CHAPTER XX
ON CONDUCTING HEALING CENTERS
General Suggestions
As Probationers in various places have banded
themselves together to study Astro-Diagnosis and
Astro-Therapy with a view to forming Healing Centers
when they shall have become sufficiently grounded in
these sciences, it may be well to give a few
suggestions for the conduct of such centers.
In the first place we must remember that whatever
is to be done is for Christ’s sake, and devotional
exercises at the commencement of classes are an
absolute necessity in order to balance the intellectual
side of the work. Let us remember that the Christ is
now imprisoned in the earth for our sake, bearing the
heavy burden of the earth so that we may have proper
conditions for our evolution; that disease is the result
of ignorance of cosmic laws, hence a retarding factor
in evolution and therefore a cause of prolongation of
the Christ’s imprisonment; and that when we alleviate
human suffering we are at the same time decreasing
the suffering of Christ and hastening the day of His
liberation.
Devotional exercises are a powerful means of
putting us in tune with the Christ. Through them we
gain an intuitional faculty whereby we feel the
suffering of others, and at the same time we find the
way to ease their pain as Parsifal did the cause of