Color has a profound effect upon humans, animals and insects. Back in the early 1930s a brochure advertised that you would be free of flies and ants if you kept a red glass in the widow of your room. It has been proven through experimentation that various colors have profound effects on all types of insects.

The use of color therapy on people dates back to the earliest Greek period and there are even earlier references in Egypt and India. The Greeks used specific colors on their architecture in the belief that the people living in the community and walking by different colored buildings would be effected enough to produce needed social changes within the community.

Imagination is an important key to manifestation. Most people have a problem forming the right type of mental image because they become stressed trying so hard to create something. An important key is to distract the left hemisphere so that the imagination can offer up a solid mental image.

Learn to image the final goal that you want to achieve. Don’t be too concerned with how it will happen, only that it will happen, and you will discover that the universe will take care of the manifestation process automatically. Image an individual or situation in a perfect state and the formation of the concept will begin to take place in physical form.

The ancient Greeks and Egyptians utilized optical and auditory therapies which they believed could come through the eyes and ears so they incorporated:

• Music therapy
  
• Religious ritual
  
• Sacred Chants
  
• Mantras
  
• Harmonious surroundings 
  
• Great art
  

In ancient times imagination was looked at as one of the most dynamic factors in human consciousness. The ancient philosophers believed that through imagination people came the nearest to attaining total freedom and advancing individual growth as well as the collective growth of the planet.

In today’s world the term imagination has connotations far different than in ancient times. Today we say that someone is just imagining something as if it is fantasy and unreal. The ancients described idle, delusional and misplaced thoughts as fantasy. Imagination was considered by the ancient philosophers as an important tool and our greatest gift from God.

Paracelsus (1493-1541) is the shortened name for Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombatsus Von Hohenheim. Paracelsus was the first to develop systemized health methods. He did not personally write much, but he had several assistants that recorded most of what he had to say regarding health and philosophy.

Paracelsus believed in working with nature rather than just accepting the writings of ancient texts, especially when it came to addressing health problems.

The hermetic philosophers, a group to which Paracelsus belonged to do to his philosophy, held that while they acknowledged a Supreme force of Good, which was the underpinning of the world, human beings were given the ability to co-create and manage the creative energies that fashioned our visible world.

Following are some selected keys of Paracelsus and the hermeticists, with additional commentary on some of the points.

Some ancient philosophers held the concept that when people are thoughtful of the world, then the world would protect them. The philosophers also believed that when people labor for the common good of others, then the common good would labor for them.

Some of the older philosophers believed that a partnership must be created between a person’s physical body and the natural world that surrounds it, as well as between the physical body and the invisible energy fields that sustain the body’s existence. When a person is in balance and harmony with the great energy fields, there is a greater opportunity for longevity and health.

Approximately 44 years ago, when I first became interested in spiritual and esoteric topics, I came across an interesting book called, “How to Know God, The Yoga Aphorism of Patanjali.” This book discussed physical and spiritual potentials that people could achieve through years of practicing yoga and meditation techniques.

This book discussed a wide variety of abilities that included clairvoyance, clairaudience, instantaneous and distant healing, bi-location, control of bodily actions and many other seemingly impossible abilities that are a part of our human potential. Within 24 hours of reading each of the different abilities, I had the direct physical experience of each one of them, without having done the years of regimes that were intimated.

I discovered that the various abilities could be experienced without following the years of training the book explained was necessary to reach the specific state of awareness that was needed to accomplish them.

LOVE

Every atom of your being is a source of power and energy. Every atom of your being contains particles of love that can be fanned into the bright flame of love that was a source of its creation by the Creator.

With each thought of Universal Love and through unselfish works the flame of love becomes more active and alive within your Being. Be in love, dream of love, become one with love and you become one with the same energy pattern of love, that has been channeled through the Great Beings of love, that have previously walked upon earth.

Approximately 500 years ago, a medical doctor, who also was an alchemical philosopher, had the belief that locked within each individual’s personality, was the secret to their own health. In order to determine if this was true, the doctor made it a point to meet, work and learn all he could about as many people as possible.

The doctor was not interested in learning some generality, he wanted to observe how people reacted under all circumstances and pressures. Through his contact with people he made them happy, mad, got them intoxicated, all the time observing their actions and reactions.

The doctor also looked back into the people’s lives to find out why healthy persons were healthy and why sick persons were sick.