The Student Grade: Working with the Element of Fire, Part One

[ecosophia]

Another round of FHR papers: the introduction to the inner work of Fire, another chapter of the Kybalion, and practical instructions for charging your hands with healing energy, according to the Modern Order of Essenes. Enjoy!

Working with the Element of Fire, Part One

The Element of Fire represents our wants, needs, desires, passions, cravings and addictions. It is the “juice” that makes us strive to accomplish anything. Fire is the energy fueled by our thoughts and emotions that gives us drive and ambition. Your striving, energy, force and drive are expressions of the Element of Fire.  Fire is our sexual energy and our sex drive. It is our personal and individual reality, the reality of what drives us and what motivates us.

We call Fire our personal reality but mystics of all ages and common sense tells us it's really not "real" at all.  It's all an illusion but we're living and thinking in this illusion and our senses and our mind tells us this illusion is real.  For us, at this stage of our spiritual evolution, it is real.  Knowing that this physical-emotional-intellectual-energetic reality is an illusion and living in that illusion is called the human condition of the mentally alert person.

The fact that our passions and energies are so often in conflict with one another, and with our beliefs and attitudes, our feelings and emotions, and our physical reality, is also part of this illusion. It's part of the confusion we experience as we live on this side of the Veil of Ignorance. We don't remember the truth about ourselves and everything else in the Creation.

When you studied the Earth Element as a Seeker, you learned that Acceptance was the key to spiritual growth.  Then as a Sojourner studying the Water Element you learned that Forgiveness is the key because you could not rid yourself of your emotional complexes, your emotional garbage, until you learned to accept and forgive yourself. As a Student studying the Air Element you learned that Love and Compassion are the key. Without love and compassion you cannot clear your mind of the confusion of life. And until you clear your mind of the confusion of life, you cannot learn the truth about yourself and all of Creation. As a Teacher you will learn that to accept, forgive or love requires the energy of Fire. This Fire is the child of the Water of Love and the Air of Compassion.

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The next chapter of The Kybalion may be studied at this stage of the work.

CHAPTER VI: The Divine Paradox

Symbolism:

Grade:  5°, Teacher

Emerald Table:  “It is the father of all perfection and the consummation of the whole world.”

Cabala: Hod to Netzach, the Path of Discernment

Tarot: Arcanum VI, the Lovers

Geomancy: Puella—Venus in Libra

Text:

“The half-wise, recognizing the comparative unreality of the Universe, imagine that they may defy its Laws–such are vain and presumptuous fools, and they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements by reason of their folly. The truly wise, knowing the nature of the Universe, use Law against laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph. Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower–escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher. Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.”–The Kybalion.

This is the Paradox of the Universe, resulting from the Principle of Polarity which manifests when THE ALL begins to Create–hearken to it for it points the difference between half-wisdom and wisdom. While to THE INFINITE ALL, the Universe, its Laws, its Powers, its Life, its Phenomena, are as things witnessed in the state of Meditation or Dream; yet to all that is Finite, the Universe must be treated as Real, and life, and action, and thought, must be based thereupon, accordingly, although with an ever understanding of the Higher Truth. Each according to its own Plane and Laws. Were THE ALL to imagine that the Universe were indeed Reality, then woe to the Universe, for there would be then no escape from lower to higher, divineward–then would the Universe become a fixity and progress would become impossible. And if Man, owing to half-wisdom, acts and lives and thinks of the Universe as merely a dream (akin to his own finite dreams) then indeed does it so become for him, and like a sleep-walker he stumbles ever around and around in a circle, making no progress, and being forced into an awakening at last by his falling bruised and bleeding over the Natural Laws which he ignored. Keep your mind ever on the Star, but let your eyes watch over your footsteps, lest you fall into the mire by reason of your upward gaze. Remember the Divine Paradox, that while the Universe IS NOT, still IT IS. Remember ever the Two Poles of Truth–the Absolute and the Relative. Beware of Half-Truths.

What Hermetists know as “the Law of Paradox” is an aspect of the Principle of Polarity. The Hermetic writings are filled with references to the appearance of the Paradox in the consideration of the problems of Life and Being. The Teachers are constantly warning their students against the error of omitting the “other side” of any question. And their warnings are particularly directed to the problems of the Absolute and the Relative, which perplex all students of philosophy, and which cause so many to think and act contrary to what is generally known as “common sense.” And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. Read it carefully!

