IT IS NECESSARY for me to reiterate what I said at the start of lesson 10: the information on healing practices in this lesson is simply my opinion, together with the results of my research. I am not engaged in rendering medical advice. Such advice should be sought from a competent professional person.
In lesson 10 you studied the use of herbs in the healing process and learned that Witches have long been considered community healers. In this lesson you will see some of the other forms of healing used in the Craft, plus less obvious applications of herbs.
The Aura
I briefly touched on the aura in an earlier lesson. To recapitulate, the aura is the electrical magnetic energy that emanates from the human body. Our bodies, of course, vibrate. Animals and plants do the same, for all things radiate energy: a chair, a house, a tree, a flower, a bird. Everything is vibration. So everything gives off an aura. This aura can most easily be seen in humans, however (possibly due to brain activity).
The aura is sometimes referred to as the odic force. In Christian art, from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, it was often depicted around the heads of people believed to possess great spiritual power. There it was referred to as a halo or gloria. It also appeared as a ring of flames around the heads of Moslem prophets. The headdresses of priests, kings, and queens symbolize the aura.
There are references to the aura in the Christian Bible. In sculpture, there is an excellent example in that of Michelangelo’s figure of Moses,
In 1858 Baron Karl von Reichenbach, an industrial chemist, claimed to have discovered certain radiations coming from magnets, crystals, plants, and animals, which could be seen and felt by certain people (sensitives). In 1911, Dr. Walter Kilner, of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, devised ways of showing these radiations. One way was by looking through a dilute solution of a dye called dicyanin (a product of coal tar) and the other was by first looking at a bright light through a strong alcoholic solution then looking at the subject. This latter method, however, proved to be very dangerous, causing damage to the eyes. Kilner did perfect his dicyanin method and produced what is known as the Kilner Screen.
But the aura is best seen without artificial aid. Have your subject stand against a dark background and look, directing your gaze at the position of the subject’s third eye (between and a little above, the eyebrows). You may find it helpful to squint slightly at first. You will become aware of the aura around his or her head though, at first, when you try to move your gaze to look directly at it . . . it will disappear! Do not worry. You will eventually be able to study it directly but, to start with, just keep your focus on that third eye and look at the aura peripherally. If you have no success with the subject against a dark background, then try a light background; some have success with one, some with the other.
The aura will be most obvious around the head, unless the body is naked, in which case it will be seen clearly all around. The entire aura is called the aureole; the head aura is the nimbus. You may notice that to the person’s left there is generally an orange color, and to their right a bluish color. If you move your hands toward the body you will feel warmth on their left and coolness on their right. Interestingly, a bar magnet gives corresponding sensations. With the north end cool and blue, and the south end warm and orange, the aura can be felt. If you stand in front of your subject, with your hands extended on either side of his or her head, and the palms in toward him or her, you can feel it. Gradually, move your hands in toward the head. As you approach (perhaps about four to six inches away) you will feel a tingling sensation, or a warmth, or a feeling of pressure building up. Move your hands in and out and get that sensation.
Color Magick
Raymond Buckland
Llewellyn, Mn. 1983 & 2002
which shows him with horns. This has mystified many. The reason for the horns is that in translation the word for horns was confused with the very similar word for rays, so in fact Moses was thought of as “having rays coming from his head” . . . the aura.
Auric Healing
In auric healing, you set out to change the condition of a person by visualizing a specific color light around them. These colors are chosen according to the patient’s problem. For example, when dealing with the nervous system, you would use violet and lavender to obtain a soothing effect. To invigorate, you would use grass green. To inspire, yellows and oranges would be your choice.
When dealing with disorders of the blood and organs of the body, use clear, dark blues to soothe, grass green to invigorate, and bright red to stimulate.
When dealing with cases of fever, high blood pressure, or hysteria, use blue. For cases of chill or lack of sufficient bodily warmth, concentrate on red.
