Chapter 11- Medicine: Exercise 3

Exercise 3

The Remedy

Tools required:

• Some raw honey
• Homoeopathic remedies as required
  
  
  Culture the remedy which best suits your needs within the honey and take a spoonful both upon rising and before sleeping daily.

Chapter 11- Medicine: Exercise 2

Exercise 2 

The Rosary

Tools required:

•  Prayer Beads

Prayer:
Day –

I AM THROUGH HE, HIS WILL I BE
HIS STRENGTH NOW HOLDS
MY STRENGTH UNTOLD
NEW LIFE SHALL COME AND THUS UNFOLD

Night –

HERE REST I NOW, WITHIN THY HANDS
I GIVE ME BACK TO THEE
AND WILL IT ALL THAT THOU COMMANDS*
I AM OBEDIENTLY * 

[* Though the ring finger is listed as “Obedience” in the commentary on the Rosary, the little finger is one of “attitude rather than application”. So in fact both these fingers are of obedience- active and passive.] 

Whilst moving the beads through individual fingers per line, start with the first line on the index finger of the dominant hand (for most folk this is their right hand) finishing with the little finger. [Thumb is not included here.] The prayer for the dominant hand is the Day Prayer. 

Then, by working the fingers of the left hand, beginning once again with the index finger, recite a line at a time of the Night Prayer. 

Repeat this as many times as is comfortable.

Chapter 11- Medicine: Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Quoits

Tools required:

• A post
• Some rings to throw over 

Standing as close as it takes, throw every ring over the post.
Feel the exuberance that comes of there being the exact match. 

Chapter 11- Medicine: Meditation

Meditation 

It seems physical frailty

And character’s fault and flaw

Cannot be avoided at this time –

They are a given.

But tied to these

As water to thirst,

The future hope

That gives perseverance

Its present joy,

Is our dear Christ –

Needs driven.

However, He is me!

So driven, I too be –

Why driven?

Why not glide?

Is it because we are

Against a tide

That leaves need

An orphan

Much despised?

And need will ask

That we often test

The normal ways to care

Of Church, of State;

To see if sadly

They prove outworn

And keep us out

At ill’s very gate.

Liberty ordains

We fashion our new deeds

Of remedy and technique

According firstly

To our brother’s needs:

This is where

We will find Christ…

The place where He now leads. 

Chapter 11- Medicine: Contraindicated, Part 2

Atheism, true atheism, is not as prevalent as people might suggest. It is one of the most incredibly difficult conceptualisations to indulge in, and invariably is the root cause of epilepsy (carrying over from a former life), barrenness and schizophrenia.

To a lesser extent the haughtiness of atheism can be found in the indulgences of Narcissism as well. Whilst the two modalities are from the same tree, Narcissism actively seeks out what is perceived to be a mirroring of self within the world and finds comfort (smug comfort) in all likeness. Eventually the appreciation of everything becomes diminished, as the acknowledgments narrow into very defined prejudice and over-sensitivity to the new.

Narcissism seeks self-affirmation in the outer world, trying to correlate the ego’s perspective from the viewpoint of the lower personality. Atheism on the other hand assumes the importance of the lower personality over the possibility of higher divinity and is apathetic to even seeking out any form of self-validation, correctly or incorrectly.

The dangers of narcissistic behaviour lie in respect to how subtly these tendencies can fester, promoting a self-serving artificiality to be sought in a) reality b) unreality and c) misplaced self-value and pride. It is far healthier that we rejoice in others and their differences and then go on to rejoice in that of our own, than rather choose to settle into easy company of agreement which substantiates, but does not further that of our own world and knowing.

Christ lives within the powers that are open-hearted and all-embracing. He does not ask us to entertain demons however, and it is understanding what is correct and what is not in perspective that is the all important lesson here. We have discussed two problematic causes of disharmony within these contraindications:

The difficulty of untoward influences diminishing our abilities, that we are too ‘open’ to projections outside of ourselves and to be wary of such.

Whilst also, we may be too ‘closed’ off from new and good influences. We may become locked down in our smaller sense of self without being able to incorporate new impulses and learnings and appreciations of the greater world and peoples about us.