The first thought that comes to the thinking man after he realizes the truth that the Universe is a Mental Creation of THE ALL, is that the Universe and all that it contains is a mere illusion; an unreality; against which idea his instincts revolt. But this, like all other great truths, must be considered both from the Absolute and the Relative points of view. From the Absolute viewpoint, of course, the Universe is in the nature of an illusion, a dream, a phantasmagoria, as compared to THE ALL in itself. We recognize this even in our ordinary view, for we speak of the world as “a fleeting show” that comes and goes, is born and dies–for the element of impermanence and change, finiteness and unsubstantiality, must ever be connected with the idea of a created Universe when it is contrasted with the idea of THE ALL, no matter what may be our beliefs concerning the nature of both. Philosopher, metaphysician, scientist and theologian all agree upon this idea, and the thought is found in all forms of philosophical thought and religious conceptions, as well as in the theories of the respective schools of metaphysics and theology.

So, the Hermetic Teachings do not preach the unsubstantiality of the Universe in any stronger terms than those more familiar to you, although their presentation of the subject may seem somewhat more startling. Anything that has a beginning and an ending must be, in a sense, unreal and untrue, and the Universe comes under the rule, in all schools of thought. From the Absolute point of view, there is nothing Real except THE ALL, no matter what terms we may use in thinking of, or discussing the subject. Whether the Universe be created of Matter, or whether it be a Mental Creation in the Mind of THE ALL–it is unsubstantial, non-enduring, a thing of time, space and change. We want you to realize this fact thoroughly, before you pass judgment on the Hermetic conception of the Mental nature of the Universe. Think over any and all of the other conceptions, and see whether this be not true of them.

But the Absolute point of view shows merely one side of the picture–the other side is the Relative one. Absolute Truth has been defined as “Things as the mind of God knows them,” while Relative Truth is “Things as the highest reason of Man understands them.” And so while to THE ALL the Universe must be unreal and illusionary, a mere dream or result of meditation–nevertheless, to the finite minds forming a part of that Universe, and viewing it through mortal faculties, the Universe is very real indeed, and must be so considered. In recognizing the Absolute view, we must not make the mistake of ignoring or denying the facts and phenomena of the Universe as they present themselves to our mortal faculties–we are not THE ALL, remember.

To take familiar illustrations, we all recognize the fact that Matter “exists” to our senses–we will fare badly if we do not. And yet, even our finite minds understand the scientific dictum that there is no such thing as Matter from a scientific point of view–that which we call Matter is held to be merely an aggregation of atoms, which atoms themselves are merely a grouping of units of force, called electrons or “ions,” vibrating and in constant circular motion. We kick a stone and we feel the impact–it seems to be real, notwithstanding that we know it to be merely what we have stated above. But remember that our foot, which feels the impact by means of our brains, is likewise Matter, so constituted of electrons, and for that matter so are our brains. And, at the best, if it were not by reason of our Mind, we would not know the foot or stone at all.

Then again, the ideal of the artist or sculptor, which he is endeavoring to reproduce in stone or on canvas, seems very real to him. So do the characters in the mind of the author, or dramatist, which he seeks to express so that others may recognize them. And if this be true in the case of our finite minds, what must be the degree of Reality in the Mental Images created in the Mind of the Infinite? Oh, friends, to mortals this Universe of Mentality is very real indeed–it is the only one we can ever know, though we rise from plane to plane, higher and higher in it. To know it otherwise, by actual experience, we must be THE ALL itself. It is true that the higher we rise in the scale–the nearer to “the mind of the Father” we reach–the more apparent becomes the illusory nature of finite things, but not until THE ALL finally withdraws us into itself does the vision actually vanish.

So, we need not dwell upon the feature of illusion. Rather let us, recognizing the real nature of the Universe, seek to understand its mental laws, and endeavor to use them to the best effect in our upward progress through life, as we travel from plane to plane of being. The Laws of the Universe are none the less “Iron Laws” because of the mental nature. All, except THE ALL, are bound by them. What is IN THE INFINITE MIND OF THE ALL is REAL in a degree second only to that Reality itself which is vested in the nature of THE ALL. So, do not feel insecure or afraid–we are all HELD FIRMLY IN THE INFINITE MIND OF THE ALL, and there is naught to hurt us or for us to fear. There is no Power outside of THE ALL to affect us. So we may rest calm and secure. There is a world of comfort and security in this realization when once attained. Then “calm and peaceful do we sleep, rocked in the Cradle of the Deep“–resting safely on the bosom of the Ocean of Infinite Mind, which is THE ALL. In THE ALL, indeed, do “we live and move and have our being.”

