Psychic
Healing
CHAPTER XIX. SPIRITUAL
HEALING.
This
is
the
highest
form
of
healing,
and is much rarer and less common than is
generally believed to be the case.
Many healers doing very
good work along the lines of Mental Healing,
believe, and teach, that their work is done along Spiritual lines. But in
this they are mistaken. True Spiritual Healing
is not "done" by anyone. In such
cases the healer becomes an
instrument or channel through which flows the
Spiritual Healing Force of the
Universe.
The Force of the Universe,
which passes through the Healer into the
Spiritual Mind of the patient, and there sets
up vibrations
of such intensity and strength that it
invigorates the lower Mental Principles, and
finally the
organs and parts
themselves, restoring them to normal
condition. Spiritual cures' are often
practically
instantaneous, although it
does not necessarily follow that they must
always be so.
The Spiritual Healer
allowing the Spiritual Healing Force to flow
through him to the patient, causes the latter
to be literally "bathed in
a flow of Spirit," as we have heard it
expressed.
In order to understand this
form of treatment, intelligently, the reader
must acquaint himself with the Yogi
teachings regarding the
several Mental Principles, which teaching he
will find in the "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi
Philosophy," published by
the same publishers as this book. We do not
care to repeat here what we have said on this subject, although it may
be well to say a few words regarding the
Spiritual Mind, that this form of
treatment may be better
understood.
The Spiritual Mind of man
is that principle of mind that is above and
higher than the two lower mental
principles known as
Instinctive Mind and Intellect, respectively.
Spiritual Mind is above the plane of
Intellect,
just as the Instinctive
Mind is below the plane of Intellect. The
Spiritual Mind has not as yet developed or
unfolded into consciousness
in the average man, although some of the more
advanced of the race - those who have gone ahead of their brothers on
The Path - have unfolded the Spiritual Mind
into consciousness, or, rather, have moved the centre of
consciousness into the region of the Spiritual
Mind. This higher Mental Principle is what we
try
to express when we say the "Something Within"
that seems to exert a protecting influence
over us, and which sends us words of caution or
advice in moments of need.
All that the race has
received in the way of noble, elevating,
higher thoughts have come from this region of
the
mind. The Spiritual Mind
projects fragments of truth into the lower
Mental Principals. All that has come to the
race, in its evolution,
that has tended toward nobility, true
religious feeling, kindness, humanity,
justice,
unselfish love, mercy,
sympathy, etc., has come to it through the
slowly unfolding Spiritual Mind. As the
unfoldment goes on, man's
idea of Justice increases, and he has more
compassion. His feeling of Human
Brotherhood increases. his
idea of love grows, and he increases in all
the qualities which men of all creeds
pronounce "good."
The Spiritual Mind is the
source of the "inspiration" which certain
poets, painters, sculptors, writers,
preachers, orators, and
others have received in all times, and which
they receive to-day. This is the source from
which the seer obtains his
vision, the prophet his foresight. Many have
concentrated themselves upon high ideals in their work, and have
received more knowledge from this source,
which they have attributed to beings from another world from angels, from
spirits, from God himself but all came from
within. It was their Higher Self speaking to them. This does not
mean that man never receives communications
from the other sources just named far from this, for we know that
the latter is often evidenced and experienced.
But we do mean that man receives far more messages from the
Higher Self than he does from the other
sources, and that man is prone to mistake the
one
for the other. We cannot discuss this matter
at length, in this place, for it is foreign to
the subject whichwe are handling at the present
time.
Man, by the development of
his Spiritual consciousness, may bring himself
into a high relationship and contact
with this higher part of
his nature, and may thus become possessed of
knowledge beyond the power of the Intellect to furnish. Certain high
powers are also open to a man in this way, but
he must beware against using them for anypurpose other than the good of
his fellow-men, for such prostitution of
spiritual powers brings a terrible result in its train. Such is the Law.
And, while it is true that
the fullest degree of Spiritual Healing is not
open to the average person, still it
is likewise true that the
healer who is possessed of a degree of
Spiritual TinI /I f oldment may avail himself
of
a certain degree of
Spiritual power in treating his fellow-men.
In fact, the best healers,
consciously or unconsciously, make use of this
force in this way.
And they are right in so
doing it is a proper use of the power.
Spiritual Healing may be used in connection
with
the other forms of healing
described and explained in this book, to good
advantage, and without interfering with
the other treatments. In
fact, all conscienscious healers should
endeavor to give the patients the benefit of
this form of treatment in
connection with the regular treatments. The
Spiritual always working for Good, cannot
be mis-applied or
prostituted in cases of relief to suffering
humanity, so the healer need never fear that
in so
acting he is dragging down
the Spiritual to the material level. For the
Spiritual permeates everything, and if it
may be used to "bring up"
those on a lower plane, it is well used.
In the next chapter we
shall endeavor to give the student a few
explanations and some information regarding
the practice
of Spiritual Healing, although, as will
readily be seen, it is almost impossible to
tell one how to do
something, that consists in
letting rather than doing. And we must ask the
student to approach this part of the
subject with a feeling of
sufficient respect, for in Spiritual Healing,
one is calling into operation Forces and
Power of an entirely
different order from those with which man is
acquainted in this everyday life. The
Spiritual
Healer is allowing himself
to be used as a channel for the transmission
of that force from the great Ocean of
Spirit to the Spiritual
Mind of the patient, and he should endeavor to
make himself a worthy instrument of that
Power and Spirit.
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