CHAPTER VIII

HINTS AND HELPS FOR THE HEALER

   1.--NEVER,  NEVER  predict the time of death to your  patient.   Let  the reader repeat this injunction so as to impress it firmly upon his mind.   If you predict DEATH to a patient,  YOU may become his executioner,  and before your  God you will be held accountable for a great wrong.   There is an  old adage which says,  "While there's life, there's HOPE."  No matter how strong the affliction may be in the horoscope, sometimes Divine Providence may lend a hand, and very serious periods may be passed with the proper help.

   2.--The LAW does not permit a layman to diagnose disease for others; only the licensed physician may do this.

   3.--The wise healer will NEVER discuss disease with his patient, nor will he ever diagnose to the patient.  He will keep his knowledge for his own use in healing.

   4.--At all times keep the patient's mind,  if possible,  from thoughts of disease,  and  before  leaving give him some pleasant thought  to  help  him along.  Laugh  and  joke  with  him;  always  leave  him  with  a smile, for cheerfulness is half the cure.

   5.--Refrain from asking him the question, "How do you feel?"   This has a tendency to throw his thoughts back to his physical body,  which in  illness is  a good thing for him to forget.   Let your first words of  greeting  be, "What a beautiful day!   I am glad to see you."   Any greeting is good  that will bring cheer, and help the sufferer to forget his pain.

   5A.--Never discuss the patient's horoscope with him;  if he insists  however, then give him encouraging hints only, but NEVER tell him of an impending crisis.

   6.--Sick  people often have a morbid desire to probe into the future,  to know of any impending crisis or of possible death,  especially if they  have some knowledge of astrology.   The healer should request the patient to discontinue  the study of his own horoscope while he is under his care;  otherwise  he  will find that many adverse suggestions obtained from  such  study will appear in the mind of the patient, which will hinder the healing.

   6A.--There are lines of force running between the two poles of a  magnet, and there is in all nature a positive and negative side. The human body is a  most  powerful magnet expressing both the positive and the  negative  aspects.  When a man is ill, he expressed the negative side of his nature, and therefore the healer should (and will if he is the right healer) express the opposite aspect, namely the positive.  When this is done, the  patient  will respond quickly,  and the healing will be successful.   Therefore it is very necessary that the healer express positiveness and cheerfulness in the sickroom.

   7.--When a man is ill, his power of resistance is at its lowest ebb,  and he is very sensitive to influences from without.   At that time the currents of the vital body are turned inward,  and he is apt to attract thoughts  and magnetism  from  others which if negative will have an adverse  effect  upon him.   When a man is in good health,  the vital body ethers radiate  outward and thereby keep out negative elements, also throw out impurities.

   8.--When one is ill, his power of resistance is low, and at that time the vibrations of the healer have a grater effect than at other times;  his  influence  is  therefore powerful either for good or evil.   If  the  healer's thoughts are not pure,  if his life is not clean,  then his influence on the patient  is not good.   Therefore it is most necessary that the healer  LIVE THE LIFE of purity, otherwise he can do more harm than good.

   9.--If  the healer's Saturn is on the Ascendant or in the sixth house  of the patient, he will have little success in helping the latter.

   10.--A healer with the sun in Scorpio or with Scorpio on the Ascendant is usually successful.

   11.--The sun in fiery signs gives good healing power, also greater  power over the diseases of those signs than is possessed by others.

   12.--People  born  with common signs on the angles or with the sun  in  a common  sign make the best nurses;  they have power to soothe the sick,  and they bring a quieting influence into the sick room.

   13.--When Saturn is the afflicter,  the skin is often very dry,  and  the vitality low.  Rub the skin briskly with rough bath gloves to stimulate circulation.

   14.--People  with  Virgo on the Ascendant or with the sun in  Virgo  make good nurses.

   15.--To calm a patient who has an afflicted Mars,  it is well to choose a Saturn hour.

   16.--People  with Saturn in the sixth house rarely make a success in  the art of healing.

   17.--When the patient is suffering with nervous trouble,  but Mars is not afflicted,  it is well to use a sun or a Mars hour for manipulations or min

istrations.

   18.--When the moon is increasing in light,  namely,  between the new  and the full, stimulants have the greatest effect and sedatives the least.

   19.--When the moon is conjunction Saturn, stimulants have very little effect; but should the moon be conjoined to Mars, especially if Mars is strong in the horoscope or is in the sign of Aries,  then the healer should be most careful in administering stimulants.