| Esoteric
Healing, Volume IV |
There are probably more individuals and groups of people in the
world of every shade of belief and capacity, devoted to the idea
of healing than to any other single human need. Yet healing is
an exact, and an exacting, science; and in modern society no physician
or surgeon may practice the ancient profession of healing without
the personal qualifications legally recognised by the State for
the protection of the public. No doubt prayer and invocation can
be effective under certain circumstances, particularly when the
one who serves is pure and harmless in motive, and has enough
understanding to cooperate with the soul purposes of the individual,
so permitting the healing energy of the soul to flow more freely
and effectively through the personality, or to proceed with the
process of withdrawal, if that is its immediate purpose.
Esoteric healing, however, includes far more than this; it
is a science based on a number of requirements, induding knowledge
of the constitution of man and the nature of the various bodies,
both dense and subtle. To this practical knowledge, the science
of occultism contributes vital information of the energy factors,
the karmic and ray influences, the psychology and astrology
of the soul, and the laws and rules fundamental to the safe
and successful practice of esoteric healing.
With all this to encompass in understanding and in application,
little wonder that this science is as yet in its infancy, still
in the experimental stages, and with other aspects of esotericism
due for major development only as the soul in man takes a stronger
hold of all personality affairs.
In this book the seven ray techniques of healing are described;
the laws and rules of healing are enumerated and discussed;
the requirements for healing are given in detail; and basic
causes of disease are shown. We learn, for example, that much
disease can be karmic in origin; that certain diseases are inherent
in the soil and in the substance of the planet; and that many
others are psychological, arising in the emotional or mental
bodies. Hence the need for a total and comprehensive understanding
both of the patient and of the correct and safe methods of healing.
We are also given a true understanding of death as the abstraction,
or the withdrawal, of the soul from the body to continue life
on its own plane without the limitation of the body, until a
new cycle of incarnation and experience in form is necessary.
In the effort to apply the teaching given in "Esoteric Healing",
those whose destiny lies in this area of human service will
begin to unfold the spiritual faculty necessary for the healing
of the whole man. And this will increasingly concern groups
of workers using the magnetic and radiatory power of group energy
and invocation. The right practice of esoteric healing conforms,
therefore, to the new age development of group consciousness,
and the establishment of right energy relationships
which underlie all aspects of esoteric training in the world
today. Not only the potential healer, but all occultists will
learn much from a study of "Esoteric ilealing".
