This is a series of papers by JPC [JC], which are excerpts from writings
of A.A.Bailey, public domain references, and JC's commentary.
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PolarisProject Group Study: Esoteric Healing.
Study letter 1.
Esoteric Healing - Introductory Remarks
The entire subject of Healing is as old
as the ages themselves, and has ever been the subject of investigation and
experiment. But as to the right use of the healing faculty and forces, the
knowledge is in its infancy. Only in this age and generation is it at last
possible to impart the laws of magnetic healing, and to indicate the causes
of those diseases - originating in the three inner bodies - which today
devastate the human frame, cause endless suffering and pain, and usher man
through the portal which leads to the world of bodiless existence. Only
today is man at the point in the evolution of his consciousness where he
can begin to realize the power of the subjective worlds, and the new and
vast science of psychology is his response to this growing interest. Processes
of adjustment, of elimination and of cure engage the minds of all thoughtful
people as well as of all suffering people. We
have much to do, and I ask therefore for patience on your part.
JC: Dear Group, owing to a number of recent thoughts and ideas etc
I have decided to start a sequential study of DK's stupendous treaties on
esoteric healing. It will not be a word for word examination but a commentary
[from time to time] on those points which attract. It seems a good time
to get some of the material out on the net and into a group esoteric forum
[the radio]. I have wanted to do this for some time and now seem's a good
time to do so. "We have much to do, and I ask therefore for patience
on your part."
It is particularly appropriate that the Master states, "Processes
of adjustment, of elimination and of cure engage the minds of all thoughtful
people as well as of all suffering people." There will be a wealth
of knowledge, insights and thoughts from the group mind on Polaris and this
should expand our understanding and group service.
When one enters the realm of healing, one
enters a world of much esoteric knowledge, and of an infinity of conclusions,
and one is faced with the formulations of many minds, who, through the ages,
have sought to heal and to help. The why and the wherefore of disease have
been the subject of endless investigations and speculations, and much definite
deduction has been made as to the cures of such complaints; there has been
also much formulation of methods, of techniques, of formulae, of prescription,
of varied manipulations and of [2] theories. All these serve to fill the
mind with many ideas - some correct, some erroneous - and this makes it
most difficult for new ideas to enter and for the student to assimilate
the hitherto unknown.
JC: We are dealing with "an infinity" of conclusions and
formulations which makes assimilating the esoteric work hard but rewarding;
it is with this task with which we shall be dealing.
Aspirants lose much by refusing to let
go of that which the lower mind cherishes. When they do succeed in being
entirely open minded and are ready to accept the new theories and hypotheses,
they discover that the old and dearly held truth is not really lost, but
only relegated to its rightful place in a larger scheme.
All initiates of the Ageless
Wisdom are necessarily healers, though all may not heal the physical body.
The reason for this is that all souls that have achieved any measure of
true liberation are transmitters of spiritual energy. This automatically affects some aspect of the mechanism
which is used by the souls they contact. When I employ the word "mechanism"
in these instructions I refer to different aspects of the instrument, the
body or form nature, through which all souls seek manifestation. I refer,
therefore, to:
1. The
dense physical body, which is the sum total of all the organisms which compose
it; these possess the varying functions which enable the soul
to express itself on the physical or objective plane as part of a greater
and more inclusive organism. The physical body is the response apparatus
of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity
en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary Logos, the Life
in which we live and move and have our being.
JC: The physical mechanism as DK informs is but an automaton and a
un principled sheath of karmic matter which we as souls are in process of
redeeming and refining as a vehicle of service. It is also an animal body,
much refined but without any true spiritual principle in itself other than
the indwelling soul via the lower sheaths. The human kingdom, a 4th ray
kingdom has struggled much and is dealing much with karmic residue which
forms the very atoms that constitute the physical, astral and mental sheaths.
With these come possibilities of disease or dis-harmony, and it is with
this the treaties deals.
2. The etheric body, which has one
main objective. This is to vitalize and energize the physical body and thus
integrate it into the energy body of the Earth and of the solar system.
It is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. It constitutes
part of the vast [3] network of energies which underlies all forms whether
great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic). Along
these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through
the veins and arteries. This constant, individual - human, planetary
and solar - circulation of life-forces through the etheric bodies of all
forms is the basis of all manifested life, and the expression of the essential
non-separateness of all life.
JC: The etheric body is also known as the "golden bowl" and
mirrors the light of the soul. The lines of vitality or the etheric web
is the network of force with lets the "cosmic forces flow, as
the blood flows through the veins and arteries" and therefore the "blood
is the life". Just as the consciousness thread of the soul fecundates
within the pineal gland within the head, so does the life thread of the
soul within the human heart.
The "blood
is the life," Gen., IX, 4.
The blood
stream is governed by Neptune. EH 143.
The vital
fluid, the blood. LOM 244.
Plato was
perfectly aware "that blood is a fluid in constant motion." Isis1
237.
The center
of the Chalice is close to the blood reservoir. AY 156.
JC: MM states regarding transfusion of the blood, right or best results
will be obtained by taking into account three usefull aspects for consideration.
1. Physical properties. This is already being done.
2. Psychic quality. This is under consideration by psychologists
such as many spiritual disciples whether in the medical or not.
3. Karmic condition. It is said that the time will come
probably as an eventuation of the previous two.
Already the physical properties of blood are not mixed. There
is much understanding of this. Psychology is still in a relative infancy
but much good is being achieved.
3. The astral or desire body (sometimes called the emotional
body) is the effect of the interplay of desire and of sentient response
upon the self at the center, and the resultant effect - in that body - is
experienced as emotion and as pain and pleasure and the other pairs of opposites.
In these two bodies, the etheric and astral bodies,
ninety percent of the causes of physical disease and troubles is to be found.
JC: 90% is a huge proportion to be found in the etheric and astral
bodies. We can see that this is where the vast proportion of humanity is
consciously focused.
4. The mental body, or that much
of the chitta or mind stuff which an individual human unit can use and impress,
constitutes the fourth of the series of mechanisms at the disposal of the
soul. At the same time let it not be forgotten that these four constitute
one mechanism. Five percent of all modern disease originates in this body
or state of consciousness, and here I wish to enunciate the truth that the
constant reiteration by certain schools of healers that the mind is the
cause of all sickness is not as yet a fact.
JC: 5 % correspondingly is very low and seems to reflect that most
of humanity, at time of writing, was not mentally orientated. It is true
today that there is a greater proportion now mentally orientated or at least
making this transference, hence the growth in the study in psychology and
awareness of psychological diseases.
A million years hence, when
the focus of human attention has shifted from the emotional nature to the
mind, and when men are essentially mental as today they are essentially
emotional, then the causes of disease must be sought in the mind realm. They are today to be found (except in
a few rare cases) in lack of vitality or in too much stimulation, and in
the realm of feeling, of desires (thwarted or over-indulged) and in the
moods, suppressions, or expressions of the deep seated [4] longings, irritations,
secret delights and the many hidden impulses which emanate from the desire
life of the subject.
JC: DK gives us a time frame of a million years for the transference
of consciousness from the emotional body to the mental. This is a huge
span of time for us to consider. We may wonder at the advances in psychological
healing study and technique over that long time.
PolarisProject Group Study: Esoteric Healing.
Study letter 2.
Esoteric Healing - Introductory
Remarks
I shall endeavor first of all
to touch upon the causes of disease, for the occult student must ever begin
in the world of origins and not in the world of effects.
In the second place, I shall
elaborate the seven methods of healing which govern the "work of
restitution" (as it is called in the occult terminology) as
practiced by the initiates of the world. These determine the techniques which
must be employed. You will note that these methods and techniques are conditioned
by the rays (of which I have written elsewhere: A Treatise on the Seven
Rays, Vol. I and II.) and that therefore the healer has to take into
[5] consideration not only his own ray but also the ray of the patient. There
are therefore seven ray techniques, and these require elucidation before they
can be applied intelligently.
JC:
Students of the wisdom ever start with “the world of origins” and never
place initial emphasis on the “world of effects”. The world of effects
is of course the world of karmic effects and of illusion and glamour. Therefore
we are dealing with the world of causes and the “cyclic return of matter”.
Determining techniques lay in the “work of restitution” which is “governed
by the seven method of healing under the conditioning of the seven rays.
All healing governs the work of “restitution”.
In the third place, I shall
lay emphasis upon psychological healing and upon the need to deal with the
patient in his inner life, for the basic
law underlying all occult healing may be stated to be as follows:
Law I All disease is the result of inhibited soul life,
and that is true of all forms in all kingdoms. The art of the healer consists
in releasing the soul, so that its life can flow through the aggregate of
organisms which constitute any particular form.
JC: This seems to
be a fundamental statement, that “all disease” is the result of inhibition
of the soul inflow.
It is interesting to note
that the attempt of the scientist to release the energy of the
atom is of the same general nature as the work of the esotericist when he
endeavors to release the energy of the soul. In this release
the nature of the true art of healing is hidden. Herein
lies an occult hint.
JC: Esoteric healing deals in the release of the energy
of the soul life into and through the lower bodies. It seems that we might
try to take the hint of the Tibetan that this is the “true art” of healing.
This seems to imply that all other methods of healing are not “true” or
accurate by their nature. The analogy with science will be of great interest
to us for DK uses this on occasion.
In the fourth place, we will
consider the physical body, its diseases and ills, but only after we have
studied that part of man which lies behind and surrounding the dense physical
body. In that way we shall work from the world of inner causes to the world
of outer happenings. We shall see that all that concerns the health of man
originates from:
1. The sumtotal of forces,
feelings, desires and occasional mental processes which characterizes the
three subtler bodies and determines the life and experience of the physical
body.
JC: There are only “occasional” mental processes in the
average human mental body; therefore it does not bring much weight to the
overwhelming force of the emotional or astral body. The life and force governing
the physical body is the emotional nature and this is evident even today.
Man is essentially kamas/manasis with the kamas being dominant.
2. The effect upon the physical
body of the condition of humanity as a whole. A human being is an integral
part of humanity, an organism in a greater organism. Conditions existing in
the whole will be reflected in [6] the unit self, and many
of the ills from which man suffers today are the effect upon him of conditions
existing in the fourth kingdom in nature as a whole. For these he is not held
responsible. 3.
The effect upon his physical body of the planetary life, which is the expression
of the life of the planetary Logos, Who is an evolving Entity. The implications
of this are largely beyond our ken, but the effects are discernible.
JC:
We are shown that the effects upon the human body come from influences of
humanity as a whole and the planetary body or life. Regarding the planetary
body of our logos, even if small we are told it is “discernable”. From all
these individual man is not responsible, for average man is only responsible
for himself or at least his own karma in as much as he and his immediate
group are entwined. Correspondingly, man is not responsible for planetary
karmic disease, but may be subject to it.
I am not interested primarily in training
individuals in order to make them more efficient healers. It is group healing
at which I aim, and it is the work which is done in formation which interests
me at this time. But no group of people can work as a unit unless they love
and serve each other. The healing energy of the spiritual Hierarchy
cannot flow through the group if there is disharmony and criticism. The first
work, therefore, of any group of healers, is to establish themselves in love
and to work towards group unity and understanding.
JC:
DK stresses that the training of individual healers is not of primary interest
to him. He is concerned with group healing. “Disharmony and criticism” work
against primary interest in hierarchial work and in healing.
…I
shall have to endeavor to put much truth [7] and information into a brief
space, so as to make each sentence convey some real idea and give some real
light on the problems which confront a healing group. That which
I have to say will fall into two parts:
* First, we will deal with the
general work of healing and teaching, and this will involve the impartation
by me of laws, of techniques and methods. *
Secondly, we will consider the healer and how he can perfect himself in the
art of healing.
Is it not true that the prime requisite
of all healers is a sympathetic rapport with the patient, so that the healer
achieves insight into the trouble and establishes the confidence of the patient?
JC:
Without a sympathetic rapport or compassion with a patient there can be
no understanding of the patients concerns, troubles or social and cultural
background. “Insight” into the needs and conditioning factors of the patient
has to be established before any level of confidence is built. Without confidence
on the part of the patient it seems, there can be no healing. This is a
“prime requisite”. No group formative can heal or facilitate unless they
“love and serve each other”. This a fundamental law!
T
he healer must understand
also how to radiate, for the radiation of the soul will stimulate to activity
the soul of the one to be healed and the healing process will be set in
motion; the radiation of his mind will illumine the other mind and polarize
the will of the patient; the radiation of his astral body, controlled and
selfless, will impose a rhythm upon the agitation of the patient's astral
body, and so enable the patient to take right action, whilst the radiation
of the vital body, working through the splenic center, will aid in [8] organizing
the patient's force-body and so facilitate the work of healing.
JC: Magnetic work and radiation are basic methods that
need be known to the healer and the esotericist. One must attract soul energy
and those that may benefit from this work. This will apply to all areas
of esoteric teaching. Consequent radiation, a most occult and scientific
word, will “set in motion” the healing work between the two persons. Interestingly
we have:
-
Radiation of the mind, polarizing the will of the patient. Here
we see a focused reciprocation with the healers mind being negative
to the positive polarity of the healers mind. The will of the patient
needs to be strengthened and recipient to the will of the soul of
the healer.
-
Radiation of the astral body, this involves working with the agitated
or upset condition [dis- harmony] of the patient’s emotional nature
with a subsequent “rhythm” being “imposed”. This results in the patient
taking “right action”, which might involve firstly the reception of
soul force from the healer for without emotional acceptance no such
healing can take place. Nor should it. Rhythm or coordinated action
has to be established in the most potent body, the emotional.
-
Thirdly, radiation is discussed of the body of vitality, the etheric
vehicle. Etheric force or prana manifests via the Spleen and
so vitalises the entire physical organism. For healing work the patients
force body, the vital body, needs to be organised or rightly strung,
at least to make any significant contribution to the distribution
of the healing soul inflow. If the web is to slack or taught than
handling and distribution of energy will be less facilitated or cause
further problems due to congestion and inhibition of soul force.
The spleen, the organ of prana or of physical vitality coming
from the sun. TCF 177. The Spleen, Linga Sharira. SD3 548. The Moon Linga Sharira Violet
Monday Enumeration of the Principles - S. D., II, 627, 631.
1st Principle - Dense physical body. Sthula Sharira.
2nd Principle - Etheric body. Linga Sharira.
3rd Principle - Prana. Vital energy. 4th Principle - Kama-rupa. The energy of desire. - S. D.,
I, 136. (These are the lower four principles.)
LOWER QUATERNARY
(a) Rupa, or Sthula-Sarira // Physical body // Is the vehicle
of all the other "principles" during life.
(b) Prana // Life, or Vital principle // Necessary only
to a, c, d, and the functions of the lower Manas, which embrace all those
limited to the (physical) brain.
(c) Linga Sharira // Astral body // The Double, the phantom
body.
(d) Kama
rupa // The seat of animal desires and passions // This
is the centre of the animal man, where lies the line of demarcation which
separates the mortal man from the immortal entity. KEY HPB.
Jiva or Prana (life) is the Linga-Sharira (the “double”
of man: the Linga-Sharira proper can never leave the body till death. SD3
199. The Moon The Parent of the Earth Linga Sharira. SD3
454. The liver and spleen represent the Quaternary. SD3 583.
The Liver is the General, The Spleen is the Aide-de-Camp. All that the Liver does not accomplish is taken up and completed
by the Spleen. SD3 570.
The spleen is consequently a very delicate organ, but the
physical spleen is only a cover for the real spleen. SD3 593.
The spleen
is an organ located in the abdomen, where it functions in the destruction
of old red blood cells and holding a reservoir of blood. It is regarded
as one of the centers of activity of the reticuloendothelial system (part
of the immune system). Until recently, the purpose of the spleen was not
known. It is increasingly recognized that its absence leads to a predisposition
to certain infections.
Other functions of the spleen are less
prominent, especially in the healthy adult:
Production of opsonins, properdin, and
tuftsin. Creation of red blood
cells. While the bone marrow is the primary site of hematopoeisis in the adult,
up until the fifth month of gestation, the spleen has important hematopoietic
functions. After birth, no significant hematopoietic function is left in the
spleen except in some hematologic disorders: e.g. myelodysplastic syndrome,
hemoglobinopathies. Storage of red blood cells and other formed elements.
This is only valid for certain mammals, such as dogs and horses. In horses
roughly 50% of the red blood cells are stored there. The red blood cells can
be released when needed. In humans, however, the spleen does not function
as a deposit of red blood cells, but instead it stores platelets in case of
an emergency. These animals also have large hearts in relation to their body
size to accommodate the higher-viscosity blood that results. Some athletes
have tried doping themselves with their own stored red blood cells to try
to achieve the same effect, but the human heart is not equipped to handle
the higher-viscosity blood. wikipedia.
Therefore, the healer has the
duty of rendering himself effective, and according to what he is, so will
be the effect upon the patient. When a healer works magnetically and radiates
his soul force to the patient, that patient is enabled more easily to achieve
the end desired - which may be complete healing, or it may be the establishing
of a state of mind which will enable the patient to live with himself and
with his complaint, unhandicapped by the karmic limitations of the body. Or
it may be enabling the patient to achieve (with joy and facility) the right
liberation from the body and, through the portal of death, to pass to complete
health. [9]
Esoteric Healing - The Basic
Causes of Disease
Part One
The Basic Causes of Disease
This
is the problem with which all medical practice down the ages has wrestled.
In our present mechanistic age we have wandered
far to the surface of things and away from the partially true point of view
of earlier centuries which traced disease back of the "evil humors"
bred and festering in the inner subjective life of the patient. In the evolution
of knowledge on every hand we are now on the surface of things (note I do
not use the word "superficial"), and the hour has struck in which
knowledge can again re-enter the realm of the subjective and transmute itself
into wisdom. There is today a dawning recognition on the part of
the best minds in the medical and allied professions, that in the subjective
and hidden attitudes of the mind and of the emotional nature, and in the life
of inhibited or excessive sex expression, must be sought the causes of all
disease.
JC:
DK purposely emphasises the fact of great advances in modern medicine and
indeed surgery, due to “mechanistic age” and “the evolution of knowledge”.