So, for example, if a woman is complaining of feeling hot, has a fever, and is sweating profusely, you can help immeasurably by concentrating on seeing her completely surrounded by, and absorbed in, a blue light. If she has a stomach pain, then direct a soothing light-green color there. For someone with a nervous headache, see his or her head surrounded by violet or lavender light. For a bleeding, direct clear dark-blue light to the cut. Keep up these visualizations for as long as you can. I give more specifics below, in “Color Healing.”
Pranic Healing
Pranic healing is done by sending prana (the “vital force”) from your body to the diseased or affected parts, stimulating the cells and tissues to normal activity and allowing the waste material to leave the system. It involves the use of passes and the laying-on of hands. What is prana? It is the vital force that underlies all physical action of the body. It causes circulation of the blood, movement of the cells, and all motions upon which the life of the physical body depends. It is a force that is sent forth from the nervous system, by an effort of the will, when you direct healing (review lesson 1, regarding Prof. Otto Rahn and Dr. Harold Burr).
You receive prana from the food you eat, the water you drink, and from the air you breathe. All forms of force and energy rise from the same primal cause, and it is your willingness to increase your own supply, and share it, that makes you “gifted” in healing. Everyone, then, actually possesses the “gift” of healing.
How can you increase your prana? By deep breathing. Visualize energy and strength flowing into your body as you breathe in. Feel it. Feel it going into all parts of your body. Feel it travel along your arms and down your legs. Visualize the love of the Lady and the Lord entering you.
Correct breathing sets up an equilibrium between positive and negative currents. It calms your nervous system and regulates and slows your heart activity, reducing your blood pressure and stimulating your digestion. Before doing any pranic healing, do the following deep breathing exercises:
1. (a) Slowly breathe in, through the nose, to a mental count of eight.
(b) Slowly exhale, through the nose, to a count of eight.
2. (c) Slowly breathe in, through the nose, to a count of eight.
(d) Hold your breath for a count of four.
(e) Slowly exhale, through the mouth, for a count of eight.
In (d), as you hold your breath, feel the love, energy, strength, and power you have inhaled circulate throughout your body.
In (e), breathe out all the negativity within you. Do “1” once, then do “2” three times.
Now you are ready to start your healing. This is best done in the Circle. If that cannot be, however— if the patient is unable to come to you, perhaps through being in a hospital or being bedridden at home—then at least draw a circle about him or her (and the bed, if necessary) with your athame, and fill that circle with white light before starting.
Have the patient lie on his or her back with his or her head toward the east, if possible. The feet should be together with arms at sides. The patient does not have to be naked, but it is certainly better if he or she can be (better, in fact, if you both are). The patient should close the eyes and concentrate on seeing himself or herself encompassed in a ball of white light. You kneel to the left of his or her legs, if you are right-handed; to his or her right if left-handed
Figure 13.1
Figure 13.2
(see figure 13.1). Reaching forward, extend your arms and hold your hands with the palms inward, at the top of his or her head, about an inch away from actual contact (figure 13.2). Take a deep breath then, holding that breath, bring the hands smoothly down the length of the body, one hand on either side, not quite touching the skin the whole way. As you come away from the feet, breathe out and shake your hands vigorously as though you were shaking water off them. You are, in actuality, shaking off the negativity that you have drawn from the patient. Repeat this process at least seven times, preferably more.
Now sit quietly for a moment, seeing the patient surrounded in white light. When you have got your breath (you will find this can be quite exhausting), then repeat the breathing exercises given above— “1” once and “2” three times.
Now lay your hands, gently, one on each side of the patient’s head, thumbs resting on the temples. Concentrate (eyes closed if you wish), sending all your energies into the patient; all the goodness and love of the Lady and the Lord channeled through you into him or her, to make him or her well. When you have done this for a while, again sit back and relax, picturing the patient in the white light.
