The age-old, universal misconception that disease is of the body, or only of the body, and that restoration of the physical self only needs consideration, is gradually giving way to a new and enlightened understanding: one that once accepted, will help to eliminate mortal man's greatest enemy. Throughout the ages a certain few have had a correct understanding of the cause underlying the mental, physical weaknesses commonly known as disease. The cause and HOW to remove it, was taught in the Arcane Science in the Temples of Egypt.

The Nazarene had a clear conception of it and demonstrated it on many occasions. This knowledge on his part was clearly illustrated in two of his many utterances. In the first:

"...Go thy way and sin no more."

He clearly pointed out that sin, i.e., disobedience to, or defiance of both Natural and Divine Law was the cause of disease. If this sinning or disobedience is discontinued, the health will be restored. This conception is a clear indication that the body which becomes weak, sickly, racked with dis-ease, is the repository, as it were, of that which did not have its beginning in the body, but in the moral, Spiritual nature of the sufferer. This beginning is in the mind, the thoughts of man, in the feelings which have their beginning in the emotional nature. It is the mind and heart (feelings) that are sick.

This "sickness" is reflected in and by the body. Hence, if the sinning, the wrong thinking and feelings are changed into thoughts and feelings of a constructive nature, the cause, SINNING, will be eliminated as well as the reflection of these evils, and the body be made whole; therefore, "Go thy way and sin no more [think no more evil]."

In the second instance the same idea is conveyed in a deeper, more Arcane sense; seldom understood, therefor Occult:

"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things else will be added unto you." -Matthew 13:11.

That which is called dis-ease has, since the beginning of man, been known as Un-ease. Inharmony, turmoil; and, in Biblical language, "hell."

On the contrary, heaven, Arcanely or Occultly understood, is peace. There cannot be a state of heaven or peace, therefore EASE, in the human being: mentally, emotionally and physically, so long as the mind is torn by destructive thoughts, such as hate, jealousy, malice, avarice and what not. These are UNease thoughts; they are felt. They REFLECT themselves upon the physical man and the result is UNease, INharmony, DISease.

If the Nazarene's commands are followed, then all that is destructive to any department of man's nature, hence the cause of CONSCIENCE ACCUSATION, will be eliminated. This harmony, or the vibratory forces resulting from this harmony, will be impressed upon the emotional, physical man, and inharmony, hence DISease, will be eliminated. This done, peace, harmony, will-being, HEAVEN, will be established. it will be true that he who seeks heaven and by his EFFORTS establishes peace as a result of FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE will receive ALL OTHER THINGS, these ALL OTHER THINGS including well-being and health.

Medical science has, throughout the centuries, been almost entirely in conflict with this idea. Its system of eradication disease has been based on materialism, but medical science is gradually accepting this age-old concept and proving, by experience, that the Nazarene and the sincere "charlatans" (healers) of the ages knew what they were talking about. On the contrary, there has been a school of thought bitterly opposed to the medical theory, while also refusing to accept the Arcane or Spiritual concept.

Their theory was far more erroneous than the medical theory, believing as they did, that faith alone would free man from his weaknesses and ailments, without the necessity of changing the mental attitude and freeing the mind of its destructive thoughts and bringing the emotions under control.

They did not teach, and do not teach, that it is necessary for man to seek the kingdom of heaven (ease, peace) in order to free himself from the results or penalty of sinning or infringements upon natural Laws; their basic idea is, that man can go right on "sinning," and despite the evils that fill the heart and mind, be free form disease.

The Science of the Soul and the Arcane teach that unfairness and unjustice are sins as grievous as are hate, malice, avarice and other evils. It is essential to be fair and impartial in all judgments. Those who do not believe in the efficacy of medicine in the prevention and eradication of disease, should at least be fair- minded enough to admit that the men of medicine devoted time in education and training, irrespective of what they may think of the system of treatment itself.

ABOVE ALL, THEY SHOULD BE READY AND WILLING TO DEVOTE THE NECESSARY TIME AND ENERGY TO MASTER BOTH NATURAL AND DIVINE LAW, PERMITTING THEM, IN TURN, TO TEACH SUFFERING HUMANITY THE MEANS OF FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE CAUSES OF THEIR SUFFERING, ENABLING THEM TO "GO THEIR WAY AND SIN NO MORE," THUS ESTABLISHING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (peace and health) WITHIN THEMSELVES. The Arcane throughout the ages has always been active in teaching these truths although there were few indeed who would give them "ear."