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were then ones of great strides and
advancement in the progress of knowledge and of mental evolution. He particularly
notes that they brought us to the surface of things noting that this does
not indicate superficiality at all. The techniques and understandings of
previous centuries were only partially true with the “evil humours” or four
humours being an initial grasp and forerunner of the subjective world in
modern psychology. The Tibetan clearly informs that the “hour has struck”
for knowledge to re enter the subjective world with transmutation into wisdom
being assured. In “attitudes of mind”, the emotional nature and inhibition
or over stimulation of the sex ‘drive’ lie the causes of disease.
Four Temperaments is a theory of psychology
that stems from the ancient concept of four humors (humorism). It is considered
debunked and obsolete by contemporary professionals. Temperament theory has
its roots in the ancient four humors theory of the Greek doctor Hippocrates
(460-370 BC), who believed certain human behaviors were caused by body fluids
(called "humors"): blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Next,
Galen (131-200) developed the first typology of temperament in his dissertation
De temperamentis, and searched for physiological reasons for different behaviors
in humans. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) was the first to disregard the idea
of fluids as defining human behavior, and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Rudolf
Steiner (1861-1925), Alfred Adler (1879-1937), Erich Adickes (1866-1925),
Eduard Spränger (1914), Ernst Kretschmer (1920), and Erich Fromm (1947) all
theorized on the four temperaments (with different names) and greatly shaped
our modern theories of temperament. Hans Eysenck (1916-1997) was one of the
first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical
method (factor analysis), and his research led him to believe that temperament
is biologically based. Choleric
Melancholic (also called "Melancholy")
Sanguine
Phlegmatic. wikipedia.
From the beginning of our studies, I would like to point out that the ultimate
cause of disease, even if known to me, would fail to be comprehended by you.
The cause lies back in the history of the distant
past of our planet, in the career (occultly understood) of the planetary Life,
and that it has its roots in what is largely designated "cosmic evil."
This is a perfectly meaningless phrase, but one that is symbolically descriptive
of a condition in consciousness which is that of [10] certain of the "imperfect
Gods." Given the initial premise that Deity itself is working towards
a perfection past our comprehension, it may be inferred that there may exist
for the Gods Themselves and for God (as the Life of the solar system), certain
limitations and certain areas or states of consciousness which still await
mastering.
JC:
If we understand disease to be dis-harmony and that all disease originates
from the “cosmic evil” we seem to be being told that ultimately disease
is due to the workings and influences originating from the lodge of darkness
or disintegration. The dark lodge does work with “inhibited soul life”.
Therefore the soul is the principle governing the methods and technique
of healing of the white lodge. We might take account of DK when he states
that the release of the energy of the atom is also known as "transmutation"
and through release of the life speeds the evolution of the life of the
atom. Healing, in effect is also a speeding of the evolution of the life
within the human atom or man/woman. Harmony overcomes disharmony and soul
life is re aligned and adjusted to the benefit of the individual progress.
These limitations and relative
imperfections may cause definite effects in Their bodies of manifestation
- the various planets as expressions of Lives, and the solar system as the
expression of a Life. Given also the hypothesis that these outer bodies
of divinity, the planets, are the forms through which certain Deities express
Themselves, it may be a true and logical deduction that all lives and forms
within those bodies may be necessarily subject also to these limitations,
and to the imperfections growing out of these unconquered areas of consciousness
and these states of awareness, hitherto unrealized by the Deities, incarnated
in planetary and solar form. Given the postulate that every form is a part
of a still greater form, and that we do indeed "live and move and have
our being" within the body of God (as St. Paul expresses it) we, as integral parts of the fourth kingdom
in nature, share in this general limitation and imperfection…
Esoteric
Healing - The Basic Causes of Disease
1. All disease (and this is
a platitude) is caused by lack of harmony - a disharmony to be found existing
between the form aspect and the life. That which brings together form and
life, or rather, that which is the result of this intended union, we call
the soul, the self where humanity is concerned, and the integrating principle
where the subhuman kingdoms are concerned. Disease appears where there is
a lack of alignment between these various factors, the soul and the form,
the life and its expression, the subjective and the objective realities. Consequently,
spirit and matter are not freely related to each other. This is one mode of
interpreting Law I, and the entire thesis is intended to be an exposition
of that Law.
2. This lack of harmony,
producing what we call disease, runs through all the four kingdoms in nature,
and causes those conditions which produce pain (where the sentiency is exquisite
and developed) and everywhere congestion, corruption and death. Ponder
on these words: Inharmony, Disease, Pain, Congestion, Corruption, Death, for they are descriptive
of the general condition governing the conscious life of all forms, macrocosmic
and microcosmic. They are not causes.
JC: The above is a “general condition” which seems to
directly apply to the state of consciousness or awareness of “all” forms
planetary and cosmically. This tells us that there are conscious entities
far in advance of us which still battle with this “general condition” of
psychic dis-harmony relative to them. As a group we might note that all
incarnating states of consciousness are subject to this condition as it
is a governing factor.
3. All
these conditions, however, can be regarded as purificatory in their effects, and must be so regarded by humanity if the right attitude
towards disease is to be assumed.
JC: However, all these conditions are purificatory or
cleansing in effect or result in the forward march of redemption of the
form and the evolution of the lesser lives of the form and the informing
life or indwelling consciousness. The human kingdom is governed by the 4th
ray of harmony through conflict and it is clear that through dis-harmony,
struggle, pain, corruption and death so is harmony, progress [preservation]
and evolution achieved.
This is oft forgotten by the
fanatical healer and by the radical exponent of an idea, finitely grasped
and in most cases only part of a greater idea. [13] 4.
Methods of healing and techniques of alleviation are peculiar to humanity
and are the result of man's mental activity. They indicate his latent power
as a creator, and as one who progresses towards freedom. They indicate his
discriminative ability to sense perfection, to vision the goal, and hence
to work towards that ultimate liberation. His
error at this time consists in: 5. His inability to see the true uses
of pain. 6. His resentment at suffering.
7. His misunderstanding of the law
of non-resistance. 8. His over-emphasis of the form nature.
9. His attitude to death, and his feeling
that the disappearance of the life out of visual perception through the
medium of form, and the consequent disintegration of that form, indicates
disaster.
* When human thought reverses the usual ideas as to disease,
and accepts disease as a fact in nature, man will begin to work with the
law of liberation, with right thought,
leading to non-resistance.
JC:
With this, The Tibetan tells us, humanity should acquire “right attitude”
and the nature of disease be seen in its ‘true form’ and should work with
disease in a non resistant fashion. Not all disease need or should be cured,
with release being the next step ahead. It will be apparent how “non-resistance”
will condition the thinking of humanity in the future and disease will not
be seen with such fear and troublesome resistance. Thus the “law of liberation”
will become understood. Man certainly has resentment at suffering and a
great emphasis on the form nature. This is a great hindrance to realities
and we might note a major victory of the black lodge. Pain and disintegration
is often used against a victim to magnify fear.
…* From one angle, disease
is a process of liberation, and the enemy of that which is static and crystallized.
Think not, from what I say, that therefore disease
should be welcomed, and that the process of death should be cherished.
Were that the case, one would cultivate disease and put a premium on suicide.
Fortunately for humanity,
the whole tendency of life is against disease, and the reaction of the form life upon the thought of man
fosters the fear of death. This has been rightly so, for the instinct
of self-preservation and the preservation of form integrity is a vital principle
in matter, and the tendency to self-perpetuation
of the life within the form is one of our greatest God-given capacities
and will persist.
JC: The instinct to self preservation and integrity,
cohesion and vitality of the human body is a “vital principle” inherent
in the constitution of matter itself. The lesser devic builders work toward
better condition and vitality of the form against great odds and karmic
circumstances.
But in the human family this
must eventually give place to the use of death as the organized, freeing
process in order to conserve force and give to the soul a better instrument
of manifestation. For this liberty of action, mankind as a whole is not
yet ready. The disciples and aspirants of the world should now, however,
begin to grasp these newer principles of existence. The instinct to self-preservation
governs the relation of spirit and matter, of life and form as long as the
Deity Himself wills to incarnate within His body of manifestation - a planet,
or a solar system. I have in the above statement
given to you a hint as to one of the basic causes of disease, and to the
endless fight between the imprisoned spirit and the imprisoning form.
This fight uses for its method that innate quality which expresses itself
as the urge to preserve and the urge to perpetuate - both the present form
and the species. EH 15.
PolarisProject Group Study:
Esoteric Healing. Study letter 3.
The disciples and aspirants of
the world should now, however, begin to grasp these newer principles of existence.
The instinct to self-preservation governs the relation of spirit and matter,
of life and form as long as the Deity Himself wills to incarnate within His
body of manifestation - a planet, or a solar system. I
have in the above statement given to you a hint as to one of the basic causes
of disease, and to the endless fight between the imprisoned spirit and the
imprisoning form. This fight uses for its method that innate quality
which expresses itself as the urge to preserve and the urge to perpetuate
- both the present form and the species. [15]
JC:
DK gives us a magnificent hint as to the nature of the law of liberation.
The life of any form will persist often with great struggle just so long
as the informing life or entity continues and “wills to incarnate”. The
moment that this Will is withdrawn or abstracted so then the form literally
‘loses the will to live’. It seems that this applies equally to a species
as much as an individual form. We
are informed that Karma governs all disease…
“Disease exists. Forms in all
kingdoms are full of inharmony and out of alignment with the indwelling life.
Disease and corruption and the tendency towards dissolution are found everywhere.
I am choosing my words with care. *
Disease is not, therefore, the result of wrong human thought. It existed among
the many forms of life long before the human family appeared on earth. If
you seek verbal expression, and if you want to talk within the limits of the
human mind, you can say with a measure of accuracy: God, [14] the planetary
Deity, is guilty of wrong thinking. But you will not be expressing the truth,
but only a tiny fraction of the cause, as it appears to your feeble finite
mind, through the medium of the general world glamor and illusion.” EH 14.
*
The law of cause and effect, called Karma in the East, governs
all this. Karma must be regarded in reality as the effect (in the form
life of our planet) of causes, deep seated and hidden in the mind of God.
The causes that we may trace in relation to disease and death are in reality
only the working out of certain basic principles which govern - rightly or
wrongly, who shall say? - the life of God in form, and they must ever remain
incomprehensible to man until such time as he takes the great initiation which
is symbolized for us in the Transfiguration. All
along in our studies, we shall be dealing with secondary
causes and their effects,
with the phenomenal results of those subjective effects which emanate from
causes too far away for us to grasp. This
should be admitted and grasped. This is the best man can do with his present
mental apparatus. When the intuition rarely works, and the mind is seldom
illumined, why should man arrogantly expect to understand everything? Let
him work at the development of his intuition and at achieving illumination.
Understanding may then come his way. He will have earned the right
to divine knowledge. But the above recognition will suffice for our work and
will enable us to lay down those laws and principles which will indicate the
way humanity may gain release from the form consciousness and consequent immunity
from the victory of death and those disease-dealing conditions which govern
today our planetary manifestation.
JC: All this [disease] is governed by the law of cause
and effect. We are told that all karmic effects are “deep seated”
in the mind of God and work out in matter as the result of past causes. This
amounts to the action of cyclic law, an aspect of the law of "Affinity"
and the law of karma and magnetic attraction so closely related to the 2nd
ray. DK gives us an example of this law in relation to "ancient relationship"
between planets and constellations. We see that this law applies equally to
an individual un-individualised atom, a man, a planet, solar logos, a constellation
and so on, and how this relates to the form and therefore matter side of evolution.
We might ponder the nature and application of purifacatory “solar fire” throughout
our solar system. This is “esoteric healing” in macrocosmic proportions.
Esoteric Healing - The Basic
Causes of Disease
We will divide our consideration
of the causes of disease into three parts, eliminating from our quest for
truth the quite understandable but equally futile desire to apprehend the
mind of Deity. * The
psychological causes. *
Causes emanating from group life.
* Our karmic liabilities,
the karmic causes. [16]
In all this we shall but gain
a general idea (all that is now possible) as to the presence of disease
in the human family, and of that to be found also, in part, in the animal
kingdom. When this general idea is grasped, we shall have a clearer understanding
of our problem and can then proceed with our consideration of the methods
which will enable us to handle the undesirable effects with greater facility.
Students of the Art of Healing should likewise remember that there are three
ways in which healing can be brought about, and that all three ways have
their place and value, dependent upon the point in evolution of the subject
being healed.
JC: All that is “now possible” is a general idea of the
presence of disease in the human and animal family. The palliative and ameliorating
methods are “cure generally and “eliminate undesirable” conditions allowing
building and strengthening of the physical body and enhancing the overall
vitality thereby enabling for further or future disease to be “thrown off”.
First, there is
the application of those palliatives
and ameliorating methods which gradually cure disease and eliminate undesirable
conditions; they build up the form life and foster the vitality, so that disease
can be thrown off. Of these methods the allopathic and the homeopathic
schools and the various osteopathic and chiropractic and other therapeutic
schools are good exponents. They have done much good and constructive work,
and the debt of humanity to the wisdom, skill and unselfish attentions of
the physicians is great. They are dealing all the time with urgent conditions
and dangerous effects of causes which are not apparent on the surface. Under
these methods, the patient is in the hands of an outside party, and should
be passive, quiescent and negative.
wikipedia.
The term "palliative care" may be used generally
to refer to any care that alleviates symptoms, even if there is hope of
a cure by other means; thus, a recent WHO statement calls palliative care
"an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their
families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness."
In some cases, palliative treatments may be used to alleviate the side effects
of curative treatments, such as relieving the nausea associated with chemotherapy.
The term "palliative care" is increasingly used with regard to
diseases other than cancer, such as chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders,
renal disease, chronic heart failure or progressive neurological conditions.
In addition, the rapidly-growing field of pediatric palliative care has
clearly shown the need for services geared specifically for children with
serious illness. Though
the concept of palliative care is not new, most physicians have traditionally
concentrated on aggressively trying to cure patients. Available treatments
for alleviation of symptoms were viewed as hazardous and seen as inviting
addiction and other unwanted side effects. Over the past twenty years, the
focus on a patient's quality of life has gained substantial ground. Today
in the United States,
55% of U.S.
hospitals with over 100 beds offer a palliative care program and nearly
one-fifth of community hospitals have palliative care programs. A relatively
recent development is the concept of a dedicated health care team that is
entirely geared toward palliative treatment, called a palliative care team.
wikipedia. Chiropractic
is a complementary and alternative health care profession with the purpose
of diagnosing and treating mechanical disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal
system with the intention of affecting the nervous system and improving
health. It is based on the premise that a spinal joint dysfunction can interfere
with the nervous system and result in many different conditions of diminished
health. Some chiropractors still use the term vertebral subluxation to describe
what they treat. Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by D. D. Palmer, and it
is now practiced in more than 100 countries. Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine,
or D.O.s, are trained to apply the philosophy of treating the whole person
(a holistic approach) to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness,
disease and injury using conventional medical practice such as drugs and
surgery, along with manual therapy (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine or
OMM). As with Doctors of Medicine (M.D.s), D.O.s educated in the United
States are fully licensed physicians and surgeons who
practice the full scope of medicine. Currently, there are 27 accredited
osteopathic medical schools in the United
States and 125 accredited U.S. allopathic medical schools. Osteopathic medical
physicians also have the opportunity to pursue allopathic residency programs,
however, the converse is not currently permitted. Within the U.S., osteopathic
medical physicians practice in all medical specialties including, but not
limited to, internal medicine, emergency medicine, dermatology, surgery,
and radiology. wikipedia.
JC: The osteopathic, chiropractic and therapeutic schools
are very effective along with the allopathic and the homeopathic practices.
This DK makes very clear as the debt humanity owes to their wisdom and care
is great. This is a clear endorsement and one where the patient should be
“passive, quiescent and negative.”
Secondly, there is the appearance of the work and
methods of the modern psychologist, who seeks to deal with subjective conditions
and to straighten out those wrong attitudes of mind, those inhibitions, psychoses
and complexes which bring about the outer states of disease, the morbid conditions
and neurotic and mental disasters. Under this method, the patient
is taught to cooperate as much as he can with the psychologist, so that he
may arrive at a proper [17] understanding of himself, and so learn to eradicate
those inner compelling situations which are responsible for the outer results.
He is trained to be positive and active, and this is a great step in the right
direction. The tendency to combine psychology
with the outer physical treatment is sound and right.
JC: Modern psychology has emerged and deals with those inner
conditions of the psych so commonly known today. This should be combined with
the “outer physical treatment” of the patient and is “sound and right”. We
will recall that the average GP is a naturally gifted psychologist and is
a good example of how the blending of some treatments work.
Thirdly, the highest and the newest method
is that of calling into positive activity a man's own soul. The true and the future healing
is brought about when the life of the soul can flow without any impediment
and hindrance throughout every aspect of the form nature. It can then vitalize
it with its potency, and can also eliminate those congestions and obstructions
which are such a fruitful source of disease.
JC: The newest method is one of the calling in of the
soul into “positive activity” regarding the patient. This the healer and
white magician does by empathy and tuning into the soul of the patient or
person. The recognition of the higher value and goodwill will empower by
recognition of the patient to that which is good and beneficent thereby
allowing for the free flow of energy in as much as may be possible. There
then is set up a rapport on higher levels and the recognition of the patient
makes for much facilitated work.
This gives you much to ponder
upon. If we go slowly as regards the practical application of techniques
and methods, it is because I seek to lay a sound foundation for that which I
shall later impart.
The Training of the Healer
As
regards the training of the healer, I will give from time to time the six
rules which govern (or should govern) his activity. Bear in mind the two
words which I earlier gave. They sum up the healer's story: Magnetism and
Radiation. They are different in their effects as we shall later see.
JC: Magnetism and Radiation sum up the effective work
of the esoteric healer.
Rule one The
healer must seek to link his soul, his heart, his brain and his hands. Thus
can he pour the vital healing force upon the patient. This is magnetic work.
It cures disease, or may increase the so-called evil state, according to the
knowledge of the healer.
The healer must seek to link
his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation. Thus can his presence
feed the [18] soul life of the patient. This is the work of radiation. The
hands are needed not. The soul displays its power. The patient's soul responds
through the response of his aura to the radiation of the healer's aura,
flooded with soul energy.