Although these two appear to be opposites they both come from a condition that very much requires Christ to lead them from the darkness of a diminutive self. 

When we can no longer contrast ourselves with that which exists outside of ourselves we have difficulty. The condition of being too given to outside influences at the expense of who we are most naturally and healthily comes from lacking the strength required to do so. Eventually and through Christ, we shall be empowered more and more in this. And, not at the expense of sensitivity or clairvoyance either. Quite the opposite. The better condition for men is that they will consciously know of the influences around them and choose which they should live and become with, and those they should not.

With narcissism we cannot contrast ourselves with that which indicates perceptible difference either. We are sensing the pain of impingement before it occurs. Once again, through Christ shall we learn to discriminate that which heals from that which harms.

Chapter 11- Medicine: Contraindicated

Activities Contraindicated:

• Spear fishing (and other such predatorial recreations – hunting, shooting, etc.)
• Computer games or work
• Atheistic indulgences
• Narcissistic indulgences

Spear fishing as a hobby, rather than an absolute need, lies contrary to the very virtues the individual who is deficient in medicinal properties is attempting to draw into themselves.
Quite obviously in the first instance, the taking of any life dismisses our understandings of the very life within our own beings. However the difficulty with recreational killing is that it also incites many inharmonious pleasures in the practice as well.

To hunt and to capture has long been romanticized as a masculine heroism – perhaps relating to the days when skill could conquer over mass and ferocity. Whereas at present, when the mortal peril is rarely in question … when the hunted are but lesser creatures who pose no real contest to our ‘manlihood’ - then the chase is but a farce to the ego, which independently recognizes this discrepancy.

There are astral passions that are inflamed and excited by such activity. Holding a blood-drenched rabbit, with his ‘spirit’ having fled with his warmth, and his pulse (and his humor) all spent – what does the hunter experience when he acknowledges satisfaction in this strike? Moreover, what does it do to his own constitution in the process? … It denies it! It works against it and drives the indwelling ‘spirit’ out in disgust, by means of the disassociation which has just occurred.

Every action we participate in and entertain within our own thoughts and passions becomes mirrored within. Criticisms and hatreds score our processes and disrupt our functions. Life cannot remain where it is no longer invited.

Added to this we are also very much influenced by the company we keep and the indwelling thoughts and systems around us. Fortunately there are many perimeters which cordon us off from much which would impinge extraordinarily – and yet a little of everything still speaks to us daily and does so accumulatively.

The moral atmosphere surrounding a child is especially important in that their virginal astral sheaths are particularly impressionable to the invisible dialogues around them. It is often proven generationly just how much damage sadly can be done when the disruptive and sour tendencies from one can be thereby passed on. Weaknesses such as thievery can develop into congenital madnesses. The inordinate passion of the hunter as spoken of above, can cripple or disease the child that grows up with it. These are no small matters. Yes, we are all impressionable.

So, without paranoia, it is important to be guarded and well advised as to the morality and even-temperedness of the folk who presume to be in company with you or your children, for any lengthy period. Hysteria, agitation, cruelty – even chronic flippancy – becomes erosive to the constitution which bears its output through proximity.

Added to this now have also the computer systems which do not relate in any way to the organizational properties of organic Man. If one is ill or in deficit of the medicinal virtues, or wishing to cultivate further healing comprehensions to livingly dwell within their makeover so as to become a better practitioner or therapist, then it is advised to spend as little time as possible around computer systems. 

In general it can be said that computers themselves harvest many wonderful thoughts, processes and dialogues. They are not an artificial intelligence, but rather vehicles for a multitude of combined intelligences which stream and pool in many, many areas of influence – at the one time.

Oddly enough, (even though one can cite the electromagnetic demons and their kind) a computer when it is without its power is as impinging as one which is turned on. This is not speaking from the view of electrical impulse and radiation, but of a more subtle form of exposure we are given to, simply by being in the ‘company’ of this object of certain form and function.