It is essential that those who are sincere and honest in seeking to become healers must, first of all, gain a thorough knowledge of the Laws of Nature governing man's triplicate being. This includes a knowledge of the primary reason for man's entrance into this world. They must become acquainted with the powers of the mind; its action and influence both within and without its immediate environment. They must also know the truth about the Spiritual self, its Divine origin and possibilities, and the interplay one upon the other of those various departments of man's being.

Dis-ease may result from disturbance in any one of the departments of man's fourfold nature, or to a combination of inharmony in several or all of them. Unless the healer has a thorough knowledge of all departments and the requirements of each, he cannot fulfill his mission and is in no sense prepared to relieve the sufferings of those who have faith in him while he betrays both God and his fellow man.

A primary essential of the healer, other than a knowledge of Natural and Divine Law and how to apply these Laws, is that he be able to help the sufferer free his mind and heart, his feelings and emotions, from those destructive passions that have disturbed the harmonies of his being and brought on a state of UNease.

He must himself observe these Laws and free his mind his heart and his desires of such passions as give rise to inharmony, therefore to dis-ease carrying vibrations.

These negative vibrations must be replaced by exalting or "raising up" vibrations of real DESIRE TO HELP, the feelings of kindliness, generosity, graciousness, affection and others of like nature so that these positive vibrations may be transferred to or into the person in need of help. Success in doing this will bring about an interplay of his own constructive and "raising up" vibratory forces with those he has aroused in the sufferer, so that the weakness, dis-ease or dis-order can be eliminated.

The whole-hearted Spiritually conscious healer who is well versed in both Natural and Divine Law, must possess the power to first awaken dormant forces in the ill, and then transfer his own health and uplifting vibrations to the patient. He thus arouses the sufferer's faith and may perform seeming miracles, especially if he succeeds in changing the sufferer's concept from that of weakness and illness to that of health and well-being. The absolute law is not only based on the teachings of the Initiate Priest of olden times, but also on the Soul Conscious Initiates of the present day. The Nazarene gave voice to this Law when he said to the sufferer whom he had healed:

"Thy faith hath made thee whole." -Luke 17:19

He had succeeded in changing the entire mental attitude of the sufferer; a complete reversion of concept and, in doing so, had given life to a faith before unknown. This is known as conversion: in common parlance, a "turn-about face," and can be as complete as in instances where, under great misfortune, an individual suffering the tortures of a living hell...unexpectedly receives fortunate news and almost instantly he is freed from the emotional stress and his "hell" is changed into a "seventh heaven" of peace.

It would be a display of utter ignorance and bigotry to deny that there have been, may yet be, those who, though themselves almost utterly immoral, are nevertheless great healers. They accomplish their success by a combination of great faith in themselves; being governed by a complete superiority complex; great vital virile power; a high degree of animal magnetic force, and the ability to arouse great faith in the sufferer.

Such healers raise intense vibratory forces strong enough to burn out the disease much as the true healer accomplishes this by means of the Ineffable Fire he has developed and stored within himself by his thought, his desires and his way of life.

Suggestions, by means of word and action, are a great part of the armamentarium of the healer. If used without a thorough knowledge of the cause of the ailment, the secret mental state of the sufferer, the possible consciousness of the guilty conscience, and mode of daily life, it is comparable to taking medicine at random; a hit-or-miss procedure nearly always doing more harm than good.

Suggestion, the power of the spoken word, is a legitimate and necessary part in the effort to heal; but its application must be fully understood. Cheerful, kindly suggestions in general are always constructive and effective. The skilled healer is capable of using suggestions much as the physician does his medicine. A study of the procedure followed by the Nazarene quickly proves this.

The mind of man corresponds to the creative power of the Divinity. The proper direction of the mental forces creates power to arouse the Divine Spark inherent in man and continue its development into Consciousness. The mind has within its grasp the direction which transmutes all human activity into Divine activity; the physical into the Spiritual.