Matter is none the less Matter to us, while we dwell on the plane of Matter, although we know it to be merely an aggregation of “electrons,” or particles of Force, vibrating rapidly and gyrating around each other in the formations of atoms; the atoms in turn vibrating and gyrating, forming molecules, which latter in turn form larger masses of Matter. Nor does Matter become less Matter, when we follow the inquiry .still further, and learn from the Hermetic Teachings, that the “Force” of which the electrons are but units is merely a manifestation of the Mind of THE ALL, and like all else in the Universe is purely Mental in its nature. While on the Plane of Matter, we must recognize its phenomena–we may control Matter (as all Masters of higher or lesser degree do), but we do so by applying the higher forces. We commit a folly when we attempt to deny the existence of Matter in the relative aspect. We may deny its mastery over us–and rightly so–but we should not attempt to ignore it in its relative aspect, at least so long as we dwell upon its plane.

Nor do the Laws of Nature become less constant or effective, when we know them, likewise, to be merely mental creations. They are in full effect on the various planes. We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones–and in this way only. But we cannot escape Law or rise above it entirely. Nothing but THE ALL can escape Law–and that because THE ALL is LAW itself, from which all Laws emerge. The most advanced Masters may acquire the powers usually attributed to the gods of men; and there are countless ranks of being, in the great hierarchy of life, whose being and power transcends even that of the highest Masters among men to a degree unthinkable by mortals, but even the highest Master, and the highest Being, must bow to the Law, and be as Nothing in the eye of THE ALL. So that if even these highest Beings, whose powers exceed even those attributed by men to their gods–if even these are bound by and are subservient to Law, then imagine the presumption of mortal man, of our race and grade, when he dares to consider the Laws of Nature as “unreal,” visionary and illusory, because he happens to be able to grasp the truth that the Laws are Mental in nature, and simply Mental Creations of THE ALL. Those Laws which THE ALL intends to be governing Laws are not to be defied or argued away. So long as the Universe endures, will they endure–for the Universe exists by virtue of these Laws which form its framework and which hold it together.

The Hermetic Principle of Mentalism, while explaining the true nature of the Universe upon the principle that all is Mental, does not change the scientific conceptions of the Universe, Life, or Evolution. In fact, science merely corroborates the Hermetic Teachings. The latter merely teaches that the nature of the Universe is “Mental,” while modern science has taught that it is “Material”; or (of late) that it is “Energy” at the last analysis. The Hermetic Teachings have no fault to find with Herbert Spencer’s basic principle which postulates the existence of an “Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.” In fact, the Hermetics recognize in Spencer’s philosophy the highest outside statement of the workings of the Natural Laws that have ever been promulgated, and they believe Spencer to have been a reincarnation of an ancient philosopher who dwelt in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago, and who later incarnated as Heraclitus, the Grecian philosopher who lived B.C. 500. And they regard his statement of the “Infinite and Eternal Energy” as directly in the line of the Hermetic Teachings, always with the addition of their own doctrine that his “Energy” is the Energy of the Mind of THE ALL. With the Master-Key of the Hermetic Philosophy, the student of Spencer will be able to unlock many doors of the inner philosophical conceptions of the great English philosopher, whose work shows the results of the preparation of his previous incarnations. His teachings regarding Evolution and Rhythm are in almost perfect agreement with the Hermetic Teachings regarding the Principle of Rhythm.

So, the student of Hermetics need not lay aside any of his cherished scientific views regarding the Universe. All he is asked to do is to grasp the underlying principle of “THE ALL is Mind; the Universe is Mental–held in the Mind of THE ALL.” He will find that the other six of the Seven Principles will “fit into” his scientific knowledge, and will serve to bring out obscure points and to throw light in dark corners. This is not to be wondered at, when we realize the influence of the Hermetic thought on the early philosophers of Greece, upon whose foundations of thought the theories of modern science largely rest. The acceptance of the First Hermetic Principle (Mentalism) is the only great point of difference between Modern Science and Hermetic students, and Science is gradually moving toward the Hermetic position in its groping in the dark for a way out of the Labyrinth into which it has wandered in its search for Reality.

