THE ATLANTEAN HEALING TEMPLE
The
Atlantean Temple of Healing was a circular building. The only light which
penetrated the Temple came through
a vast dome on the roof. This dome was adjustable so that sunlight, either
pure or filtered, could pour in
through the roof whenever required. The dome could also be closed so that
no sunlight could enter the Temple at all.
The entrance to the Temple was rectangular. It was built of white, glistening
stone; stone which looked as if it were
filled with mica and colour, and the heavy crossbeam of stone which spanned
the doorway had sculptured upon it a
white swan with its noble head raised upwards, moving gracefully outward.
There were groups of pillars composed of the precious white stone (maphite(sp)),
which was bendable but could
not be broken, and which were moulded to form a perfect circular upright,
and the steps were rectangular, in the
same white glistening stone as the building itself.
There were no gates, or walls to guard its gardens. The gardens were filled
with blossoms; great beds of marigolds in
their season, tulips, sunflowers, and many of the small, sweetly-perfumed
roses. All gave of their glory for the
healing of the people.
Just inside the entrance to the Temple was a large Timekeeper Crystal. This
powerful crystal protected the Temple
from any harmful vibrations and negativity. It would not allow any person
to pass inside the Temple unless that
person had a genuine - and pure - reason for doing so. The crystal knew everything;
nothing could be hidden!
Within the entrance there was a large hallway both to the right and left.
Round the central circle were to be found
two wide passages leading to the three special temples, which were to be found
at the far end of the central
building. These temples were also circular. They were not entered, nor was
there any entrance, from the main
temple, but the entrances were through doorways heavily curtained, opening
upon these passages, which
stretched to the right and the left of the main temple.
The central circular temple was a small special temple, where the healers
studied and were trained, and on the
right of that temple was the Temple of Teaching; on the left was the Temple
of Research - not research in the
sense that we use it today in connection with material things, but research
into all which concerned the healing
of the body and soul.
All the teaching was undertaken in the Temple of Teaching. All the training
of the healers, where they were used as
instruments and were not required to make use of their mind or brain, was
undertaken in the third Temple.
Students who came to the Temple of Healing were obliged to become proficient
in one of these arts, and were
allocated and placed, either in the Temple of Teaching, in the Temple of Healing
or in the Temple of Research.
They were not allowed to follow the three courses at once; they had to prove
their proficiency in their first choice
before they were permitted to take a second course, in one of the other temples.
The central Temple of Healing was built over a Lake, and you will find its
counterpart very often today in the
swimming pools which can be covered by a wooden floor, but in this case the
floor was of amethyst, warm to the
touch of naked feet, and radiant with light and power.
At the entrance to the central temple were the robing rooms for the priest
healers, the students and the novices;
all built of glistening white stone, and, although austere, very beautiful
in harmony of colour and design.
Between the robing rooms, which were very similar to cubicles one would find
in Swimming Baths, was a passageway
where there were further cubicles which were used for the cleansing and purification
of the clients' bodies.
Healing, in the time of Atlantis, did not take place in a matter of a few
minutes as is the case today; a client would
be required to visit the Temple many times for the purification of their physical
body. Their hair was cut to the nape
of their neck during their period of healing and, following baths in plain
spring water, they passed through baths of
perfumed warm water, before being given the white linen robe, in which they
had to appear before their healer.
In the first of the smaller chambers of healing, the client had to pass through
the purification of the etheric body,
and there, the healers, with their powers of clairvoyance and intuition, strengthened
by their service in the Temple,
would look for any dark places, or lack of light in the chakra and in the
etheric body as a whole. The client would
only be permitted to go forward into the next healing chamber when the priest-healer
in charge of this particular
room could report that the client's etheric body was completely cleansed and
full of light.
In the next cubicle most of the clients would spend very much longer than
in the first one, for here the weariness
of the mind must be released, and as the mind relaxed and the body, in harmony,
relaxed, the client would talk to
his teacher, telling him of the anxieties that troubled him and the weariness
of the soul which oppressed him.
This is akin to what today we call psycho-analysis and it can be a very long
process indeed. The work, therefore,
undertaken in this mental room was of a truly specialized nature.
Only the greater - and more experienced - priests handled these clients, and
many hours of the day were given
up to complete relaxation and pleasant conversation, and the eating of fruits
for the cleansing of the physical
body. In particular the clients would drink citrus fruit juices and spring
water, which played an important role in
the overall healing process.
When the client had passed all the necessary tests, he would move out of this
second temple and into the
temple for the healing of the physical body, but not until the negative side
of his personality - hatred, jealousy,
envy and selfishness - had been completely overcome; for as long as any envy,
hatred, or jealousy agitates
within the mind, the body cannot be considered whole and cleansed.
In the great central temple there were three daily healing sessions. In a
gallery which ran round the temple below
the level of the windows, were men and women students, who were taught wonderful
music and singing, and in
this gallery they would sing rhythmic chants and spiritual songs whilst the
healing sessions were taking place in
the temple below.
Twelve healers under one tutor-priest worked upon twelve clients at any one
time. The beds, upon which the
clients lay, were erected on white marble, built like rectangular boxes; the
top was also made out of the same
precious stone which could not be broken or cut, and each bed was composed
of the stone of one colour,
representing one ray.
When the client left the last healing room, he was given a six-pointed star
in the colour of the bed which he
must occupy. This star he would give to the priest in charge of the clients
of the temple, and it was strapped
upon his forehead by the priest so that the moment he entered the great healing
chamber, the healer-priest
who belonged to that particular healing table would welcome his client.
As soon as the client lay upon the healing table, the radiations of his aura
would project, as an emanation
round his head and body, thus lighting up the whole of the corner of the room
where he was lying, and opening
for himself the power to absorb the ethers from the soil and the surrounding
light ethers.
If, however, the client was not able to radiate these ethers, then the healers
standing beside that particular
bed would stand motionless in meditation, until all the other eleven clients
had been treated by their healers,
and the client would then have to return to the preparation on the mental
plane, to learn a further period of
relaxation. This rarely occurred though because normally all the clients were
prepared and completely relaxed
by the time that they reached the great healing chamber.
There were four healers to each bed; the Priest Initiate on the right, the
second priest on the left, the third
and fourth priests at the feet. The Priest Initiate directed the healing and
the two priests at the feet poured
power through the client's feet from the palm of their hands.
Each healer wore a robe of the colour of his own ray, and a cloak over his
shoulders, also of the same colour.
During the healing session this cloak, taken by the corners, would be turned
back fastening at the hem by a
jewelled clasp.
When the healing session was completed, the clients were allowed to enjoy
a period of relaxation for
approximately thirty minutes. At the end of this period the healers would
leave their clients and the
priest-in-charge of the Temple would lead the clients back to the robing room,
where they would be given a
meal of honey in the comb, crushed corn and milk, and sent away to their own
homes.
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