Then, once again, do your deep breathing followed by placing your hands over/on his or her heart and, again, directing the pranic force into him or her.
After again resting and doing the breathing, lay your hands on the specific area of problem (e.g., stomach; leg; shoulder) and direct your energies. A final period of rest for you, and picturing the patient within the white ball of light, completes the process.
Do not be surprised if you feel physically drained after such a healing. This will generally be the case. Ignore those who say that if you feel drained you are doing it wrong. On the contrary, feeling exhausted is a good sign that you have done well.
Absent Healing
It is possible to heal a person without them actually being physically present in the Circle. This can be done by using one of the methods given in lesson 11 (dancing, chanting, cords, sex), taking the power raised, and directing it into the person who is sick. Candle magick is especially effective (see Practical Candleburning Rituals, Raymond Buckland, Llewellyn Publications). Both auric and pranic healing can also be done using a good, clear photograph of the person. See also “Color Healing” and “Pop-pets,” below.
Color Healing
I deal extensively with this subject in my book Color Magick (Llewellyn Publications, 1983 & 2002) so will give just a brief outline here. Light is radiant energy traveling in the form of waves. The rate of vibration can be measured in units known as Angstrom units (Å), measuring one ten-millionth of a millimeter. For example, the color violet has a wavelength varying from 4,000Å to 4,500Å; indigo from 4,500Å to 4,700Å; blue 4,700Å to 5,100Å; green 5,100Å to 5,600Å; yellow 5,600Å to 5,900Å; orange 5,900Å to 6,200Å, and red 6,200Å to 6,700Å. Your body selects, from the sunlight, whatever colors needed for balance, the vibrations being absorbed into you. The principle of healing with color (chromopathy or chromotherapy; chromopathy from the Greek: kroma—color; pathos—suffering) is to give the ailing body an extra dose of any color(s) lacking. One of the joys of chromopathy is its practicability. It is something anyone can do with no danger, being the use of a natural element. The application can be done in a variety of ways, as you will see. Basically, the red end of the spectrum stimulates while the blue end calms.
Here is a look at the specific colors of the spectrum one by one to see what their properties are.
Red: a warming, invigorating color, excellent for the treatment of blood diseases. Anemic people need the color red, as do those with liver infections.
Orange: not quite as harsh as red yet contains many of its properties. It is especially good for the respiratory system; for those who suffer from asthma and bronchitis; also as a tonic and a laxative.
Yellow: excellent for the bowels and intestines. It is a mild sedative; helps remove fears of all kinds and gives a mental uplift. It is good for indigestion and heartburn, for constipation and piles, also for menstrual problems.
Green: this is the great healer. It is neutral for other colors and can be a general tonic and revitalizer. When in doubt, use green. Excellent for heart troubles; neuralgic headaches; ulcers; colds in the head and boils.
Blue: an antiseptic and cooling agent. Excellent for use on all inflammations including those of internal organs. Good on cuts and burns; also for rheumatism.
Indigo: a slight narcotic. Will remove the fears of the mind and reassure those afraid of the dark. Good for emotional disorders; deafness; especially good for the eyes, even for cataracts.
Violet: good for mental disorders; for the nervous system; for baldness; for female complaints.
Directing the Color
It is the color that is important, so anything that will produce colored light will serve your needs. This could be colored glass, plastic, or even cellophane. You do not even have to wait for sunshine. Any light will do, including artificial light. If you have a window that gets a lot of sunshine then certainly make use of that. Tape a sheet of colored glass, plastic, or even tissue paper over the window and have the patient sit in front of it so that the colored light falls directly on her or him. Make sure it falls on the troubled area (e.g., for an upset stomach, direct yellow light on the stomach area). Concentrate the light on the area for at least thirty minutes each day. Two periods of thirty minutes (one in the morning and another in the evening) would be better. You will notice a definite improvement almost from the start.
