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| by anonymous German painter |
The human body first created by Love was whole and
perfect. As people forgot that they had
been created in the image of Divine Love, and their connection with Divine
Source was broken, disease and physical maladies manifested in their bodies. All
the Agents of Love were dismayed by the range of illnesses that cropped up as
people grew more deeply ensconced in the belief that we are separate and flawed
creations of the one we have called God. But there would be no healing without
illness, and healing is one of the greatest gifts life offers, because we
always appreciate ourselves more when we emerge on the other side of an
illness, whole and well. For each disease that appeared, the healing angels
created a cure. These cures are not always easily discovered, but when
compassionate people have the desire to heal the sick, they hear the whispers
of angelic guidance with their inner ears.
To be a healer is one of the highest callings there is.
So, while the effects of disease have been devastating to humanity, sickness,
like every other human problem, creates the opportunity for love to grow in
human hearts. The head of the angels of healing, Archangel Raphael, explained it
to his team this way: “The deeper the misery that humans find themselves in,
the greater is the love and compassion poured out to redeem them, and the
greater the joy when healing takes place.”
“But Raphael, people hate to be sick, and they’re going
to keep asking how God can allow all this disease in the world,” argued Ariel,
one of Raphael’s assistant healers.
“I know,” Raphael sighed. “People always blame Divine
Love for their sorrows. They have forgotten that they brought sickness on
themselves when they let the shell of separation form around their souls. The
shell keeps Love from circulating freely through their bodies, and allows
disease to creep in.”
The other healing angels looked out over the masses of
sick and failing inhabitants of earth, and Ariel, angel of nature and healing
said, “If only they understood that pure Love is the best medicine!”
“That concept is much too simple,” Raphael responded.
“Humans like things to be complicated, and you know that things have to be
different for each group. Eventually they will learn from one another and share
their healing methods.”
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| Shennong |
The healing angels flew to different parts of the earth,
teaching the ways of healing that would best suit the mentality of each
culture. In every land they searched for a person with a thin shell, whose
inner ears would be sensitive to angelic voices, and whose mind would be open
to ideas that would benefit his friends. Five-thousand years ago in China, they
found Shennong, a man who cared deeply about the welfare of his fellow citizens. He taught them how to plough the land and
grow edible plants so they would have more nutritious food to eat. The healing
angels told Shennong that certain plants could be used to heal diseases and
injuries. They helped him identify these herbs, but he personally tasted all of
them – hundreds – to verify the safety and wisdom of ingesting each one, before
recommending it to others. Then Shennong dried the
herbs and brewed them into teas for the sick and injured who would seek him out
for his knowledge of plants.
“Do you know what I should eat, to ease the pain in my
head?” one might ask him. And Shennong would mix certain herbs together in an
earthenware cup and pour boiling water over them; then bow low before his
patient as he presented the medicinal brew. He would bow because the
presentation of the tea was a prayer as well as a healing treatment. And
because Shennong was so frequently in a state of prayer for the people he cared
about, the angels were able to show him another way to help the sick.
When human beings lost their spiritual connections, they
forgot about the meridians that carry the life force, known as chi, through
their bodies, keeping them balanced and healthy. Like electricity, these
pathways are invisible to the human eye, but they are vital for the well-being
of the physical body. The angels showed Shennong how these rivers of chi distribute
revitalizing energy to the corresponding parts of the body. While his patients
sipped their tea, they had no idea that Shennong was watching orbs of light encircling
the areas in their bodies where the flow of energy had been blocked. The angels
showed him how to release these blockages by applying pressure at the right
spots.
“But I only have two hands,” Shennong pointed out
(silently, so that his patient could not hear him). “I can’t put pressure on
thirty spots at once the way you angels can!”
“This is true!” Raphael laughed as he observed Shennong
trying to spread ten fingers to cover twenty spots on the body of a young man
suffering from indigestion. “You need something to supplement your fingers . .
. . such as the bone needles you sew
your clothes with. But whittle the points very fine, so they will barely
puncture your patient’s skin. Then you can place lots of them at the right
spots all at the same time.”
And so the healing arts of acupressure and acupuncture
were introduced to the Chinese. These healing methods have been refined and
perfected over the millennia, and in recent times were introduced to western
cultures where people are beginning to recognize the value of wisdom that comes
from other parts of the world.
