When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 2 - Waldorf Research Institute

something that remains. This can last for twenty or twenty-five years and
then comes the reaction. Iscador helps one to incarnate again. Now it was
beginning to become clear.
The problem in this case had not yet become physical, not yet a
carcinoma. It was situated on the border between the astral and the etheric
body. Hence it was necessary to give the Iscador not in massive doses but in
a higher strength, e.g., St. 7. And to follow the rhythm of the astral body:
the weekly rhythm. On the next visit the patient was given Iscador P St. 7.
A week after the first injection he said: “I feel a bit better.” After the second
in jection: “I’m beginning to be happy again, I’ve laughed for the first time
in ages.” And after the third week he reported: “Tomorrow I’m going back
to work.” The injections were given six times and repeated after six months.
This treatment proved effective also with other patients and when given by
other colleagues.
The first step was to look at the illness afresh with an open mind, with
astonishment: taking the first step, diagnosis, in daytime consciousness.
This tunes the mind, which empathizes, which possesses the objective power
of compassion. The power of feeling gives the astral body wings to enter the
kingdom of night with a specific direction and there to behold the remedy.
Of course one finds only those remedies with which one has built up a
relationship. The third step: bringing the treatment back from the night
into the daylight. “Seizing hold” of the insight, this takes place only when
the situation has become existential. When the unreal personal things, the
wishes, vanities and fads, have been burnt away by the fire of reality. When
you have become unselfish. Only then can you observe (with your will) what
the situation requires, and then the conscience can speak.
If one tries to put into practice anthroposophical medicine in this way,
training oneself, putting one’s own inner instrument into the service of
heal ing, one thereby opens the gateway from which the healing forces flow:
the gateway of the Ego.
THE GATEWAY OF THE ETHERIC BODY
The second gateway for healing is the etheric body. I shall give briefly a
few points of view for it.
The Hermetic or Mercury-mysteries
When in the southern mysteries a person was conducted into his own
being by the initiate, it was priests of Hermes or Mercury who accompanied
the aspirant upon his entry into his etheric body. The first experience that
appeared there was that one entered into time—the etheric body is the
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