You see, whether something is visibly animate or not, its movements which have formerly been, play out in the astral counterpart continuously and without rest. Whatever a person or an object has done – any change in its structure, output or momentum (and of course at the minutest of levels this occurs within all matter anyhow) - there is a repetitive replay of events of form occurring within the astrality of its space all of the time. And we are more than susceptible to these emanative mimes.

The problem with the computer (as wonderfully useful as it is) is that its functional properties are so very, very different to the workings of the physical body and what we are trying to develop therein. When a man is compared to a machine there could be nothing further from the truth ever said.

This is in itself a mystery, but suffice to say here that the working properties are contrary and not helpful to that of our own psyche or harmonious cooperative whole.

However, and having said that, there are times and conditions in which computerized systems have assisted in interim periods of physical need and worked with specific purpose to assist a hospitalized patient with some function for which they themselves could not implore. Whilst we are differentiating between that which is working countercurrent to the forces we should wish to indwell, we are in no way discouraging a man from the cooperative assistance of a dialysis machine for example and the tremendous benefit he can there depend upon.

Chapter 11- Medicine: Recommended, Part 2

Studying Christ-Wisdom & God-Wisdom within us:

Within a man’s active power of reference – his automatic knowing – there is a faculty which could be termed as instinctual, but indeed is so inspired from much higher sources that it is not. This could be defined as pneu – being of a collective learning – yet also is not, because this faculty is preceded by a higher reasoning than mere learned accounts and responses accrued … it is rather of the very “Pneuminous” itself – of the Spirit, of the Father, of God.

All conscious learning is effectively perfected through Christ. This occurs on the personal level and goes on to enhance the collective learning as well. The very mechanics of being able to take in new learnings, new thoughts, new discoveries, new concepts, new understandings, new discernments gleaned from past inadequacies – the very mechanics are provided for, also through Him. 

Instinctual knowledge which has been earned over time, and gathered in (by any worldly species) actively works to contribute to this pool of inherent wisdom that is thereafter made rapidly accessible. Its overall faculty to keep safe such a storehouse is maintained ‘outside’ of each individual mind within the world. 

Species inherit and maintain keys into particular special “speciel” beingness – one key will bring them to the necessary complexities and patterns of behaviour which are within the range of their own kind.

Further on, if for example a characteristic group of animals moves out from extinction and into another form of incarnating expression within the World, then the same key each have belonging to their collective learning will also introduce them to the transfigured form and ease them into adapting to the new life within also.

This adapting within requires much more knowledge than that which they have already acquired beforehand. As you can imagine, their very physicality, their movements, their assumed natures, their means for survival etc. is implied here. 

All that this world requires from them in intelligent participation has altered somewhat and yet must be ‘picked up’ within a heartbeat, else their life’s connection would be lost. (Very occasionally this does happen where both imbecile animals and humans have been stillborn, indicating an attempted ‘leap’ from species or race where the connection could not be effectively made. However, usually the second attempt will always be successful.) 

Now, this faculty which is obviously separate to these groupings of both man and animal (and for that matter the plant as well) who all require this bank of referential knowledge, is safe-kept in Christ. This is a very important point, because by being through Him it is that all good things
worthy of the keeping are given their enduring permanence, whilst entries of a given nature that are riotous or disease-bearing are not.

Evolutionists never really came to attribute healthy developmental adaptations as being incorporated and favoured through yet a higher intelligence and yet greater reasoning. However, a random and indiscriminate process of ‘evolution’ would not, of itself, know how to protect itself or beautify, to be selective or even to necessarily favour life over death. As the word itself implies, we ‘roll out’ we are unenveloped into a greater condition which is already there and prepared for us. So the emphasis is not so much on the actual process of the developing, unenveloping or rolling out, but rather that further condition which awaits the results of that process. 

That condition is provided for by Christ. It has always been this way in this World. 

Prior to the Incarnation this principle ran through the “little ethos” i.e. the Christ divining permeated all substance and beings through the etheric sun and its vitalities. The little ethos is a term which remonstrates the ‘little sun’ which resides within all men and empowers them so. This little sun still radiates the heart and all of its discernments, however in addition to this came also our Christly influence incorporated much more differently within both the ego and directive will of Man as well.