Throughout most of history, scholars of the western world
have focused on the physical side of life, and the invisible meridians, known
as chi in China and prana in India, were not known at all. The healing angels
realized that western patients would think their doctors were crazy if they stuck
needles in them, so they took a different approach with healers in places like
Egypt and Greece.
In ancient Egypt, the healing angels found a man named
Imhotep, who was in tune with the divine light within himself, and communicated
easily with the divine beings who directed him in building King Djoser’s Step
Pyramid. The first pyramid to be built in Egypt, this architectural feat combined
a profound knowledge of physics and the cosmos. Imhotep understood that the
energy of oneness beats in the heart of the pyramid’s geometrical form. When he
sat in just the right spot to meditate, he could experience complete oneness
with all of creation, including the angels. A deeply compassionate man, Imhotep
confided to his divine friends that he wished he could do something for
humanity on a more personal level than the pyramids accomplished.
“It is only the priests and highly-learned people who
even understand the significance of the pyramids,” Imhotep said. “I would like
to perform healings for the common people who suffer from diseases of the
body.”
“And so you shall,” Raphael said, and he and the other
healing angels taught Imhotep how to diagnose and treat over 200 diseases,
including tuberculosis, appendicitis, gout, and arthritis. They also showed him
how to perform surgery for many of these diseases, how to practice dentistry,
and which plants to use for medicinal purposes.
Imhotep not only healed hundreds of people himself, he
trained others in the medical arts and wrote about his findings. His knowledge
and accomplishments were so far beyond the ordinary of his day that he was
elevated from mere mortal status to that of a medical demigod 100 years after his death. Another 1900 years
later, he was elevated to the position of a full god, along with Amenhotep, the
only other mortal the Egyptians felt was worthy of full divine status.
Just as the early church fathers granted sainthood to
mystics and healers in order to set them apart from ordinary people, the
Egyptians declared that Imhotep was a god so that nobody else would try to
attain his level of intelligence and compassion. That is, nobody other than the
pharaohs, whose presumed divinity gave them unlimited power over all the
land. The healing angels grumbled among
themselves when Imhotep was deified. Ariel said, “These people will never
recognize their own connection to Divine Love if they make gods out of everyone
who finds the divine light within.”
“It’s a lot easier this way,” Raphael replied. “It doesn’t take much effort to worship
somebody, but it does take a lot of work for a person to dig down through the
layers of illusion and indoctrination to find the inner core that connects them
with All-That-Is. As long as the awakened ones are in the minority they will be
placed on a pedestal high above the masses.”
This prediction proved
particularly true of Imhotep, who was also worshiped as a god of medicine in
Greece and Rome, and even worshiped by some early Christians as the Prince of
Peace.
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| Hippocrates |
The next Westerner the healing
angels worked with had to be more down-to-earth than Imhotep – someone who
would not sit in the center of a pyramid to meditate – so that people would be
less likely to deify him. They chose Hippocrates, a Greek, who lived during the
500th century BC. Hippocrates learned a lot from the writings of Imhotep, but
he based much of his medical practice on his own observations and study of the
human body. He scoffed at the popular notion that illness was the result of
possession by evil spirits or disfavor by the gods. Hippocrates knew the gods
well, especially the gods and goddesses of healing: Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia,
and Panacea,
so he understood that they desired only good health and well-being for the
people they served. These gods, and the angels of healing, taught Hippocrates
that the human body was not a collection of separate parts, but a whole entity in
which the health of each part was dependent upon the others. They taught him
that the body is a microcosm of the universe in which every living being is an
integral part of All-That-Is.
With the
help of his divine teachers, Hippocrates learned to describe many disease
symptoms with great accuracy, and he learned about the natural healing effects
of rest, fresh air and sunshine, a nutritious diet, and good hygiene. He
traveled throughout Greece, practicing medicine and teaching his patients how
to follow a healthy lifestyle. Eventually he founded a medical school on the
Greek island of Cos where the invisible divine healers worked side-by-side with
Hippocrates as he taught his students how to treat their patients with respect,
compassion, and rational application. Hippocrates’ logical approach to healing
suited the Western intellect, and so he became known as the Father of Western
Medicine.
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