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The picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage, and at this point we've reached a genuine man of mystery, Jacques de Livron Joachim de la Tour de la Casa Martinez de Pasqually. Nobody knows when Martinez de Pasqually was born or where he came from; what's known about him is that he showed up in southern France in 1754, taught an extraordinarily rich system of Gnostic esoteric philosophy and practice to a circle of pupils that included Louis-Claude de St.-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, and then sailed away to the Caribbean in 1772 and reportedly died there two years later. The image I've posted is one of the very few portraits of the man.

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JMG - I partially tore my distal bicep tendon (attaches near elbow) in the gym about a month ago. I'm doing everything I know to help it heal quickly - rehab exercises, appropriate herbal remedies, drinking bone broth for the collagen. It's really being stubborn, and I'm starting to get a little discouraged, which I know won't help. I prefer to not see a doctor for the typical reasons discussed here. Are there any additional magical approaches that I could take? Thanks!

That's not something I'm qualified to answer. If traditional Chinese medicine is legal to practice in your jurisdiction, you might see if you can find a practitioner, as I hear acupuncture has a very good reputation for healing such things.

Thank you. I'll look into this.

If I may suggest, for such an injury you need to consult....Dr Patience.

Forget the gym for a long time; good nutrition and very gentle exercise as you recover will see you through.

Tendons are tricky, and you will probably want to see a practitioner of one healling art or another at some point, but rest and patience are a must. You can always focus on your legs and abs so you do not break your gym habit (though the routine may need reworking).

As a fellow gym customer, I'd encourage you (if you have not done so already) to enroll the help of a knowledgeable instructor to correct your form and prevent further lessions. Specially if you are using the fancy equipments, they overtrain the big muscles and neglect the smaller ones that are used for fine motricity. I prefer old fashioned barbels/dumbels for that reason alone.

Are you doing extensive massage of the affected area? Our hands are a natural channel for healing energy, especially the fingertips, so any type of manual massage will be therapeutic. In the case of connective tissue injuries, massage is also useful for breaking up any redundant scar tissue that naturally builds up during the healing process.

Also, if your injury occurred where it did in any way due to etheric or astral parasites affecting your larger subtle-plane ecosystem, then channeling healing energy through your fingers to that region can help to dissolve those blockages and curses as well. You wouldn't want the immediate injury to heal only to then recur due to its underlying subtle causes remaining unaddressed. You don't have to know how to identify each parasite or the mechanism by which each one imbalances you in order to do effective clearing work on them, although those skills can speed up the process. Just massage the area, putting in extra time and attention on any points of pain or discomfort.

Any area too tender to tolerate massage can simply be held under your fingertips, while directing healing and rebalancing energy into the pain, until it eventually resolves enough to begin benefiting from massage. As with pretty much everything else in life, if the area ends up hurting more rather than less after you massage it, then you went a little overboard with the massage work, so go a bit gentler the next time.

Paying attention to and caring for your body are so much more healing than we've been hypnotized into believing. Explore your injury — learn what it likes and dislikes. Nurture it as you get to know it, and pretty soon you will have befriended it. After all, it came to you bearing some message that you hadn't been able to hear through less forceful means. If you can fully learn whatever it came to teach you, it may never feel the need to come back to you again. Who knows, you might even find yourself missing that little messenger when it finally goes away!

Should you want to increase your hands' natural healing capabilities, a great method for doing that is the Healing Hands technique described in the Modern Order of Essenes posts, conveniently located on this blog.

— Christophe

Wow, thank you all for the feedback and advice. To reply to a couple of posts together, I've been lifting for many years, and I would consider my form and technique to be quite good. At the time the injury occurred, I was in the midst of a 3-4 month period of ridiculously high demands and stress. The gym has always been an outlet, and I didn't sacrifice any intensity there. In retrospect, I think it's obvious that the stress led to a compromised state that invited a "break". I am massaging with St John's Wort daily and will increase that as well. It's all very frustrating. Thanks again everyone.

I hope you feel better soon. Tendon issues are really slow to heal, and very mentally challenging due to the length. Mine took nearly a a year+. Stay in the game mentally!

Wish you the best.

Physician here (not a surgeon): If you were my patient, I'd consider you an orthopedic surgical patient until an orthopedist says otherwise, and I'd order an MRI of the injured area and make the referral.

It doesn't take much for a partial tear to become a complete tear, resulting in avulsion of the biceps, which will retract like a window-blind. And as often as not, an orthopedist WON'T (!!!) re-attach it. It won't re-attach itself either.

I get that you don't like doctors, but note that orthopedic surgery is usually curative. If I may, I recommend giving some thought to prioritizing your dislikes before the issue becomes moot.

--Lunar Apprentice

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