The mind is the sustainer, the equilibrator of all forces. It is the reasoner and the director. Biblically speaking, "in Him [mind] we live and move and have our being." Once awakened to its possibilities and capabilities, it is the John the Baptist in the "wilderness," man's own "wilderness" or uncontrolled self, which comes to repentance, i.e., gains control of itself. This "wilderness" is man's mind in reverse, in its degrading, destructive activities. This mind at fault, must be called to halt by the healer, and REdirected into the avenues of naturalness in the body and Spirituality of the Soul.

Dis-ease, the cause of disease, is a gradual centralization and accumulation of the poisons created by the destructive passions of feeling manifested as hatred, anger, avariciousness enviousness, discontent, jealousy and the many others of like nature. These emotions lower the vibrations; depress the natural vital, virile, normalizing (healing) forces; while the sufferer nearly always evades or ignores all hygienic laws and the proper foods (fuel) for body functioning and building.

When the mind is activated by currents or vibrations resulting from thoughts and desires of illegitimate sensual pleasures, selfishness and the gross, carnal, material life, the vibrations diffused throughout the physical self become an aura of dark destructive type, like the green color created by a fit of anger of malicious thought.

This slows up or depresses all of the activating vital forces in the body and is capable, in an instant of time, of destroying tissues; disorganizing the functions of various organ, and laying the groundwork for disease.

The true healer recognizes all this and has full knowledge of the ways and means to "short-circuit" the destructive forces; lift up the vibratory forces to the creative level and start a balancing process to the economy of the ill.

If a man refuses to lift himself above gross, selfish thoughts and desires, if he is content to remain in a purely animal plane of existence, his entire character will be accurately and acutely reflected by his physical being, even in his features; the look in his eyes, every movement of his body.

The true (AEth) healer will not rest until he has discovered the basic reason for a man's ill-ease or disease, and not be misled by the symptoms or manifestations of disease. He will proceed to instruct the victim in the correction of causes and give the help needed to recover, i.e., balance himself.

The treatment of the ill, whether by material (medical) means or by a healer's method, by prayer, affirmations, laying on of hands, or the arousing of faith by one method or another, without seeking, finding and removing the cause, may and frequently does, bring relief, even apparently miraculous cures. Yet, as this results in no change in the methods of life, no real, permanent raising of the vibratory forces; THE CONDITION WILL BE THROWN INWARD, WILL BE "BOTTLED UP."

That which afflicted the body will be impressed upon the real self, the Spiritual being, and it will be only a matter or time until the once physically manifested disease will return with tenfold virulency. This was fully recognized by the Master Healer, the Nazarene, as indicated by his command:

"Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee." _John 5:14

In other words, see to it that the thoughts, desires and acts which cause the disease in the first place will not again be part of you to bring about the same, or much worse condition.

The true healer is a corrector of errors. In the features, the form, the carriage of the body, the color and expression of the eyes (mirror of the Soul or inner Spiritual man), he is able to see the inner manifestation. He is able to discover the deepest hidden cause of the suffering, separate the sensual from the pure; the weak from the strong; the positive from the negative and inert; the well nourished from the starved.

This almost instant recognition of cause and effect, is an most important factor in arriving at causes and determines the procedure to establish normalcy, harmony and balance or equilibrium -a state of vibrant (high degree of vibration, constantly active) health. The term "vibrant" is a derivative of a "state" or "high degree" of vibrations.

It is essentially a must, for the healer to fully comprehend the underlying principles that are the cause of both health and disease. It is necessary to thoroughly understand that everything in the life of man has its birth in the mind. All visible manifestations are the reflection of this mental activity. Everything man seeks to accomplish must be brought about by the activity of some forces, and the nullifying or reversion of others.

If man is honest in heart and seeks to be successful, he must possess far more than intellectual comprehension of the principles involved. He must come in possession of the proper Wisdom; must learn what methods to pursue in each instance.

This wisdom he must have gained in previous experiences, having in the past successfully passed through a stage of development which opened up a generally unknown Spiritual understanding, ultimately attaining Soul Consciousness.

