The Priest's Craft: the healing service

I thought we would take up this afternoon first for a few moments the Healing Service, and show how that is done.

You begin with the Asperges. By the way, there is a misprint in the first prayer: it should read "His" servants, not "Thy" servants.

I think it is better done in the morning than later in the day. It is sometimes done in the evening but the bodies are then tired and dissociated, there is not the same connection between the physical and the higher bodies. You see the physical body has been having impacts upon it all day which tire the body very much. It does not work in the same homogeneous way that it does earlier in the day, because these impacts make it work at different rates of vibration. You see all sorts of different little vortices all over it.

The real part of the service begins with the calling of the Healing Angel. If you have done the Mass, do not repeat the Asperges and the Confiteor.

I like a Healing Service right after the Eucharist as a rule, and the people who are to be healed do not take communion until the Healing Service. I have the feeling myself -- except for Ordinations -- for rather separating things off, as it makes the Eucharist drag out too long.

Then we come to the Anointing. We do it in this Church at the communion rails, and you do it like this, from the altar. As the prayer "O Lord" make your intention a general one of opening up the people, of opening the anthakarana -- that their hearts and minds be opened to the heavenly grace -- it cleans out the spinal channels.

The exorcism draws out the divine power in you for cleansing the candidate.

Then you take a little of the healing oil, and say: "In the Name," and then you anoint.

You do not want to say the words mechanically, but you think of the Lord Christ and of the Archangel Raphael.

As you say the phrase: "Christ the Son of God," think of the Lord Christ pouring down His healing power upon them. You think of the healing power coming through you, and of the aura as charged with love and of the Christ's influence as flowing through you, filling the aura with love.

Then you make the crosses -- being careful to touch the skin -- all this you do for the person individuality.

Then you say generally: "As with this," after that you give the Sacrament if not already received.

I make a practice of exposing the Host after the Absolution, but you had better have your Bishop's consent before you do so.