Forget not that the head center is the one through which the will works, and with this in your mind, relate the information given you anent Law One in the early part of this instruction to that which I have here given you. If these laws are studied deeply by those who seek to learn to heal spiritually, and if the healer endeavors to make his life conform to the rules, a definite pattern of healing and an emerging technique will take shape in his mind and greatly increase his effective service. You will note also that I am not giving rules and laws which deal with specific diseases. This, I fear, will greatly disappoint many earnest workers. They would like me to indicate what should be done, for instance, to cure cancer of the liver, or pneumonia or gastric ulcer or forms of heart disease. This I do not intend to do. My work is far more basic than that. I am concerned [548] with causes, and primarily with the etheric body as the distributor of energies or as the withholder of these energies when transformed into forces; I deal with the state of consciousness of the healer and with the theories which he should embrace, with his understanding of the relationship of the soul to its vehicles of expression (particularly, in the case of healing, to the vital body), and with the controlling fact of the centers found in every area of the body, either freely distributing energy and preserving the body in good health or - through undevelopment and inhibited activity - bringing about those conditions in which disease becomes possible and probable.

These four groups of conditioned aspects of the man concern life and consciousness, or the two major aspects of the soul when in manifestation upon the physical plane. [549]

Orthodox medicine has been to date necessarily confined to the objective symptoms and their immediate apparent cause, and therefore to effects and not to real causes. The healing with which I am concerned is directed towards the reorganizing and the revitalizing of the etheric body, with the intent of getting behind the outer formal indications of wrong conditions to that vehicle of energies which - if correctly functioning and in right alignment - will preserve the physical body in good condition and keep it free from disease. The knowledge required by the healer in the New Age is therefore more basic and less detailed. He deals with areas and not with organs; he is concerned with energies and their distributing points, and not with the details of the physical body, with the construction of the organs and their malfunctioning. He will deal with the seven etheric centers, with the nadis through which they affect and stimulate (apart from radiation) the nervous system; he will watch with care the nervous system and the blood stream which the centers affect through radiation on to and through the hormones there to be found. But the keynote of all his work will be directed distribution, and the center of his attention will be the channels of this distribution - the entire system of etheric centers.

I would beg you to reflect upon all this information with studious care. The keynote to good health, esoterically speaking, is sharing or distribution, just as it is the keynote to the general well-being of humanity. The economic ills of mankind closely correspond to disease in the individual. There is lack of a free flow of the necessities of life to the points of distribution; these points of distribution are idle; the direction of the distribution is faulty, and only through a sane and worldwide grasp of the New Age principle of sharing will human ills be cured; only by the right distribution of energy will the ills of the physical body of individual [550] man also be cured. This is a fundamental (I would say the fundamental principle) of all spiritual healing. In the last analysis also this presupposes an eventual and scientific recognition of the etheric body of the planet, and consequently of man.