JC: Via magnetic work does the healer link with his soul
and draw forth or call upon his soul energy to give as radiation via his
or her aura being the etheric body and distributor of vital energy. In this
case the healer not only reflects soul energy via his “golden bowl” or etheric
mechanism, but radiates or in a sense reflects upon the “golden bowl” the
vital body of the patient. We might reflect for a moment that this is the
polar opposite to vampirism. Vampirism is the method used to deplete the
vital mechanism of the victim and enhance the vital condition [always degrading]
of the perpetrator.
In considering the Causes of
Disease, I find it necessary to speak a word in connection with conditions
- external and internal. It will be apparent to the casual thinker that many
diseases and many causes of death are due to environing conditions for which
he is in no way responsible. These range all the way from purely external
occurrences to hereditary predispositions. They might be listed as follows:
1. Accidents, which
may be due to personal negligence, group happenings, the carelessness of
other people, and the results of fighting, as in labor strikes or war. They
can also be brought about by attacks from the animal or the snake world,
accidental poisonings and many other causes.
JC: We must remember that not all accidents are accidental
and due to the victim. Some so called accidents are perpetrated by the brothers
of the shadows. They well know also, how to use the animal, nocuous poisonings
and disease. This also by Virus and Bacillus.
2. Infections coming
to a man from outside and not as the result of his own peculiar blood condition.
Such infections are the various so-called infectious and contagious diseases,
and prevalent epidemics. These may come to a man in the line of duty, through
his daily contacts, or through a widespread condition of disease in his
environment.
JC: We can see how contagious disease may well come due
to his service and “line of duty”and daily contacts. Also, some persons
frequently carry virus and bacillus and are known in medicine as “carriers”
of some type. They merely carry or are used to carry disease to the populace.
We can see that modern medicine does not yet recognise that cancer can “be
imparted by contact”, although it recognises that vaccination against the
Papilloma virus is associated with and found to cause cancer of some types.
3. Diseases due to malnutrition,
particularly when found in the young. This state of undernourishment predisposes
the body to disease, lowers the resistance and the vitality, and offsets
the "fighting powers" of the man, leading to premature death.
JC:
Although DK rightly states that malnutrition is not the fault of the individual
but due to environment with all that this might entail, today we recognise
a type of self induces malnourishment known as anorexia and bulimia. This
we might consider is due to the emotional/psychological condition [kamas/manasic]
of this peculiar and perhaps relatively modern illness.
4. Heredity. There
are, as you well know, certain forms of hereditary weaknesses, which either
predispose a person to certain illnesses and consequent death, or produce
in him those conditions which lead to a steady weakening [19] of his hold
on life; there are also those tendencies which
constitute a form of dangerous appetite, which lead to undesirable habits,
a letting down of the morale, and are dangerous
to the will of the person, rendering him futile to fight these predispositions. He
succumbs to them and pays the price of such habits, which is disease and
death.
JC: DK informs us of “tendencies” which form and embody
“dangerous appetite”. In speaking of heredity dispositions and disease we
might infer that in many cases part of the heredity tendencies are of wrong
habit due to inherent “weaknesses” leading to illness. He could be referring
again to an un-wholesome habit of persistent sexual satisfaction. This is
widespread in today’s society [a reflection of the past] and we are very
well aware of the consequences that come to those who so indulge. There
are also carriers of varied infections in this category. We might well note
that DK here remarks that this results in the “letting down of the moral”
which is “dangerous to the will” of the person. It seems that by
today’s standards this is almost what might be termed an ‘old fashioned
saying”. However, we know that this “renders” one “futile” to fight against
inevitable disease and death. Such habits and desires would familiarise
the person to the lower earthly plane and astral desires with consequent
materialistic binding to spheres of evil inclination.
These four types of disease
and causes of death account for much that we see happening around us in people's
lives, but they are not to be classed definitely under any of the psychological
causes of disease, and will only be considered, and that very briefly, under
the section dealing with group life and its predisposing causes of disease.
Infectious diseases are there dealt with, but such situations as arise out
of an automobile or railroad accident, for instance, are not to be considered
as coming under the heading of causes producing disease. That the work of
the healer may be involved in these cases is quite true, but the work to be
done is somewhat different to that accomplished when dealing with those diseases
which have their roots in some subtle body or other, or in the results of
group disease, etc. The ills growing out of malnutrition and the wrong feeding
of our modern life and civilization will not here be considered. For these
no child is individually responsible. I am concerned with the diseases arising
in wrong internal conditions.
The responsibility of a child
for his living conditions is practically nil, unless you admit karma as
a predisposing factor, and its power to produce those readjustments which
emerge out of the past and affect the present. I shall deal with this more
fully under our third point, dealing with our karmic liabilities. I
would only suggest here that the whole subject of disease could be treated
from the angle of karma and be definite
and conclusive in its value had there been right teaching on this abstruse
subject from the time that it was given out in the West.
But the truth
as it has come to us from the East has been as much distorted by the Eastern
theologian as the doctrines of the At-one-ment and of the Virgin Birth have
been misinterpreted and taught by the Western theologian. The real truth
bears little resemblance to our modern formulations. I am, therefore, seriously handicapped when dealing with the subject
of disease from the angle of karma.
JC: DK is “seriously handicapped” due to wrong emphasis
and teaching on many things including Karma and disease. This gives us a
sense of true proportion.
It is difficult for me to convey
to you anything of the truth, as it really exists, owing to the preconceived
ideas as to the ancient Law of Cause and Effect which are necessarily
in your mind. When I say to you that the doctrine of Emergent Evolution
and the modern theories of the work of a catalyst
upon two substances which - when brought into relation with each other under
the effect of the catalyst produce a third and different substance - carry in them much of the truth anent karma,
will you understand? I question it.
When I say to you that the emphasis
given to the Law of Karma as it explains apparent injustices and stresses
always the appearance of pain, disease, and suffering gives
only a partial presentation of the basic cosmic truth, is your
mind in any way clarified? When I point out that the Law of Karma, rightly
understood and rightly wielded, can bring that which produces happiness, good,
and freedom from pain more easily than it brings pain, with its chain of consequences,
do you feel able to grasp the significance of what I am saying?
JC: Karma may also be good karma and suffering is only a
partial explanation, with the “rightly understood” wielding of humanities
circumstance and actions may also bring goodness and freedom from all types
of pain, and this more easily so. In this we should consider that the “cyclic
return of substance” is therefore squared by the good or beneficent actions
being returned greatly multiplied. We recall again that all disease
is the result of causes and condition emanating from the mind of God and that
it is a “platitude” statement of DK when he
presents us with the universal proclamation that Karma “governs all this”.
Esoteric Healing - The Basic Causes of
Disease Law I.
“All disease (and this is a platitude) is caused by lack of harmony - a disharmony to be
found existing between the form aspect and the
life. EH 12.”
“The law of cause and effect, called Karma in the East, governs all this. Karma must be regarded in reality
as the effect (in the form life of our planet)
of causes,
deep seated and hidden in the mind of God. EH
15.”
“It is difficult for me to
convey to you anything of the truth, as it really exists, owing to the preconceived
ideas as to the ancient Law of Cause and Effect
which are necessarily in your mind. When I say
to you that the doctrine of Emergent Evolution and the modern theories of
the work of a catalyst upon two substances
which - when brought into relation with each other under the effect of the catalyst produce a third and different
substance - carry in them much of the truth anent karma, will
you understand? I question it.” EH 20.
JC: DK explains that
karma or cause and effect are the result of the action of some movement
or person with another movement or person resulting in a karmic reaction
due to the degree of kamas/manasic force used in the action. This produces
as a result a third and altered state of substance when out of harmony,
which results in dis-harmony of conditions and
disease. All cyclic return of substance or motion/matter brings
an altered reaction or manifestation of karmic force. In a Newtonian sense
this is the "equal and opposite reaction". The outgoing and cyclic
return of cause set in motion upon matter and its gravitational effect according
to its degree of force over a period of time or number of lives manifest
as some form of circumstance or activity or counter condition known as disease
or disharmony of a mental, emotional and very likely physical manifestation.
We are speaking here of the force of some action or thought
that alters the material and atomic substance of the physical, astral atoms
and cells of the body. This draws attention as to how the atoms of two bodies/persons
or forms when "brought in relation" by a catalyst or common force
such as "desire and will" then will that force or catalyst produce
an "effect" which alters the atomic structure of the atoms of the
two bodies producing an atomic relationship which amounts to a "third
and different substance" with an affinity of a beneficial
or detrimental nature and which must be worked out under karmic law, the “action
of Cyclic Law and circulatory motion of mass”. It seems that this is a clear
and concise chemical descriptive that may be further reduced to a scientific
formulation on the basis of the “Universal [mind] constant of Karma”.
K = Universal
[mind] constant of Karma. Km = mdlc2.
All disease [a platitude] is caused by a lack of harmony
Is
the product of a catalyst upon two substances which when brought into relationship
with each other under the effect of the catalyst, produce a third and altered
state of substance
Karma governs all this.
All Disease [lack of harmony] equals [catalysed third substance]
related or multiplied by Desire and Will [catalyst motion and direction]
and karmic duration squared.
Degree of Motive Power = Desire d
Degree of Direction = Will w producing disease,
D.
D = catalysed third substance = 3s
= K "dimension of the circle of operation"
of cyclic/spiral Law.
d = 3smdlc2 18/06/2007.
The world of glamor is at this
time so strong and the sense of illusion so potent and vital that we fail
to see these basic laws in their true significance.
JC: We are confronted with a vitally
strong world of glamour and illusion and it is these which induce our true
understanding of realities. Such is the potency of these that we "fail"
to see the "basic laws" in any "true significance" to
a great degree. Again, DK is very matter of fact and even what may be termed
`politically incorrect' which might shine a light on some of today's current
understandings and views.
Often the underlying sense of values
and conditioning reasons for things are counter to the sometimes to tolerant
or all inclusive acceptance of indulgences, appetites, weaknesses and the
general lowering of standards of decency and moral values and respectfulness
so endemic in society and so hard to communicate their consequences, but which
in reality amounts to a "letting down of the moral" and is
in fact most "dangerous to the will" of the individual or
group as perfectly described by DK. The danger is that to low an acceptable
standard of practical living and over tolerance of vices, unwholesome practices,
criminality and general "dumming down" will result in the down ward
arc of morality and values leading to that which is "dangerous"
to the "will" and is therefore counter productive to the well being
and holistic integrity of the individual health rendering one eventually “futile”
to disease of some kind either psychological or physical.
…The world illusion and glamor,
which prevents the average and ignorant man from seeing life as it truly is.
Even the advanced man and the disciples are only beginning to get a fleeting
and inadequate glance at a glorious reality.
JC:
There is a glorious reality before us and it is pointed out that there is
far more good karma than bad even in such a chaotic world and with so much
apparent dis-ease as is evident considering disease to account for all physical,
emotional and the few but increasing truly mental problems to be found today.
There is much hope!
4. Uncontrolled minds and
unreleased and unawakened brain cells also hinder man from correct realization.
This fact is often unrecognized. The apparatus of realization is as yet
inadequate. This point needs emphasizing.
JC: We will endeavour to control our minds and awaken
our brain cells hoping to make our realization a more adequate apparatus
to the task.
5. National and racial temperaments,
with their predisposing temperaments, and prejudices. These factors again
prevent a just appreciation of these realities.
I have given enough here to
indicate to you the stupidity of attempting to state that you understand
these laws towards which you are groping and which you seek to understand.
Nowhere in human thought is the darkness greater than in connection with
the laws concerning disease and death.
JC: DK can be ever blunt and straight speaking, but it
is his lighted wisdom as a Master which shines a light on realities. We
will not be so stupid as to state that we fully understand any of the laws
with which we are presented with in this treatise, and even though the human
mind is the darkest in connection with the laws of disease and death, we
will attempt to grasp a fuller appreciation of its fundamentals.
It is necessary,
therefore, to realize that, from the start, in all I have to say, under the
heading The Psychological Causes
of Disease, I am not dealing with those complaints or predispositions
to disease which emerge out of the environment, or with those definitely physical taints which are inherited from parents
who have carried in their bodies and transmitted to their children disease
germs which they, in their turn, may have inherited from their parents. I would like to point out that
these inherited diseases are far fewer than is at present surmised; of these, the predisposition to tuberculosis, to syphilis and to cancer
are the most important where our present humanity is concerned; they are inherited and also can be imparted by contact. These I will deal with under
our second major heading on the diseases emanating from the group. EH 24.
JC: DK makes the enormous statement that Cancer, TB and
Syphilis [STD’s] are inherited and can be imparted by contact.
“Today, owing to the vast reaches of time involved and to the untold generations
of those who have died upon the earth, the "germs" (so-called
by the unlearned thinker) of the dread complaint of cancer are to be found in the very soil
on which we live, infecting the vegetable kingdom and also the human family.” EH 59.
JC: We are however here dealing with “the psychological
causes of disease” in the main and not with physical “taints” which are
inherited. However, the clarification has been made that the predisposition
to TB, STDs and Cancer are indeed inherited and that Cancer is also transmittable
as suggested by DK, and can “be imparted by contact”. I am going to make
the observation that people seem to, in many cases try to avoid touching
cancer patients. This has been an area of dispute over time and I posit
that it is in the human racial psych; such is the great fear or the extent
of this disease from ancient times. Indeed, it is inherent in the very
soil of the earth as DK tells us. The process of transmission of cancer
seems to be the cancer cells via the bloodstream [virus] and I would then
think via semen and bodily fluid however an infected skin cell may also
facilitate such transmission if the very soil of the earth holds it potent.
TB and STD’s are bacterial. By
guarding against human papilloma virus, it could save thousands of lives
and may end the need for smears tests. Trials have shown a jab can offer
100% protection against strains of HPV linked to about 70% of cervical cancers.
Some forms of the HPV virus only cause genital warts, but others cause cervical
cancer. It is estimated up to half of the young women in Britain
have been infected with a high-risk strain of HPV by the time they are 30.
'High risk' HPV types, strains 16, 18 and 31 and 33, have been found to
be present in close to 100% of all cervical cancers, according to the NHS
Cancer Screening Programmes. bbc.
Wikipedia.
Cancer is a disease characterized by disorderly division of cells, combined
with the malignant behavior of these cells. Malignant cancer cells tend
to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion,
or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (the process whereby
cancer cells can move through the bloodstream or lymphatic system to distant
locations). Cancer may affect people at all ages, but risk tends to increase
with age. It is one of the principal causes of death in developed countries.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD), caused by spiral-shaped spirochete
bacterium, Treponema pallidum. The disease has been known under many names
during history, including the "French disease" and the "Great
Pox". Syphilis has had a prominent role in history and literature for
the last several hundred years. The
route of transmission of syphilis is almost always by sexual contact. However,
there are examples of congenital syphilis via transmission from mother to
child in utero. The signs and symptoms of syphilis are numerous; before
the advent of serological testing, precise diagnosis was very difficult.
In fact, the disease was dubbed the "Great Imitator" because it
was often confused with other diseases.
Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus. ) is a common and deadly
infectious disease that is caused by mycobacteria, primarily Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Tuberculosis most commonly affects the lungs (as pulmonary
TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, the lymphatic system,
the circulatory system, the genitourinary system, bones, joints and even
the skin. Other mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium
africanum, Mycobacterium canetti, and Mycobacterium microti can also cause
tuberculosis, but these species do not usually infect healthy adults.
Over one-third of the world's
population now has the TB bacterium in their bodies and new infections are
occurring at a rate of one per second.[2] Not everyone who is infected develops
the disease and asymptomatic latent TB infection is most common. However,
one in ten latent infections will progress to active TB disease which, if
left untreated, kills more than half of its victims. In 2004, 14.6 million
people had active TB and there were 8.9 million new cases and 1.7 million
deaths, mostly in developing countries.[2] In addition, a rising number
of people in the developed world are contracting tuberculosis because their
immune systems are compromised by immunosuppressive drugs, substance abuse
or HIV/AIDS. Wikipedia.
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Group Study: Esoteric Healing. Study letter 4.
CHAPTER I
The Psychological Causes of Disease
The point I would like to
make here, before proceeding further, is that I
shall seek to avoid, as far as possible, all technicalities. Our
theme is the esoteric consideration of disease and its forms; it seeks to
elucidate the subject of and the vital causes of such diseases, and to indicate
the general laws with which the healer must work and the six rules which
he must impose upon himself - and to which
he gives obedience, through discipline and understanding.
JC: Here is an important distinction made by DK. He will
avoid as far as possible all technicalities. It is the esoteric causes
of disease with which we are dealing with an elucidation of the vital causes
of disease and addresses from the point of view of cause rather than the
complex analysis of its effect on the form. It seems that the subject is
being approached from a point of simplicity rather than complexity. This
is ever the way of approach of the Initiate. If further information on description
and outer effects are required we are encouraged to search this out for
ourselves if need be. The healer will give “obedience, through discipline
and understanding” noting that these general laws and the six
rules are self “imposed”.
You will have noted that I
listed the psychological causes under four headings:
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Those arising out of the emotional-feeling nature.
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Those which have
their origin in the etheric body.
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Those which are based on wrong thought.
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The peculiar complaints and psychological troubles
of disciples.
It may have interested you
to see that I place the ills of the etheric body in the second place and
not the first. The reason for this is that the group ills and diseases which
have fastened upon the race, work primarily through the etheric body and
find their way out into manifestation via the etheric bodies of all forms.
But I have placed them second, even though
they are in the last analysis the most numerous, owing to the fact that
humanity cannot as yet deal with [25] these en masse.
JC: It is not yet possible for humanity to deal with “group
ills and diseases” concerning the “race” or human race. They are placed
second under psychological causes “arising” from the emotional nature or
astral body. These group ills manifest “out” via the etheric bodies of “all
forms”. Perhaps also as so many of the human race are emotionally polarised
this may be a reason for the emotional arising of psychological causes being
placed first in DK’s list. There also seems to be the implication that humanity
today are already dealing, in some fashion, with the mass ills arising from
the emotional body.
The approach has to be through individuals,
and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those conditions which
predispose them to disease, as individuals. At present, the race is astrally
polarized. The emotional sentient nature is all-powerful in the masses. This
leads to a relatively negative etheric body which is tuned in on the entire
etheric substance of the planet.
