Sphinx
Monthly
for
Soul= and Spiritual Life.
Editor: Dr. Hübbe-Schleiden.
...
Journal of the Theosophical Association
and
of the German Theosophical Society.
Ninth year. 1894. Nineteenth volume.
Braunschweig [Brunswick].
Prana Therapy.
By Theodor Regens
Theodor Reuss
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In issue no. 86 of the "Zukunft" [Future] there is an article on
sympathetic cures by Dr. Carl du Prel in Munich. I am a great admirer
of Dr. Carl du Prel, but I regard the unrestricted public treatment of
the subject as a mistake, since in our educated and semi-educated
circles there prevails such a conceit of Enlightenment that the
confidence indispensable to the only right understanding and the only
true appreciation of the matter, living "faith", is lacking. Things
that cannot be demonstrated by means of spectral analysis or the
microscope simply do not exist for the learned champions of
Enlightenment today, nor for the great mass of indifferentists infected
by materialism.
The discussion of so eminently esoteric a subject as the doctrine of
the sympathetic art of healing does not belong in the daily press. But
since the discussion of white magic has now been opened in the columns
of the "Zukunft", I ask for a little space in order to supplement Dr.
du Prel's remarks and to place the subject under discussion, the
sympathetic cures, within the system to which it belongs and of which
it forms a part. The treatment of diseases of the human body by means
of exteriorised Od is a subdivision of general Prana Therapy.
Prana therapy is the doctrine of the healing art of the life-spirit,
Prana, Od, vital force, astral fluid, also called organic magnetism or
nerve-electricity. Prana therapy comprises the following methods of
treatment:
- ) The mumial (balsamic) method of treatment;
- ) The sympathetic method of treatment;
- ) The magnetic method of treatment;
- ) The hypnotic method of treatment.
Although these methods of treatment differ from one another, and each
can be applied quite independently, it very often happens that two or
more of them are employed simultaneously, so that to the outward
observer they seem to merge into one. Thus, for example, the mumial and
the sympathetic methods will almost always be used together. Likewise,
the magnetic and the hypnotic methods usually go hand in hand. The
magnetic and the sympathetic are also sometimes employed together; yet
the closer affinities always remain between methods a) and b), and
respectively c) and d), as the forms most nearly related to one
another. All these methods have in common, as their sole effective
remedy, the life-spirit, Prana.
The methods of treatment mentioned differ only in the form or manner in
which the abiding life-force, Prana, is conveyed to the sick body, or
in how it is applied to it.
In mumial treatment, the "mummy" or bodily balsam (already explained by
Dr. du Prel) is the bearer of the healing power of Prana (Dr. Fickel's
mineral magnetism).
In the sympathetic cure, the spiritual mummy is the invisible bearer of
the healing Prana (Satanelli's "Secret Philosophy").
The magnetic method of treatment, or magnetic healing method, is so
called because, when the life-forces under heightened conditions
attract or repel one another after the manner of a magnet, the current
thereby produced becomes the bearer and mediator of the healing Prana
(Maxwell's "Magnetic Medicine").
In the hypnotic cure, hypnotic or magnetic sleep mediates the healing
power (Professor Dr. Nussbaum's "New Remedies").
The sympathetic and the mumial methods of treatment have already been
explained by Dr. du Prel by means of several examples. I should
therefore like to illustrate the magnetic cure by a single example:
A lady of seventy, who lived in Berlin in the Charlottenstrasse, had
suffered a cerebral stroke. Besides a partial paralysis, she also
suffered, as is usually the case in such processes of destruction in
the nerve-centres of the head, from an intense headache that never
remitted, boundless restlessness, and sleeplessness. The attending
physicians were unable to afford the patient any relief worth
mentioning, since her general condition would not permit strong
sleeping draughts; and even when such remedies were administered and
took effect, her sleep remained restless and disturbed. When one day
she asked me to feel how hot her head had again become, I laid my left
hand flat upon her head in such a way that my fingertips came to rest
precisely upon the seat of the nervous disintegration. My hand had
scarcely rested a few seconds upon the patient's head when she declared
that a wonderful sensation of relief, well-being, and easing of pain
came over her. I thereupon made the so-called passes over the head, and
had the great satisfaction of seeing that my Prana brought the patient
the longed-for calm and assistance. After a few weeks, my mere presence
in the patient's room was enough to procure for her the necessary
quiet.
The mechanical disintegration of the nerve-centres on which the stroke
is based cannot, of course, be reversed even by Prana. Yet by its means
the further disintegration of the nerve-centres can be delayed and,
depending upon the constitution and age of the patient, may even be
arrested entirely for an indefinite period. Above all, however, the
magnetic cure by means of Prana alleviates the agonising attendant
symptoms of the stroke.
As for the hypnotic method of treatment, this is the kind of treatment
of nervous diseases best known to the public. Yet this particular mode
of applying the hypnotic cure is far from exhausting its general
application.
The surgeon and philanthropist, rightly famed far and wide (formerly
Privy Councillor and General Physician in Munich), Professor Dr. von
Nussbaum, said: "In hypnotic sleep one can produce every medicinal
effect by means of suggestion, regardless even of whether the medicine
is actually present or merely feigned." But at a gathering in the
chemical lecture hall in Munich, this great scholar further said: "I am
well aware that I tread a very slippery path when I venture to speak of
hypnosis; yet I build upon the many proofs of confidence which I have
experienced, so that I believe no one will think me capable of speaking
in favour of a fraud."
Professor von Nussbaum felt that the broad public was not the right
place for the treatment of this subject, and he earnestly warned
against the misuse of this wonderful power. He too recognised that only
through unconditional confidence, through unconditional "faith", can
cures be effected by means of the magnetic astral fluid (Prana).
Every misuse of the same, whether by means of hypnosis or of the mummy,
is black magic. Only workers of God, only theurgists who are
strong in faith in their God, from whom all vital force flows, may
employ the divine power of inexhaustible life for the benefit of their
fellow human beings.
Translated by Fr. Aumgn Thelema Agape, 93 93 / 93 .’.
October 2020.
[From 'Der Grosse Theodor Reuss Reader'.]
Transcripts:
German: Pranatherapie.
English: Prana Therapy.
French: Prana thérapie.
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