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.