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If you have studied and practiced the materials already presented in this sequence, you've fulfilled the requirements for advancement to the Apprentice Grade of the MOE. The following paper by John Gilbert was the first instruction that new Apprentices received. * * * * *
Introductory Apprentice Lecture
You’ve already learned the Essene Blessing Walk and the Essene Healing Breath. (If you haven’t, please stop here, go back to the previous papers, and do that right now.) Once you know and use these two important techniques, please take the time to understand the Essene healing philosophy and the Essene healing paradigm. This is our understanding of how the Universe works to help people heal themselves.
Healing Philosophy of the Modern Essenes
In our experience, all healing is spiritual healing. In our intuitive insights, all healing is spiritual healing. In our hearts, all healing is spiritual healing. In our belief, all healing is spiritual healing. In our opinion, all healing is spiritual healing. Everything we can imagine that can be wrong with a human being appears to be healed by Divine intervention; and without this Divine intervention it appears nothing is ever healed.
Underlying every physical ailment known to humanity is an emotional issue. Resolve the emotional issue and you heal the physical ailment. Typical emotional issues include anger, anxiety, grief or sorrow, resentments, blame, shame or guilt.
Underlying every emotional issue known to humanity is a mental block. Resolve this mental block and you heal the emotional issue. This mental block is usually associated with denial and not accepting life, self and others, not forgiving self and others, and not being lovingly kind to self and others.
Underlying every mental block known to humanity is an intuitive (psychological) error. Resolve this intuitive error and you heal the mental block. Most intuitive errors have to do with ignoring our intuitive insights or doing the opposite. .
Underlying every intuitive error known to humanity is a spiritual disconnection. Resolve this spiritual disconnection and you heal the intuitive error. Spiritual disconnections happen when we separate ourselves from the Divine. All spiritual disconnections are real. Everything else is a symptom. Physical ailments, emotional issues, mental blocks and intuitive or psychological errors are all symptoms. These symptoms tell us we are distancing ourselves from the Divine. We are separating ourselves from the Divine. The teachings of the Modern Essenes are designed to help us reconnect with the Divine.
All healing is spiritual healing. When we distance ourselves from the Divine, we cut ourselves off from the spiritual energy we need to survive as vibrantly healthy, mentally alert, emotionally stable, psychologically sound, intuitive human beings. This lack of spiritual energy is the cause of all our psychological (intuitive), mental, emotional and physical ills. Once we restore our connection to the Divine and start replenishing our spiritual energy, we heal. We heal on every level of our being. This healing is called spiritual healing. The end product of all spiritual healing is spiritual health. Abundant spiritual health is our goal.
The Essene Healing Paradigm
Rule One: The Law of Earth - Underlying and supporting every physical ailment is an emotional issue. Find and resolve this emotional issue and the physical ailment is healed.
Emotional issues include all forms of anger, anxiety or fear, sorrow or depression, resentments, blaming others, seeking revenge, guilt, shame and any other obstructive emotion.
Rule Two: The Law of Water - Underlying and supporting every emotional issue is a mental block. Find and remove this mental block and the emotional issue is healed.
Mental blocks are generally hidden because we deny them. Denial is a way of avoiding our issues and the reality of our life. We think that if we don’t see it or pay attention to it, we don’t have a problem. The problem is we don’t see it and we don’t pay attention to it.
Rule Three: The Law of Air - Underlying and supporting every mental block is an intuitive error. Find and reverse this intuitive error and the mental block is healed.
We are all intuitive all the time. When we don’t listen to our intuitive insights or pay any attention to them, we are committing an intuitive error. When we do any thing contrary to our intuitive insights, we are making an intuitive error.
Rule Four: The Law of Fire - Underlying and supporting every intuitive error is a spiritual disconnection. When you find this conflict and connect once again to the Divine, the whole person is healed on every level of being.
Anytime we’re not in communion with the Divine, we are disconnected from the Divine. This is our choice and we can return to Divine any time. The choice is ours and ours alone.
Rule Five: The Law of Spirit - All healing of every kind is spiritual healing.
We are spiritual beings and we can heal ourselves anyway we decide. But no matter what we decide, all healing is spiritual healing. We can choose to heal ourselves on any level, or any group of levels, of our being. What we choose is what will be healed.
Essene Gnostic Beliefs
What follows is an outline of the ideas traditionally taught by the Modern Order of Essenes. You are not required to believe these ideas in order to proceed through the Essene training, but you are expected to understand them and reflect on them.
1. The Divine is Everything
The Divine is everything. There is no thought, no thought form, no holographic projection, no illusion that is not a part of the Divine. We are a part of the Divine. We exist in the Divine Mind just as everything in existence does. There is nothing that is not a part of the Divine, contained within the Divine Mind.
The Divine is all matter and all forms created from matter. The Divine is all energy and all expressions of force created by matter and energy. The Divine is Light and this light is a symbol of knowledge. The Divine is Sound, Vibration, Light, Energy and Matter because all these things are mind stuff. The Divine is Love because love is a decision and the Divine chooses to love just as the Divine chooses to create. The creation itself is an expression of love.
The problem is that to choose to love means there is something opposite to love that can also be chosen. The Divine created love just as it created to opposite to love. The Divine created all emotions and the opposite to each and every one. It is because of this duality the Divine has the ability to choose. It is because of this duality that everything in the creation has the ability to choose.
2. The Divine Created All That Exists
The Divine conceived everything that is. There is nothing that is not conceived by the Divine. That means everything is created by the Divine. Love and hatred, abundance and poverty, health and illness, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance, freedom and bondage are all part of the creation. So are you and I.