JC:
We are clearly informed that at present the etheric body en masse is “relatively
negative” and is “tuned in” on the etheric substance “of the planet”. This
then relates humanity and their “group ills and diseases” being tuned in
to the planetary etheric body in its entirety. The approach must by necessity
be via the individual as at present we cannot deal with disease in a group
curative way. It is obvious that humanity is not yet conscious of such a
vast group problem. It is very clear then that humanity is then conscious
of individual disease, diagnosis, and treatment. However, we need to “clear”
the emotional body of “those conditions” which predispose men and women
to illness. We can see this in tentative practice today in modern psychology.
Curiously, we see that the powerful emotional body renders
the vital body “relatively negative” and we might well relate this with the
use of palliative and amelioration methods which “build up the form and foster
the vitality” of the individual making it increasingly likely that disease
will be “thrown off”. So in fact although DK informs us that it is not yet
possible to deal with “group ills and disease” “en masse” via the etheric
body we can see a tentative dealing on an individual basis with the physical/etheric
constitution as they “foster the vitality” through palliative methods of the
varied schools so mentioned, osteopathic, homeopathic, physiotherapy ect.
This, well before the emergence of modern psychology. These methods build
the vitality and render the vital body increasingly positive to the physical
form, and in so doing places a relative steadying effect on the emotional
self as conditions are eased. DK highly rates 19th and 20th
century homeopathic methods in the western world and for this reson I include
a brief look at the oriental contribution. Much of the classic and traditional
Chinese medicinal therapies and treatments were developed along side training
and practice in the martial arts. Modern physio, massage, homeopathic and
herbal treatments derive from this relatively ancient source which was more
likely than not of atlantean origin. The techniques and understandings of
previous centuries were partially true with the “evil humours” or four humours
being an initial grasp and forerunner of the subjective world in modern psychology.
We can but recognise that the “four humours” mentioned by DK of the 16th
and 17th centuries and of Hippocrates and
Greco-Roman medicine are related to those of ancient
Chinese medicine. “Modern
medicine, while it has gained largely in anatomy, physiology, and pathology,
and even in therapeutics, has lost immensely by its narrowness of spirit,
its rigid materialism, its sectarian dogmatism. One school in its pure blindness
sternly ignores whatever is developed by other schools; and all unite in ignoring
every grand conception of man or nature.
The explorers of old medical literature, from the time of Hippocrates
to that of Paracelsus and Van Helmont, will find a vast number of well-attested
physiological and psychological facts and of measures or medicines for healing
the sick. IU1 20.
Fiery World I, 315. The
Chinese method of healing
by means of a puncture of the corresponding centers, of which you recently
read, is not curing but only a temporary relief. The ancient Egyptians produced
the same reaction by pressing upon the corresponding centers. And even nowadays
cupping glasses and hot poultices are in the same category. Thus, throughout
life one should eliminate irritation by means of corresponding complements.
The Teaching of Old China
also contained the process
of healing by means of heightening the vitality. Precisely China has valued ginseng.
MM.
In healing, the best
fourth ray method is massage and magnetism, used with knowledge. EP1 207.
Physical therapy has its origins
in ancient history with the advent of physical treatments and massage in
China circa 2500
BC. Hippocrates described massage and hydrotherapy in 460 BC.
The modern practice of physical therapy was developed in
London
in 1896, believing hospital patients needed to be massaged on a regular
basis in order to maintain adequate muscle function and mobility. This special
interest group grew rapidly and in 1920 the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
was formed in the United
Kingdom . Similar organizations
were developed in other countries, including the USA. “During
the neo-Confucian Song-Jin-Yuan era (10th to 12th Centuries), the theoratical
framework from acupuncture theory (which was rooted in Confucian Han theory)
was formally applied to herbal categorization (which was earlier more the
domain of Daoist natural science). In particular, alignment with the Five
Phases (Tastes) and the 12 channels (Meridians theory) came to be used after
this period.
The Four Natures This pertains
to the degree of yin and yang, ranging from cold (extreme yin), cool, neutral
to warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and
yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. For example, medicinal
herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is suffering
from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient has a
general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the
extreme effect of one herb. Traditional
Chinese medicine (also known as TCM, Simplified
Chinese; Traditional Chinese; Pinyin: Zhongyi xué) is a range of traditional
medical practices originating in China
that developed over several thousand years. The English phrase "TCM"
was created in the 1950s by the PRC in order to export Chinese medicine;
there is no equivalent phrase in Chinese (zhongyi xue translates literally
as simply "Chinese medicine studies"). In fact, TCM is a modern
compilation of traditional Chinese medicine. TCM practices include theories,
diagnosis and treatments such as herbal medicine, acupuncture and massage;
often Qigong is also strongly affiliated with TCM. TCM is a form of so-called
Oriental medicine, which includes other traditional East Asian medical systems
such as traditional Japanese, and Korean medicine. wikipedia.
All ancient medicine
(particularly
the Tibetan, the Chinese, and the Hindu), with our modern western science, fits. The correlation of the western and eastern techniques
still remains to be made, and much will be gained
thereby. EH 333.
“those palliatives and ameliorating
methods which gradually cure disease and eliminate undesirable conditions;
they build up the form life and foster the vitality, so that disease can be
thrown off.
Of these methods the allopathic and the homeopathic schools
and the various osteopathic and chiropractic and other therapeutic schools
are good exponents.” EH
16. This
substance, which underlies all forms, is simply a transferring and transmitting
agency for vital energy to the outer dense physical body. Energy sweeps through
this etheric substance, free from all control by the individual human being,
and quite unrealized by him because his focus of attention is astral. From
the astral or emotional state of consciousness, much concerning individual
physical conditions can be deduced. We must, however, eliminate
those ills which are group ills and which have swept into and through all
mankind from the world of etheric force, leaving him in some way depleted,
or over-stimulated, or in such a condition that Death naturally supervenes.
It might be stated as a basic generalization that personal physical trouble
has its seat at present in the emotional body, and that that vehicle of expression
is the one predominant predisposing agent in the ill health of the individual,
just as group ills and the sweep of epidemics
of any kind through the masses are founded in some condition in the etheric
substance of the planet. Those diseases which are general, national,
racial and planetary find their way to an individual via his etheric body,
but are not so personal in their implications. Upon this I will later enlarge.
Today I but lay down the general proposition.
JC:
There are etheric forces and energies which sweep through the vital body
of man which are entirely unnoticed by him entirely because his focus of
attention and conscious awareness is so strongly astral. DK makes the interesting
observation that study and observation of the emotional and astral life
there is a great amount of information regarding the physical conditions
able to be ascertained. In the last analysis, however, we must aim to eliminate
all the ills of a group classification arising from the under or over stimulation
of the etheic vehicle. There is much depletion and over activity due to
these group conditions and susceptibilities and which largely are resultant
of the human group vital body and are not personal to the individual
health. This is a “general proposition”. An observation of interest is that
epidemics of “any kind” that spread through humanity invade the individual
via the vital body and are therefore not due to a personal condition or
point of weakness of the individual but are due to the planetary etheric
substance and is therefore of a condition within the planetary body of the
logos. Disease or inharmonious illness of the lower vehicles of the logos
produce disease which sweeps through the vital mechanism of the planetary
body therefore rendering sections of humanity susceptible to its effects.
I would also like
to point out that the diseases for the masses, for the average citizen, for
the intelligentsia, and for the disciples of the world may, and do, differ
widely - not so much in their expression as in their field of expression. This is a point most difficult
for the average healer to recognize; it is not easy or possible for him to grasp these distinctions and
to gauge the point in evolution which a man may have reached.
Some diseases must be dealt with from the
mental plane, and will call in the mind of the healer; others require a concentration of emotional energy by the healing agent;
and again, in other cases, the healer should seek to be only a transmitter
of pranic energy to the etheric body of the patient, via his own etheric body.
How many healers are really consciously aware of the focus of the
consciousness or the life force in the patient with whom they may be concerned?
JC:
We have four classifications here:
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A distinction is made that although diseases for these
four types may manifest in similar ways through diseases of a similar type
or nature, it is the “field of expression” which differs greatly. Cancer
is equally likely to appear in an individual of the mass or in a disciple
as the rotation of the centres and life activity slows down. The distinction
however must be considered as to the expression or conscious awareness of
the person and how therefore they are polarised. DK questions how many students
and healers are themselves “consciously aware” of the focus of consciousness
and life force within the patient.
How many realize anything of
the type of healing which it is possible and necessary to apply to a disciple?
How few realize that no disciple, for instance, can place himself in the
hands of the average magnetic healer or radiatory worker, or psychological
expert of any kind! A disciple dare not subject himself to the auric
emanations of any chance healer, nor put himself in the power of the inexperienced
academic psychologist, no matter how prominent he may be. He
may, however, subject himself to the wise skill of the physical plane physician
or surgeon, as - for him - the physical body is but an automaton. He can
therefore avail himself of physical means for its benefiting. Much of the
failure of the healing methods at present employed consists in the inability
of the healer to:
JC: A sound warning is given to all disciples. No disciple
whatever should place themselves under the judgement or influence [power]
of any healer, magnetic or radiatory, of the general or average type. Great
caution is given to students. This equally applies to the diagnosis and influence
and subject power of the inexperienced academic psychologist, this he dare
not do no matter what or how prominent, worldly, or qualified he or she may
be. DK makes the distinction between “inexperienced” and “academic” reminding
that the average highly academically qualified psychologist mostly has not
an esoteric understanding of any disciple and certainly not the initiate.
The greater always includes the lesser and never the other way around. For
instance, an initiate disciple of the 2nd degree may well encounter mental/emotional
problems. He or she certainly will as it is these that determine the “battle
ground”. DK informs us that mental institutions and the like have many disciples
who are either displaying signs of soul infusion together with the personality
battle and consequential a temporarily unbalanced mental body. Certainly though,
no aspirant or average psychologist can in any way understand or diagnose
with any certainty or accuracy the psychological issues or problematic manifestations
of such a disciple, and it would be dangerous for the disciple to allow such,
as DK makes plain. It is only allowable for such a disciple to “subject” themselves
to the “wise skill” of the physical plane physician or surgeon precisely because
the physical body is an automaton and un-principled sheath.
1. Gauge the extent of the
trouble, where it may be located basically, and in what body it principally
arises and lies. 2.
Know where the patient stands upon the ladder of evolution, and where, therefore,
he must look first for the source of the difficulty. 3.
Differentiate between the diseases which are due to inner personal conditions,
or to inherited tendencies, or to group distribution. [27] 4.
To know whether the disease should be handled, 5.
All opathically or homeopathically, for both can play their part at times,
or through any of the other media of modern skill and science. 6.
Through radiation or magnetization, or both. 7.
Through right inner psychological adjustment, aided by true insight on the
part of the healing agent. 8.
Through calling in the power of a man's own soul - a thing that is not possible
except to advanced people. 9.
Through definite occult means, such as forming a healing triangle of - Master
- Patient - Healer This
method involves much knowledge and a high point of spiritual attainment on
the part of the healer; - it also presupposes the healer's link with a Master
and the Master's group, plus the earned right to call upon that group for
energy on behalf of the patient - a thing as yet rarely granted.
JC: A list of consideration is given
by the Master for the healer and student to study and take on board. Of note
is the “right inner psychological adjustment, aided by true insight on the part of the healing
agent”. This is of great interest
and should sum what has been discussed regarding the disciple and incidentally
of the average “chance healer”. It was previously mentioned that the Tibetan
is not interested in training individual healers, only the healing functions
as a group is being considered and of that group energy, permission for its
use as an earned right is “rarely granted”.
I would like first of all
to point out that my purpose and intent is not to write a medical treatise.
I shall not, therefore, deal with the anatomy of the body, nor shall I discuss
the symptoms of diseases, except quite incidentally. I
do not intend to elaborate symptoms or consider the many [28] diseases with
long names which distinguish the race at this time; all such information
you can gather from the ordinary textbooks, if you so choose, and these
you can study, if you care to do so. I find
it personally not particularly satisfying. We will start with
the premise that there is disease; that disease is an effect of inner causes;
that man has made as vast strides in the understanding of the effect of
these causes as they produce changes in the outer garment of man, as science
has made in the understanding of the outer garment of God, the world of
phenomenal nature.
JC: It is clear the Tibetan does not find the detailed studying
of disease necessary or a healthy past time. I think he mentions somewhere
that it focuses the disciple too firmly in the physical permanent atom, which
is not desirable. Obviously some disciples whose vocation and service requires
may perfectly well do so with facility. The ameliorative and palliative and curative
work of medicine and surgery are proved beyond all controversial discussion.
The methods employed, such as the vivisection of animals, may rightly cause
distress. In spite of all this the indebtedness
of mankind to the medical profession is great, and the service rendered to
humanity by the profession does largely offset the evil. That they
know not everything is true; that there is a small percentage of physicians
and surgeons (less than in any other profession) who are self-seeking and
no credit to their craft is equally true; that they already know enough to
be willing to admit how very much more there is to be known is also correct.
But that it is a great and good and self-sacrificing group within the human
family, is equally true. Forget this not.
JC:
Once again it is affirmed that palliative, ameliorative, curative and surgical
methods of healing are “proved” beyond all controversy. Fundamentally
we are dealing with the elimination or reducing of symptoms [such as pain]
and with the curing of effects and their cause. We are advisedly informed
that this has over time included the use of animal experimentation and vivisection.
This is a subject often discussed in the media today and most no something
of it. However whilst DK designates this as an evil, It is clear that the
indebtedness that mankind owes to the medical profession is great
with the great service rendered largely offsetting the evil. We are advised
to take this into consideration as the toll the animals took on human life
over past eons is probably incalculable to us. Past karma has to be alone
accountable for this along with the wise discrimination of those good persons
in the medical and scientific professions of today. This is being worked
out and we are assured that there are less self-seeking people in the medical
profession than in any other or today and this we should not forget.
I
deal with the subjective aspect of man, and with the secondary causes which
have their roots in man's inner bodies and in the subjective side of nature
itself. The major primary causes, as I earlier explained, are impossible
for you to grasp. They lie beyond the capacity of the concrete mind. I seek
to make clear what man may do to free himself increasingly from the accumulation
of the past, both individually and as a group, and in so doing to clear
his physical body of the germs of disease. It must, however, be borne in mind that many diseases are
of a group [29] nature, and are consequently inherent in humanity itself.
Just as the insect world devastates and destroys the vegetable
kingdom, as any chance walker through the woods can note, so germs - individual
and group - today devastate and destroy the human kingdom. They are agents of destruction
and are performing a definite office and duty in the great scheme of things
at present.
JC: Today germs play an important part in the function of life and
death of humanity. This seems an incredible statement and also is infact
a very important one. DK with his very dry and scientific approach simply
states that as yet, the majority of men do not die at the behest of their
own souls through the conscious withdrawal from the physical body. Analytically
and obviously then, men and women have to die largely by other means, and
due to the abundance of disease affecting humanity this how the “agents
of destruction” carry out their “definite office” and duty in the
scheme of things. To this end, we are told and can see that they “devastate
and destroy” mankind. In considering germs and their part in the body the
Chohan Hilarion states there are relatively large spaces between cells and
molecules, and even between electrons within the atom. In doing so he sets
before us a sub universe not unlike the heavenly universe composed of the
myriads of suns, planets and all manner of other components. He illustrates
that within this lesser space are other lives, greater in size than the
atoms such as we understand today as being Proteins, Viruses, Bacteria [germs]
and Cells. His keynote for this exercise seems to be, that of proportionate
space between microscopic or invisible matter which he states as being "where
one must disappear to give space to the other." This aids our picture
of such matters.
Micro-organisms that are injurious to the
tissues of the body secrete and expel still more minute forms of life which
are just as injurious to the nervous fluids as the former are to the tissues,
and these in turn secrete and expel yet finer forms of psycho-organisms.
The "devourers" (one degree of the fiery lives).
A higher degree of the fiery lives, "the
builders", It is said "the lowest subdivisions of Prana are
the microbes of science". There is a life spark, a little life in
every atom of molecule of Fire, Air, Earth or Water. These are the fiery
lives, the constructors and devourers of Form. The black magicians have been
rightly termed, the great Disintegrators.
Hilarion.
JC: The Master Djwhal Khul and the Chohan Hilarion both
use negative terms to describe germs. DK calls them “agents of destruction”
and H calls them the “devourers”. Hilarion also goes on to call
black magicians the “great disintegrators” and in association with germs
describes how such devourers are used sometimes at their behest to carry
out certain means of attack. DK also describes them as carrying out a certain
office of destruction in general to the human family. HE also states that
all disease is ultimately the result of cosmic evil. Therefore we can see
why they are agents of destruction and devourers in minute form. We might
recall that the black lodge are used by the great white lodge to carry out
certain evolutionary means at this time. An analogy should here be noted.
When a votary
of the Black Lodge desires to wreak
vengeance upon, or kill a man or animal, he first generates and then transmits
that deadly force to another, either by direct action or
by slower forms of infection. Hilarion.
Dugpas work on the Linga Shar ra of other
people. The Linga Shar ra in the spleen is the perfect picture of the man,
and is good or bad, according to his own nature. SD3 588.
The black magician uses the energy of the
lower three centers (the organs of generation, the spleen, and the solar
plexus) synthesizing their energy by an act of the will and directing it
to the center at the base of the spine, so that the fourfold energy is thence
transmitted to the throat center. TCF 988.
They burn and destroy the material
sheath, seeking
to imprison the escaping volatile essence as the form disintegrates. TCF 490.
The black Magician attains results through
the agency of force external to the sphere involved, and produces transmutation through the agency of resolvents (if so I might term it) or through the method of the reduction of the form, rather than through radiation, as does the white
Magician.
These differences of method need to be
carefully considered and their reaction visualised in connection
with different elements, atoms, and forms. TCF 448.
JC: Resolvent, (adjective) science. Causing or capable of causing
something to separate into its constituent elements.
Resolvent, (noun) science. A substance that causes or is capable
of causing something to separate into its constituent elements. Encarta.
