Esoteric Healing

by Alice A. Bailey

There are probably more individuals and groups of people in the world of every shade of belief and capacity, devoted to the idea of healing than to any other single human need. Yet healing is an exact, and an exacting, science; and in modern society no physician or surgeon may practice the ancient profession of healing without the personal qualifications legally recognised by the State for the protection of the public. No doubt prayer and invocation can be effective under certain circumstances, particularly when the one who serves is pure and harmless in motive, and has enough understanding to cooperate with the soul purposes of the individual, so permitting the healing energy of the soul to flow more freely and effectively through the personality, or to proceed with the process of withdrawal, if that is its immediate purpose.
Esoteric healing, however, includes far more than this; it is a science based on a number of requirements, including knowledge of the constitution of man and the nature of the various bodies, both dense and subtle. To this practical knowledge, the science of occultism contributes vital information of the energy factors, the karmic and ray influences, the psychology and astrology of the soul, and the laws and rules fundamental to the safe and successful practice of esoteric healing.
With all this to encompass in understanding and in application, little wonder that this science is as yet in its infancy, still in the experimental stages, and with other aspects of esotericism due for major development only as the soul in man takes a stronger hold of all personality affairs.
In this book the seven ray techniques of healing are described; the laws and rules of healing are enumerated and discussed; the requirements for healing are given in detail; and basic causes of disease are shown. We learn, for example, that much disease can be karmic in origin; that certain diseases are inherent in the soil and in the substance of the planet; and that many others are psychological, arising in the emotional or mental bodies. Hence the need for a total and comprehensive understanding both of the patient and of the correct and safe methods of healing.
We are also given a true understanding of death as the abstraction, or the withdrawal, of the soul from the body to continue life on its own plane without the limitation of the body, until a new cycle of incarnation and experience in form is necessary.
In the effort to apply the teaching given in "Esoteric Healing", those whose destiny lies in this area of human service will begin to unfold the spiritual faculty necessary for the healing of the whole man. And this will increasingly concern groups of workers using the magnetic and radiatory power of group energy and invocation. The right practice of esoteric healing conforms, therefore, to the new age development of group consciousness, and the establishment of right energy relationships which underlie all aspects of esoteric training in the world today. Not only the potential healer, but all occultists will learn much from a study of "Esoteric Healing".

Genres: Spirituality, Occult, Theosophy

771 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1972

About the author

Pease note: this is a different author from Alice Bailey.

Alice A. Bailey (1880-1949) was an English esoteric practitioner and writer.
At the age of 35, she entered the Theosophical Society center in Los Angeles (USA), at the Pacific Grove Theosophical Lodge. In 1919, Bailey (39 years old) severed her ties to the Theosophical Society and began to write texts that he claimed were dictated telepathically by a certain "Tibetan," or "D. K. ». She published those texts under the title Human and Solar Initiation. There she made known the existence of the spiritual hierarchy, which Madame Blavatsky had already spread, although not in an orderly way.
She later revealed that the Tibetan D.K. was the master Djwal Khul. She wrote using the teacher's name for 30 years, from 1919 until her death in 1949.

Reviews

[Juanita · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only made it to page 62 where Alice Bailey calls homosexuality a left-over from the sexual excesses of Lemurian times, an inherited "taint" if you like. She calls homosexuality a major problem of today (published in 1953) and the result of ancient evil habits. CHECK PLEASE!

[Susan Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imagine: the times and the woman who travelled to Tibet and is receiving a transmission from a master who knows the message needs to get to the west. The rest is history. Of course her interpretations are culturally biased but the truth finds its way through. Serious practitioners of esoteric healing understand it is not about reading or understood or intellectualizing but applied practice. Practice. Practice. With great kindness acceptance and awareness of the human condition.

[Lolo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Impressed and disappointed at the same time. Great general concept, but flawed logic to analyzed these concepts. This book shows a lot of signs that the author is stuck behind a brainwashed filter.

The concepts analyzed in the first chapters are very useful and give a good bird-eye-view on the concept of health. The effects of spirituality on our health is the best summary I've ever read. But...

But... the rest of the book is very outdated. The author seems brainwashed and uses a lot of paradigms that don't help find the truth. The author bases the analysis of certain conditions on a brainwashed concept and IMO this is a flawed logic.

Another thing that annoys me greatly, is the constant use of christianity concepts and ideas. This is a strong indicator for me that the author is blocked by this religious brainwash and is not approaching the concept of health from a scientific point of view.

Let me get this clear, if the author had stated the health problems that arise from religious concepts, and analyzed what problems arise from each religion (christianity, islam, etc), then I'd be happy. But since the author can't even distinguish these problems, raises an important question for me. Is the author biased because of her religious views?

I guess it's a good read for a researcher that approaches this book with a critical mindset and tries to filter out all the brainwashed ideas that stem from older times and ideas.

[Roger Buck · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, I thought I was being healed studying this intensively, all those years ago at Findhorn. Later I found its remote, aloof approach psychologically damaging.

Fortunately, Meditations on the Tarot saved my soul http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2009/...

For here I found an esotericism which was neither de-personalising, nor de-humanising ...