Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Healing - VIII - Application of the Laws
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Esoteric Healing - Chapter VIII - The Laws and Rules Enumerated and
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Where the source of the trouble lies in the emotional or
astral body, the task of the healer is not so easy; he has then to work, focused as a
soul in his head center, but directing the needed energy and controlling the patient's
emotional nature via his correctly oriented solar plexus center. I refer here to the
healer's solar plexus center, which is one which he does not as a general rule employ as a
point of focus or attention in his own life. The healer has a gained facility in the use
of all his centers at will, regarding them as distributing points of directed energy. This
directed energy, I would have you note, is not directed towards healing, but is the
soul energy of the healer directed towards [555] bringing some center in the patient's
body under control, owing to the emotionalism which the patient displays, and towards
reorganizing it as a center for reception of the healing energies emanating from the
patient's soul - a very different matter and one which must be most carefully borne in
mind.The healer, therefore, uses two centers, normally speaking: his own head center
and that center in his own body which corresponds to the area which is diseased and its
controlling center. There has to be in every successful healing the establishing of a
sympathetic relationship. As an ancient book in the Masters' Archives puts it: "Soul
to soul, the two are one; point to point, together must they suffer; place to place, they
find themselves allied, and thus the dual stream of energy results in cure."
One of the major difficulties with which the healer is faced, particularly if
relatively inexperienced, is the result of this established sympathetic relation. There is
apt to occur what we might call "transference." The healer takes on or takes
over the condition of disease or discomfort, not in fact but symptomatically. This can
incapacitate him or at least intercept the free activity of the healing process. It is a
glamor and an illusion and is based on the healer's achieved capacity to identify himself
with his patient; it also is founded on his anxiety and great desire to bring relief. The
healer has become so preoccupied with the patient's need, and so decentralized from his
own identified and positive consciousness, that inadvertently he has become negative and
temporarily unprotected. The cure for this, if the healer discovers in himself this
tendency, is to work through the heart center as well as the head center, and thus keep a
steady flow of the positive energy of love pouring out towards the patient. This will
insulate him from the disease, but not from the patient. He can do this by working [556]
through the heart center within the brahmarandra (the head center) and greatly
increase the potency of his healing work; however, it presupposes a high degree of
development on the healer's part. The average spiritual healer will have to link up head
and heart centers by a definite act of the will. He will then realize that the love
pouring from him to the patient will prevent any return of the undesirable emanations from
the patient which have been flowing towards him; this because if such a flow existed, it
would militate against the patient being healed.
The healer
who responds to the inner urge to heal will face, as you can see, a very severe course of
training before his own equipment - personality, etheric body and its centers - are
brought into such submission to the soul that they offer no obstruction to the healing
art. He has therefore to learn in connection with himself:
Rapid
alignment between soul, mind, head center and physical brain.
The use of
the mind, illumined by the soul, in the psychological diagnosis of the causes of the
disease which he proposes to handle.
Methods for
establishing a sympathetic rapport with the patient.
Modes of
protecting himself from any transference brought about through this rapport.
The
establishing of a right relation with the patient of either cooperation, acquiescence or
spiritual control.
Physical
diagnosis and the locating of the area to which relief must come, via the controlling
center.
The art of
cooperation with the patient's soul so that his etheric body focuses all its inflowing
energies in order to bring relief to the diseased area. This involves the direct activity
of the healer's etheric body in [557] connection with a renewed activity on the part of
the patient's etheric body.
The
technique of withdrawing his healing power when that of the patient is adequate to the
undertaking.

I feel that
I have here given you all that you need for immediate study and reflection. I have shown
you that the healing art is not a vague mystical process, or wishful thinking and simple
good intentions. I have indicated that it presupposes the mastering of the science of soul
contact, first of all; the constant practice of alignment, and the comprehension of the
Science of the Centers, or - literally - a modern form of Laya-Yoga. Healers in the future
will undergo years of drastic training, and this need cause no surprise, for the ordinary
medical profession calls for years of hard study and work. Many healers in the New Age
will combine orthodox study and knowledge with the art of spiritual healing.
When trained healers, with perception, with a full working knowledge of the etheric
body, with an understanding of the energies which compose it or which it does or can
transmit, of the subtle constitution of man and of the methods of directing energies from
one point and location to another, can work with full medical knowledge or in full
collaboration with the orthodox physician or surgeon, then tremendous changes will be
brought about. Great enlightenment will reach the race of man.
It is for this that we must prepare - not primarily for the healing of the physical
body, but because of the expansion of the consciousness of the race that this new and
esoteric study will bring about.
We have dealt with a number of fundamental realities which it is essential that all
healers - endeavoring to work with the new type of esoteric healing - must master; what
[558] I said, therefore, is of major importance. Each point made by me could form the
basis of prolonged discussion, but (in this treatise) that is not possible, for 1 seek
only to give indication of future possibilities. I seek also to foment distrust in the
present approach of the metaphysical world to this subject of disease and its cure, and to
undermine - if I may use so drastic an expression - the confidence of the public in the
so-called New Age modes of healing, in the methods of the Christian Scientist, of Mental
Science, and of all those schools of thought which deal with healing from the angle of
affirmation - affirmation of man's divinity and the claim that that inherent and innate
divinity guarantees his healing. This claim is a glamor and a delusion, as I have oft
sought to show.





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