Artist: Gerard Wagner

Christ now could fully enter into the waking consciousness of a self-aware man … and intentionally, rationally, decidedly and wakefully be regarded, experiencing both inner and outer realities as He does Self-consciously perceive. The matter of the reference of the heart will never be replaced in this process, but rather can now be interpreted within the ego in full realization – one day. This is yet one more ongoing development, one more work in progress! 

Without Christ species would be locked into a repetitive journey – one which would preclude them from ever moving on into differing experience within the world, and one which would also predictably go on to continue with problems that of themselves could not offer the space or the answer for the solving.

Aside from the knowledge which has been gathered and so kept, and also for the pneu opportunities that He provides, we now come to the subject of the Pneumanous for which we also have keys – that Divine Wisdom subject to Father God graciously provided – a wisdom which has not been earned for ourselves by ourselves. 

For the purpose of this reading we may refer to this wisdom as being Pneumatic! 

Pneumatic wisdom is more ancient that the soul itself. It dwells both inside and outside of ethernity’s perimeters, it speaks more closely to our innermost natures than any cry or learning could come through heart or mind. 

Pneumatic wisdom is that faculty through which we may understand the Graces as they come to us. The Virtues are contained and interpreted through Christ – through an egoic calling and reckoning. However, the Graces and their abundant currencies are recognised by Man through that which cannot be reckoned with most reasonably. They are beyond even a divine reason, from yet a still higher and greater reasoning still. 

The Pneumatic wisdoms are not of this world, nor of the immediate spiritual boundaries either. Having said that though, we can easily observe their providence and how one system relaxes into another and back again, as we travel through the Son unto the Father, and from the Father back into the Son and into this World. 

Pneumatic wisdom promotes the first point of reference, first origin and singular source. It is through this faculty of knowing we are empowered to find our immediate connections through to Father God, and in this also find our selfhood as well. Through Christ we come to the duality of otherness, of the Creation that can come of that duality, and the consciousness which resides in the experience. Yet it is through Father God that we essentially know the “I” in “I am”. The manifestive “am” needs firstly to source and sense the “I”. It is this primary knowing which assumes many other seemingly passive knowings to follow. 

A passive knowing is one that is not automatically or realistically derived from exterior circumstances, for example. Often this knowing lies contrary to circumstances and though it may be heralded as intuition or prayerfulness, the ability to feel “at peace” or “with certainty” or even “reflective” comes from the faculty presiding in pneumatic wisdom, rather than by founded assurances at the time.

Passive knowing may require that a man understands when it is time to desist from something and it could be something he has hitherto lifelong pledged and worked for. Often we do create around ourselves many routines and elementals of a given behaviour or employment or life choice, in which we are afforded the freedom of desistance from - should we wish, should it be necessary for ourselves – through the powers of Father God. That we may come to this exaggerated turnaround in thought and execute what needs be done to make such uncharacteristic changes, comes of itself from this passive knowing.

Similarly in its action we relax and tense our physical properties continuously; we constantly resume ourselves back to the Father and then go forth into worldly life once again. We sleep and awake, we pray and we blink, and eventually we desist through death also – which too is a gift.

This study assists the student of medicine in respect to the two principles that may at any one time be apparent within the patient. Although the Christ-Wisdom is always complementary to the God-Wisdom, we may view contradictory processes occurring within our physical bodies often because the God-Wisdom is not respected and made secure. 

In the previous passage about becoming true to oneself, this was especially the message meant. That an individual can regain their right to desist out from something, and to be afforded the peace within – a place to rest from the world – a place which when denied will undoubtedly cause physical and egoic chaos and begs answering – eventually.

Chapter 11- Medicine: Recommended

Activities Recommended: 

• Being true to oneself
• Making a study of God Wisdom and Christ Wisdom as it operates within the constitution and being of Man
• Being true to oneself – firstly

“I refuse to make comment on the grounds that it might incriminate me.” 

