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The twenty-two connecting paths have an additional set of "invisible" paths that are not included in any of the traditional literature but which can be worked out by experienced students on their own. Simply look at two spheres that could have a path between them but do not; there you have the location of an "invisible path."

For our purposes, only the paths below Beauty (Tipharcth) w ill be examined These relate to the problems of the ego and the body, as well as the related psychological disturbances that often link and affect both of them. This trinity of "self," body, and unconscious forces of rational

thought, emotions, and instincts is the main area of work in all spiritual systems.

The paths themselves have less of a healing property, as that is really the domain of the elements and the planets, but instead unite diverse energies and create conditions and contexts in which healing is more likely to occur. However, as we will see, certain paths need to be functioning well for any healing to take place.

Traditionally, using the paths for healing purposes has been very straightforward. Each path has an elemental, planetary, or zodiacal correspondence, and it is this relationship that has been used to establish the healing properties of the paths. This is a simple, direct, and effective method of working with the paths, and any experienced Kabbalist will instantly recognize the reasons for the relationships given. However, this process ignores the

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influences of the spheres that form the terminals of the path. Both systems will be presented here, with the difference being not in their execution but in the results the operator and/or recipient desires from the experience. Less depends on what you do than on what you intend to do. Your intention, or Will, is everything. The following list of the paths and their influences over the parts of the body is a good place to start and is taken from the correspondences used within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. For additional diseases covered by the paths, consult a work on traditional Western herbalism in which the astrological and planetary rulerships of the organs arc listed. The finest work on this to date is Culpeper's Medicine: A Practice of Western Holistic Medicine, by Graeme Tobyn.

Anyone seriously interested in working with traditional Western holistic healing, wherein the importance of zodiacal and planetary forces is utilized, must read this book.

Traditional Correspondences of the Paths for Healing Work

Path InHucncc Body Pnrt(s)

llth Air Respiratory organs

12th Mercury Cerebral and nervous system 13th Moon Lymphatic system

14th Venus Genitals (female) 15th Aries 1 lead and face

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Traditional Correspondences of the Paths for Healing Work (continual)

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If you would like to work with a particular path but are unsure if it is appropriate, check the general description of the planetary or astrological influence given above and compare it to the illness you seek to address. You may end up doing more than one path.

At some point, however, the choice may not always be clear-cut and you will have to trust your intuition <m which path, given its energy, will be more appropriate for the condition being addressed. The additional information given below may also assist in identifying which paths to use for releasing emotional and mental blocks as well.

NOTE: When doing Path working for spiritual purposes, we address the relationship of the spheres of each path from the lower sphere to the higher one. When addressing the paths for physical health, we address the spheres from the higher one to the lower one.

From the health perspective, our desire is to draw energy down along the Path of Mczla (Creation)

and not simply traverse the Path of Return in search of some possible and undetermined psychic experience. It is eery important that the intention of returning with energy for a change in consciousness and physical health he firmly implanted in the subconscious of the operator and all participants when preparing for this hind of Pathworhing;

Path Influence Body Parr(s) l(>th Taurus Shoulders and arms

17th Gemini Lungs

IKth Cancer Stomach/Womb

19th Leo Heart

20th Virgo Back

21« Jupiter Digestive «-stent

22nd Libra Liver

23»d Water Organ* and nutrition 24th Scorpio Intestine*

25th Sagittarius 1 lips and thighs 26th Capricorn Genitals (male) 27th Mars Muscular system 2Kth Aquarius Kidneys and bladder 29th Puces Leg* and feet 30th Sun Circulatory system

31 it Fire Organs of circulation (increased energy to the heart)

32nd Saturn/Earth Excretory system

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this intention must be reinforced once the Sphere of Completion is reached and before the return journey has begun.

Thirty-second Path

This path governs our connection to the invisible, bur also dreams, phobias, and irrational concerns or obsessions. It helps us to overcome our fear of death to some degree, as well as understand how our inner worlds affect us and direct so much of our decision-making through the filters of mental and emotional imbalances. This path is also concerned with fundamental survival issues aiul governs sexual reproduction, birth and death, conception, solidification of things, the etheric body, anything requiring connection to the physical world, and issues of the bowels and urinary tract, such as constipation. This path is a good general tonic for the psychic-etheric-physical body connections.

Thirty-first Path

This path governs our rational thought process and mental clarity, as well as metabolism. It also is concerned with all aspects of regeneration, purification, and increased energy How into the psychic and physical bodies.

Thirtieth Path

This path is concerned with the exchange of information between our conscious, rational, concrete mind and our subconscious. When functioning properly, it allows for increased spiritual insights and has a profound effect on the psychic centers (the heart and pituitary in particular), increasing the rate of exchange of psychic information—although mostly in dream states and via symbolism. This path is exceptionally good tor the heart, solar plexus, and thyroid, and for releasing unresolved issues around the sense of self.

Twenty-ninth Path

This path governs the influence of the emotions and endocrine system on the body. It is good for the kidneys as well, in their role as an organ of purification.

Twenty-eighth Path

This path is concerned with (lie effects of the emotions on the subconscious and thereby on the physical body through repressed emotions and conflicting emotional states. This is good for fertility and sexual performance issues.

