This has been taken directly from “Vibrations: Healing through Color, Homeopahty and Radionics” by Virginia MacIvor and Sandra Laforest on pages 28 and 29.

The Vibration of Color Continued

This “innate heat” is another term for the vital force, the life energy, that natural healing power within the body which has gone by many names throughout the course of centuries: vis medicatrix naturae, vital fluid, animal magnetism, odic force, prana, bio-cosmic energy and so forth.

On one level, this heat was believed to be a physical force which generates the so-called four humors or body fluids: blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile. It was thought that innate heat was centered in the left ventricle of the heart and served ot keep the four body fluids in mo9tion, blending them, driving out excesses and restoring disturbed balance.

More importantly, the concept of innate heat carried a profoundly symbolic significance which sought to link man with the harmonious workings of the universe. This innate heat was described as a ‘sacred fire’ within the body, protecting the individual from harm and disease and restoring lost health, much as the ‘sacred fire’ on ancient hearths was though to hold similar powers.

The notion of innate heat or ‘sacred fire’ embraces several principles which seem to recur in every period and every mind concerned with defining a ‘pattern of wholeness’ in man. These patterns are as follows:

1) A natural vital energy within the human body which the ‘physician/healer’ must work with, not against, to achieve a true and total healing;

2) A “Divine” energy as the source of this natural process, and;

3) A holistic concept of man as both Divine and human, sprit and body, curable as a whole and not in parts.

Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, alate historian of medicine at Yale University, pointed out the fundamental importance of this notion for medical history: “The ‘innate heat’ is the essential part of man’s physics, his nature and it is nature that heals. The discovery that there is a vis medicatrix naturae, a natural healing power in the human body, a force that tends to restore the lost balance, was one of the greatest discoveries medicine could make. It determined the physician’s actions, since it becamce his main task to understand the intentions of pure nature, to prescribe a treatment that would support them to avoid whatever might antagonize them.

To be helping or at least not harming” became the basic principle of Hippocratic therapy.”

The emphasis upon an innate healing force that marks a vitalistic approach to medicine is just one school of medical though that grew out of the Hippocratic doctrines.

In my Candle Healing Process, your role is to gather up your ‘innate heat’ in relation to your intention and cleanse your energy field of the lower, denser energies that are interfering in its manifestation.

My role is to cleanse all of that denser, released energy that you transferred to your candle. This process requires me to concentrate the energy of ‘central, innate heat’, or the power of the ‘sacred fire’ of Universal electromagnetism, for the purposes of transmuting the element of fire for your highest good.