Reading for Sunday, July 8, 2007
Healing Papers
Volume 1, Number 3: Magnetism
Given by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Magnetism (f)
You may have some physical magnetism in your hands. You can adopt techniques that will bring the magnetism right down into your fingertips. A violinist has all this magnetism in the ends of his fingers; that’s how he’s able to play. But how long will the cure be able to operate that you have been able to – the transfusion, let’s say, of energy from your finger tips – how long is that going to be able to hold out? You would have to be there all the time with the patient to keep the patient in a good state, whereas, the magnetism of the soul performs miracles. That’s the reason Jesus could heal, because he wasn’t a healer – it was just because he had reached that consciousness that enables one to heal. It is a communication of life; it is the ability to communicate life.
I should speak about the magnetism of the Spirit that is, really, still beyond the magnetism of the Soul. I don’t know whether one can speak about it at all. It is because of the importance of this magnetism that in my seminars I have been giving practices llike, for example, going to the source of life and experiencing the water of life and the communication of the Holy Spirit, and experiencing the life of your life. And we’ve been doing the practice Hu-Hayy. The Spirit is the origin of the Soul.
You may reach a point when you experience yourself as being a soul, or as being the Soul even, because there is not really such a thing as a soul. There is just Soulness – at every level the merging of beings is more intense. At the top it is just One Being, and at the bottom, let’s say, there is a relative autonomy of the individuals, in multiplicity. But the Spirit is beyond. There are several ways to use the word Spirit. I’m not talking about spirits in the sense of spirit phantoms or anything like that, or spiritism, but Spirit in the real sense, like the Spiritus in the Latin sense of the word and, of course, Quddus in the Ruh-al Quddus in the Arabic. That is the essence. That is the perfume of the rose. The Soul is the seed of the plant. That is the difference. The word is used in Arabic as Ayn. This is the meaning of resurrection. What is it? You are drawing the essence of the essence of the essence of the essence. The attar of roses, for example – that’s the Spirit. When one says “the Holy Spirit,” that is what it means. The Holy Spirit is not an angel, because an Angel is a soul, where Spirit is not a soul; it is beyond a soul. So if you can experience the life of your life, you experience it as being something that is flowing through you, like the energy behind energy. We talk about prana. Well, prana is cosmic energy at a certain level, but Spirit is the energy of that energy. That is what we mean by Spirit. It is always something beyond, always the essence of something – the life of your life.
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