BROTHER OF OLD:

One of the things which will, in two or three years time, emerge as part of your contribution in service will be a deep knowledge on the part of esotericists and a renewed interest in orthodox circles of the ray-gland-center teaching. I would ask you to let this knowledge percolate slowly (if I may use such a term) into your consciousness and there - without any sense of strain or pressure - it will be gradually assimilated. It will then become an integral part of your scientific knowledge, of your mental equipment, and of your technique in service, so that it will become instinctually available. Forget not, that the hardly won intellectual perceptions have to become instinctual creative factors by the time a man is permitted to take initiation. The esoteric facts learned and the mental awareness achieved, will have to fall eventually below the threshold of consciousness, of thought and of awareness; they must constitute an integral part of the whole man, just as the animal instinctual nature or the reaction of the mind to the array of facts, presented by the use of the five senses, lies below the threshold of the animal consciousness, but is protectively available.

The true healer (and you can most certainly be one) should be so centralized in the higher awareness and subtly perceptive of the needs and the condition of the person to be healed, that his reactions to the situation and to the needed help, will be automatic, intuitive and, consequently, reliable. The true healer also correlates and uses all the various branches of the healing art - exoteric and esoteric, orthodox and experimental. He is not confined to one mode of service or to one scheme of presented healing. Again, I would ask you to ponder upon this.

I would ask you, also, to make a careful study of the use of the hands in healing. I have given various hints in my different [354] books and there is much anent this subject in the doctrine of the Church as to the "laying on of hands" and also in the oriental teachings anent the mudras, or the use of hands in ritualistic service. Find out all that you can about the hands. Later, I will indicate the future use of this science of the hands and give further instruction on the purpose of the centers in the hands in relation to the healing art. In the meantime, gather all the information upon the matter that you can and put it in such form that it may be available for use in the group.