I in this instance we may rightly relate resolvent with,
reduction, depletion, disintegration and devouring. All are external forms
of attack employed by the dark brother. We should note that the "great disintegrators", are the etheric
burning deva material used by black magicians
and they work also with the lesser devourers,
the "diseases induced by the "devourers" (one degree of the
fiery lives)" described by Hilarion. These are identical to those who
carry out the "method of the reduction
of the form" described by DK. The dark brother uses purposefully Bacillus and Virus to spread
disease and plague, hence the white lodge holds back plague to
great degree. The dark brother also uses a more specific and focussed method
of the "mixture of etheric force and dense physical energy" to
control and deplete his victim. He uses external reduction and devourment
and takes the term "separation" to its utmost meaning in regard
to the cohesion of the atomic form or molecular makeup of the body of a
victim. The elemental constitution, the atomic sheath and the internal lesser
atoms, the differentiated molecules are destroyed and not allowed to live
out their natural cycle of evolution and advancement to greater development
and redemption while the positive spirit is imprisoned and cycle is curtailed.
What a heinous crime this is. It
seems that some of these microbes are created also by our un-spiritual thoughts.
That is, our misuse of the feeling and thinking processes in our own selfish
natures. We are repeatedly told of the ability of our own thoughts to create
polluted thought forms and it is precisely us, humanity that pollutes the
sacred spatial fires and spiritual atmosphere. Humanity it seems is responsible
for its diseases and plagues or epidemics. However, we also have to contend
with such influences from other spatial sources and bodies in the heavens.
Disease is an earthly condition and a systemic one also. These spatial microbes
created by ill thought manifest as the germs and organisms such as that
which thrive in any residence which promotes an environment for the like.
A body which is lacking
in psychic energy will precisely become vulnerable to the un-healthy condition
of these microbes; however it seems also that someone who may have a large
store of psychic energy and have a sensitive and delicate constitution such
as the disciple still may become overburdened and fall ill at times. The
devas which burn and destroy as well as being fiery builders are easily
set loose upon the physical sheath of the ignorant human. This is sometimes
done consciously by the dark magician in order to destroy and reduce some
victim to further the goal of the magician's selfish purpose. They are then,
both the lower order devas, including the deva devourers, easily manipulated
as are many ignorant humans.
…I seek to point out, therefore,
that my avoidance of medical technicalities will be deliberate, though
we shall refer often to the physical body and to the diseases of which it
is a prey. EH 29.
PolarisProject Group Study:
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JC: To briefly continue my initial touching upon the subject
of germs in letter 4, we might think upon the rapid spread and increase
in potency of virus and bacillus today which is ever in the news and media.
The degree of humanities inability to contain what seems sometimes to be an
overwhelming increase in infection and sometimes deaths due to potent and
virulent spread of germs within the medical profession and within humanity
in general, acting as carriers also, we might consider the growth of the so
called super bugs and their resistance to antibiotics and treatments generally.
If it is true that the spread of germs and the increased numbers of previously
thought controlled and easily cured conditions are on the increase, perhaps
this is the proof of this reference on germs and the incoming 7th
ray, from DK. But
the bug can also cause serious infections, and over the last 50 years the
bacteria have become resistant to various antibiotics.
Superbug 'outstrips MRSA
cases' There has been little change in the number of people catching superbugs
while in hospital in Northern Ireland, a new report reveals. However, it
shows that once again cases of MRSA have been far outstripped by those of
another superbug, called C difficile. It causes severe diarrhoea and - like
MRSA - can prove fatal. Its spores can live for a long time in the environment
and is often not eradicated by cleaning. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant,
or multiple antibiotic-resistant, Staphylococcus aureus. Also known as Staph
aureus, this is a group of bacteria commonly found on the skin that can
cause infections. There are many different types: the one known as MRSA
is causing increasing problems because, as the name suggests, it's very
resistant to treatment with antibiotics. bbc.
TWO new deadly superbugs are
spreading through hospitals, experts warned yesterday. They are killing as
many patients as MRSA - and are both even more resistant to drugs. Acinetobacter
has killed 39 people and infected 101 in St Mary's Hospital in Paddington,
West London, since October. It can cause fatal pneumonia, skin and blood infections.
Microbiologist Dr Mark Enright, of Bath University, said: "Some strains
are really hard to treat, resistant to almost everything. They are a cause
for concern." Clostridium difficile. The Health Protection Agency issued new guidance
to hospitals to try to halt the bug, including isolating patients and closing
contaminated wards. www. The
effects of this ray force are most peculiar and will be a great deal more prevalent than heretofore,
as this ray is now coming into power. It is
this energy which is largely responsible for infections and contagious diseases.
The keynote of the work of the seventh ray is to bring together
life and matter upon the physical plane. This, however, when
viewed from the angle of imperfection, is a bringing together (if
you can understand the implications) of Life, the lives and the general livingness
of the creative process. This is symbolized by
the promiscuity and the endless moving interplay of all life within all lives.
The result is therefore the activity of all
germs and bacteria within the medium which
will best nurture them. EH 304.
JC:
Such a spread of the ‘agents of destruction and the devourers’ and
their rapid increase in virulence may be accounted for by their ability
to absorb this 7th ray. This ray is the ray largely responsible
for infection and disease due to its unique ability to bring together life
and matter. Germs are therefore more potently infused with the life principle
which may account for their increased resistance and “promiscuity” or infectious
activity, hence their ability to “perform a definite
office and duty” with increased facility today, maybe more than at any
other time even with our modern methods or cure, palliative and ameliorative
techniques. Perhaps the “moving interplay of all life within all lives”
gives a definite clue as to ability to develop rapidly into new strains
with greater resistances to treatment. Only a stronger life aspect can resist
death or depletion and this applies equally to microbes and germs, virus
and bacillus as well as humanity at this present time.
Esoteric Healing - Chapter
I - The Psychological Causes of Disease
Secondly, I seek today to give
you another of the Laws of Healing, as well as one of the Rules for the Healer.
Study these with care.
Law II Disease is the product of, and subject to, three
influences. First, a man's past, wherein
he pays the price of [30] ancient error. Second,
his inheritance, wherein he shares with all mankind those tainted streams
of energy which are of group origin. Thirdly, he shares with all the natural forms that which the
Lord of Life imposes on His body. These
three influences are called "The Ancient Law of Evil Sharing." This must give place some day to that
new Law of Ancient Dominating Good
which lies behind all that God made.
This law must be brought into activity
by the spiritual will of man.
JC:
Remarkably, we are told that the three influences are called "The Ancient Law of Evil
Sharing." Assuredly we must cast our minds back to another statement that…
"All disease (and this is a platitude) is caused by lack of harmony - a disharmony to be
found existing between the form aspect and the
life. EH 12."
"The law of cause and
effect, called Karma in the East, governs all this. Karma must be regarded in reality as the effect (in the form life of our planet)
of causes,
deep seated and hidden in the mind of God.
EH 15."
JC: This ancient law has to be another name for the ‘one
law of karma’ as applied to the sharing of disease. Karma “governs
all disease”. These three influences all refer to current karmic limitation
due to influence of past Error, Inheritance, and planetary Imposition. All
these reflect past conditions imposed in three ways on the form or body
of man. The three methods produce disease which is governed by karma and
it is obvious that this is a law of past causes. This law must at some point
give way to a new
Law of ‘Ancient Dominating Good’. Djwhal Khul has already told us that it is
in fact far easer to amount good karma than bad. Thus we previously considered…
When I point out that the Law of Karma,
rightly understood and rightly wielded, can bring that which produces happiness,
good, and freedom from pain more easily than it brings pain, with its chain
of consequences, do
you feel able to grasp the significance of what I am saying? EH 20.
JC:
Karma may also be good karma and suffering is only a partial explanation,
with the “rightly understood” wielding of humanities circumstance
and actions we may also bring goodness and freedom from all types of pain,
and this more easily so. In this we should consider that the “cyclic
return of substance” is therefore squared by the good or beneficent
actions being returned greatly multiplied… We are told then, that behind
ancient evil otherwise known as cosmic evil, there is a law of dominating
good which lies behind “all that God made.”
This of course holds the clue to how good karma may be attained and
harmonious conditions re acquired. This law may be brought into activity
by the spiritual Will of man. Previously
in letter 3 we considered the formula for disease as d=3smdlc2.
All Disease [lack of harmony] equals [catalysed third substance]
related or multiplied by Desire and Will [catalyst motion and
direction] and karmic duration squared.
Degree of Motive Power = Desire d
Degree of Direction = Will w producing disease,
D.
D = catalysed
third substance = 3s
= K "dimension of the circle of operation" of cyclic/spiral
Law.
d = 3smdlc2
18/06/2007. The Ancient Law of Evil Sharing.
JC: I am basing my consideration
of a formula for “dominating good” or karma which “produces
happiness, good, and freedom from pain” on DK’s following indications. He has instructed in his treatise on esoteric healing
that there will be a “new language related to energy and force” as
science and the discovery of the release of atomic energy has made possible,
recognising the physical body as an “electrical unit”. It is along
these lines that I will make an attempt at “clear analysis
of the wording of these ancient formulas of healing” and of his words in
general. All reduced scientific formulation when grasped, should convey
in an intuitive instant the “the explosive nature of energy, when in
contact with force, or of the soul in relation to substance” and brothers
this applies equally to the impact of karma, and all which has in the past
been “completely unknown or veiled in mystical language” and “unsuitable
language”. Such formula has
been given by DK veiled in this mystical language which has been much to
his frustration with his thoughts that it may be thought “puerile”
and “disappointing” or “needlessly abstruse” which is “descriptive
of possible immediate reaction”. Recent work has then been at times somewhat
along the lines of “the new scientific formulas and the new approach” concerning
this theme with an initial attempted grasp of this “new language of energy
and force” and its indications and application along the lines of “occult
electrical phenomena". It is of course to be grasped intuitively and
applied as an almost spontaneous summation of its properties and spiritual
significance. A
chemical formula is a concise way of expressing information about the atoms
that constitute a particular chemical compound. A
chemical formula is also a short way of showing how a chemical reaction
occurs. For molecular compounds, it identifies each constituent
element by its chemical symbol and indicates the number of atoms of each
element found in each discrete molecule of that compound. If a molecule
contains more than one atom of a particular element, this quantity is indicated
using a subscript after the chemical symbol (although 19th-century books
often used superscripts). For ionic compounds and other non-molecular substances,
the subscripts indicate the ratio of elements in the empirical formula.
In physics and other sciences, energy (from the Greek energos, "active,
working") is a scalar physical quantity, often represented by the symbol
E, that is used to describe a conserved property of objects and systems
of objects. Energy may come in many different forms. The different forms
are all equivalent (in some cases overlapping) and may be converted into
the other forms of energy, transferred to other matter or stored. While
energy may be converted from one form to another, it is never created or
destroyed. wikipedia.
The explosive nature of energy, when in
contact with force, or of the soul in relation to
substance, is
completely unknown or veiled in mystical
language. EH 741. In the mass–energy equivalence formula
E=mc2, mass and energy are more than equivalent,
they are different forms of the same thing. Whenever energy
is added to a system, the system gains mass. Wikipedia.
JC:
Quite clearly Einstein’s brilliant theory of mass–energy equivalence formula
E = mc2 informs that mass and energy are equivalent and may be converted
into another from of energy or mass but that energy or mass will never be
lost or diminished in any notable or significant way. When mass loses energy,
as in fatigue or deterioration or disease [infection] through energy/soul
inhibition, it is because the informing mass/energy is not being infused
with a higher sustaining energy or rhythm. This produces deterioration or
disease in matter and may be understood in an occult fashion as “resolvent”
or reduction of the form or material mass/sheath, through some type of external
or internal force such as virus or bacillus or over or under stimulation
of an organ, which is greater in its disintegrating force than the infusing
higher energy of cohesion due to the congestion or inhibition of the higher
energy. In an equal and opposite manner, all disease or disintegration or
reduction of mass of the form will be healed by increased mass and
its building into the area of disease with correct function due to correct
inflow of a higher energy or rate of vibration, producing also a relative
transmutation of the mass, this is E =
mc2 and the true understanding of “energetic import”.
DK states “Not even the scientists responsible for the discovery have
the faintest idea of the far-reaching effects of this momentous happening.”
We are then confronted with the sublime
explanation that the scientists who developed and calculated with certain
mathematical exactitude that when a calculated amount of heat and vibration
[force] is applied to a certain amount of Uranium, which is a material already
in an advanced state of transmutation, then the internal soul energy of
the uranium atoms will be forcefully released producing “energetic import”
as it is occultly understood. As DK makes clear, this applies equally to
the human electrical unit [man] and it is through the “energetic importing”
of the higher spiritual will [energy] under the direction of the controlled
mind that healing of a diseased area, its mass therein, will be under law,
re formed and healed according to its original condition and state of evolution.
The diseased mass within the human system will regain mass and health proportionate
to its reception of the higher soul energy. It is this fact that those scientists
had no conception of I posit. We should note that in both instances of karma
km=mdlc2
producing disease [which it governs] d=3smdlc2 and the aspect of karma producing
healing or right conditions; it is the use of the individual directing lower
mind that is the motivating and directional force which determine either
disease or healing of mass.
We could word this otherwise and say that
when soul energy and the right use of the will (which in the individual is the reflection
and the agent of the will energy of the soul) is released and rightly
directed by the mind, then disease can be handled and brought eventually to an end. It is therefore by the imposition
of a higher energy and of a higher rhythm upon the lower forces that disease can be controlled.
Disease is therefore the result in the physical
body of the failure to bring in these
higher energies and rhythms, and
that, in its turn, is dependent upon the point in evolution. EH 94.
Healing = [Spiritual Will and Buddhi] related or
multiplied by [Individual Will Directing Mind] and karmic duration squared.
Degree of imposition of a higher energy = spiritual will/buddi [soul
energy] or sw
Degree of direction = individual mind or dm
Producing Healing and Harmony or h
h=swdmlc2 29/6/07. New Law of Ancient Dominating Good.
Any time energy is generated, the process
can be evaluated from an E=mc2 perspective. For instance, the "Gadget"-style bomb used
in the Trinity test and the bombing of Nagasaki had an explosive yield equivalent
to 21 kt of TNT. About 1 kg of the approximately 6.15 kg of plutonium in each
of these bombs fission into lighter elements totalling almost exactly one
gram less, after cooling (the heat, light and radiation in this case carried
the missing gram of mass). Wikipedia.
JC: It is a now a standard calculation verified by the acknowledgement
of DK of the value in terms of conversion of soul energy [of the atom] into
the energy mass of the form through the equation E
= mc2. Using SI units, E=mc2 is calculated
as follows:
E = (1 kg) × (299,792,458 m/s)2 = 89,875,517,873,681,764
J (˜90 × 1015 Joules) Accordingly, one gram of mass — the mass of a U.S.
dollar bill — is equivalent to the following amounts of energy:
= 89,875,517,873,681.764 J (˜90 terajoules),
precisely by definition = 24,965,421.631 578 267 777… kilowatt-hours
(˜25 GW-hours) = 21,466,398,651,400.058 278 398 777
1090 calories (˜21 Tcal) = 21.466 398 651 400 058 278 398 777
1090 kilotons of TNT-equivalent energy (˜21 kt)
= 85,185,554,537.701 118 960 880 666
4808 BTUs (˜85 billion BTUs) wikipedia.
What is a law, my brother? It is the imposition
(upon both the lesser and the more important) of the will and purpose of that
which is superlatively great. Therefore, it lies beyond man's ken. Man has some
day to learn that all the laws of nature have their higher, spiritual counterparts,
and of these we shall shortly be in search. Our laws today are but secondary
laws. They are the laws of group life and they govern the kingdoms of nature
and find their expression (for the human kingdom) through the medium of the
mind, of the emotional nature, and through a physical plane agent. It is not
my intention in this present short treatise to elucidate the primary laws.
I but state them, and at a future time (dependent upon certain factors yet
undeveloped) I may deal with them.
JC:
A law is the imposing of the will upon the lesser and the more important
by the superlatively great. It is the greater will that is imposed and there
are many higher or primary laws which stand above the lesser laws of nature.
Human laws express through the medium of the mental, emotional nature and
are implemented via a physical plane agent. DK may in some future time deal
with the higher primary laws. However, at this time he does but states them.
In
this treatise, the third part of it is stated to deal with the basic laws
of Healing. These deal not with the Laws referred to above, but with the
practical aspects of the healing art.
The second rule for the healer
is as follows:
Rule two The healer must achieve magnetic purity
through purity of life.
He must attain that dispelling radiance which shows itself in every man when
he has linked the centers in the head.
When this magnetic field is established, the radiation too goes forth. [31]
JC:
Without purity of life there will be no magnetic purity and consequently
no hope for true healing abilities. It is stated in SD that in the Satya
Cycle presumably because of its purity and lack of sin and consequential
lack of bad health the longevity cycle was four hundred years approx then
correspondingly 300, 200, and in our kali yuga/age it is of course 70 to
100 though it can be very much less in extremely unhealthy conditions i.e.
lack of purity and degradation of spirit. Purity allows the free flow of
soul energy, its attraction and radiation being unimpeded by course material
atoms.
The significance of this will
be somewhat apparent to the advanced esoteric student. As you know, the magnetic field is established when the powerful vibration
of the center in front of the pituitary body, and the center around and
above the pineal gland, swing into each other's orbit. The only
controversial point in connection with the above rule (which we shall have
later to consider) is how and in what manner magnetic purity is to be achieved,
and how the two centers in the head can form together one magnetic field.
Later, in our conclusion, which is intended to be intensely practical, I
will touch upon these two points.
JC: We should note the indication of the swinging into
orbit of two magnetic centres in the proximity of the pineal and pituitary
glands. This will form a field of magnetic interplay and transference of
magnetic energy.
One of the things which should
definitely emerge in our studies is the fact that disease is seldom of individual
origin, unless a man misspends his life and definitely misuses his
body (through drink or sexual dissipation), and that the
bulk of the disease to be found in the world today is almost entirely of
group origin, is inherited, is the result of infection, or the result of
undernourishment. The last named cause is primarily an evil of
civilization; it is the result of economic maladjustment or the corruption
of food. As I earlier pointed out, these latter causes of disease are not
primarily the result of inner subtle forces, but are the pouring upwards,
into the etheric body, of energies from the physical plane itself and from
the outer world of forces.
JC: The bulk of all disease is of group origin and far
out weighs the individual disease incurred by self indulgence of some kind.
Most are inherited, of infection [“general, national, racial and planetary”] through epidemics of planetary influence vis the planetary etheric
body and karma which also, through wrong group living, produce poor living
conditions and under nourishment.