If you do not have a convenient sunny window, then a good substitute is a photographic slide projector. In fact, in many ways it is better than the window since you can focus on particular areas. From photo supply stores you can obtain empty cardboard slide mounts. Into these put small rectangles of colored plastic or acetate, so that you have a set of slides of the seven primary colors.
Color-charged Water
You can turn ordinary water into potent medicine by charging it with colored light. Fill a clear bottle with water and tape a sheet of colored paper or acetate around it (if you can get a colored bottle of the appropriate color, all the better). Then stand the bottle in the window for six to eight hours. Even if the Sun is not shining directly on the bottle, it will still charge the water. Then, a wineglassful of the water, taken three times a day, will have a similar effect to the half-hour of colored light application.
If you are feeling “down,” or listless, a glassful of red-charged water each morning will pep you up. Similarly, if you have trouble sleeping at night, a glassful of indigo-charged water before bed will relax you and help you fall asleep. All of the colors can be used, as in the color chart above. Such treatment is called hydrochromopathy.
Distant Color Healing
Color can also be used to do absent healing. Again you use a photograph (the basic sympathetic magick principle of “like attracts like”). This is known as graphochromopathy. Make sure that there is no one other than the patient in the photograph and also make sure that the afflicted part of the person (e.g., leg, stomach) is in the picture. Place the photograph under the appropriate colored light and leave it there. A low wattage bulb is best for this; perhaps something like a night-light bulb. You will find it easier to put the colored sheet over the front of the photograph than to try to wrap it around the light bulb. The best way is to put the photo in a frame together with the colored acetate and then to stand the frame in front of the light bulb, or the window. Give it the light treatment for at least three hours a day.
Gem Therapy
You can take six different books dealing with precious and semiprecious stones and their occult properties and find six different opinions as to which do what. The reason for this is that the stones are usually corresponded with astrological planets and signs. The trouble there is (as W. B. Crow explains in Precious Stones: Their Occult Power and Hidden Significance) that “there are different scales of correspondences and under one circumstance one scale should be applied, whilst under another a different scale holds good . . . no natural object is pure Sun, pure Moon, or pure Saturn.”
The safest way to use stones for healing, then, is in the manner of the ancient Druids: go by the color of the stone and apply the same principles used in Color Healing above.
For example, you know that yellow is good for intestinal and bowel disorders and menstrual problems. For these problems, then, wear a yellow stone such as yellow diamond, jasper, topaz, beryl, quartz, amber, etc. The stone should be placed on the afflicted area for at least an hour each day and should be worn, in the form of a pendant or ring, for the rest of the day, continuing until the cure is affected.
In 640 B.C.E. Necheps wore a jasper around his neck to cure his queasy stomach. In 1969 Barbara Anton (a graduate gemologist from the Gemological Institute of New York) advised a friend, who had suffered from irregular menstrual periods for years, to wear a yellow jasper pendant. So long as she wore it, her periods came regularly on a twenty-eight day cycle.
Any good book on gems and minerals will give you full descriptions of the many varieties of stones available in the full spectrum of color. Rubies, emeralds, sapphires are obvious examples of red, green, and blue, but there are many other equally effective yet far less expensive stones available. Here are a few stones, together with the colors in which they can be obtained, plus some of the ancient beliefs regarding their properties.
Gem Attributes
Agate (brown): helps harden gums and protect vision.
Amber (yellow; orange): improves poor eyesight; deafness; dysentery and throat afflictions; hay fever; asthma.
Amethyst (purple to blue-violet): antidote for drunkenness (!); gives peace of mind.
Beryl (green; yellow; blue; white): liver complaints; diaphragm.
Bloodstone (green and red): Hemorrhages; nosebleeds.
Carnelian (red): hemorrhages; nosebleeds; purifies the blood.
Chrysolite (olive green; brown; yellow; red):
fevers; nightmares.
Coral (red; white): stops bleeding; helps in digestive disorders; epilepsy in children; ulcers; scars; sore eyes.
