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| Esoteric Healing - Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease |
| Our discussion has necessarily been sketchy, for all that I am
here attempting to do is to give indications as to the lines along which the new art of
healing must eventually run, and to give certain hints which will point the way to the
cause of the prevalent diseases, and so enable the wise to negate effects. This brevity
and this system of imparting knowledge through the medium of hints is essentially occult,
and will be the only mode of dealing with this relatively dangerous subject until such
time as a sound medical, surgical and neurological training of a technical nature is
combined with an equally sound psychological understanding, plus a measure of spiritual
vision. The ideal physician and surgeon is the man who is also a metaphysician; to the
lack of this combination much of the present difficulty and confusion can be ascribed. The
metaphysical healer today is so engrossed by that which is not the body that he is far
less useful to the sick, diseased and damaged human being than is the practical physician.
The average metaphysician, no matter by what label he calls himself, has a closed mind; he
over-emphasizes the divine possibilities to the exclusion of the material or physical
probabilities. Complete spiritual healing will be divinely possible ultimately; but this
is not materially possible at certain given moments in time and space and with people at
widely differing points on the ladder of evolution. Right timing and a sound knowledge of
the working of the Law of Karma, plus a large measure of intuitive perception, are
essential to the high art of spiritual healing. To this must be added the knowledge that
the form nature and the physical [111] body are not essentially the major considerations
or of the vast importance that some may think. Various cultists and healers usually take the position that it is of major importance that the physical vehicle be rendered free from disease and clutched away from the processes of death. It might, however, be desirable (and it often is) that the disease be permitted to do its work and death open the door to the escape of the soul from imprisonment. The time comes inevitably to all incarnated beings when the soul demands liberation from the body and from form life, and nature has her own wise ways of doing this. Disease and death must be recognized as liberating factors when they come as the result of right timing by the soul. It must be realized by students that the physical form is an aggregate of atoms, built into organisms and finally into a coherent body, and that this body is held together by the will of the soul. Withdraw that will on to its own plane or (as it is occultly expressed) "let the soul's eye turn in another direction" and, in this present cycle, disease and death will inevitably supervene. This is not mental error, or failure to recognize divinity, or succumbing to evil. It is, in reality, the resolution of the form nature into its component parts and basic essence. Disease is essentially an aspect of death. It is the process by which the material nature and the substantial form prepares itself for separation from the soul. It must be borne in mind however that where there is illness or discomfort or disease which is not related to the final dissolution, the causes thereof are to be found in many factors; they can be found in the surroundings, for a number of diseases are environmental and epidemic; in the tuning in of the individual to streams of poison emanating from world hate, or from psychological complexes with some of which we have already dealt, and in the diseases [112] (if I might so call them) which are indigenous to the matter of which humanity has chosen to construct its physical vehicle, isolating it and separating it from the general substance of manifestation, and thus creating a type of matter which is consecrated to the task of forming the outer expression of the inward reality. This constitutes, therefore, a unique and peculiar aspect of the universal substance, perfected to a certain point in the last solar system and of a necessarily higher order than the substance which vibrates creatively to the call of the three subhuman kingdoms in nature. |
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