It might be stated as a basic
generalization that personal physical trouble has its seat at present in
the emotional body, and that that vehicle of expression is the one predominant
predisposing agent in the ill health of the individual, just
as group ills and the sweep of epidemics of any kind through the masses
are founded in some condition in the etheric substance of the planet. EH
25.
Little attention has been paid
by occult teachers to these forces which come from without, which originate
upon the physical plane, and which affect the inner bodies. There are physical
energy and streams of force entering into the etheric bodies of all forms,
just as the world illusion and the miasmas of the astral plane oft have
their causes in physical plane conditions. The energies entering into the
centers of man from the subtler levels have oft been considered in occult
books, but the forces which find their way into the centers from the
world of physical plane life [32] are seldom realized or discussed. This
is a somewhat new thought which I offer for your consideration.
JC:
We are offered a “new thought” regarding disease. It might profit us to
consider the forces which enter the centres of man from outer physical plane
living. These forces enter as part of the conditioning substance of the
planetary etheric body and we are told that they “sweep through” the human
etheric mechanism. For all these forces and their resulting disease we are
told that we are not responsible. Epidemics of “any kind” that spread through
humanity invade the individual via the vital body and are therefore not
due to a personal condition or point of weakness of the individual but are
due to the planetary etheric substance. However, we know that karma ‘governs
all disease’
I have asked A.A.B. to insert
a very brief synopsis of some of the points I have already made under the
heading, What is Disease? I suggest the following:
1. All disease is disharmony
and lack of alignment and control.
2. Disease is found in all
the four kingdoms in nature.
3. Disease is purificatory
in effect.
4. Definite methods of healing
are peculiar to humanity, and mental in origin.
JC:
1. The acquiring of karmic mass may be due to disharmony,
lack of alignment and control.
2. All four kingdom are subject to planetary karma.
3. The effect of disease clears inharmonious conditions.
karma is accounted for and purification may be attained.
4. Healing is “peculiar” and therefore unique to humanity
and is the product of the directing mind.
* Disease is a fact in nature.
* Antagonism to disease
simply energizes it.
* Disease is not the result
of wrong human thought.
JC: Disease is a fact and must be faced as such. Antagonism
to disease energises it as energy follows thought. Disease in the case of
the human is astral and due to desire of some kind with the undeveloped
using very little thought or true mental activity, although DK implies that
some few are mental in origin. Desire, we might consider to be kamas/manasic
and finds expression through activity lived out under the satisfying of
the desire and the lower mental direction of the developing mind being associated
with the physical brain. Disease is not purely due to wrong thoughts.
So
few of them have a mental origin, in spite of all that Christian Science
or Mental Science may say to the contrary. Perhaps I should say, rather,
that they are not based on wrong human thought, though all evil can be aggravated
and intensified by wrong thought. Many or perhaps most of the [65] complaints
from which average man suffers are based upon astral causes or upon some
clearly defined desire. A formulated desire
is one that finds expression in some form of activity. EH 65.
* Disease is a process of liberation
and the enemy of that which is static. *
The law of cause and effect governs disease as
it governs all else in manifestation.
JC:
Again we find that Karma governs all disease and all else in manifestation.
55 Karma (action) is
of three kinds:
1. Agami: - The bodily actions good and bad - done after the acquisition
of the discriminative knowledge. (Vide Shri Sankaracharya's Tatwa Bodh,
question 34).
2. Sanchita: - The actions formerly done, serving as seeds to grow
the countless births; the store of former actions preserved. Ibid., question
35).
3. Prarabdha: - The actions of this body (i.e. birth) which give pleasure
or pain in this life alone. (Ibid., question 36.)" - The Theosophist,
Vol. VIII, p. 170.
56 Karma. "It must
be remembered that in every action of man the influence of his prior karma
constitutes an important element. For the accomplishment of every action,
says, Shri Krishna, we need five essentials:
1. The actor.
2. The determined
will.
3. Implements for committing the act, such as hands, tongue, etc.
4. The exercise of these implements.
5. The influence of antecedent conduct.
The work which a man
does with his body, speech or mind, whether it be just or unjust, has these
five essentials or factors engaged in the performance. (Gita, XVIII, 13,
14, 15.)
These five essentials
of karma are divided into 2 groups in the Mahabharata:
1. man's present action (including the first four essentials) and,
2. the result of his past action (which forms the fifth essential).
TCF 472.
JC: This shows how the accumulated weight of karma is amounted over
past lives and may not necessarily be `worked out' in a present lifetime.
This is the burden allotted by the karmic scribes amounting to a debt
not easily worked off in a single lifetime as HPB indicates as a rope
of karma.. This amounts to the action of cyclic law, an aspect of the
law of "Affinity" and the law of karma and magnetic attraction
so closely related to the 2nd ray. The intricacies of
karma are complex beyond our computation.
We
found also that healing is brought about in three ways:
1. Through the application of
the methods of the many schools of medicine and surgery, and allied groups.
2. Through the use of
psychology.
3. Through the activity of
the soul.
JC: We have considered many schools of amelioration and
palliative methods along with surgery and general practice in medicine.
General psychology is today young but developing and is rightly used by
the general public but not the disciple. Esoteric psychology concerns the
disciple and initiate. The study and development of this science reflects
humanities growing mental awareness and orientation. It largely concerns
the control of the mind over the emotions in general and is a western equivalent
to raja yoga. The “true” art or method of healing is via the calling in
of soul energy and activity. This we have seen is a very scientific method
of “soul import” and treats the patient as an electrical unit. Diseased
mass within the human system will regain mass and health proportionate to
its reception of the higher soul energy. Soul importation accounts for healing
of the mass of the human electrical unit.
An important reference to the healing of cosmic evil is
here given by DK as we consider that “all disease” in ultimate conclusion
is the result of cosmic evil. In this we are given the exact process and
method of its eradication. To seal the door against cosmic evil it seems,
does not “drive it out” as is apparent when it is so easily let in again
by ignorant humans. This is a fascinating statement. To seal must mean to
seal the door which lets in this evil stream from astral levels into the
physical/etheric plane and world of outer human affairs. Comparatively and
compared to the force sent to drive out evil, mans ability to seal it seems
fragile indeed. We can see this “struggle” demonstrated and overcome perfectly
by “refusal” at the ninth initiation. It is a refusal to make any contact
whatever with it. This gives us a clue as to the struggle for humanity to
seal the door, for only at such a very high initiation is it possible to
make such a resolute refusal. Thus humanity struggles, though as with renunciation,
every refusal or stand against, along the way leads to achievement.
In the ninth Initiation
of Refusal, this heightened spiritual perception is presented to us under
the word "Existence," for existence is a livingness coupled with
awareness which "finds its own place and the spiritual house of its
Being which is the true home of all Beings, but of this - our planetary
forms know naught." This the initiate has
at last learnt to find, after the struggle with evil in himself, after the
struggle with materialism and with evil in the human family, and after his
struggle to aid in the "closing of the door where evil dwells"
and his refusal to make any contact (even with good intention) with cosmic
evil. RI 737. There
is one aspect of initiation which is apt to be overlooked. Every initiation
is a process of energy transmission from a higher center of energy to a
lower; every initiation charges the initiate with electrical force, and
this charging and recharging is related to what H.P.B. calls "the mystery
of electricity." These transmissions of energy enhance the magnetic-attractive
force of the initiate, and at the same time are eliminative in their effects.
In this fact lies a great planetary truth and
the key to the science of planetary redemption. When
the spiritual and the [736] electrical charging of the three major centers
on the planet - Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity - has reached a high
stage of receptive efficiency, a certain cosmic Avatar will "become
conscious of the vibratory quality of the little point of light within the
solar sphere" and will then "turn His gaze and send His force
unto that point of light, and cosmic evil
will be driven out and find no more a place on Earth." RI 736.
PolarisProject Group Study:
Esoteric Healing. Study letter 6.
1. Causes Arising in the Emotional-Desire
Nature
In A
Treatise on White Magic, I gave the world for the first time
information as to the nature and the control of the astral body. This book
is practically the first one ever given out to the public on this theme.
Much has been given in the past on the subject
of the physical body and its care, both by exoteric and esoteric science.
JC: We are given a fascinating account that TWM is in some
regards to be associated with the healing of the astral body as a result
of it being brought under control. It is practically the first ever
to be given and was a ground breaking treatise for soul control. The
Tibetan equates TWM with control and care of the astral body.
Our theme is to be that of the
Magic of the Soul, and the key thought,
underlying all that may appear in this book, is to be found in the words of
the Bhagavad Gita which runs as follows:
"Though I am Unborn, the
Soul that passes not away, though I am the Lord of Beings, yet
as Lord over My nature I become manifest, through the magical power of the
Soul." Gita
IV.6. TWM 5.
JC:
To be lord over ones own nature predisposes the eradication of soul inhibition
and of soul “import” and subsequently a threefold mechanism free from the
restrictions and limitations [lack of control] of disease due to the “magical
power of the soul”. We are reminded that this magical power equates
in one sense as e =
mc2 and is worded by DK as “energetic
import” produces via the etheric mechanism a healing of mass/matter understood
as h=swdmlc2 under
law II of esoteric healing and therefore resulting
in greater soul control and dominating good. He states…
The only true biologists are
initiates of the mysteries, for they have an understanding of life and its
purpose and are so identified with the life principle that they
think and speak in terms of energy and its effects, and all their
activities in connection with the work of the planetary hierarchy are
based on a few fundamental formulas which concern life as it makes itself
felt through its three differentiations or aspects: energy,
force, matter. TWM 29.
3. Initiates. These persons
will arrive at a meaning which will not be apparent to those in the first
group and which will only be suspected by the more advanced members of the
second. Within themselves they know the truth of many of its statements and
will realize the subjective working out of many of the laws. These laws of nature have effects in three distinct realms:
4. Physically, where they demonstrate as effects
in the dense form.
5. Etherically, where they demonstrate as the energy
lying back of those effects.
6. Mentally, where they concern the impulses which
produce the other two. TWM
7.
Much of it is true, and some
of it is illusion. It is illusion because it is based on false premises. Modern
esotericist have dealt with the subject of the etheric body, and this too
has been partially true and partially false, but it is more generally true
from the occult point of view than it is exoterically.
I may surprise you here if I
tell you that A Treatise on White Magic is also true as far as it goes, but
it is necessarily limited, and because of these limitations it is also partially
incorrect. Does the above statement astonish you? Remember, how can it be
entirely true when we consider the limitations of your power to comprehend?
It is impossible for me to convey to you the truth, because there exist neither
the terminology nor an adequate groundwork of knowledge on your part. This
makes my task difficult.
JC:
TWM is limited due to the exceedingly difficult task of conveying the needed
information due to an inadequate grounding of knowledge and comprehension
and again he refers to frustration of this lack of true conveyance of information
as within esoteric healing for it was “completely unknown or veiled in mystical
language” and “unsuitable language”. It is referred to again that in reality
he speaks of “a few fundamental formulas which concern life as it makes
itself felt through its three differentiations or aspects: energy, force,
matter”. It is this with which we are concerned. DK states the magical work
of the soul leads to the transforming of the lower personality energies,
something every one of us will do as aspiring White Magicians.
This teaching on healing is likewise the hardest I have yet undertaken, and this for two
reasons. First (the real nature of) the phrase "subtler bodies" is somewhat meaningless,
is it not? They are not bodies like the physical body. They can be regarded as
centers or reservoirs of particular types of force, attached to each individual, and possessing their proper inlets and outlets.
They are collections of atoms, vibrating
at high speed and colored (according to some schools of occultism) by certain
definite hues; they emit a certain tone, and are at varying points of evolution.
According to others,
they are states of consciousness and some regard them as made in the likeness
of a man. What is your definition, Brother of mine?
[34]
JC:
It is apparent how many differing approaches there are to this treatise
on healing and perhaps all of the Tibetans and AAB’s work, and it is this
which has made it the “hardest yet undertaken”. The atoms of the bodies
physical/etheric and of the other bodies we are told are of “varying points
in evolution” and DK briefly explains this when describing the building
in of newer more evolved atoms into the bodies including the physical and
replacing 6th ray atoms with 7th ray atoms. He states,
the physical sheath and the other sheaths are made up of those atoms responding
both to Piscean forces and those responding to Aquarian forces. The former
are being "occultly withdrawn" as their activity is proportionally
decreased as the Piscean 6th ray force is withdrawn. Correspondingly, atoms
which respond predominantly to Aquarian and 7th ray force are simultaneously
being stimulated with resulting increase in vibratory activity and facility
to more adequately reflect light via the bodies and via the physical sheath.
It will be obvious to the reader that the physical brain and bodily constitution
largely composed of the Piscean 6th ray atoms will not respond to the new
emphasis and occult faculty of direct knowledge due to the atomic rotation
not being adequate to the higher vibrational activity required to transmit
higher mental faculties. The intention, as DK hints, is for the body to
be "composed of atomic sub-plane matter".
The astral body is, for the majority of
mankind, the major determining factor to be considered. It is an outstanding
cause of ill health.
The reason for this is that it has a potent and predisposing effect upon the
vital and etheric body. The physical body is an automaton of whichever inner
body is the strongest. When you remember that the vital body is the recipient
of the streams of energy, and is in fact composed and formed of such streams,
and that the physical body is driven into activity by these streams, it is
apparent that that stream which is the most potent is the one which will control
the action of the physical body upon the physical plane. There are, however,
two streams of energy which must be considered in studying the factors leading
to physical plane actions. I would remind you in this connection that disease
is an activity of the physical plane.
JC: It is understood as a basic truth that the major
determining factor disposing individual man and woman to ill health and
disease manifests in and via the astral body. It is the major focus of consciousness
at this time and conditions and determines the force acting upon the etheric
or vital body. Accepting then, that the emotional vehicle is where most are
focussed we can see that the physical un-principled body then is recipient
to and effected by the seat of the emotional nature and is then disposed to
display as effects such as are the uncontrolled, upset or ill conditioned
energy streams as are played out through the human body.
1. The stream of life itself,
anchored in the heart, which determines the vitality of the man, his capacity
for work, and the term of his existence. 2.
The predominating stream of energy coming from the astral, mental or soul
bodies. These control his expression upon the physical plane.
JC:
We are given two major streams of energy. The first determines the vitality
of the individual, the enduring strength and capacity for physical plane
activity and also the longevity or duration for existence on the lowest
physical plane. It is the stream or anchor point of the soul or the life
thread in the heart. The second predominating stream effects expression
and type of activity via the astral, mental and soul bodies.
With the masses of people throughout
the world, and those whom we call the vast unthinking public, the dominating
factors are the stream of life and the stream of astral or desire energy.
This can be either of a low or medium caliber.
With the thinking public, the
dominating factors are these two streams, plus a steady inflowing and increasing
tide of mental energy.
With the intelligentsia of
the world and the aspirant (those ready for, or already on, the probationary
path) [35] we find the above three streams reaching a point of equilibrium,
and thus producing an integrating or coordinating personality. These number
amongst them also the mystics of the world and the creative workers, who
are conscious of the inspiration and the spiritual contact which indicates
a beginning of the inflow of soul energy.
JC: The masses are conditioned by the life stream and
the emotional inflow of energy which may be of a low or medium calibre.
Another entry, that of the “thinking public” is presented which are also
recipient to a steady and increasing inflow of mental energy. This is today
very prevalent as increasingly “all things are being shouted from the rooftops”
and includes all aspects of social and community awareness and living and
their increasing opinion on events and ideas around them. There is within
this category as yet no equilibrium as only an achieving equilibrium is
being approached by the intelligentsia and aspirants of the world. The world’s
intellectuals are generally more highly educated in society with appreciation
and participation in the arts and philosophies, literature and politics.
The achievement of mental balance and equilibrium of these three streams
of energy produce integration and co-ordination of what might be legitimately
called the personality. Soul inflow determines the inspiration and appreciation
of the higher values in life of the aspiring disciple, which may be artistic,
philosophic or idealistic in nature. The increased mental capacity determines
the process of specialisation of the mind along certain avenues of knowledge
leading eventually to the pursuit of wisdom.
Esoteric Astrology - The Nature
of Esoteric Astrology - Spiritual Effects of the Zodiacal Constellations
It will be apparent to
you (given a little thought) that the Sun, as it veils Neptune, produces a
potent effect upon the personality, symbolized for us here by the astral body,
whilst Uranus (which is also veiled by the Sun) symbolizes the effect of the
soul upon the personality. Hence the activity of the seventh ray, which is
- from one angle - the lowest aspect of the first ray. Hence you have also
the underlying idea of: [301]
JC: DK states that in the fusing of the lower vehicles we
“find the above three streams reaching a point of equilibrium, and thus producing
an integrating or coordinating personality” Correspondingly and astrologically
speaking the integrated personality is symbolised by the outer physical Sun
with the increasingly controlled astral body as a veiled and subjugated Neptune.
The magical work of the soul produces an energetic import as a sustainable
and self achieved goal as the energy of a veiled Uranus symbolising higher
soul energy co-ordinates the lower three fold vehicles into the beginning
of a cohered and functioning personality. Mars, Earth, Pluto and the Moon
represent the lower bodies with the Sun as the resolver in one sense or producing
fusion in what then becomes a fifth cohered and functioning personality body.
Accordingly, to the degree of soul infusion and its relative free flow will
be the state of health of the personality. At this stage there will be much
movement and transference of energies within the bodies or karmic vehicles
and it is this which allow for the entering of disease or d = 3smdlc2.
The
non-sacred planets are only five:
1. Mars 2.
The Earth 3. Pluto
4. The Moon, veiling a hidden
planet.
5. The Sun, veiling a planet.
It
is interesting here to note that the non-sacred planets rule the first,
the fourth, the fifth and the eighth houses in the lesser zodiac. Our Earth
is also a non-sacred planet. You have, therefore, four non-sacred planets,
controlling or ruling a fifth non-sacred planet - a correspondence to the
four aspects of the lower man. You have there, first the physical outer
shell, the etheric or vital body, astral body and the mental body, plus
a fusion with the fifth body, the personality. EA 507.
With the disciples of the world,
we find a group of men and women coming under the control of soul energy,
whilst the other three energies are being increasingly subordinated to this
higher type of control.
