White Eagle - Heal Thyself

Heal Thyself

WHITE EAGLE

The Key to Spiritual Healing
and Health in Mind and Body

THE WHITE EAGLE PUBLISHING TRUST

NEW LANDS LISS HAMPSHIRE ENGLAND

www.whiteaglepublishing.org

First published, hardback, November 1962

Second edition, revised, 1999

Reprinted with a new final chapter and revisions to the introduction, 2007

Copyright,

The White Eagle Publishing Trust,1962, 1999, 2007

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-0-85487-107-0 (printed book)

eBook 978-0-85487-319-7

Kindle 978-0-85487-419-4

Chapter decorations by Rosemary Young

Set in 13.5 on 17 point Monotype Perpetua by the publisher

CONTENTS

Introduction

S ELF-HEALING is not simply about attaining physical health. It is about a spiritual path towards a life which is mentally and spiritually healthy:a life that achieves healing through inner peace and self-mastery, and leads us to a state of physical harmony. According to White Eagle, we can all achieve this goal. Indeed, White Eagle would say, our whole path to healing is in our own hands.

This latest edition of White Eagles classic text, a book that has helped so many readers find help and healing, is now reissued with a new, previously unpublished, final chapter in which White Eagle leads the reader through a healing meditation (originally used in a healing service in the White Eagle Lodge). In it, the reader is led by a spiritual teacher along a path to healing and self-discovery. This book helps us to find the inner resources and divine strength we can all reach, through the process of our own healing. Through divine love, we find the source of all healing. Through healing others, we heal ourselves. Through finding peace, we find self-mastery.

Masteryattaining the quality of a Mastermeans arising to a level of life beyond the constraints of the everyday. Self-mastery is an absolute presence in the moment, a perfect evenness of temper and of poise. It is control over thoughts, emotions, intellectual and bodily distractions. A high ideal. The hopefulness of White Eagles book is that he says we can achieve this.

White Eagles teaching is very simple, and it is also very profound. You may find that you are drawn back to the words in this book again and again, and that each time you read them, they seem to mean something new. We hope that they lead you on the path to a beautiful and personal healing.

New Lands, Liss, 2007

Notes on the Text

The Healing Chapel

In the original edition, attention was drawn to the then healing chapel in the White Eagle Lodge:

It may help you to enter into the spirit of the words and especially into the spirit of the communion with which the book ends, if you will picture the surroundings in which these words were spoken.

Visualize the quiet chapel with its plain white walls and simple furnishings; the raised altar, pure white against a background of blue velvet; the lighted candles, the flowers, and a copy of the St Johns Cross on Iona, carved in limed oak. See the symbol of the white eagle suspended above the altar, and the light shining down upon its outstretched wings to flood the altar.

Todays version of that chapeland many like it in White Eagle Lodges and centres throughout the worldhas an oval altar lit from within, upon which burns a light formed of a simple grail cup of oil with an ever-burning floating wick. The same symbol of the eagle hangs above. In the Temple at New Lands, a shaft of light catches this from above, and is outlined against beautiful golden curtains behind. It is an attempt to represent at the earthly level what White Eagle calls the golden altar in the world of spirit.

Many come before this altar for healing. In your heart, you can do likewise as you read this book. We pray that as you do, in thought, the Master will come to you, stretching forth His hands to heal.

The Master

Mention of this ideal gives us an opportunity to clear up two little confusions that occasionally arise. A Master, White Eagle is often at pains to point out, can be man or womanthere is no corresponding feminine word in the language. White Eagle also speaks of brotherhood, or the Brotherhood in spirit, in a way which is not intended to limit it to either gender.

Depression

White Eagle also says that self-mastery involves control over thoughts of depression. Those familiar with his teaching will, we believe, have no difficulty in realizing that he is not talking about a clinical condition for which healing may well be sought. There is a real distinction to be made between the grief and loss of belief that arise from real life-traumas, or the depression that may well come about through chemical imbalance or outside agents in the blood-stream, and so-called negative thoughts which are the result of simple lack of mental discipline. We hope that pointing out this distinction may be of help and reassurance to the new reader, who might otherwise think that depression of this kind was something to blame ourselves for. It certainly is not.

Biblical References

We know that some of our readers like to have the references of the biblical quotations White Eagle uses. Here they are:

p. 15: John 15 : 12

p. 20: John 11 : 25

p. 29: Matthew 5 : 48; John 10 : 30

p. 36: Luke 23 : 34

p. 53: Luke 22 : 42

p. 66: Matthew 10 : 30

p. 67: Mark 12 : 30

p. 72: Matthew 18 : 20

I The Life-Giving Spirit

W E COME from the world of spirit to bring a message of love and hope. You all suffer in various ways; some from pain and inconveniences of the flesh, some from torment of the mind. Others are disturbed in soul, anxious, fearful, perhaps at times angry. We come to comfort and inspire you, and to tell you that these trials under which you suffer are only means used, lessons given to you, to prepare you for the land of beauty and opportunity, the land of heavenly bliss.

We are aware of the disappointments and fears that possess you, the hardships you endure. We in spirit know you have tests. We know the physical body is not always as fit and perfect as it could be; we know the material conditions of your life can be tiresome. Do not think that we have no feeling for earthly things. We are so attuned to you that we absorb your feelings, we understand your problems and difficulties; but we come to tell you that there is a life within you which can prevail over the flesh, and to show you how, by your own effort, you can realize it.

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All human life is governed by divine law, and although you may endure pain while in your physical body, we hope that you will do so with courage and that you will accept the problems that face you, not exactly as a challenge, but as an opportunity from which you can learn wisdom and attain mastery. These experiences constitute a discipline sent to you not by God, as some people think, but by the law of cause and effect; for you yourselves at some time and place have sown the seed. You have made yourself what you are; and it is no use blaming God or anyone else.

Yet God has put in your hands the remedy for all your ills. The Lord Christ brought this to humanity when he said,