The Modern Order of Essenes: Overview of the Master Healer Grade

[ecosophia]

It's time to move on to the Master Healer grade, the third and highest grade of the Modern Order of Essenes. We have a lot of material to cover, so hang on.

Two notes before we proceed. First, I've already heard from several people who want to receive the Apprentice attunement and didn't have the chance to do so the first time I gave it. If you're interested in this, please let me know soonest, and I'll start the process of scheduling a time.

Second, I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. You do not have to receive any of the Essene attunements to do the practices or the healing work. The attunements help; like other initiations, they speed up the learning process and make it possible for you to hit the ground running -- but if you just start doing the work, within a couple of years of steady pratice you'll be as good at healing as anybody. The healing power of the Divine is everywhere and in all things; never let anybody tell you that you have to go through a ceremony or get some kind of license before you can draw on that power to begin blessing and healing the world.

With that in mind, let's proceed.

Master Essene Healer Study Guide

The training for the third or Master Essene Healer grade of the Modern Order of Essenes involves a great deal of further material. Much of it is based on the Cabalistic Tree of Life, the core symbolic diagram of the Western esoteric tradition. If you have not previously studied the Tree of Life, the lectures on that subject I posted previously as part of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose material are a good introduction:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/172096.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/173309.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/174122.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/175431.html

Once you have familiarized yourself with the Tree of Life, there are ten Cabalistic practices assigned to the Master Healer grade. All candidates are expected to learn and work with these practices before starting the advanced study materials of a Master Essene Healer to follow. For your convenience, here is a list of those practices:

1. Practice One - The World of Air (Thoughts and ideas)

2. Practice Two - The World of Water (Emotions)

3. Practice Three - The Worlds of Fire and Earth

4. Practice Four - Bridge of Love Practice - Part One

5. Practice Five - Bridge of Love Practice - Part Two

6. Practice Six - Establishing the Bridge of Love

7. Practice Seven - Healing Animals, Plants and Minerals

8. Practice Eight - Releasing an Earthbound Spirit

9. Practice Nine - Restoration of a Person, Ego, Soul or Spirit

10. Practice Ten - Spiritual Exorcism

The advanced lessons required of Master Essene Healer candidates are:

1. The Intellectual Complexes

2. The Psychological Complexes

3. The Spiritual Complexes

4. Essene Ear Reflexology

The advanced healing techniques all candidates are expected to learn and work with before becoming attuned as a Master Essene Healer are:

1. The Essene Healing Touch

2. The Essene Healing Voice

3. The Essene Healing Presence

4. The Healing Breath of Love

5. The Essene Astral Blessing Walk

Again, all these practices can be performed by any person who has learned and practiced the material in the previous grades, whether or not that person has had an Essene attunement at any level.  The Essene teachings and methods all rely on the presence of the healing power of the Divine in all of us and in all things; the attunements assist in contacting that healing power and applying it to the work of spiritual healing, but every soul in the Cosmos is always in the presence of the Divine and can call on the Divine for healing at any time.

*  *  *  *  *

Essene Healing Breath Meditation

In the Candidate, Apprentice, and Healer grades, instructions are given for step by step development of the Essene healing breath meditation. In John Gilbert’s day, students of the Essene work used to speculate about what the Master Healer level of the healing breath would be like, and John, who had a puckish sense of humor, would feed that with hints now and then. Once students received their Healer attunement, this is what they received:

Phase Four:  Just Meditate

Allow your meditation to flow and go with the flow.  This is the final step and the goal of meditation.  In this state you can heal yourself and others on any level.  Time and space can become immaterial as you enter the state of ascended masters.  This practice by itself doesn't make you an ascended master, but it gives you a glimpse of what you can attain.

The lesson here, as John liked to explain it, is that the real process of learning to meditate begins when you finish learning techniques and start letting the experience of meditation teach you. More broadly, the Master Healer grade is not the end of the learning process but the beginning: once you know the techniques and can practice them, it’s time to let them guide you and help you unfold the healing capacities that you have always had within you.

*  *  *  *  *

Next week I’ll post the first half of the material on the Cabalistic practices. In the meantime, one other set of practices might be worth your attention.

To become an Essene Master Teacher and receive the right and the capacity to pass on Essene attunements to others, you are required to complete the Gnostic Lessons, the training program the Universal Gnostic Church established for its minor orders. I have already posted these in the following lessons of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/196988.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/197659.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/198549.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/200003.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/201213.html

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/201837.html

(These contain more than just the Gnostic Lessons; no, you don’t have to study the Kybalion or practice the equinox and solstice rituals.)

Please Note: You do not have to use the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose temple ritual to establish sacred space for the commitment ceremonies in the Gnostic Lessons. Any method of establishing sacred space you prefer to use is entirely appropriate -- for example, you can do the Essene Sphere of Protection followed by the Essene Healing Breath, and call it good, or you can use any other ritual opening of sacred space. The choice is yours.

If you’ve already done this work, or are doing it, as part of your training in the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose, you’re good. If you haven’t, and want to become an Essene Master Teacher, this might be a good time to start, as it takes at least six months to complete the Gnostic Lessons—and I’d like to get some other Essene Master Teachers attuned and qualified to pass on the attunements as soon as possible.

Comments

[ecosophia]

Thanks for catching this! I've just added a paragraph toward the end explaining it.

You should do the commitment ceremonies, but you don't have to use the FHR temple working to establish sacred space. Any method you yourself prefer to use -- a Druid Grove ceremony, the Golden Section Fellowship lodge ceremony, a temple opening in any other magical system, or simply a period of prayer and contemplation -- is entirely acceptable.