The purpose of this lesson is to impress upon the minds of our students the fact that, to all intents and purposes, the Universe and its laws, and its phenomena, are just as REAL, so far as Man is concerned, as they would be under the hypotheses of Materialism or Energism. Under any hypothesis the Universe in its outer aspect is changing, ever-flowing, and transitory–and therefore devoid of substantiality and reality. But (note the other pole of the truth) under any of the same hypotheses, we are compelled to ACT AND LIVE as if the fleeting things were real and substantial. With this difference, always, between the various hypotheses–that under the old views Mental Power was ignored as a Natural Force, while under Mentalism it becomes the Greatest Natural Force. And this one difference revolutionizes Life, to those who understand the Principle and its resulting laws and practice.

So, finally, students all, grasp the advantage of Mentalism, and learn to know, use and apply the laws resulting therefrom. But do not yield to the temptation which, as The Kybalion states, overcomes the half-wise and which causes them to be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things, the consequence being that they wander about like dream-people dwelling in a world of dreams, ignoring the practical work and life of man, the end being that “they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements, by reason of their folly.” Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, “use Law against Laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph.” Following the authority, let us avoid the half-wisdom (which is folly) which ignores the truth that: “Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions, and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower–escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher.” Remember always, student, that “Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.” The above quotations are from The Kybalion, and are worthy of being committed to memory by the student

We do not live in a world of dreams, but in an Universe which, while relative, is real so far as our lives and actions are concerned. Our business in the Universe is not to deny its existence, but to LIVE, using the Laws to rise from lower to higher–living on, doing the best that we can under the circumstances arising each day, and living, so far as is possible, to our highest ideas and ideals. The true Meaning of Life is not known to men on this plane–if, indeed, to any–but the highest authorities, and our own intuitions, teach us that we will make no mistake in living up to the best that is in us, so far as is possible, and realizing the Universal tendency in the same direction in spite of apparent evidences to the contrary. We are all on The Path–and the road leads upward ever, with frequent resting places. Read the Message of The Kybalion–and follow the example of “the wise”–avoiding the mistake of “the half-wise” who perish by reason of their folly.

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Lecture One: Essene Healing Hands

With this lesson we introduce one of the most important Essene healing techniques, the Essene Healing Hands. The symbols used in charging and empowering your hands for healing will be familiar to you already, but this technique will demonstrate some of the further uses of those symbols.

Empowering Your Healing Hands

The best time to empower your Healing Hands is the first thing in the morning.  It can be done either preceding or following your daily occult practices.  The best recommendation of the Master Essene Healers is to first place yourself in a Sphere of Protection.  This can be done by using any technique. 

The second recommendation of the Master Essene Healers as a group is to do your daily practices inside this Sphere of Protection.  Then empower your Healing Hands.

You empower your Healing Hands by tracing an inverted triangle on the palm of your left hand with your right index finger.  Start the triangle at the base of your left palm not more than one inch above the wrist-lines below your palm.  Trace the triangle from there to the base of our left index finger, across to the base of your left little finger, and back to the point of beginning.  Visualize this triangle as being blue in color - not just the lines of the triangle, but the whole triangle.  This blue triangle is a symbol for the feminine Element of Water.

Continue on the palm of your left hand by drawing a circle around your left palm with your right index finger.  When you reach the point of origination, draw a straight line from there up your wrist about as long as your palm is tall.  Bring your right index finger back to the point of origination for both symbols and visualize the circle and tail as being green in color - not just the lines, but the whole symbol.  This green circle and tail is a symbol for the feminine Element of Earth.

These symbols are drawn on the left palm because the left hand is the feminine hand.  The left hand is connected to the left side of the body and the left leg.  The symbols are drawn by the index finger of the masculine hand.  The downward pointing blue triangle is an ancient symbol for the Element of Water.  The green circle with a downward-pointing tail is an ancient symbol for the Element of Earth.  The colors of blue for the Element of Water and green for the Element of Earth are assignments made by the Golden Dawn based on ancient teachings of the Qabalah.

The point of beginning for the symbols for the feminine Elements at the middle of the base of your left palm is called the Essene Healing Jewel.  You have an Essene Healing Jewel in a similar position on your right hand.  Empowering and activating your Essene Healing Hands is accomplished by first drawing the appropriate symbols on both your right and left hands, then bringing the Essene Healing Jewels together and allowing the energy to flow.  Your hands are brought together with your left hand held horizontally and your right hand vertically (ninety degrees or a quarter of a circle to each other).  The beginning point for tracing the feminine Elements on your left hand is your left-hand Essene Healing Jewel.  As you will see this same point is not used for the masculine Elements.

