ON CONDUCTING HEALING CENTERS 205Amfortas’ suffering when he was in the garden with
Kundry and there realized how he might heal the
stricken king. So first and foremost, let us have
devotional exercises, reading from the Bible with
reference to how Christ healed the sick and comforted
the suffering. Perhaps a few comments to drive home
the lesson would be well.
Take The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á
Kempis, or anything else of a thoroughly devotional
nature, and then turn to the study of the human body,
for a knowledge of anatomy is an absolute essential.
The body is the temple for the indwelling Spirit, and as
it is necessary for an architect to know how to prop up
the pillars of a church when the wear and tear of time
have caused the foundation to crumble, so that new
material may replace that which has decayed to make
the edifice strong and useful again, so also must we
know how to strengthen the various parts of the living
temple with which we are to deal. There is a book
calledThe Story of the Living Temple, by Rossiter,
which treats of the body in a spiritual manner and will
serve admirably as an aid to a higher conception while
using the ordinary textbooks.
When taking up a horoscope for analysis, be sure
you do not use the figures for Probationers attending
the meetings, or their close relatives. For just as
students in a medical college often by suggestion
develop the symptoms of the diseases they are
studying, so also members of the class are apt to suffer
from neglect of the above precaution. Moreover, when
a Probationer is ill and applies to the Center for
healing, he or she may not be admitted to the classes
while in ill health, for it is absolutely impossible to