The rule connected with Law V makes clear the need for this
occult knowledge, for it states very definitely certain fundamental injunctions.
Rule Three
Let the healer concentrate the needed energy within the needed center. Let the
center correspond to the center which has need. Let the two synchronize and together
augment force. Thus shall the waiting form be balanced in its work. Thus shall the two and
the one, under right direction, heal.
This rule presupposes a knowledge of the centers, and this knowledge is, as you well
know, still embryonic; all that is known in most cases is the location of a center. This,
however, especially with untrained healers, is sufficient. Too detailed a knowledge of the
formation, condition and responsiveness of a center would handicap the healer, for his
thought would be deflected to the detail of the form and away from the energy and its
movements.
The rule
here requires that the healer, having aligned himself with the soul and "tapped"
soul energy (thereby making himself a channel for spiritual force), directs this energy
into that one of his own centers which corresponds to the center conditioning the area of
the point of friction. If the disease or physical trouble is stomachic, for instance, or
related to the liver, the healer will direct his soul energy into the solar plexus center,
situated in the etheric spinal column. If the patient should be suffering from difficulty
in the heart or the lungs the healer will use the heart center, employing the throat
center for diseases of the bronchial tract, the throat, the mouth or the ears. [603]
Two things,
therefore, become of importance in connection with the healer himself :
- He must know as accurately as possible his own point of development, for that will
indicate to him capacity or non-capacity to work with any or with all the centers. In
order to use any of his centers in the healing work, the healer must have awakened them in
some measure and be able, consciously and by the power of thought, under the agency of the
will, to focus energy in whichever center he chooses. This does not mean that all the
centers are awakened and truly functioning. It should, however, mean (if he is to heal at
all) that he is not confined to the sole use of the centers below the diaphragm but that,
by an effort of the spiritual will, thought can be channeled into the higher centers. Many
aspirants can do this with greater facility than they believe.
- The healer, as he channels energy into some center, prior to directing it to a center in
the patient's body, must run no risk of his personal over-stimulation. This is a very
important point. So much disease and physical difficulty among ordinary people is
abdominal, necessitating the constant use of the solar plexus center by the healer; this
could bring about a grave condition of over-emotionalism and even acute astralism on the
part of the healer. He would then be the victim of his good intentions and of his
spiritual service, for the consequences would all the same be bad; energy is an impersonal
force and a purely impersonal agency. Purity of intention, selfless service and goodwill
are no true protection, in spite of the platitudes of the sentimental occultist. In fact,
the presence of these desirable conditions only increases the difficulty, for soul energy
will pour in with [604] great force. An understanding of the risks involved, a sane
appraisal of possibility and a scientific and technical understanding of protective
measures will be given to the healer towards the latter end of his training. For the
present, and because the danger is not at this time so great (owing to lack of potency in
people's thinking and their inability to direct thought) the major protective measure
consists in the ability of the healer to hold his consciousness steady in the head center
with the "eye of direction" turned to the needed center. This involves a dual
focus, and for the ability to do this the healer must strive.
It is here that the healer distinguishes between the processes of radiation and
magnetization. Having concentrated soul energy in the appropriate center, through the
power of direction from the head (the seat of soul energy) and by the potency of thought,
the process of radiation ends. This radiation has passed through two stages:
- The stage wherein the soul radiated energy into the head center.
- The stage wherein the healer directs a ray of that energy from the head center into the
"needed center"; it is there focused and held steady.
From that appropriate center the stage of synchronization with the corresponding center
in the patient's body is established; this is done, not by the healer sending a ray into
that center, but because the potency of the healer's center evokes response from that of
the patient; it acts like a magnet, drawing forth a definite radiation from the patient.
This radiation, esoterically, "lights up" the point of friction in the
surrounding area and - were the healer clairvoyant - would thus enable him to see more
clearly the seat of the [605] trouble and, therefore, to arrive at a more accurate
diagnosis. Ordinarily, the spiritual healer is depending upon the diagnosis of the medical
man in attendance, if he is not one himself. |