The energy flows from your right shoulder down through your right hand into your left hand and up your left arm to your left shoulder and then across your body to your right shoulder.  The Essene healing energy always flows out from your right hand and into your left hand.  Once the energy is felt as flowing strongly and freely your hands have been empowered.  This same technique will be used to activate your Healing Hands any time during the day.  The procedure is to empower your Healing Hands first thing in the morning and then activate them whenever you need to use your Healing Hands.

You continue empowering your Healing Hands by tracing an upright triangle on the palm of your right hand with your left index finger.  Start the triangle at a point just below the gap between your ring and middle fingers.  Trace the triangle down to the base of your thumb, straight across to the outside edge of your palm, and back to the point of beginning.  Visualize this triangle as being red in color - not just the lines of the triangle, but the whole triangle.  This red triangle is a symbol for the masculine Element of Fire.

Continue on the palm of your right hand by drawing a circle around your right palm with your left index finger.  When you reach the point of origination, draw a straight line from there up between and to the tips of your second and third fingers.  Bring your right index finger back to your right hand Healing Jewel  and visualize the circle and tail as being yellow in color - not just the lines, but the whole symbol.  This yellow circle and tail is a symbol for the masculine Element of Air.

These symbols are drawn on the right palm because the right hand is the masculine hand.  The right hand is connected to the right side of the body and the right leg.  The symbols are drawn by the index finger of the feminine hand.  The upward pointing red triangle is an ancient symbol for the Element of Fire.  The yellow circle with a upward-pointing tail is an ancient symbol for the Element of Air.  The colors of red for the Element of Fire and yellow for the Element of Air are assignments made by the Golden Dawn based on ancient teachings of the Qabalah.

A very deep esoteric teaching is hidden in the empowering methods of the Modern Essenes.  The right hand (masculine) is used to empower the left (feminine), and the left hand (feminine) is used to empower the right (masculine).  Once empowered the flow of energy is from the right (masculine) to the left (feminine).  The masculine and feminine empower each other and both are required for the Divine Healing Energy to flow through us and our clients.

The right hand (masculine) transmits this energy outward while the left hand (feminine) collects the energy.  The energy flows through us as a healer and our client.  This is in keeping with the ancient teachings of the Qabalah.  This energy is called the Divine Healing Energy when it is used for healing but it is also called the Unconditional Love of the Universe.

 

Activating Your Healing Hands

The same techniques used to empower your hands are used to activate your Healing Hands prior to using them for a healing session.  As you become proficient with this technique, your hands will already be activated as you prepare for a healing session.  When you reach this point, you can activate your Healing Hands by bringing your Essene Healing Jewels together and allowing the energy to flow.

It’s important for beginners to both empower their hands first thing in the morning and to go through the entire process again to activate their Healing Hands for a healing session.  It’s important for beginners to find a way to do at least two healing sessions a day.  These can be face-to-face healing, distance healing or self-healing sessions.  The length of these sessions is unimportant.  Doing them is more important.  A good time is during meal or coffee breaks.

 

Using Your Healing Hands

In a face-to-face healing session, first activate your healing hands.  Then explain to your client the things they need to know about the healing session.  Your clients will feel the healing energy coming into them, moving to the place where healing is needed, and them moving out of them.  The energy flows through them during the session and will continue to flow through them for the rest of the day.  Explain this to your client.  Begin the session by placing your hands comfortably in front of you and letting the energy flow according to your intentions.  It will go where you intend it to flow and it will accomplish what you intend it to accomplish.

You will feel the energy hitting a wall of resistance as it flows from your right hand.  It feels like you are pushing against something that won’t budge.  At the same time, you can feel energy flowing into your left hand but not from your client.  That energy is coming from the inexhaustible universal supply.  Keep it flowing.

Within a few seconds you’ll feel the energy flowing through your client.  You may now lower your hands and the healing energy will continue to flow through your client until sleep interrupts the flow.  Having opened the circuit you are no longer needed.  The Essene Healing Energy will continue to flow from the Universe, through your client and back to the Universe.  As it flows, this healing energy will bring the Unconditional Love of the Divine to your client, and it will remove illness from your client according to the healing intentions stated by you and your client.

Once the Essene Healing Energy is flowing freely, it will continue to flow without any intervention from you.  Drop your hands.  The healing session is finished.

