Hi, For illness' where a patient is not a hermetic student, does not have the necessary foundation or is not at the right stage in life to be confronting their own serious issues to the point of being cured of their illness(s); it would seem logical to me that the "cure" would have to come by external means. Today we have a wide variety of alternative medicines, many of which are useful for curing a wide variety of ailments to certain degrees. One that I have started exploring recently is called "Pranic Healing". Pranic comes from the word "Prana" or "Chi", referring to life energy/force. Pranic Healing thus pertains to the ability to (positively) manipulate the energy body of another human being such that a degree of energetic equilibrium is achieved. The basis of why this works to cure an ailment is that a disease is always reflected on the energy body, or more correctly stated, it manifests first on the energy body before it becomes a physical disease. This explains why certain clairvoyants can look at a person and know they are going to be sick and of what sickness before they even become sick. By 'fixing' the energy body by means of removing energetic congestions or feeding the right type of energy to the right points where the energy body is depleted and to the appropriate chakras, a temporary energetic balance is achieved and shortly there after, the physical body is affected and eventually cured. Some advanced diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Cancers may require months of treatment sessions before the disease is completely gone. However; this of course all depends on the power and ability of the healer. A parallel is drawn here with magic ritual, in that an advanced magician may acquire result after only performing a short ritual once and a novice may have to repeat a very complex ritual dozens or more times before the same desired result is acquired. The more advanced the healer, the faster the patient will get cured. But there are also limits like, even some advanced healers, despite all their power can not simply blast the patient with energy because the patient's ability to absorb that much energy is limited and too much too soon could simply cause more damage. Pranic Healing books by Choa Kok Sui are now available in over 20 languages and suggest that pretty much all diseases (karma allowing) can be cured. Pranic Healing centres exist in over 50+ countries now and so visiting one of these healing centres and getting treatments by a sufficiently advanced practitioner may very well help those that need immediate externally bestowed cures. I also wish to point out that in the bibliography of the first book, titled "Miracles Through Pranic Healing", IIH, PME & KTQ are recommended reading material by the author, and as a whole, I would have to say that the teachings of Mr. Choa Kok Sui are well in alignment with hermetic principles even though no direct parallels or mentions are given. Lastly, I think we shouldn't forget one of Rawn's conclusions in that you can cure diseases all you like by taking the latest miracle drug or treatment, but if the root cause isn't addressed, the disease can simply return. The root cause of diseases does not lay within the energy body, so even if you get Pranic healing, eventually and perhaps in parallel you should also try to identify and address the root causes. More on Pranic Healing: www.pranichealing.com Best wishes, antiloop1111