This interesting statement of omission admits to an appearance of guilt, at the very least, and perhaps even of something more. If we are to object to revealing a truth, simply because that truth as we know it may incriminate us, then we are at the crossroads of law – whether it be moral or social law, we surely become nonplussed.

How is it that a man can be expected to go against his better interests and, for that matter, his better instincts and yet be true to himself all the while? True morality is formed within our beings, and is identified by a higher conscience which envelops the interests of that individual as well as the corporate whole. In other words, what is meant to be said here, is that true morality is conducive to the better interests of more than any one being, and this is instinctively know by them, whilst at the same time must hold true to the principle in selfhood as well.

However, we do have license also – concessions so permitted – which allow for our individual natures to be differing from all others. Both Nature and the Heavens do not anticipate our thoughts to move in utter unison and nor do they expect conformity amongst men to the point of robotic compliance. As individuals we are given spiritual freedoms to express ourselves in love in the World in ways which are particular to ourselves. Men, women and children all need to love that which they do in the World, else they begin to let lose their very desire to incarnate and begin to dissolve. Much of medicine addresses this very condition – one where lovelessness is causal to death and disease. 

“Being true to oneself” denotes more than holding a simple honesty – it also means that it is preferable to uphold, convey, express and give license to ourselves in being ourselves – and especially when we are called upon through criticism or objection by another to go against that which concerns that of our beings firstly. 

The first illness ever manifest began right here. Suppression of our selfhood blocks the passage of the life which would have otherwise flowed into our beings by the love which is excited through our passion, our interests, our desire, our curiosity, our wonderings, our great joys – our inner yearnings – natural to us, yet which are so quickly by-passed by the solemn and secondary considerations.

Continued... 

Chapter 11- Medicine: Song

A Song for the Apothecary of the Soul

To: the Divine Chemyst

& His most noble TREE:

(the Tree of Life)

the Chemyst-TREE!

To: Master Wonder

and Missy Ponder

Who seek to find that which is

hidden,and yet MEANT -

wondermeant

excitemeant

enjoymeant

contentmeant! 

To: The Magician Physician

and his widows, all three:

lovelessness,

sickness,

and Madame Poverty.

To: Benjamin Toohley

and Burbus Macbine

and all of our colleagues

for Health and Divine! 

May you wrestle the fates

and survive them unbruised!

Dance with time through the night,

Until morn adorns the first hues!

Fill your cup from the well

that is proven by Him,

And therein dispel

all your fears of the grim! 

Artist: Záborského

Death died on Calvary

And came back renewed

‘Tis but servant to Master

As Christ surely hath showed!

Chapter 11- Medicine

Chapter 11

Medicine

Dietary Exercise Suggested:


Exploring the transmutation of food, that transubstantiation which takes place when nutritive substance becomes specifically medicinal.
 
Empowering and enhancing water and nutritive substances through prayer, combining and ritual.


Exampling exercise to begin with: 
Choosing a favourite food substance or fluid (i.e. juice, milk, vegetable etc.) which is in a lively condition (not hitherto dried or reconstituted) and work with this substance over one or two months with the purpose of creating a personalized medicine.

Commentary:

When an individual approaches his food in these times he does so with a dubious rationale that vaguely accepts that it may or may not be good for him; and yet he or she will (most times) still go ahead and eat it.

This is an unusual approach and lies contrary to existence. It also lies contrary to the mindset and desire as known by the supporting kingdoms. Would that beasts, for example, had the reasoning to ponder the goodness of something they were about to eat for their own livelihood and bethought it questionable to their health, they would instinctively ignore it. They would not take it into themselves for it would no longer be considered ‘food’ to them.

Yet for Man in general there seems to be an air of compromise given to his mealtimes – some dim resolution that “all things are bad for you one way or another” and that it is almost a waste of time itself to begin the questioning about what exactly we put into our mouths.

Further to this comes the haunting doubt and negativity that the conscientious - those who do question - go on to suffer; having to wonder what chemicals, what processes, what pesticides, what plastic gases, etc. have contaminated the food that they would enjoy. Overall there is not the happy childlike faith springing forth and welcoming in the food there before us, coming as a ‘normal’ response.

