displays its power.
2. The healer must achieve magnetic purity, through purity of life. He must achieve
that dispelling radiance which shows itself in every man once he has linked the centers in
the head. When this magnetic field has been established, the radiance then goes forth.
3. Let the healer train himself to know the inner stage of thought or of desire of the
one who seeks his help. He can thereby know the source from which the trouble comes. Let
him relate the cause and the effect, and know the point exact through which relief must
come.





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