When any certain part of the body becomes diseased or UNharmonized, in rebellion against natural functioning laws, it is an indication that there is resistance and antagonism centered at that location. There are numerous causes for this, all of which must be known and recognized.

Sometimes this congestion -a stagnation - is due to a vibration so lowered that proper bodily functioning is impossible, having its beginning in the mind by gloomy, pessimistic, depressing thoughts; or by the "burning up" with sensual, malicious, hateful thoughts which often dominate the mind. Either of these mental conditions may be the cause of cancer, tumors, heart disease, etc.

Or again, these negative vibrations may be diffusive in their nature, destroying nerve and brain tissue, the cells of the body, causing various types of neurosis. In the opposite direction, negative vibrations indirectly caused by the mind as a result of ignorance rather than viciousness, often bring about weaknesses, ending in disease.

Improper food can bring about a great lack of the elements essential to the proper functioning of the physical organism, thus reducing the vitality, or vibratory forces much in the same manner do morbid, gloomy, depressive thoughts and feelings.

In modern life and under present conditions, selfishness is continually becoming more pronounced. It will frequently be found that where the body is racked by some dreadful disease, the cause may be traced directly to a mental activity of a destructive nature. It therefore cannot be too frequently repeated that the passions such as hate, envy, malice, jealousy, anger and resentment not only create a vibration, but also a poison. These poisons are distributed by the blood stream throughout the system, and are potent enough to instantaneously bring about violent revulsions in the organism; such revulsions or upheavals we have named DIS-ease.

A violent fit of anger, as is well known, instantly manufactures a greenish poison. This is thrown into the blood stream and causes jaundice, frequently severe enough to require months for its eradication. At the same instant that this poison is created, the rate of vibration is dangerously lowered and, as a result, congestion of the organism follows.

In this single instance, the violent emotion of anger is causative of a poison, a dangerous lowering of the vibratory (life, vital) forces, and congestion - each one of which can, in itself, prove fatal, or be the beginning of a lingering disease.

Happy, hopeful, natural, compassionate and affectionate thoughts quickly reverse destructive tendencies. By raising the vibrations, they charge every cell in the body with vital force and greater life.

If the healer finds that a disease has been the result of abnormal thought tendencies, he must arouse the sufferer to a full consciousness of the grievous sin he is committing by his mode of thinking, and help him to direct his thoughts and desires along lines of constructive activity.

The moment he succeeds in halting the mental mechanism in its destructive activity, the progress of the disease will be checked and at that moment also will begin the curative or restorative process. The rapidity of this healing process will depend entirely on how complete will be this reversion, or conversion from death-dealing to life-giving thoughts and feelings. If instantaneous, than a "miracle" has been wrought, wholly within the operating Law of cause and effect.

The healer must be versatile; his knowledge complete. The method he must pursue is seldom the same. A word, a look, a touch, an act - all this was recognized by the Nazarene and at the same time he followed a combination of methods as in the case of the blind man when he placed mud to his eyes - knowing that the blind man must have some material thing to give him faith - and then commanded him go wash in the pool.

The healer, to be highly successful, must be competent to quickly analyze causative conditioning and, in doing this recognize the operation of both natural and Divine Law. His knowledge and experience must be sufficiently inclusive to recognize that the worst attacks of indigestion or dyspepsia are frequently caused by worry, fear, hate, greed, etc., as certainly as the mental disturbances and perversions, moral irresponsibility and the various forms of neurosis, even insanity, may be due to the continued consumption of devitalized food, or the inharmonious combination of foods good in themselves.

Jealousy and anger are nerve-wreckers, as surely as are too much starchy and protein-lacking foods. Envy and uncontrolled tempers may cause men and women to become naggers, bitter toward life, unjust in their judgment or may be the underlying cause of constipation and biliousness, timidity and shrinking from long continued improper diet.

Fear is a destroyer of vitality, virility, even potency, and may reduce the most efficient mind to one filled with unnamed and non- existing terrors.

To successfully treat such sufferers, the healer, like the physician, must remove the causes while applying the remedy. If fear is the basic cause, and fear is nearly always present in some form or another, then it must be eliminated by the substitution of faith, hope, and above all, kindly feeling. If the difficulty is due in part to a faulty diet, this must be rectified by the selection of indicated foods.

