[An Excerpt from “Absent Treatment,” by George Winslow Plummer,
published in Rosicrucian Healing]
The healing ray operative under absent treatment when
legitimately practiced and applied, is a directive ray. That is, it has a
definite objective upon which it is focused. […] The student may enquire just
what part the astral world plays in the transmission of the healing ray. The
astral world, in its lower subdivisions, is the region of wishes,
impressionability and color, among other properties. The wish of the practitioner
to convey health; the wish of the patient to receive it, and the impressionability
of the patient due to his prepared receptivity, accomplish part of the
necessary factors to make the work of the healing ray successful. However, the
fact that the lower astral regions are those of color, permits of the surcharge
of the healing ray with the colors of glowing health and radiant energy in its luminous
form. These factors furnish the healing ray with the necessary properties in
addition to its inherent penetrability and vitalizing powers.
[…] with the operative of genuine healing rays, the patient
does not see them but he does feel them. Many patients have written that at the
times appointed for reception of treatment they are frankly and positively
aware of a suffusion of gentle heat, warm floods or waves of vitalizing power
from which they usually pass into a calm, recuperative slumber. Natural forces
and energies are never disastrous in their constructive effects in the human
organism, working in each according to individual temperament and physical
constitution by the simple laws of attraction and polarity. […]
If the operator can secure a photograph of the patient, so
much the better. It will assist him in his visualization. If not, let him, in
the seclusion of his study, first enter into the silence. Then, when his
meditation has brought him into harmonic alignment with the nature-forces and a
concept of at-one ment with the Oversoul, develop an image of the patient in
his mind based upon the data furnished him by the case-history with which he
should be provided before undertaking definite work at all. When he has
visualized the patient in this way, he should develop that image mentally, with
all the glowing color of radiant health and complete normalcy of function.
Next, let him WILL a ray of spiritual power, surcharged with the picture of
glowing, radiant health, he has just developed. Let him WILL this ray forth,
just as though it were an actual projection from within his own mental depths.
Of course, it will not actually emanate from the operator; otherwise he could
give to his patient no more than he (himself) possessed. What takes place is
this. By his mental concentration, and having brought himself into attunement
with the etheric forces about him, he gathers up, by the concentration in which
he has previously engaged, the etheric forces about him, focuses them into a
distinct formation, surcharged with the picture with the conditions he desires
to bring about, and directs the ray thus formed into a highly concentrated, penetrative
and most effective agency of reconstruction.
[…] When the operator has conscientiously performed his work
as heretofore indicated, he should not attempt to prolong it. Having sent the
ray forth, there is no need to continue the concentration or the mental
attitude of will. The ray has gone on its mission. Subsequent treatments may be
necessary, according to the reports received from the patient or his attendant.
But when several treatments may be necessary within a given twenty-four hours,
they should not be close together but timed at rhythmic intervals apart, say
three and one-half to four hours.