Subconsciously at the very least, we are depressed about the nutritive goodness and quite complacently resolute to settle for second or third best. It is this displacement of attitude which affects our relationship with the life of all foods and how we go on to assimilate them.

Of course this upset and mistrust is reinforced also by our repeated behaviors of consuming certain substances which we know are injurious to our constitution. There is a measure of betrayal in this, and an acceptance of such self-betrayal – in an effort to persuade ourselves that it is ‘our body’ and ‘life is too short not to enjoy …' etc. etc. Once again, we can go against our own best interests in this matter, to appease the short-term.

Historically there may have been elements of mistrust concerning the condition of particular foods and whether or not they had, for example, deteriorated into a poison. However, the variety was quite limited (compared to today), the synthetics were not on offer, and the instinct to care for oneself firstly prevailed over any tastebudial curiosity, and most of the world food had always been in short supply - eating therefore, was a matter of survival rather than gourmet curiosity. We may create marvelous recipes and work creatively with the local produce, however the diversity as known today throughout the wealthier regions of the world has not been hitherto experienced either.

For the purpose of this exercise we are viewing medicine in relation to food. This is not difficult because food itself is a pre-medicinal medicine. It can offer both nutrition – maintaining a healthy system – or it can have an action reintroducing that system to forces to which it now requires. Nutrition may be regarded as that feminine component – of containing and supporting and defining the healthy perimeters - whilst the medicine in nutrition is moreover of the masculine aspect, having a prescribed purpose to a differentiated need.

Medicine is a specific agent which assists in the treatment or cure of a condition which is malevolent to the working body in general. Any disturbance to the ecology of our constitution requires ‘putting right’ – that the system in its harmonious enterprise can continue on as healthily as is possible. Medicine seeks out the inharmonious and requests a formal compliance with the overall will of Christ and the soulic determination of the individual driving that body as well. This applies to all healing.

The co-operative effort which is the body given to the individual experiencing it, exists amongst tensions which push and pull from everywhere! These tensions relate to literally hundreds and thousands of incoming and outgoing forces. Some of these forces are easily characterized, and some are not even made tangibly measurable by an adept himself.

There are influencing life-forces competing within the same region all over. There are quarreling co-habitants, debating minerals, dictating wills, elemental desires, overdrawn organs, excitable bloods and fake and genuine foods! 
(Note: ‘fake’ foods corrupt the body’s vitalities when it makes an effort to extract the etheric life but finds none to draw from. Universal life floods in, bringing with it such an in pouring of goodness which must be shunted to be withstood, whilst, at the same time, alien creatures try to take harvest in viral enterprise also, attempting to permeate the physical world and break into the keys of life here within the organic complex.

The ONLY being who can hold all of this together is CHRIST. There certainly is no other. This organized mass of incredible community and that which makes up all physical body, is He. He drew it together and gave us the starry frame (our living zodiacal astrality), He pieced the offerings together and calmed their beings by complementing their very differences with one another. It is He which will teach us of the only true medicine, for it is only through Him can we call to order an entire community at the one time.

Although we speak then of specifics and obvious remarkable disorders, paradoxically the actual healing and the medicine itself must come from a place which understands the ecology of overall harmony in its entirety. It is not enough to go to an area of symptoms and maintain their happiness alone. If we only treat one problem the workers elsewhere will simply react, and the overall ecology is disrupted again.

It may be that there is a physical problem with an immediate physical solution that is localized (such as a dyspepsia on one day which is alleviated by a little milk), however chronic conditions have implications which always run beyond the mere physical complaint and indicate a treatment needed which is comprehensive and of a more complex order.

This dietary exercise encourages us to find a substance which we are more than comfortable with. It is requested though, that it be a primary food – one which is not combined, or with yeast as a component. It must be in its near natural state. Anything which has been depleted of its fluids or chemically engaged is not suitable. Pasteurized and homogenized milk is acceptable. Juice that has been extracted and does not contain all of its fibre is also acceptable.