It should be borne in mind that
there are two other types of energy with which to reckon, when considering
intelligent man.
1. The energy which is composed
of the fused and blended forces of a coordinated personality. 2.
The energy of the physical plane itself, which is finally identified by the
aspirant or disciple, and becomes so utterly negated that eventually it constitutes
one of the major factors in the release of the centers.
Finally the time comes when the initiate
works simply with three types of energy whilst expressing himself in incarnation: the energy of life itself, the negative energy of the
personality, and the positive energy of the soul.
Thus he is an expression in conscious manifestation of the three aspects of the Trinity. JC:
The initiate is a conscious expression incarnating as: 1.
The energy of life itself. l
2.
The positive energy of the soul +s
-
The negative energy of the personality. –p
Expressed energy of
the working Initiate: I= l+s –pc2
6/7/2007
Certain things should be established as occult
facts in the consciousness of the healer before he is able to work
constructively.
1. First of all, that there is nothing but energy and this energy manifests itself as many differing and varying [36]
energies. Of these many energies, the universe
is composed. Likewise
man's bodies or vehicles of manifestation are without exception constituted
of energy units. These we call atoms, and these atomic units are held together
in body form by the coherent force of more potent energies.
2. The major focal point
of energy to be found in human beings is that of the soul, but its potency
as an agent of cohesion and of integration
is as yet greater than its quality potency. In the earlier stages of human
evolution, it is the coherence aspect that demonstrates. Later as man's
response apparatus, or bodies, becomes more developed, the quality aspect
of the soul begins to demonstrate increasingly.
JC: In reality there is naught but energy manifesting
under the one law, KARMA. This energy manifests as “many and differing
energies”. DK makes this definite distinction of the many varying and
differing degrees and types of energy. This needs to be held in the consciousness
of the occult healer as occult facts before constructive work
can begin. We have a major point raised that in the earlier stages of human
evolution it is the cohesion aspect which dominates whereas later in evolution
it is the quality aspect of the soul which demonstrates. When DK states
there is nothing but energy, he means just that. It may be an aspect of
the laws of cohesion and magnetic control that coheres and integrates the
personality via the soul. It is later that the quality aspect demonstrates
perhaps more under the law of magnetic control
* The Law of Cohesion. 3. Manas is that which produces
Cohesion. TCF 332. 4. The Law of Magnetic Control holds sway paramountly
on the buddhic plane, and in the development of the control of this law lies
hid the control of the personality by the Monad via the egoic body. TCF 569.
3.
Seen from the inner side where time is not, the
human creature demonstrates as an amazing kaleidoscopic mutable phenomenon.
Bodies, so called, or rather aggregates of atomic units, fade out and disappear,
or flash again into manifestation. Streams of colors pass and repass; they
twine or intertwine. Certain areas will then suddenly intensify their brightness
and blaze forth with brilliance; or again they can be seen dying out and the
phenomenon in certain areas will be colorless and apparently non-existent.
But always there is a persistent over-shadowing light, from which a stream
of lights pours down into the phenomenal man; this can be seen attaching itself
in two major localities to the dense inner core of the physical man. These
two points of attachment are to be found in the head and in the heart. There
can also be seen, dimly at first but with increasing brightness, seven other
pale disks of light which are the early evidence of the seven centers. [37]
JC:
Here we are given an exact descriptive picture of the human electrical unit
as viewed on the inner planes outside of space time.
The origins of this 20th century
scientific theory began in the 19th century with fiction writers. Edgar
Allan Poe stated in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka (1848) that "space
and duration are one." This is the first known instance of suggesting
space and time to be different perceptions of one thing. Wikipedia.
JC: Time = period of cyclic outgoing and return in any
given sequence of evolution.
The vitality aspect is shared
by man with the animals and with all created
forms, and his capacity to move freely
in a three dimensional world
is the outstanding achievement of that aspect. TWM 285.
* These centers, which constitute
the quality aspects and the consciousness aspects, and whose function it is
to color the appearance or outer expression of man and use it as a response
apparatus, are (during the evolutionary process) subject to three types of
unfoldment. * That unfoldment
which takes place as a physical plane child grows from an infant to a man.
By the time he is twenty-one, the centers should
normally have reached the same quality of expression as they had attained
when he passed out of life in a previous incarnation. The man then
takes up life where he had previously left it off. *
The awakening of the centers through life experience. Occasionally only one
center may be dealt with in any one life; sometimes several are brought into
greater functioning consciousness. *
There is, finally, the awakening of these centers through the process of initiation.
This of course only happens when the man is consciously upon the Path.
JC:
It takes twenty one years to take up where man left off in a previous incarnation.
3x7=21. During the evolutionary process the centres are subject to three
types of unfoldment, or 7 centres x 3 unfoldments symbolically speaking.
* The
centers determine the man's point of evolution as far as his phenomenal
expression is concerned; they work directly upon the physical body through
the [38] medium of the endocrine system.
This point should be borne in mind, for the future occult healer will approach
his patient with this knowledge.
He will then work through those centers and glands which
govern the particular area of the body wherein the disease or discomfort
is located. The time, however, for this has not yet come, for man's
ignorance is great. Over-stimulation of the centers,
and consequently of the glands, could easily be brought about, and the diseased
condition might be stimulated also and increased, instead of dissipated
or healed. EH 38.
JC: A particular area of disease indicates the centres
and glands with which the trained esoteric healer should work. However DK
gives a stern warning that mans ignorance is great and the time is not yet.
We can see the great caution and self discipline needed to take on board
the words of the Master. How many aspirants and disciples head this? Increasing
of the diseased condition by over stimulation is dangerous and against white
lodge indications. The increasing of disease would be analogous to the ignorance
of a dark brother who might work through ‘reduction and resolvent’ of
the atomic mass/substance of the form.
There are first of all the
nadis and the seven centers of force; then the nervous system in its three
divisions: cerebro-spinal, sympathetic, and peripheral; and then
there is the endocrine system, which might
be regarded as the densest aspect or externalization of the other two.
TWM 496.
The endocrine system and the seven major
glands, in particular, are the effectual externalizations of the seven major
centers. In this stage,
the aspirant is working all around the centers and is dealing with their environing
matter and with the living substance which completely surrounds them.
TWM 588.
Function of the Endocrine System
The typical endocrine organ
is a ductless gland that secretes chemical mediators directly into local
blood vessels which circulate within the body via the bloodstream. These
hormones travel to distant organs to regulate the target organ's function.
This is classical endocrine signalling. Other signalling can target the
same cell (known as Autocrine signalling) or nearby cells (known as Paracrine
signalling). Hormones are also instrumental in regulating mood, growth and
development, tissue function, and metabolism, as well as sending messages
and acting on them. A number of glands which signal each other in sequence
is usually refered to as an axis, for example the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
axis. Upstream elements of the axis (the Hypothalamus in the HPA) produce
releasing hormones or sometimes tropic hormones, which signal to downstream
glands on the axis which, in turn, release their own hormones. Downstream
hormones often down-regulate the action of the upstream glands. This is
known as feedback inhibition. Typical endocrine glands are the pituitary,
thyroid, and adrenal glands. Features of endocrine glands are typically
their ductless nature, their vacularity and usually the presence of intracellular
vacuoles or granules storing their hormones. In contrast exocrine glands
such as salivary glands, sweat glands and glands within the gastrointestinal
tract tend to be much less vascular and have ducts or a hollow lumen. wikipedia.
JC: Here for our correlation are some terms on”psychic
energy” or the electrical energy pertaining to man.
In the average person, the
etheric vehicle is the transmitter of psychic
energy, galvanizing and coordinating the dense physical body
and permitting, therefore, astral and mental control of the personality.
When
the man is upon the Path of Discipleship and, therefore, upon the reversed
wheel, leading to initiation, the etheric body becomes the transmitter of
soul energy and not of personality
forceEA 352.
It remains now to point out
the close connection between the unfoldment
of the petals in the egoic lotuses and the etheric centers in man.
It is through the centers that psychic energy
flows. TCF 587.
These astral centers in their
turn are the transmitters of still higher energy, and thus the statement
is technically true, that the etheric centers are the source of man's psychic energy,
and are therefore affected by the unfoldment of the petals. Every
petal is in its turn a type of force center, and the energy emanating from
it affects the etheric centers, and produces every type of psychic energy of the true kind.
TCF 858.
* The second stage is that in
which the energy of the lower six centers: *
The throat, * The heart,
* The solar plexus,
* The spleen, *
The organs of generation,
* The base of the spine,
are
- in due order according to a man's ray and subray - transferred into the
correspondences within the head center. These seven head centers are the
reflection in the microcosm of those "mansions prepared in the Heavens"
which receive the sevenfold energy of the
monad. These are the chambers prepared by the lower energy which
are to be the recipients of "soul or the higher
psychic energy." TCF 685.
JC:
Here we have a vital reference which indicates the process of transference
of higher psychic or heart [healing] energy from the sevenfold energy of
the monad through the causal body into the seven head centres and the lower
seven fold vital mechanism of the etheric/physical man. The originating
source is the monadic source the sevenfold energy of the seven jewels or
reflections of the seven solar logi.
Supermundane IV, 819.
An understanding of the importance of the heart must develop in the immediate
future. The brain should be studied, and its relationship to all aspects of
the heart’s activity. We do not limit the study of the heart to the point
of view of psychic energy. Science should use many approaches, and then a
broad understanding will be achieved. Indeed,
all brain activity, the entire nervous system, and all secretions of the glands will be studied as channels from the one source, the
heart.
JC: Helena Roerich gives a descriptive of great interest
about psychic energy. Reference is made to this energy as being electrical
energy. It is quite clear that this perfectly correlates with man as an
electrical unit. The electrical heart energy forms the sympathetic nervous
system with the glands and the hormonal chemical electrical fluids or secretions.
The glandular system is then formed and nourished with psychic electrical
energy. This is a basic for understanding the system of the centres and
the nadis as externalisations of the seven major centres and therefore man
as a unit of electrical energy. Through purity and spiritual striving does
man unfold the vortices of electrical psychic energy, the energy of the
seven psychic centers. Protection and immunity to disease may only be acquired
through cultivation of this energy. DK has made very clear that “psychic
energy is the higher energy of the soul and may legitamatly be called heart
energy or “the currents of psychic energy” as Hilarion phrases it.
Letters Of Helena Roerich II, 1937. After expounding the physiology
of anger he describes remarkably well the electrical manifestations in the
organism, which are its life-givers. During anger and other negative emotions,
which not only cause the contraction of the blood vessels but also paralyzes
of the individual nerves, these electric currents (psychic
energy), which flow through them form the sympathetic nervous system,
break, and thus "the electric nourishment" of the glands
producing the internal secretions (on whose normal activity depends the life
of the organism) ceases, and the latter fail to work as is necessary for our
health. In our cellular substance that surrounds the nucleus, there are chromosomes
and so-called chondriosomes. These elements are, according to their properties,
the receptors of various electric
waves, as it were, which come partly from the depths of Cosmic Space and,
of course, they vibrate mainly upon our psychic energy. The whole life of the organism,
according to Lakhovsky, depends upon the vibrations of these chromosomes and chondriosomes, the receivers of the electric waves.
The retardation or cessation of the electric vibrations that go through them
signifies disease and death.
A chromosome is
a single large macromolecule of DNA, and constitutes a physically organized
form of DNA in a cell. It is a very long, continuous piece of DNA (a single
DNA molecule), which contains many genes, regulatory elements and other intervening
nucleotide sequences. A broader definition of "chromosome" also
includes the DNA-bound proteins which serve to package and manage the DNA.
The word chromosome comes from the Greek µa (chroma, color)
and sµa (soma, body). wikipedia.
Letters Of Helena Roerich I, 1 August 1934. Note that
soma is not the ethereal body. Soma
is a subtle secretion of the glands which can create a sort of protective
net for the centers.
Community, 221. If you will search for the nearest correlate of psychic energy, you will find it to be action.
Community, 257. It is clearly evident that people of developed consciousness are
often ill. Headache, ailments of the eyes, teeth, extremities, are referable
to the psychic domains. You heard this long ago. Cancer, tuberculosis, diseases
of liver and spleen, as well as enlargement of the heart—all these result
from an unbalanced state of the psychic centers. Only the application of psychic
energy can shield.
PolarisProject Group Study:
Esoteric Healing. Study letter 7.
Esoteric Healing - Chapter
I - The Psychological Causes of Disease
A. Uncontrolled and Ill-Regulated
Emotion
Given these basic facts, it can be seen
how wrong emotional attitudes and a general unhealthy condition of the astral
body must be potent factors in producing discomfort and disease. This is due to the fact that the vital
or etheric bodies of the masses of humanity are governed primarily and swept
into activity through the action of the astral body. Agitation in that body,
any violent activity under stress of temper, intense worry or prolonged irritation
will pour a stream of astral energy into and through the solar plexus center,
and will galvanize that center into a condition of intense disturbance. This
next affects the stomach, the pancreas, the gall duct and bladder.
Few people (and I might well ask who is exempt at this particular time in
the world's history) are free from indigestion, from undesirable gastric conditions,
or from trouble connected with the gall bladder.
JC:
Humanity today suffer very much from the stomach complaints mentioned and
it is most obvious that the truths with are mentioned hold very much today.
As has been discussed, the masses or general public are very much controlled
forcibly by the body of emotions and today perhaps more than at any time
we see the capacity to be partial to criticism and irritation is prevalent
in society. Needless to say, these bring its physical effects as consequences
of this and modern pharmaceutical and drug companies develop and sell in
huge quantities all manner of medicines for the consumption of the general
public to ease [or often worsen] the varied conditions aroused by over stimulation
of the solar plexus. Average
Humanity then are consciously focused in these areas resulting in manifestation
of some type of disease. For a moment let
us consider the Pancreas which is very prominent in today’s society as the
manufacturer of two types of insulin and is known esoterically as the "mobilization
of energy for physical and mental purposes”. It is given in “the soul and
its mechanism” that there are two types of insulin and I posit that this
is understood in medical science today as Insulin and Amylin, with Glucagon
being a third and important hormone secretion.
The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and
endocrine systems of vertebrates. It is both exocrine (secreting pancreatic
juice containing digestive enzymes) and endocrine (producing several important
hormones, including insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin).
Insulin and Amylin:
Insulin (from Latin insula,
"island", as it is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the
pancreas) is an anabolic polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate
metabolism. Apart from being the primary agent in carbohydrate homeostasis,
it has effects on fat metabolism and it changes the liver's activity in
storing or releasing glucose and in processing blood lipids, and in other
tissues such as fat and muscle. The amount of insulin in circulation has
extremely widespread effects throughout the body.
Amylin, or Islet Amyloid Polypeptide
(IAPP), is a 37-residue peptide hormone secreted by pancreatic ß-cells at
the same time as insulin (in a roughly 100:1 ratio). Amylin functions as
part of the endocrine pancreas and contributes to glycemic control. Although
amylin's complete function may not yet be known, it has been shown to slow
gastric emptying, promote satiety, inhibit secretion of glucagon during
hyperglycemia, and therein reduce the total insulin demand.[1][2] As insulin
lowers blood glucose and glucagon raises blood glucose, amylin supports
the stability of blood glucose levels in effect by slowing the rate that
digested glucose enters the bloodstream. wikipedia.
It has two secretions, both insulin,
one concerned with
the digestive processes
and the other known to be
vital to the metabolism of sugar.
Without sufficient sugar for the cells, no muscle work or nerve work - essentials
in the struggle for existence - are possible." - Berman, Louis, M.D.,
The Glands Regulating Personality, p. 93. SM 47.
The tendency to criticism, to
violent dislikes, and to hatreds based on criticism or a superiority complex,
produces much of the acidity from which the majority of people suffer. I would
like to add in passing that I am here generalizing. So
many people are prone to an inferiority complex [39] in relation to themselves,
but to a superiority complex where their relation to other people is concerned!
Stomachic physical plane effects are closely tied up with the desire
aspect of the physical body, which finds expression in the eating
and drinking of that which is desired, leading subsequently to those attacks
of biliousness to which so many are prone.
JC:
An important point to note is the fact that so often where there is a psychological
inferiority complex this manifests as a superiority complex when projected
onto others. Very interesting also, is that many physical plane effects
or complaints of the stomach are due to the physical plane desire aspect
of the physical body. Note DK does not say desire aspect of the astral body.
The dense form or lunar lord has a life and appetite of its own and is often
demonstrated as the pull or attraction to consumption of food and alcohol.
Possibly then, as it is true that there is a constant battle of weight gain
and dieting or moderation in consumption of many things, the general public
have not only a battle of the emotions and of desire, but also a battle
against the physical elemental where often the control of the emotional
desire is strong or strengthening but the body is weak. A comparative for
this is that insanity can happen within the mental, emotional and also the
physical body, “Insanity may exist in all three bodies, the least harmful
being that of the physical body”. Hence we can see that the dense form has
a potent animation of its own even though it is an automaton in the main.
This strongly relates to the physical addiction a well as the astral addiction
to drugs and so forth. We could say that the automatic responses of the
physical body respond to the initial desire of the emotional and then through
habit and addictive tendencies continues to fulfil its own craving and habitual
desire.
I offer these above illustrations
to demonstrate the effect of the prevalent wrong
attitudes to life and people which today distinguish mankind
and produce the above mentioned conditions.
The ills which are based on
criticism, upon hatred, and upon the capacity to judge each other (usually
unkindly) work through from the throat center to the solar plexus. This interrelation
existing between the centers is one that has never been properly considered.
The centers in the etheric body pass varying kinds of energies amongst themselves,
and a great deal of the energy transmitted from one center to another is
undesirable, flowing from the centers below the diaphragm to those above.
JC: A great deal of the energy amongst the centres being
transmitted to and fro is undesirable and therefore productive of some form
of un-ease or evident disease. Specifically mentioned are the ills produced
from criticism, hatred and un-kind judgement and dislikes of others. These
easily work out from the ajna centre downwards to the solar plexus and hence
materialise in the region of the stomach to produce the well known and considered
complaints of this region to which humanity is plagued. This is a consequence
of wrong attitude to life and people. Also mentioned is the fact
that much of that undesirable energy flowing from the lower centres via
the diaphragm to those higher centres produces a general picture of a chaotic
interchange of energies.