Diamond (white; blue; yellow): coughs; mucus; lymph system; toothache; insomnia; convulsions.
Emerald (green): eye diseases (a traditional eyewash was made by simply steeping an emerald in water); general healing.
Garnet (red): anemia; blood diseases.
Jade (green): kidney diseases; stomach pains; blood purifier; muscle strengthener; urinary problems; eye diseases (eyewash, as with emerald).
Jasper (yellow; green): stomach problems; nervousness.
Lapis (deep blue to azure; violet-blue; green-blue) lapis lazuli; lapis linguis: eye problems; helps attune to higher spiritual vibrations; vitality; strength. Lapis ligurius: cholera; rheumatism.
Moonstone (light blue; resembles opal): “watery” disturbances; dropsy; gives strength.
Opal (red to yellow; black; dark green): heart; eyes; bubonic plague(!); gives protection and harmony.
Pearl (white): soothing; dissipates anger.
Ruby (red): pain; tuberculosis; colic; boils; ulcers; poison; eye troubles; constipation.
Sardonyx (red; brownish red; black): mental and emotional effects; banishes grief; brings happiness.
Sapphire (blue violet): eyes; boils; rheumatism; colic.
Topaz (yellow to white; green; blue; red): vision; hemorrhages; bleeding.
Turquoise (blue; blue-green; green): vision; promotes youth.
Poppets
In lesson 11 you learned how to construct a poppet. There I discussed its use for love magick. But the poppet can also be used for healing purposes—in fact that is probably its primary use.
The same construction method is used: two outlines cut from cloth, sewn together, and marked with identifying symbols and characteristics (all while concentrating your thoughts on the person it represents). This time, however, you should stuff the poppet with the herb appropriate for the person’s ailment—that information you learned in lesson 10. If ever in doubt as to what to use, stuff the poppet with calendula (also called marigold, marybud, holibud [Calendula officinalis]), which is a cure-all.
You should name the poppet (as in the love-magick example), sprinkling and censing it, then lay it on the altar.
Should you be working for someone who has had surgery, make an incision in the poppet in the appropriate place. Then, taking it up from the altar,
Healing poppet
concentrate on the healing and direct your power into the patient as you sew up the incision.
You can do auric and/or pranic healing using the poppet in lieu of the actual person. Once you have named and consecrated the poppet, then anything you do to it, of course, you do to that person.
Meditation and Biofeedback
Yes, meditation can be a way of healing. Always remember that we create our own realities—whether consciously or (more often) unconsciously. So long as we are going to do this, we might just as well create an enjoyable and healthy reality. In your daily meditation, see yourself fit and well. If you are sick, see yourself completely recovered. Remember (from lesson 11)—“Do not see a thing working . . . see it finished.”
Meditation and biofeedback have been tested experimentally by scientists and proven to be beneficial in reducing blood pressure, muscle tension, control of pain, and increasing sense of well-being. The principle of biofeedback is that a person who is provided with immediate knowledge of her or his internal body processes can learn to control some that normally operate involuntarily. The subject aims to achieve complete relaxation and can watch herself or himself do this through a feedback meter wired to various parts of her or his body (biofeedback instruments, of varying complexity and price, are available from any number of sources). She or he tries to induce an extremely calm yet alert state of consciousness that is characterized by distinct patterns of brain activity called alpha rhythms. When she or he manages to produce alpha rhythms for a period of ten seconds, then the alpha state has been achieved.
Below is a candleburning ritual for meditation. You can use this as a lead-in to creatively visualizing yourself (or someone else) cured of an illness.
We are all a part of Nature,
not apart from it.