We were created by the Divine and we were empowered by the Divine to choose how we would live our own lives. This freedom of choice is the same freedom expressed by the Divine. This right to choose is a part of the creation because the Divine thought the creation into existence in this way. It could have been different, but it is exactly as the Divine created it to be.
3. We Can Create Our Own Lives
As a Child of the Divine we all have the right to create our own lives according to our own will. The problem is we’re a very complex creation and we live in a world of complex creatures all doing what they want to do. Sometimes what they want to do impacts us for good or ill. So we create and recreate our own lives many times each lifetime.
We also have to heal ourselves when other people impact us for ill, when others cause us injury of some kind. We heal ourselves spiritually, mentally, emotionally, psychologically and physically to the best of out ability all the time. As we mature spiritually we heal ourselves better and better. This is how we create ourselves over and over, how we create our own lives.
4. Healing is Creation
If we become aware something needs to be healed, intend to heal it and believe we can heal it, we will manifest healing in our life. This is the basis of all spiritual healing. All healing starts with the awareness something that is currently wrong and that can be made right. Once we intend to heal it and believe it can be healed, healing will become manifest in whatever requires healing.
All of Creation is a matter of first an intention, secondly a belief and finally the manifestation of this intention and belief.
The Essence of Deity
All healing depends upon the essence of Deity. The essence of Deity is unconditional love. This unconditional love is the key to how we create our own lives and how we heal ourselves. Unconditional love is expressed as acceptance, forgiveness and love. The creative and healing power of the universe is the essence of Deity.
The Divine is unconditionally loving, all-accepting and all-forgiving. Divine Acceptance allows us to accept ourselves and others. Divine Forgiveness allows us to forgive ourselves and others. Thus we learn how to love in our own lives.
Learning to love ourselves and others is a natural consequence of accepting and forgiving ourselves and others. Loving ourselves and others is the key to all spiritual healing, because the Divine is unconditional love and the Divine heals all things. We become an instrument for the Love of the Divine when we help other people heal themselves.
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The following techniques are introduced in the Apprentice Grade.
Essene Healing Hands
While you’re learning and practicing the Essene Blessing Walk and the Essene Healing Breath, we encourage you to learn and practice the Essene Healing Hands technique. This is a way of using healing centers in the palms to direct spiritual healing energy toward yourself or other people. As noted in an earlier paper, it is the central healing practice of the Modern Order of Essenes and should be practiced daily.
The technique is different from several other energy healing techniques in that once the healing energy starts flowing, we remove ourselves from the equation. The healing energy continues to flow where we sent it and we go about our life. By combining this technique with our daily Essene Blessing Walk and Healing Breath or other meditative practice, we’re able to heal ourselves and help others heal themselves.
Essene Foot Reflexology
Another healing technique taught by the Order is called Essene foot reflexology. Reflexology is an alternative healing art that has become very widely used around the world, both on its own and as an adjunct to other healing methods, including medical modalities. Certified professional reflexologists can be found in many communities, and qualifying for this certificate takes a great deal of study and practice under the supervision of qualified teachers. However, there are also many books, websites, and classes available to laypeople teaching them how to use reflexology to help themselves deal with minor conditions and maintain good health.
Essene foot reflexology belongs to this second category. It is a simple process, performed daily, that uses reflexology principles to clear blockages of spiritual energy from the feet and the body. It is easy to perform and easy to teach to other people so that they can use it for their own benefit. While it does not replace treatment by a professional reflexologist, it can supplement such treatments and it can also be used on its own for ordinary ailments, of the kind that most people treat with over-the-counter medicines.
Essene Applied Kinesiology
Applied kinesiology is a method of divination that allows you to access information from your own subconscious mind.
The Essenes believed that different methods worked for different people. The Modern Essenes believe we can accommodate individual differences by providing a number of applied kinesiology techniques to allow each person find a technique that works for them.
Preparation for Attunement
As a Candidate to become an Apprentice Essene Healer your first task will be to activate your Healing Hands every morning. We suggest doing this as a ritual. We suggest performing a Sphere of Protection ritual of some kind first, before activating your Healing Hands, to protect yourself from both astral and psychic attacks as well as protecting yourself from the diseases, illnesses, emotional and psychological issues of your clients.
Your second task is to perform some form of meditation daily. The Essene Healing Breath meditation is recommended for members of the Modern Order of Essenes, but any form of meditation will qualify. You will need to meditate daily for at least a month before you will be prepared for your attunement.
Your third task is to perform Essene Foot Reflexology on yourself every day. This takes only a few minutes and will begin the process of clearing away spiritual blockages from your subtle bodies so that you can experience spiritual healing yourself and also provide the same help for other people.
Note that these three tasks are easy to combine into a single morning practice. If you choose to do this, perform a Sphere of Protection ritual, then meditate, then awaken your Healing Hands, then perform Essene Foot Reflexology. This makes a fine daily practice and will provide great benefits for your spiritual life as well as your capacity to heal.
Your fourth task is to prepare yourself for your attunement. To do that, you’ll need to study the following lectures:
1. Introductory Apprentice Lecture
2. Essene Healing Hands Lecture
3. Essene Foot Reflexology Lecture
4. Essene Applied Kinesiology Lecture
Once you understand the material covered in these lectures and you feel confident in your ability to do the following, you will be ready for your attunement. Before your attunement, you should be able to do all the following things without having to look up the details.
1. Protect yourself inside a Sphere of Protection
2. Activate your Healing Hands
3. Perform and describe the Essene Healing Breath
4. Demonstrate and explain Essene Foot Reflexology
5. Perform and demonstrate an Essene Blessing Walk
6. Perform and demonstrate one form of Essene Kinesiology
7. Explain what you understand from the Introductory Apprentice Lecture
Attunement can be performed at a distance and I will offer it at regular intervals as we proceed.
Sphere of Protection
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