Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Healing - The Training of the Healer







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Esoteric Healing - The Basic Causes of Disease





The Training of the HealerAs regards the
training of the healer, I will give from time to time the six rules which govern (or
should govern) his activity. Bear in mind the two words which I earlier gave. They sum up
the healer's story: Magnetism and Radiation. They are different in their
effects as we shall later see.

Rule one
The healer must seek to link his soul, his heart, his brain and his hands. Thus
can he pour the vital healing force upon the patient. This is magnetic work. It
cures disease, or may increase the so-called evil state, according to the knowledge of the
healer.
The healer must seek to link his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation. Thus can
his presence feed the [18] soul life of the patient. This is the work of radiation.
The hands are needed not. The soul displays its power. The patient's soul responds
through the response of his aura to the radiation of the healer's aura, flooded with soul
energy.

In considering the Causes of Disease, I find it necessary to speak a word in connection
with conditions - external and internal. It will be apparent to the casual thinker that
many diseases and many causes of death are due to environing conditions for which he is in
no way responsible. These range all the way from purely external occurrences to hereditary
predispositions. They might be listed as follows:
Accidents,
which may be due to personal negligence, group happenings, the carelessness of other
people, and the results of fighting, as in labor strikes or war. They can also be brought
about by attacks from the animal or the snake world, accidental poisonings and many other
causes.
Infections
coming to a man from outside and not as the result of his own peculiar blood
condition. Such infections are the various so-called infectious and contagious diseases,
and prevalent epidemics. These may come to a man in the line of duty, through his daily
contacts, or through a widespread condition of disease in his environment.
Diseases
due to malnutrition, particularly when found in the young. This state of
undernourishment predisposes the body to disease, lowers the resistance and the vitality,
and offsets the "fighting powers" of the man, leading to premature death.
Heredity.
There are, as you well know, certain forms of hereditary weaknesses, which either
predispose a person to certain illnesses and consequent death, or produce in him those
conditions which lead to a steady weakening [19] of his hold on life; there are also those
tendencies which constitute a form of dangerous appetite, which lead to undesirable
habits, a letting down of the morale, and are dangerous to the will of the person,
rendering him futile to fight these predispositions. He succumbs to them and pays the
price of such habits, which is disease and death.

These four
types of disease and causes of death account for much that we see happening around us in
people's lives, but they are not to be classed definitely under any of the psychological
causes of disease, and will only be considered, and that very briefly, under the section
dealing with group life and its predisposing causes of disease. Infectious diseases are
there dealt with, but such situations as arise out of an automobile or railroad accident,
for instance, are not to be considered as coming under the heading of causes producing
disease. That the work of the healer may be involved in these cases is quite true, but the
work to be done is somewhat different to that accomplished when dealing with those
diseases which have their roots in some subtle body or other, or in the results of group
disease, etc. The ills growing out of malnutrition and the wrong feeding of our modern
life and civilization will not here be considered. For these no child is individually
responsible. I am concerned with the diseases arising in wrong internal conditions.
The
responsibility of a child for his living conditions is practically nil, unless you admit
karma as a predisposing factor, and its power to produce those readjustments which emerge
out of the past and affect the present. I shall deal with this more fully under our third
point, dealing with our karmic liabilities. I would only suggest here that the whole
subject of disease could be treated from the angle of karma and be definite and conclusive
in its value [20] had there been right teaching on this abstruse subject from the time
that it was given out in the West. But the truth as it has come to us from the East has
been as much distorted by the Eastern theologian as the doctrines of the At-one-ment and
of the Virgin Birth have been misinterpreted and taught by the Western theologian. The
real truth bears little resemblance to our modern formulations. I am, therefore, seriously
handicapped when dealing with the subject of disease from the angle of karma. It is
difficult for me to convey to you anything of the truth, as it really exists, owing to the
preconceived ideas as to the ancient Law of Cause and Effect which are necessarily in
your mind. When I say to you that the doctrine of Emergent Evolution and the modern
theories of the work of a catalyst upon two substances which - when brought into relation
with each other under the effect of the catalyst produce a third and different substance -
carry in them much of the truth anent karma, will you understand? I question it. When I
say to you that the emphasis given to the Law of Karma as it explains apparent injustices
and stresses always the appearance of pain, disease, and suffering gives only a partial
presentation of the basic cosmic truth, is your mind in any way clarified? When I point
out that the Law of Karma, rightly understood and rightly wielded, can bring that which
produces happiness, good, and freedom from pain more easily than it brings pain, with its
chain of consequences, do you feel able to grasp the significance of what I am saying?





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