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improvement, as you go.
The more magical forms of healing used by the Old Wise Ones include what might be called spiritual
healing, the laying on of hands, distant healing and pure esoteric healing, possibly using a magical
talisman or verbal spell. In every case you must follow some basic rules.
First you must be asked to help by the patient or someone responsible for them if it is a child, for
example.
Secondly, try to find out exactly what is wrong with them, and if they haven't seen a doctor yet feel
some sort of external healing agency needs to be applied, do encourage them to get at least a
professional diagnosis. That could save their lives, if they are seriously ill!
Thirdly, tell them that you can only help them to get better - you are not the Creative Force, and they
must work towards their own recovery, not simply rely on you, or a doctor, to cure them. Fourthly, go
into the circumstances of their illness with them, seeing if there is an external reason for their
condition, like their lifestyle, bad habits, stress from a job or family situation, or simply that they
really need rest or a change of circumstances and being 'ill' is as good an excuse for having a few days
off work as anything.
Try to get their cooperation in whatever you intend to do for them, obviously after you have received
some training in the method. If you intend to use magic, spells or a talisman, do explain to them, as
some people can be very shocked at the idea of 'witchcraft', often still seen as a series of evil arts,
being applied to their health.
You can make things worse if a patient is led into an incense-filled room, where strange words are
chanted over him and mystical symbols marked on his sore stomach with holy oil. You can scare
people by being too physical as well; someone unused to being touched by other people, could find
the experience of having his feet massaged, as in reflexology, a bit too weird! After all, you do want to
help those who request healing, not scare the wits out of them.
If the sick person is there in person, you may be able to burn gold candles to request that the healing
power of the sun may shine upon him, but actual sunshine will be just as effective. You may be able to
massage away pain, or lay your hands upon him and ask that the restorative power of the Goddess or
the God be felt through your touch, or you may simply counsel him on a more healthy lifestyle, while
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silently asking that healing flow into him.
If your partner cannot be there in person, you might act on a photograph or that earlier version, a wax
image, which was far more often used for healing than harming, but you must still be specifically
asked for help. Use your increased power of imagination, by seeing him well and happy. Make a
talisman on a gold circle, calling on the health-giving power of the sun to lighten his burden, and bring
him increased energy.
You can use the power of the waxing moon to aid a person's strength and resistance to disease, and the
waning power to wipe away the pain, distress or complications, so that at any time you may begin
your treatment. Always use your own psychic powers to discover where the real seat of any illness
lies, rather than just treating symptoms, and ask that they understand the meaning of their illness.
Because the moon rules our mental state, and almost all diseases have a mental component, in that a
sufferer may simply be frightened at being ill, or he may be sick because he is so stressed or anxious
that he catches something nasty, using her changing light in the healing will add an extra benefit.
Learn to be able to take your own pulse in your wrist or neck, gently, so that you can detect how much
more or less relaxed you are after a meditation or ritual celebration. Teach yourself the simple art of
brewing herb teas for calmness or energy. Study the uses of aromatic oils, incenses (which have
always been an important aspect of the use of herbs), gums and resins. Find a supplier who will sell
pure incense gums so that you can try each in turn, to see if you like the smell when you burn it on the
special charcoal blocks. Make sure you don't use too much, about half a teaspoon is plenty to try, on
half a charcoal block. Some incenses give off thick smoke and can make you cough, others may make
your eyes run.
Some illnesses have a very great psychological effect, and it was to combat this that Dr Edward Bach,
working in the 19405, developed his collection of potent flower remedies. Today, there are 38 used in
Britain, but the USA and other places have developed expanded lists, using local herbs, trees and
plants. These gentle remedies work by using what medieval herbalists called the 'virtue' of certain
trees, flowers, shrubs or herbs.
Various parts of the plants are immersed in spring water, in sunlight, and preserved usually by the
addition of a little brandy. They do not work directly on physical illnesses, but on the mental
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conditions which may underlie the problem. For example, if a child is frightened of failing an exam he
may complain of a tummy ache or feeling sick. The flower remedy would work on the underlying fear
rather than the expressed symptoms. Similarly, many adults suffer mental states, mild or severe, that
can manifest as bodily illness.
In each case there is a specific plant which will quite slowly and gently alleviate the condition,
allowing the strength of that person's character to overcome the actual disease or distress. These
remedies are now widely available from good chemists, or health food shops or homoeopathic
pharmacies. Some New Age centres also have specialists in the use of these Bach Remedies who can
be consulted, or even run short courses about their effects and uses.
Do be aware, though, that many apparently simple forms of medicine or therapy can be very powerful
even in the hands of the inexperienced. In aromatherapy, the essential oils which are vaporised, used
in massage oil or applied to certain places on the body can be too strong, and some cause reactions in
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