Post by paulmurdoch1975 on Oct 18, 2011 12:59:27 GMT
Within every man and woman is a force which directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used,
it can heal every affliction and ailment to which mankind is heir. Every single religion affirms this fact. All
forms of mental or spiritual healing, no matter under what name they travel, promise the same thing. Even
psychoanalysis employs this power, though indirectly, using the now popular word libido. For the critical insight
and understanding which it brings to bear upon the psyche releases tensions of various kinds, and through this
release the healing power latent within and natural to the human system operates more freely. Each of these
systems undertakes to teach its devotees technical methods of thinking or contemplation or prayer such as will,
according to the a priori terms of their own philosophies, renew their bodies and transform their whole
environment.
None or few of them, however, actually fulfil in a complete way the high promise made at the outset. There
seems but little understanding of the practical means whereby the spiritual forces underlying the universe and
permeating the entire nature of man may be utilised and directed towards the creation of a new heaven and a new
earth. Naturally, without universal co-operation, such an ideal is impossible for all mankind. Nevertheless, each
one for himself may commence the task of reconstruction.
The crucial question, then, is how are we to become aware of this force? What are its nature and
properties? What is the mechanism whereby we can use it?
www.hermetics.org/pdf/TheArtofTrueHealing.pdf