This has been transferred from the Healing Section.

KARMA AND ILLNESS

The astral body is created, as you know, from the actions of the past.

This is the body that holds all the records of our actions in all our lives, our character that we arrive with and take back to the spirit world, and hope to improve here on the material plain, which is what Karma is all about.

Every little cold we catch is a lesson to be more careful, but not always our past 'doings' catching up with us either!

In one book on spiritual matters it says we must remember that there is in the soul an accumulation of karma.

Past karma, which is built into the astral body, manifests sometimes in the circumstances of a life or it may come out in the form of physical ill, depending on the life lessons we have agreed to before we come to this plane of existence. Remember there are no conscripts here, only volunteers!

Happenings that we so often say to ourselves “Why me?‿

“Why not?‿ The Law of Karma says!

This is the ‘wake up call’ that is the best method we can possible have to guide/nudge us all into change of either our actions directly or our way of life.

The law of karma is exact; it is just, perfect, and true. You cannot interfere with karma, but you can assist yourself and your patient to transmute it. If you or your patients are helped to receive the full inflow of the Christ-Light, he will then help himself; and in that way he will learn by transmutation of his karma instead of by means of the particular disease.

In so many instances the cause of illness lies deep within the soul, and it has been built into the astral body from a past life.

The purpose of karma is to teach. It is to give the individual soul the opportunity to learn lessons, to gain wisdom, to grow in spiritual stature. If the soul is arrogant (which is so often the trouble), if it will not believe, is quite sure that it knows, then there is nothing else for it but to walk the allotted path and endure the physical ill. Yet there are some souls who deliberately choose the way of suffering, but the choice is subconscious.

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GODS WILL.

This brings us to another point: never impose spiritual healing on others. The soul should come of its own free will to seek spiritual help. The need of the patient is for spiritual light; the purpose of the pain is to lead him towards the light.

This is not to say that absent healing on request from a third party is forbidden, we send all healing in Gods name which is love, and so only the healing which is Gods will can be given this way. Healing can simply take the form that a patient is ‘drawn’ to the light, and personal responsibility takes over thereafter.

This is why, in spiritual healing, we are told not to be concerned too much with the physical body, and its manifold aches and pains. To be more concerned with the soul and with the aura of the patient. It is true that the healer, may possess certain magnetic force, or ‘animal magnetism,’ and give temporary relief to the patient, but that is not enough. In spiritual healing you are healing the soul. In time the body will reflect the soul’s health.

We as healers, are working, in company with the angels, to supply the missing elements to restore balance, health or wholeness to the soul. We are a conductors of these pure spiritual forces, so we ourselves must endeavor to be like the priests and priestesses of old. To attune ourselves by pure living, pure thinking, pure action and right behavior, as a human and spiritual instrument. striving with all our hearts to maintain good health.