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Twenty-seventh Path

This path directs the emotional and rational energies together, thereby creating a mechanism for material life. It harmonizes them via the solar plexus and is therefore good for anxiety and extreme nervousness, as well as physical issues in the stomach, abdomen, and bowels. Its also has a pro- found effect on the general energies of the body for physical well-being, and therefore is good for addressing issues of fatigue, blood disorders, and circulation.

Twenty-sixth Path

This path is conccrncd with the relationship between our concrctc mind (daily rational and cognitive thought) and higher thought, specifically the direct spiritual experiences of intuition and clairvoyance. It affects the nervous system—with emphasis on the brain, but also the thyroid through its relationship to Mercury—and is good for those doing dream and sleep practices.

Twenty-fifth Path

This path is concerned with the relationship between our personality and our true sense of self. It brings the nervous system into balance and awakens the general healing ability of the physical and psychic bodies as a w hole.

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Twenty-fourth Path

This path is concerned with the relationship between our emotions and higher influences. Through this path, our human expressions can be expanded—or our divine aspects can be reduced to ego-satisfying behaviors. Through its influences on Venus, this is. a path of purification. It affects the kidneys, skin, and sexual organs, but also the heart on several levels simultaneously, and secondarily it affects excretion (as a result of purification). This path brings harmony to whatever Is brought to it. with a strong influence on physical life and health.

'¡wenty-third Path

This path affects the entire circulatory system, including the lymph, and is concerned with purification. It is a water path that utilizes the energies of Mars and Mercury combined, making for swift and powerful actions 011 the world of form. The water aspect directs those energies toward our emotions, as well as any aspect of our physical health involving circulation.

Twenty-second Path

This path is concerned with the balancing out and harmonizing of our physical energies with our emotions and our sense of self. Because of the intense emotion and conflict that this path can symbolize, it is very good for those who feel the need to always be pleasant and nonthreatcning, only to explode or run from conflict at a later point. Issues of the heart, symbolically and literally, are what this path addresses. Through it, physical health (Mars) can be brought to strengthen the will and the sense of self as well as the physical heart (Sun) through finding true inner balance, or imperturbability (Libra).

Twenty-first Path

This path affects our ability to expand and assimilate our capacity for health and well-being as a whole. In this aspcct, it is one of the most important paths on the Tree as far as physical health is concerned. Jupiter is health and general wellness acting on itself, thereby multiplying its influence into our daily life through Venus—emotional and physical harmony. Therefore, the powers of Venus are multiplied and expanded. Once again, the powers of the body to harmoniously purify itself should be enhanced (as opposed to the more rigorous effects of the twenty-third path), and overall coordination

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improved. Assimilation in terras of digestion and respiration will also be affected. This path is concerned with the long-term effects of our daily actions on our health.

Twentieth Path

This path is concerned with the relationship of Jupiter, the powers of expansion, and the self through the human intellect or mind. As such, it is also concerned with the relationship between the heart (Sun) and lungs (Jupiter) and the rapidity of their interchange (Mercury).

Nineteenth Path

This path is concerned with the relationship of the organs of assimilation with the circulatory systems and the heart. As a rule, it is a powerful path ideal for providing strength before any operation, as a part of recovery, and for daily work. This is a very important path.

Eighteenth Path

This path is concerned with the movement of powerful psychic currents (Saturn) into the circulatory and muscular systems (Mars). Additional effects are on the bone marrow, lactation, and the ovaries (Cancer). For problems of conception or gestation, use this path, and also use it for any healing requiring a steady How of powerful, materializing energy over a sustained period of time.

Seventeenth Path

This path is concerned with the movement of powerful psychic energies (Saturn) into the heart (Sun) and the awakening to higher levels of consciousness. This path will give a kind of resurrection experience in times of sudden crises or near-death experience in physical terms. Because of the influence of Gemini, the thyroid can be affected, as can the upper part of the lungs. This path will induce an irrevocable change in one's life course.

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This path is concerned with the influences of our personal horoscope (the Wheel) on our material life (Taurus) and our ability to expand and grow (Jupiter) from it. It is best done when there is an unknown cause of illness or when various treatments a a- unable to take hold.

Fifteenth Path

This path is concerned w ith the influence of our horoscope on our personal life path and our ability to create it. This path is good for those who aa- not ill but may be lingering in a state of confusion or even outright depression and despair. The influence of Aries gives both a strong directional quality to the results and the energy to accomplish goals.

Fourteenth Path

This is a powerful path and is concerned with how our horoscope impacts the ability to take form. This can be useful for troubling pregnancies and births and for understanding premature births.

Thirteenth Path

This is a powerful path that expresses our relationship of healthy individuality to the Divine. It affects the various psychic centers and endocrine glands in the brain, particularly the pineal and pituitary. This is very good for assisting those who arc dying, in that the energies arc conccrncd primarily w ith the heart (Sun) and brain (Kether) for the dissolution of the elements.

Twelfth Path

This path is conccrncd with the ability of the body to absorb psychic energy and transform it harmoniously into its four primary etheric streams, or elements: lire, air, water, and earth. This path is for those who are unconscious or in a coma and hanging on with no hope in sight. It should be done with paths 19, 18, and 21. This path can also help if a person is lingering in a protracted death process by working the path according to Return to assist in dissolving the elements.

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This path is to assist those who aa- either coming into or going out of this world. It should be done in connection with the thirty-second path. The path is traveled according to Mezla for birth and according to Return for death.