Esoteric Healing

It might also be pointed out [...] that the soul pours its consciously directed energy into the dense physical body through the medium of the etheric or vital body. This instrument is composed of:

1. Seven major centers of force and forty-nine minor centers. The major centers are found in the head and up the spinal column. The minor centers are to be found scattered all over the body.
2. The etheric network which is composed of streams of energy, connects all the centers into two systems - one major and one minor - and radiates out from these centers all over the entire body.
3. The nadis are infinitesimally small threads of energy or force fibers which radiate out from every part of the network and underlie every part of the triple nervous system. They are found in their millions, and produce the sensitive response apparatus through which we work and of which the mechanism of the five senses is one of the externalizations.

The controlling power station will be found to vary according to the point in evolution reached:

1. Low-grade humanity uses the solar plexus as the point where the basic energy is localized temporarily. There will also be found a slight activity in the ajna center.
2. Average humanity works partly through the solar plexus center but largely through the ajna center and the throat center.
3. High-grade human beings, the intelligentsia and world aspirants use the head center, plus the ajna center, the throat, heart, and solar plexus.

Finally it might be said that the physical apparatus which is the direct result of the inner activity of the centers, network and nadis, is the heart, the endocrine system and the brain. Into this general plan, very sketchily outlined above, all ancient medicine (particularly the Tibetan, the Chinese, and the Hindu), with our modern western science, fits. The correlation of the western and eastern techniques still remains to be made, and much will be gained thereby. Further than this I cannot here enlarge, but the above will suffice to show that the methods which you may discover in your reading (and their name is Legion) can all be brought into relation to this general scheme of energy processes in the human body.

~ Esoteric Healing