Raymond Buckland
Everyone is familiar, if only from fiction, with the wax figure stuck with pins. Such a figure is typical of sympathetic magick and is actually one of the oldest forms of it. The same basic principles—sticking in pins to injure the victim—can be applied to work good. For example, a man may be suffering from a terrible back-ache. The Witch could take some wax, or clay, and fashion a figure to represent the man. It would not have to be an exact likeness, in fact it could be quite a crude “gingerbread man” type figure. But all the while it was being molded she would keep a clear picture of the man in her mind. If she had a photograph of him which she could lay beside her on which to concentrate, all the better. When the figure was finished then she would stick three or four pins in its back—or wherever the pain happened to be. When sticking in the pins she would try not to think of the pain he was experiencing, for at this point she would be merely placing them preparatory to doing the healing.
The next step would be to actually name the figure for the recipient. This would be done by sprinkling and censing it and saying words to the effect “Here lies John Doe, who seeks relief from pain. All that I do to him here is done also to his person.” The Witch would then concentrate as hard as she could on the man, seeing him as being fit and well, without the back-ache. One by one she would then draw out the pins thinking, and perhaps even saying words to the effect, that she was drawing the pain out of his body.
Witchcraft Ancient and Modern
Raymond Buckland
HC Publications, N.Y. 1970
Anointing Oil Recipe
Gather fresh mint (I prefer catmint [Nepeta cataria]) and loosely fill a large jar with it. Pour in an unscented vegetable oil to fill the jar. Cover tightly and let stand for 24 hours, turning the jar to stand upside down every 8 hours. Strain the oil carefully through cheese cloth, squeezing well. Refill the jar with fresh mint and pour the same oil back in. Let stand another 24 hours, turning every 8 hours. Repeat this process over at least a three-day period. The oil resulting from the final squeezing is a good anointing oil with the fragrance of the mint.
“To Meditate” Altar
Light altar candle. Light incense. Light day candle. Light petitioner’s candle (petitioner/meditator), thinking of yourself, and say:
“This candle is myself, burning steady and true.”
Light light blue candles #1 and #2 and say:
“Here do I find peace and tranquility. A place apart, where I may safely meditate and grow in spirituality.”
Settle into meditation in your own particular pattern (e.g., as detailed in lesson 7: transcendental, mantric yoga, or whatever you have found to be best for you). During your meditation, envision yourself (or another, if working for someone else) completely well and healed. At the end of your meditation, extinguish the candles in the opposite order to the way you lit them.
“To Regain (or Retain) Good Health”Altar
Here is a further candleburning ritual, this time specifically for regaining good health.
Light altar candle. Light incense. Light day candle.
Sit for a few moments thinking of the strength, health, and goodness of the Lady and the Lord flowing back into the body.
Light petitioner’s candle, picturing petitioner, and say:
“Here is . . . (name) . . . , in excellent health. The blessings of the Lady and of the Lord be upon her/him that she/he may prosper.”
Light orange candle and say:
“This flame draws all that is good to . . . (name) . . . it draws health and strength and all that s/he desires.”
Light red candles #1, #2, and #3, and say:
“Here, then, is that health and strength, threefold. It is here to be taken into . . . (name’s) . . . body, to serve her/him and build her/him as the Lady and the Lord would wish.”
Then say:
“And in the beginning was it ever thus.
That to live one must hunt; to kill.
That to kill must one have strength.
That for strength there must be eating and movement.
To eat and move there must be hunting.
Be weak and you may never be strong.
Be strong and so you shall remain.
But if you be weak; then must you think strong;
for thought is the deed.
And thinking strong you can then hunt and kill and eat.
Thus, thinking strong, you are strong and you move.
Thought brings not the food, but thought doth bring the means to acquire the food.
So be it!
Strength to the strong!
Strength to the weak!
May the arm lift the spear.
May the arm hurl the stone.
May the arm thrust the javelin.
May there be strength, always.
So mote it be!”
Sit quietly meditating on the wonderful good health enjoyed and to be enjoyed by the petitioner. Sit thus for ten to fifteen minutes. Then extinguish the flames, in the reverse order to the way they were lit. Repeat this ritual every Friday for seven successive Fridays, each time moving the red candles closer to the petitioner.