Throughout the treatments, strong suggestions in the form of instructions must be given and nothing permitted to adversely influence the mind of the sufferer. The healer must command health, strength, harmony and well being for the sufferer in a positive manner, leaving no doubt in the mind of the patient that his health will be restored.

Gently, but in a firm manner, the soundness of the treatment must be impressed upon the patient's mind, so that he will be restored to health and strength by the elimination of weakness and inability.

The patient's ambitions, his fighting abilities must be aroused and he must be gently but firmly led to the recognition of both Natural and Divine Law, and the certainty that WITHIN him reside the powers and forces potent to help free him from weakness and failure, illness and slavery of one form or another and restore him to vibrant strength, virility, and the capability to become whatever he desires or can believe possible for himself.

The healer must be constantly conscious of the fact that positive affirmations are of value. Negative assertions are weakening and destructive. He must affirm the eradication of trouble, whatever it may be, and the substitution of health, strength and the peace that is happiness.

He must illustrate how the vibrations created by faith, hope, kindly feeling and all of the other Godly feelings become so strong as to burn out all weaknesses. How Nature's forces, in combination with Spiritual powers, are potent to establish normalcy and harmony in every department of the physical being, forcing out, or eliminating all that is undesirable.

The healer must instill in the sufferer's mind, by frequent suggestions, the power exercised by good-will, kindliness, generosity and good feelings toward others and by raising the vitalizing, health-giving vibrations. He must at the same time Will or Decree that vibrations from himself created for the purpose of healing be transferred or transfused into the patient to mingle with, and strengthen, the vibrations created by the patient.

In whatever channel the healer directs his thoughts, a vibratory force supplementing the thought will be created and will remain active until it is broken up or superseded by a thought of a different nature. Not only while giving treatments must the healer guard his thoughts; he must also be constant in creating, accumulating and husbanding the forces that are born as a result of healthful, kindly, hopeful, generous, cheerful thoughts and noble desire.

The highest and most effective type of healing is that of those who have made effort, and succeeded, in attaining to Soul Consciousness. While on the Path and during the process, they have developed the "Light that is neither on land nor sea," the Ætheric Fires capable of consuming all dross - all that is evil, weakening, undesirable - and then have become able to transfer these Æth forces to the sufferer.

Such a healer must refuse to recognize, for the moment, the existence of anything that is not good, lest it interfere with the transference of his own forces into the patient to the elimination of the undesirable. He must remain calm, certain positive, firm in the faith born in the knowledge obtained during the conversion of his carnal self into the understanding of the Christic power, brought into existence by the awakening of the Christos within himself.

Before proceeding with this higher form of healing, the transference of the Æth forces or Fires, the patient should be carefully instructed how to become and remain receptive while the healer is sending forth, or transferring the corrective, curative Æth Fires.

If the patient is of little faith to begin with, or the case is stubborn in yielding, there is no reason for discouragement, provided THE PATIENT SINCERELY DESIRES TO BE RESTORED TO HEALTH AND IS WILLING TO COOPERATE.

If the Laws involved are obeyed and the system not too completely disorganized, and if it is not contrary to the edicts of the Divine Law, then these Æth Fires will gradually ignite, as it were, the undesirable, the weakening, disease-creating elements, and burn them up, replacing the diseased, consumed or dead cells with healthy cells much as a basic strong fire will gradually ignite wet wood and consume it.

The Æth healer must be able to draw from within his own Soul Consciousness the Æth Fires and transfer them into the starving organism of the ill. These Æth Fires are the Altar Fires in the temple, that temple of which the Lord said:

"Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God. and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in |you." ___Corinthians 3:16.

If these Æth healing Fires are received, they will eliminate and supplant the destructive forces that are the cause of disease in whatever form it may appear.

Basically, the true healer is found only in the awakened Christos WITHIN; in the Conscious Soul residing in the temple. He who seeks to become such a healer must be willing, anxious above all else, to study and undergo the training and development leading to Soul Consciousness, the Second or Spiritual birth. Of the healer, love for the absolute, the right, the just, compassion and sympathy for others are demanded by the Law.
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