The physical body (etheric and
dense) can be pictured as a house with two telephonic installations - one
bringing in energies from without the house and the other being in the nature
of a house telephone from room to room. The analogy is far more accurate than
appears to the casual thinker. In every modern house, light and water and
gas and telephonic interchange are brought.
* Light, the symbol of the soul;
* water, the symbol of
the emotions; * telephonic
interchange, the symbol of mind with its inter-communication of knowledges;
* and gas,
the symbol of the etheric nature.
It is interesting and saddening to note
that that which at present goes out of the average house is the refuse that
is undesirable - this is the correspondence to that which is [40] selfish
and sad and the demand for the satisfaction of personal needs and desires.
JC:
We have a brilliant illustration here given by DK. Both the etheric and
the dense physical may legitimately be pictured as a house with communications
and services from room to room. Light is the symbol of the soul and today
we have much increased light symbolical of greater soul inflow of humanity
the eventual planetary light bearer. This cannot be denied. Water
is the symbol of the emotional nature of humanity and today we value perhaps
selfishly water as a commodity as well as a life giving necessity. The transiting
into the Age of Aquarius brings this element increasingly to our attention.
The battle of the opposites is fought on the astral plane and the stormy
nature of the planets watery nature is highly prevalent today. Man’s increasing
soul nature produces a stormy astral/emotional nature and man makes his
own climate which I hypothesis is an aspect of his/her battle of the opposites
and discrimination between selfishness and selflessness with all the varying
degrees in between.
It can be seen, therefore, why
I have so emphatically impressed the need of harmlessness upon all of you,
for it is the scientific method, par excellence and esoterically speaking,
of cleaning house and of purifying the centers. Its practice clears the
clogged channels and permits the entrance of the higher energies.
JC: Harmlessness is a scientific method of house cleaning
and of clearing the centres of those many and varying energies which interchange
and circulate within the etheric mechanism. Harmlessness cleanses the harmfulness
or that which is indicated as undesirable. Telephonic interchange, what
better service could DK of given as representative of the minds “inter-communication
of knowledges” which currently today has expanded somewhat with a greater
network of telephone communication including mobile and text messaging. We
have also the internet as predicted by DK. The access to knowledge and communication
is incalculable today compared to time of writing and we must still apply
it to a symbolical representation of the mental nature, from school access
and level to communication and study of the ageless wisdom, the whole spectrum
of mental activity and function is apparent. The spread on the net also of
undesirable use and satisfaction of baser levels is also obvious as a consequence
of the lower selfish satisfactions of humanity. This may be representative
of the refuse DK describes as the selfish use of energy for materialistic
satisfaction and also of the energies working up from the lower sacral levels
to the solar plexus. He states…
“It is interesting and saddening to note that that which at present
goes out of the average house is the refuse that is undesirable - this is
the correspondence to that which is [40] selfish and sad and the demand
for the satisfaction of personal needs and desires”. Humanity
is today rapidly coming to terms with this stupendous statement of the Master
though they may know it not. The refuse produced by human beings is today
at an unprecedented and alarming level compared to fifty or a hundred years
ago even though greater or lesser proportions are recycled and reused. DK
explicitly states that that which goes out of the house as refuse is undesirable
and indicative of demand for “satisfaction of personal needs and desires”
and that it is selfish and sad. No doubt there will always be a small proportion
of waste from a household though it is indicative that the proportionate
levels of waste even then was unnecessary or reflective of how humanity
should be living. This illustrates a great deal. Today humanity is at a
crisis point, this is a good sign and there is hope for right decision.
Man and woman currently consumes energy in vast quantities and this largely
is achieved by the mining and production of coal, oil, gas and their allied
products which are carbon based fossil fuels. There was nothing wrong with
the use and burning of carbon based fuels as this brought about the steam
age which produced initiation or transmutation of the water elemental. Mining
of coal has brought this star of carbon and humanity to the point of identity
of mass self-consciousness with the aid of coal as Hilarion and DK inform
us.
Today however, we are at a zenith point, which is determining whether
we, humanity, shall use energy solely for selfish purposes and feed the
desire of the separated self thus polluting the atmosphere to a greater
extent than had been foreseen, or whether we shall find a way to use
energy more efficiently and cleanly as in some form of nuclear power on
a global scale. Very clearly, as may be seen and heard discussed today throughout
the news media and documentary programmes and science in general, we are
presented with evidence to indicate that we are at such a zenith point.
All this consideration by science and politics is part of the process
ongoing by mankind in the making sacred of this planet, which we are told
it is already so, on the inner planetary planes, though humanity at this
time is at a critical point in choosing the left hand path or the right.
The way of carbon [evil] occultly understood or the way of non-carbonic
power i.e. nuclear and alternative energy [Good] or the product of human
thought when "energy is better understood" and "man will eventually come to the realisation" and so
"concentrate his attention" as
man today certainly has his concentration and attention focused today
on the wise and environmentally sustainable use of a new energy.
Science also recognises this esoteric fire cycle as one of 'Global
Warming' and soundly warns humanity of the impending danger of excessive
use and dependence on "fossil fuels" or Carbon. Thus modern science
resonates and proclaims the ageless wisdom, of the planetary shift
from "none sacred" "carbonic" "evil" to one
of "Sacred" "Nuclear, or clean energy"
"good or holy" this science actually demonstrates in its way and
therefore lays the proposition soundly and firmly at humanities feet, as
we bow before the feet of Sanat Kumara under his Will. This has to do with
the esoteric healing of the planet, for the refuse produced by man now is
clearly substantiated by DK and demonstrated as a “carbon footprint” [refuse]
or the mark man is making on the planet through his over selfish consumption
and fixation on material want, this DK has already clearly dealt with as
“saddening to note”. The amount of individual waste is small compared to all waste produced
by society, personal waste production is small compared to overall waste
volumes of industry in general for example. Humanity should bear in mind that untold hundreds of thousands have
died mining coal and gas, in consideration of all allied petroleum and power
generation industries during the industrial revolution, with accidents,
deaths and disease being common place in extremely high numbers. The
great de forestation taking place and heavy urbanisation should also be
taken into account. This should not be forgotten.
Waste management for non-hazardous residential
and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility
of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial
and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator. Disposed
waste is normally compacted to increase its density and stabilise the new
landform, and covered to prevent attracting vermin (such as mice or rats)
and reduce the amount of wind-blown litter. Many landfills also have a landfill
gas extraction system installed after closure to extract the landfill gas
generated by the decomposing waste materials. Gas is pumped out of the landfill
using perforated pipes and flared off or burnt in a gas engine to generate
electricity. Even flaring the gas is a better environmental outcome than
allowing it to escape to the atmosphere, as this consumes the methane, which
is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Many local authorities,
especially in urban areas, have found it difficult to establish new landfills
due to opposition from owners of adjacent land. Few people want a landfill
in their local neighborhood. As a result, solid waste disposal in these
areas has become more expensive as material must be transported further
away for disposal (or managed by other methods). This fact, as well as growing
concern about the impacts of excessive materials consumption, has given
rise to efforts to minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill in many
areas. Wikipedia.
Such are the wonders of modern physical science; but at what cost of apparatus,
and carbonic acid and coal gas. IU2 606.
The emotional causes of disease
and the mental attitudes which produce physical discomfort are at this particular
time those which are the most prevalent. When they are persisted in over
a long period of time, and are carried over from life to life, they cause
the more violent aspects of the conditions referred to above, and from them
serious and destructive diseases can emerge, necessitating, for instance,
the removal of the gall bladder or those operations incident to the appearance
of chronic gastric ulcers. Other diseases grow from a constant pandering
to the desire nature, though sexual diseases come under another category.
It can be seen from the above how desirable
it is that the true healer should combine in himself, not only a measure
of esoteric knowledge, but - until he is an initiate - something of psychology,
something of the work of a magnetic healer, and also be a trained medical
man or surgeon.
JC: Unless one is an initiated and automatic healer we
can see that the uninitiated healer has a lot to take into consideration.
How many achieve the requirements laid out by DK? Indeed much of the healing
being done or attempted is “worse than useless”! This is quite a hard and
accurate conclusion.
Much of the healing now done is worse than
useless, because the three above mentioned conditions are lacking. Most doctors,
especially those who are called general practitioners, are good psychologists
and they have also a sound knowledge of symptoms and of anatomy and of curative
measures which are usually lacking in the average metaphysical healer. But
they are entirely ignorant of one
great field of knowledge - that concerning the energies which meet
and war within the human frame and of the [41] potencies which
can be set in motion if certain esoteric truths are admitted in place. Until
they work with the etheric body and study the science of the centers, they
can make little further progress. The esoteric healer knows much about the
inner forces and energies and has some understanding of the basic causes of
the exoteric diseases, but his ignorance of man's mechanism is deplorable,
and he fails to realize two things:
JC: Here we have the reference that the average GP is a
“good psychologist” this is usually the case as they are genuinely and naturally
interested in their patients, are intelligent and caring in an outgoing sense
with genuine goodwill and compassion for others who they see as people they
can help. They suffer with, rather than hold themselves aloof from
others. However they are restricted by their lack of knowledge of the true
constitution of man and are indicated as able to make little further progress
although DK seems quietly pleased about their capabilities. On the other hand
he uses the statement regarding the esoteric healer “his ignorance
of man's mechanism is deplorable” this seems to be a sharp assessment
and probably well warranted.
* First, that disease is sometimes
the working out into manifestation of undesirable subjective conditions.
These, when externalized and brought to the surface of the human body, can
then be known, dealt with and eliminated. It is well to remember also that
sometimes this working out and elimination may well bring about the death
of that particular body. But the soul goes on. One
short life counts for very little in the long cycle of the soul,
and it is counted well worthwhile if a period of ill health (even if it
eventuates in death) brings about the clearing away of wrong emotional and
mental conditions.
JC: It seems to be pointed out that many esoteric healers
fail to take into account that the working outwards of disease is desirable
as apposed to the turning it back on itself and directing it into the inner
man/mechanism. When externalised it can be treated and eliminated. Death
is often the result of this externalization and may bring about death of
that incarnating unit. It is apparent that this is no great loss and even
“well worthwhile” due to elimination of wrong emotional and mental conditions
and attitudes that were developed, which obviously cause the disease in
the original place. Modern medicine and nursing would be appalled by this
only because it has generally no conception of the soul as an incarnating
entity manifesting in a long series of lives and being presented with renewed
opportunity and conditions as the diseased body is cast off. We can see
then, that there needs to be a meeting of minds between the esoteric healer
with knowledge of the soul and the etheric body, and modern general practice,
surgery, nursing and anatomical understanding.
* Second, disease is sometimes
incident upon and part of the process of the withdrawal of the soul from its
habitation. This we call death, and it can come quickly and unexpectedly when
the soul withdraws with suddenness from its body. Or death can spread itself
over a long period of time, and the soul may take several months or years
for its slow and gradual emergence from the body, with the body dying by inches
all the time.
JC: Modern nursing care generally speaking seems to have
no conception of the process of withdrawal of the soul from its lower vehicles
and that this may be sudden or protracted over years although it deals with
effects in a splendid manner indeed. There is much time and resources given
to cure for everything when this is not always possible or desirable, often
leaving those around with a sense of frustration and futile hope. The average
esoteric healer has no conception of the purpose of the soul of the patient
and may well attempt cure when it is not possible or intended, this is a
great mistake and indicates the lack of wisdom of the chance healer. The
ignorance of the constitution of man and the fact of the soul is great indeed.
Fortunately palliative and some ameliorative
care is all that may reasonably be provided for the patient in this
case. The understanding of why disease has appeared is enormous in its scope
and we are reminded of the great lack of knowledge and basic understanding
of healers in this matter not enabling them to deal with wisdom in this
matter.
Esoteric Healing - Chapter
I - The Psychological Causes of Disease
There is not
sufficient knowledge yet among healers to enable them to deal with
wisdom in these matters. We might therefore conclude that: [42]
1. Disease is a purificatory
process, carried out in order to produce a purer expression, life aroma,
influence and soul usefulness. When this is the case, a cure is possible.
2. Disease can be a gradual
and slow process of dying and of thus releasing the soul. A cure then will
not be possible, though paliative and ameliorative measures are needed and
should most certainly be used. The length of the life can be prolonged,
but a permanent and final cure is out of the question. This the average
mental healer fails to realize. They make a horror out of death, whereas
death is a beneficent friend.
3. Disease can be the sudden
and final call to the body to relinquish the soul and set it free for other
service.
JC: Only when disease has manifested to in effect
purify and eliminate wrong inner conditions for the express purpose of rendering
a purer expression, life aroma and soul usefulness can cure be possible.
This is an enormous statement indicating the great wisdom of the soul in
question. Who can know of this other than the Soul, or a Master? Cure is
out of the question, which in itself calls into question the search for
final cures for everything, and for everyone in today’s society where horror
of death is great and prolonging of life at almost all costs is apparent.
However today as in the 1950’s everything possible should be done from the
standpoint of medical science and allied branches as DK points out. Palliative
and ameliorative treatment is again, most reasonable though sometimes we
see patients today choosing to refuse drastic treatments other than enough
to allow for reasonable comfort and so allowing the natural process to take
its course. This may be the result of inner reconciliation and soul understanding.
In all these cases everything possible
should be done from the standpoint of modern medical and surgical science
and the allied sciences of which there are today so many. Much too can be
done from the angle of mental and spiritual healing, aided by the science
of psychology. Some day there must come cooperation in these various fields
and a synthesizing of their efforts.
…In the case of the highly evolved
man, of the initiate or the Master, the astral body is steadily oriented towards
the soul. In the mystic, the aspirant and the disciple, the process of thus
definitely changing the direction of the forces is going on and producing,
therefore, a temporary chaos. 4.
The astral body of man, being the latest to develop (the physical and the
etheric being the first two in order of time) is still the most alive and
potent. It reached its acme of development in late Atlantean days and its
potency is still great, constituting the mass potency, the mass emphasis,
and the mass polarization. This is also augmented by energies coming from
the animal kingdom, which is entirely astral in its point of attainment.
JC:
The astral body reached its zenith of development in Atlantean times although
today it is still the prime motivating factor in man’s state of sensory
perception. Average man receives and communicates so much information through
this vehicle that he is primarily a sensual and emotional being and therefore
very conscious on the astral plane which is the plane of illusion and glamour.
It is the vibrational frequency of mass emphasis and closely relates to
the animal brain, the herd instinct and therefore the animal kingdom en
mass via devotion and attachment. The 6th ray is associated with
this plane of consciousness and began to pass out of manifestation with
increasing rapidity from1625 A.D. however it always governs the idealism
and spiritual devotion of the aspirant and the probationary disciple. We
should note that this ray is still prevalent today with the waning Piscean
age and obviously effects with potency the disciple and the astral forces
with which the disciple battles. We have an un-healthy astral body surrounding
our planet, a thick fog of evil desire created by humanity and by us all
over the aeons which adds to the pollution of the astral atmosphere, manifesting
in the outer appearance and atmosphere of the world in which we live and
breath today.
I would remind you here that the use of
the word "body" is most misleading and unfortunate. It produces in the consciousness the idea
of a defined form and a specific shape. The astral body is an aggregate of
forces, working through into the consciousness in the form of desires, impulses,
longings, wishes, determinations, incentives, and projections, thus laying
the basis for much of the truth of the teachings of modern psychology.
Psychologists have discovered (or rather uncovered) the nature of some of
these forces, and their terminology in this connection is frequently more
truly occult and accurate than is that of [44] the orthodox esotericist and
theosophist. EH 44.
JC:
DK makes the observation that the term “body” relating to the astral consciousness
is unfortunate and misleading. Perhaps an accumulation of astral atoms relating
to a varying though specific spectrum of vibration is more appropriate.
All is energy or force and it is within these astral units of matter that
are accumulated much of the astral thought forms, psychosis and so called
sub conscious suppressions and distortions that are held ready to erupt
or perhaps lay dormant as the psych and karma determines. Modern psychology
recognises and works very much with the body of the emotions as a pre determining
factor in the motivation and condition of the patient and was pioneered
very much by C. Jung who related religion/spirituality, dreams, mythology,
psychology and sex as major conditioning factors forming the “collective
unconscious”. This will relate well with the emotional condition being of
the mass or collective potency and polarisation. In one sense, the collective
astral unconscious of humanity is the planetary dweller on the threshold.
Jung was a pioneer regarding this.
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961,
Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical
psychology.
Jung's unique and broadly
influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche
through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and
philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician
for most of his life, much of his life's work was spent exploring other
realms, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology,
as well as literature and the arts. His most notable contributions include
his concept of the psychological archetype, the collective unconscious,
and his theory of synchronicity. Jung emphasized the importance of balance
and harmony. He cautioned that modern humans rely too heavily on science
and logic and would benefit from integrating spirituality and appreciation
of the unconscious realm. It is for this reason that Jungian ideas are not
typically included in curriculum of most major universities' psychology
departments.
Collective unconscious is a
term of analytical psychology originally coined by Carl Jung. While Freud
did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective
psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the
personal unconscious particular to each human being. The collective unconscious
is also known as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species."
Wikipedia.
The objective of all training
given to the disciple is to shift his conscious awareness from the point
where he is to levels which are higher than those in the three
worlds of definitely human evolution; the intention is to teach him
to function on those planes of conscious contact
which are as yet so subjective that he only accepts them as existent in
theory. The trained initiate knows that they have to become his
natural habitat, and that eventually he has to relegate the ordinary
and normal human experience to the three worlds of daily expression.
These become eventually the worlds that exist
below the threshold of consciousness. RI 138.
The average
psychologist employs the method (when dealing with nervous cases,
with those on the borderland, and with neurotically inclined people) of
discovering the deep seated complexes, the scars, the ancient shocks or
the fears which lie behind the experience of the present and which have
made the man what he is today. EH 118.
The spiritual
technique, however, is entirely different.
The personality problem and the process of delving into the subconscious
are ignored, because the conditions which are undesirable are
regarded as the result of lack of soul contact and of soul control. The
patient (if I might so call him) is taught to take his eyes, and consequently
his attention, away from himself, his feelings,
his complexes and his fixed ideas and undesirable thoughts, and to focus
them upon the soul, the
divine Reality within the form, and the Christ consciousness. EH 119.