Find this juice, fruit, vegetable, milk, seed, nut, berry, honey, that you might like to work with. Put a lot of thoughtful exploration into this. During one week, go to the substances you have in mind and review them – smell them, taste them, sense them - watch your health directly after having consumed them. If there is one you find you prefer, eat or drink a portion just before sleeping at night and record in the morning your dreams and your sleep. Even if it takes an entire month to find that one substance that you trust and you enjoy, then take the time with it to be sure that this substance goes well with you. This will then become your base property for making your own medicine in this exercise.

The objective of this particular medicine we are to prepare, is for the restoration of overall harmony in and around all conjunctures that comprise our being. This is an attempt to find THE medicine, which in a roundabout way does also lead you to the objective of all good nutrition – however, we caution that this is not to replace any or all foods that you normally would require, nor is it to replace any or all preparations and practices you would utilize for your ailments.

Earlier it was mentioned that we attempt to be as healthy as we can be … and given the age, the conditions - our own age and our own conditions - the physical considerations will be different from person to person.


At present all physical matter tires. One way or another our bodies will go into dissolution and give way to the impelling forces without, and this is to be expected. Immortality of the flesh is not desirable at this point because of the immature nature of that flesh. It is far better to take the eons required to incorporate all that Man can use well and profit by, than urge to make fast and permanent something which is deficient in responding to the needs of the soul and true ego. At present we are all mismatched as it were, but we can begin to work for the overall change in the present now, with hope for the futures to come.

In this exercise we are not trying to work over just one arm or leg of the substance we have chosen. We will not be seeking to contain a set of cells within a jar or bottle and hold to the one issue. In this we are endeavouring to meet with the substance itself so well, that in future times we can find it out from anywhere on the globe and exhume the medicinal properties within its nature, purely because of our relationship with the spiritual being that governs its manifestation. This food (whether in solid or fluid form) can become a living talisman of extraordinary health when we have decided and worked alongside it as such. It can be something of our own consulting physician, both diagnostic and remedial; personalized and made special by ourselves, for ourselves.

When we combine natures – that of our own, combining with that of a food – we are changed from that moment onward. In general terms, most equate the necessity of food with the necessity of living, however the principle of induction itself pertains everywhere – past the threshold of this physical existence – and in fact, is not related to the necessity of persistent life being dependent upon it for its continuance or future, but is rather complementary in the process, ancillary to the existence.

Without induction all beings lose measures of a self-conscious sensing of themselves, as it takes ‘other’ natures, other sources, other beings and other consciousnesses to help us to define our own perimeters of being. If, for example, you are placed within a darkened room and have no sense experience offered from without it would be very difficult to comprehend the form of your own body. We must touch something before we can sense ourselves sensing through touch. We feel ourselves, not the thing we are touching moreover when we do feel. We may acknowledge presence and definition, but it is through our own windows, through our own perceptors and in this way we need (on every level that is) ‘others’ to become inducted into our experience. (Not in a vampiristic way of course, but in a living connective relationship.)

This concept will assist the student in his relationship to his special food made medicine.

Eating is one way we coincide with another nature, and by this coincidence may we also meet with all of the other natures co-incidental to that substance we have partaken in!

Now, in having explained that there is one more lesson to know before we go on – and that being of the difference between ritual magic and self intuiting. There are many recommended practices and procedures which do not require an intelligent comprehension of the processes involved to attract certain revelatory end results. A crude example of this may be the tarot cards whereupon the operator will arrive at ideas with the external assistance of a given procedure – drawing and placing designated pictures a certain way and go on to interpret them. However, the knowledge gained in this way is secondary and is not directly conscious to the experience to which it pertains.

Exercises within this book – whether jovial or serious – will also bring about ideas and experiences that would not have directly come through the path of reason alone. And there is a place for these exercises that may bring you to experience which was not possible to come to any other way. Yet, there would be something of an extreme contradiction taking place if one gave an exercise, routine or ritual in relation to our coincidental medicinal food. For, as discussed, this one substance we are seeking is to become an ambassador to health and harmony within that of our own systems, and it can only be through our own intuitive relationship to this substance that we may find the exact ways of doing this.