Your client does not need to be in your presence.  Distance healing works just as well and almost as instantaneously as face-to-face healing.  The time delay to send the Essene Healing Energy to the other side of the world is less than two seconds.  Distance healing can be done at any time during the day.  Sessions take a few minutes just as face-to-face sessions.  You’ll feel the same “back-pressure” until your client allows the energy to flow.  Once the energy is flowing you’ll know your part of the session has been completed.

Self-healing is done in the same manner.  You direct the Essene Healing Energy to the place where you want to heal yourself.  When the energy is flowing you may withdraw and allow it to continue flowing through you.  Surprisingly, you’ll feel the same “back-pressure” as your body resists the flow of the healing energy.  As with clients, it only takes a few seconds for your body to cease resisting and allowing the energy to flow.

 

Deactivating Your Healing Hands

At the end of a healing session, after the healing energy is flowing without any further intervention by you,  the Master Essene Healers suggest you deactivate your Healing Hands.  You can do this by simply bringing your Essene Healing Jewels together for a few seconds and thanking the Divine for allowing you to be the Healing Hands of the Divine.  You can also clap your hands quickly and firmly to accomplish the same thing.

As an Apprentice Essene Healer you empower your Healing Hands early each day.  When you prepare for a healing session you activate your healing hands.  A healing session may include one or more clients in a given block of time.  When you’re done with your healing sessions, deactivate your Healing Hands.  You may reactivate them anytime during the remainder of the day.

When you empower your Healing Hands in the morning you start the energy flowing through you and it will continue to flow through you until you are overtaken by sleep.  This energy will serve you by preventing the onset of illness and building up your own immune system.  When you later activate your Healing Hands you build a surplus of energy that can be used for healing purposes.  When you’re done with your healing session, you deactivate your Healing Hands because you no longer need this “surplus” healing energy.

 

The Ethics of Using Your Healing Hands

Never use the Healing Hands technique without the permission of your client.  This is a very good rule to follow.  You may assume permission for any former and present clients unless they advise you otherwise.  You may assume permission whenever the recipient is incapable of asking for your assistance.  You may assume permission whenever anybody puts out a general call for assistance.  You may assume permission from Mother Earth and all plants and animals.  At all other times you must assume you do not have permission to heal anybody for any reason.

That’s the black and white explanation for the ethical principles of offering healing to others.  Unfortunately, life is more gray than black and white.  If you are in doubt as to whether or not you should send healing energy to another person but you really feel moved to do so, here’s the consensus suggestion of the Master Essene Healers:

Ask the Divine for permission to help the individual in question and explain to the Divine your intention to send healing energy to be used for the highest good of this person.  In effect, you’re asking the Divine to use you as a vehicle for healing the person in question.  You’re also asking for this healing to be done for the greater good of the person involved.

You might use this approach when somebody is ill or injured and you feel the need to assist in his or her healing.  It’s more problematical, but the same approach could be used to help somebody who would never ask you for any assistance of any kind.  Just be aware that doing things other people don’t want us to do may cause problems later.  And, it’s probably not a good decision to help anybody whom you absolutely know would not appreciate your assistance.

One last caveat: The Essene Healing Hands technique is not a hands-on healing technique.

Comments

[yuccaglauca]

There's a bit of a difference in the recommendations between the Essene Healing Hands and the Dolmen Arch Awakening of the Palm Centers, specifically in that the Essene instructions recommend at least two healing sessions per day and don't seem to prioritize self-healing over other healing work, while the DA instructions (with the addition of the solar and telluric currents) recommend self healing once a week at the low end and once a day at the high end, and specify that healing others is to be done less frequently than the self-healing.

So I'm curious, is this just a difference of opinion, or is the difference necessary due to the inclusion of the solar and telluric currents in the DA version?

[ecosophia]

It's a difference of opinion. The DA material is based on my experience, while the MOE material is based on John Gilbert's experience -- and of course your mileage may vary.

[jprussell]

Thank you for continuing to post these - even though I'm not following the practices at the moment, seeing many similar concepts from a slightly different framework is a useful supplement to the work I'm doing with the DMH and DA.

A clarifying question on bringing the hands together: from the description, I'm not totally sure I'm getting the positioning of the two hands right. What I'm assuming is something that looks like a "time out" gesture - my left hand is palm down, finger tips extended, pointing to the right, while my right hand is fingers up, touching the origination point on my left hand, right palm facing to the left. And I assume all of this is happening at roughly heart/solar-plexus level.