Animals and Plants
All the healing methods outlined can be used, equally effectively, on both animals and plants. Never forget that we are all a part of nature. If an animal, a bird, a plant, or a tree is sick then it is your duty to try to aid it. Let us all live in harmony with nature. We are all one with the gods.
In addition to the methods of healing dealt with in this lesson, I would recommend all Witches become acquainted with as many other possibilities as they can. It is not necessary to try to learn everything in detail, of course, but it is good to know just what sort of healing can be accomplished with, for example, acupuncture, radiesthesia, radionics, hypnosis, etc.
Positive Thinking
Whatever method of healing you choose, the most important thing to bear in mind is attitude. You must have a positive attitude. As I emphasized in the lesson on magick, you should picture the completion, the end product, of what you are trying to achieve. This is especially important in healing. If the person has a broken leg, see the leg healed; see her or him jumping and running about. If the person has a sore throat, see her or him shouting and singing and laughing. Always think positively and send out positive energies.
I would especially recommend a study of the following books:
Aromatherapy: The Use of Plant Essences in Healing. Raymond Lautic and A. Passebecq.
The Complete Book of Natural Medicines. David Carroll.
The Bach Flower Remedies. Nora Weeks & Victor Bullen.
The Twelve Healers. Edward Bach.
Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies. Philip M. Chancellor.
Alpha Brain Waves. Jodi Lawrence.
The Science and Fine Art of Fasting. Herbert M. Shelton.
Power Over Pain Without Drugs. Neal H. Olshan.
Yogi Therapy. Swami Shivananda Saraswati.
The Foot Book: Healing the Body Through Reflexology. Devaki Berkson.
Homeopathic Medicine At Home. Maesimund Panos and Joseph Heimlich.
Helping Yourself With Self Hypnosis. Frank S. Caprio & Joseph R. Berger.
Healing With Radionics. Elizabeth Baerlein and Lavender Dower.
Theory and Practice of Cosmic Ray Therapy. D. N. Khushalini and I. J. Gupta.
The Practice of Medical Radiesthesia. Vernon D. Wethered.
Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing. Felix Mann.
Helping your Health With Pointed Pressure Therapy. Roy E. Bean.
Lesson Thirteen Questions
1. Relate some of your experiences using auric healing. What were some noticeable results?
2. What methods of color healing work best for you? Results?
3. What gemstones have you used for healing? How did you use them, and what results were noticed?
4. Record your personal list of gemstone properties as discovered through experimentation.
Examination Questions for Lesson 13
1. A young boy slipped from a pile of rocks he was climbing, fell, and broke his left leg. It has been set but is taking a long time to mend. What would you do to help the mending process, utilizing:
(a) auric healing,
(b) gem therapy, and
(c) graphochromopathy.
2. In the case described in question 1, devise a way of aiding the boy, magickally, using a method of your own, which may be based on those given in the lesson (e.g., a variation of sympathetic magick).
3. What is prana? In pranic healing, why is it necessary to shake the hands vigorously at the end of a pass? Give two methods of doing pranic healing when the patient is not physically present.
4. A woman has a hysterectomy. Describe how you would aid her recovery, using a poppet.
5. Write a short essay on healing, reviewing what you have learned in lessons 10, 11, 12 and 13.
Please Read
Color Healing by Mary Anderson
Healing for Everyone by E. Loomis & J. Paulson
Is This Your Day? by George S. Thommen
The Art of True Healing by Israel Regardie
Precious Stones; Their Occult Power and Hidden Significance by W. B. Crow
Recommended Supplementary Reading
Magic and Healing by C. J. S. Thompson
Color Therapy by Linda Clark
Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies by Philip M. Chancellor
Handbook of Unusual and Unorthodox Healing Methods by J. V. Cerney