On the path of spiritual enlightenment, the health of the individual aspirant or the seeker may be considered as critical factor in determining whether he can travel along the path, or may as a matter of ill health drop back as the case may be, sooner or later.
On the other hand the seeker him/herself may want to learn the art of healing in which case he/she would need to have an ascertained knowledge of the techniques of healing.
This topic is therefore important as a point of study in relation to one’s ability to heal.
Here a master of the wisdom explains father.
(1) The ills of men which affect the circulatory system, the kidneys, the bladder, and the lubrication of the joints, will find a CURE in vegetable constituents and above all in the right adjustment of the emotional nature.
(2) In case of imbecility and idiocy, land in that stage of old age which we call senile decay, the thread which anchored in the brain is withdrawn, whilst that which conveys the life impulse or urge, remains still anchored in the heart. There is life but no intelligent awareness; there is movement but no intelligent direction; in the case of senile decay, when there has been a high grade apparatus utilized in life, there may be the appearance of intelligent functioning, but that is an illusion due to old habit and to old established rhythm, but not to co-ordinated coherent purpose.
(3) Very few of the troubles of the dense physical body, arise within that body itself. A few arise directly in the etheric body, but at this stage of evolution, most of the troubles arise in the emotional body, and the remainder in the mental. We might generalise and say that:
25% of the ills flesh is heir to, arise in the etheric body.
25% in the mental body.
50% find their origin in the emotional body.
(4) The question is often asked: Why is there frequently so much illness, nervous trouble, and various pathological conditions found among the saints of the earth, and among those who are dearly oriented towards• the light? The answer is that the strain put upon the physical vehicle by the shift of the forces, is usually unduly great, and so produces these
undesirable conditions. These again are often augmented by the foolish things done by the aspirant, as he seeks to bring his physical body under control.
It is, however, far better for the undesirable results to work themselves out in the physical vehicle, than in the astral or mental bodies. This point is seldom realised, and hence the emphasis laid upon the idea that sickness, ill-health, and disease, are indicative of individual error, of failure, and of so-called sin. They can of course be all of these things, but, in the case of the true aspirant, who is endeavouring to discipline and control his life, they are often not due to these causes at, all. They are the inevitable result of the clash of forces those of the awakened energies, which are in progress of elevation, and those of the centre into which the energies are being raised. This clash produces strain, physical discomfort and (as we have seen), many distressing kinds of disorders.
(5) Speaking generally, diseases fall into five major categories, and it is only with the last of them that we are here occupied. These five groupings of disease are:
1. Hereditary diseases:
a. Inherent in the planet itself, and having a definite effect upon humanity, through contact with the soil and water.
b. Developed during past ages in mankind itself, and handed on from
generation to generation.
c. Characteristic of some particular family, and inherited by the member of this family as part of his chosen karma. Souls come into certain families because of this opportunity.
2. Diseases invoked by tendencies in the man himself. These are governed by his astrological sign — either his sun sign, or his rising sign, and will be considered later.
3. Contagious diseases (epidemic or endemic) which are of group origin,
and in involve the man as part of his group karma, but are frequently unrelated to his personal karma.
4. Acquired diseases and accidents, which are the result of injudicious action, or unwise habits in this life, and definitely condition his future karma. One interesting point in connection with accidents might here be made. Accidents are frequently caused by what might be regarded as “explosions of force”.
These are generated by a man or by a group of human beings through hatred or jealousy or vindictiveness, which qualities react, or are “turned back” upon the individual life like a boomerang.
5. The diseases of mystics with which we are at this time concerned. Speaking generally, these are caused by the energy of an awakened and active lower centre being transferred into a higher one. This is done in three stages, and each stage brings its own physiological difficulties:
a. The stage wherein the energy of the lower centre becomes intensely active prior to rising upward. This will produce over-activity of the organs in the physical area governed by the centre, with consequent congestion, inflammation, and usually disease.
b. The stage wherein the “processes of elevation” are taking place, producing intense activity in the higher centre, and a lessening of activity in the lower. A fluid period intervenes, in which the forces swing back and forth between the two centres, accounting for the uneven life of the mystic in the earlier stages of his unfoldment. This is particularly the case in connection with the solar plexus. The energy is rejected at first by the higher centre, and is then re-absorbed into the lower, only to be elevated again and again, until the higher centre can absorb and transmute it.
c. The stage wherein the energy is raised definitely into the higher centre. This leads to a difficult period of adjustment and of tension, again producing physical ills but, this time, in the area controlled by the higher centre.
(6) As the heart centres and the higher centres assume control, such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, and the various syphilitic complaints (due to the age old activity of the sacral centre) will gradually die out.
(7) Many of the difficulties of mystics and occultists today, are due to the fact that they are literally “playing with fire” and are not aware of it; that they are not preserving the right or ordered sequence of development.
that they are following practices for which they are not ready, which have not been modified to suit the occidental type of body, and which they blindly follow, without any understanding of the process or results. Unless to be continued.
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