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Occult Medicine And Practical Magic
Samael Aun Weor
world, such eminent men as Democritus, Anaxagoras and Empedocles sustained the same
thesis.
In more recent epochs, there are some who sustain that the movements of the roots are
willful.
Vrolik, Hedwig, Bonnet, Ludwig, F. Ed. Smith, affirm that the plant is susceptible to
diverse sensations and that it knows happiness. Finally, the sage Theodorus Fechner
wrote a book entitled Nanna Oder Uher Das Lenleben der Pflansen, within which he
sufficiently proves that plants have souls.
What moves us Gnostics into compassion is that only now comes the assertion about the
souls of plants into these scientists’ mind (like a very new thesis). Gnosticism knew this
from the very birth of the world and it also known by any humble, simple Indian from the
Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (Colombia).
The Knotweed plant is joyous and moves its branches when the wise person, who knows
how to love it, approaches it. The Garden Poppy, Opium Poppy, before being touched by
the Gnostic doctor, withdraws its leaves and becomes lethargic several times.
The elemental of the plant is joyous when we love it and it is tilled with pain when we
hurt it. The physical organism of the elementals of Nature is analogous to that of humans.
The respiration of the plants is performed by means of the tracheas of Malpighi, which
are compounded by a cellular band, coiled in a spiral, that is endowed with contraction
and expansion.
In accordance with the scientific experiments of Calandrini, Duhamel and Papin, the only
foundation for the plant’s life is the air. Bertholon sustained that the activity of the air in
the sap of the plant is an analogous action to the one which happens in our blood.
Experiments of Ingenhus, Mohi, Garren, Hales, Theodorous de Saussere, scientifically
proved that the inferior side of the leaves is tilled with tiny little stomachic mouths. These
are the organs for such respiration.
The plants inhale carbonic anhydride and exhale oxygen. Their roots serve as a stomach,
and they emulsify the elements of the earth with their semen, by transforming them into
ineffable Arcanums’ of the substance of God.
These ‘Arcanums’ are the instruments which the elementals of plants utilize in order to
heal the sick person. However, this only occurs when the Gnostic doctor has been
accomplished with the three indispensable requisites, which are: Love to God and to the
neighbor, perfect ritual and exact diagnosis.
Elementotherapy teaches the Gnostic doctor how to command the elementals of plants.
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