Have I got that about right?

Thanks much,
Jeff

[ecosophia]

The final gesture from the healing work? No. The left hand is palm to the right, finger tips pointing forward, while the right hand is palm to the left, finger tips pointing up. The two hands are joined at the base of the palms.

[jprussell]

Ah, okay, thanks very much - I'm glad I clarified, as I apparently completely misread "horizontal" and "vertical" as well as "bringing the healing jewels together".

[open_space]

My subconscious mind seems to be liking these FHR posts a lot! I dreamt about healing hands yesterday; and a few weeks ago with a white rose garden. I've noticed a pattern, whenever I consistently read your blogs my dreams start to flow with the tracks the posts lay, that seems understandable but I wonder if my mind is getting used to the path the individual tracks are laying and getting the hang of how to see the path they are forming. Yesterday my mother underwent a hernia surgery and in my dream I was healing her by gently hovering my hands above skin level using some white energy that wasn't mine. She was discharged today! She was expected to be in the hospital three days. Coincidence? Mmm, I'm starting to doubt about the whole coincidence business itself but meanwhile I think I'll take the hint and study these papers carefully.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

I am studying the CGD but I would really like to learn a system of energy healing. Would this system or the one from the Dolmen Arch (or another that you know of) be compatible with it in original or modified form? Could the energy healing material be studied without studying the rest of the FHR or DA curriculum either during or after I've initiated myself as a Druid in the CGD? If not, is it just best to look for something 'standalone', e.g. reiki? I'd prefer to keep my practices Druidical or at least western if possible.

Many thanks!

[ecosophia]

This system of energy healing should interface tolerably well with the CGD. Once I finish posting the FHR material -- and catch my breath! -- I plan on making at least the first level of the Modern Order of Essenes work public, and that can be done as an independent, standalone system.

[ganeshling]

The healing hands lecture suggests working inside of the space prepared by SOP. Will it be compatible with the space prepared by LBRP? And more specifically, by CGD LBRP, possibly followed by CR?

[ecosophia]

It should work just fine in that context.

Location of healing jewels

[miow]

Are they in the same spot on both hands? The narrative does not locate the spot for the right hand

Re: Location of healing jewels

[ecosophia]

Yes, they're in the same spot on both hands.

Re: Location of healing jewels

[miow]

Thank you! Just a little report back in case you are interested. Since taking up magic practice (what you would call very basic, namely daily SOP, tarot, meditation) and very slowly working through the FHR curriculum, I have already succeeded in weaning myself off a hand full of prescription medication I had to take every day while at the same time improving the conditions for which they were prescribed in the first place! This includes antidepressants which I have been on for years. Without my daily practice and a little working I cobbled out of your natural magic encyclopedia I would not have made it through the month long and truly frightening withdrawal for that batch of modern poison. I am managing my fibromyalgia with zero chemicals. I can go on and on but won't bore you with more details of my little minor miracle. Suffice it to say if I told myself I would be drug free a year ago I would not have believed it. So you can imagine my ears pricking up when I saw this week's FHR post! Thank you once more.

Re: Location of healing jewels

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Miow,
I too have fibromyalgia from time to time and I am able to scare off the pain which usually wakes me up in the night by breathing all the pain (gathering it) into the center of my chest and then exhaling it out of the center of my chest. It usually only takes 3 breaths and the pain goes away completely and I go back to sleep. This is the sort of breath work taught in the Drudiry Handbook. JMG was surprised it worked so well on fibro pain. I haven't had fibro pain for months now.

I applaud your efforts to get healthy and wish you all success.
Maxine

Thank you

[miow]

Thank you, Maxine, for this tip which I will use tonight. I wake up more or less every night with fibro pain so anything to help is much appreciated! If I may ask: do you refer to the Celtic Golden Dawn? Or another book? And is it just normal deep breath or the fourfold meditative breath? Lots of blessings to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you very much for posting these!

I am enjoying the Essenes segments and look forward to the Essenes standalone series.

John Gilbert is lucky he found you-- you are passing his baton to a much wider audience.

- Cicada Grove

[ecosophia]

You're most welcome.

The Essene material is interesting stuff. It's the branch of John's work that I did the least with, since healing isn't really central to my work, but I'm looking forward to getting it out there and, if possible, refounding the Modern Order of Essenes under new volunteer leadership.