Rediscovering the Fourteen Holy Helpers

Rediscovering the Fourteen Holy Helpers

by Christiane Stamm, author of The Fourteen Holy Helpers: Invocations for Healing and Protection

Many years ago, I received an instruction from the spirit world to revise the ancient prayers connected to the Fourteen Holy Helpers and to offer them to humanity through initiation.

It was not an easy task, as I was only familiar with the old, rather garbled texts that were almost impossible to recite. It was impressed upon me in no uncertain terms that I should never use any negative words or phrases when formulating the texts and I began my efforts to revise them. After many failed attempts, the spirit world came to my aid and passed on to me the exact prayers. Once healing crystals to accompany the prayers had also been recommended, the invocations finally became effective and it was possible to help people with them.

When I asked why it should be now, at this precise moment, that I had received the instruction to revise these ancient prayers, the answer came that it was now time to make invocation accessible to everyone, since all human and spiritual beings draw their energy from one and the same Source.

The Fourteen Holy Helpers

The fourteen holy helpers were being invoked and worshiped as early as the 9th century, but they have increasingly fallen into obscurity in contemporary times. Their help was particularly vital in the 13th and 14th centuries, when plague reigned supreme throughout the world. It was during this period that the Holy Helpers were especially important.

Each of the Fourteen Holy Helpers was also assigned additional areas of responsibility, and people would call upon a specific saint for help in times of crisis. In so doing the Holy Helpers would address the temporal and spiritual problems of the age.

As a result of globalization and the breakneck pace of technological and scientific advances, especially in medicine, we have gradually become less familiar with the saints in our everyday lives. In reality, little has changed over the centuries, although the precise issues that people are concerned about may now be different—instead of plague, there is cancer or AIDS, and of course COVID-19. Instead of famine, there are job losses and unemployment, so the need right now for angels, saints, and the Fourteen Holy Helpers is as great as ever.

Initiation

In principle, anyone can learn invocation, since we are all part of the same energy. Therefore, everyone can bring help and healing through invocation. In its perfected form, it is natural magic, which is why it has been interpreted as magical and considered mystical since the earliest times. According to ancient tradition, spiritual knowledge and its attendant rituals must be passed on from one person to another. This used to be carried out by word of mouth, from master to pupil, but in this day and age we also make use of the medium of the written word.

This process of handing on knowledge (initiation) and the passages in my book, The Fourteen Holy Helpers, will connect you with the energy of secret knowledge; its power will live within you. By following the instructions, you will be initiated exactly as if you had received this knowledge from your ancestors. Invocation can be passed on to another person on any day of a full moon.

In order for initiation to be successful, it is essential to copy out the prayers you require in your own hand and in your own notebook or journal, exactly in accordance with the prescribed ritual from the book. It is only in the act of copying out the prayers that the magic of invocation will pass to you. Once everything has been carried out as specified, you will be initiated, and all the power and energy of the prayers will be available to you.

When writing out the prayers during the initiation process, some people report experiencing a sensation of warmth or a tingling throughout their whole body, along with feelings of love for others as well as for themselves. However, this may not necessarily be the case for you, since reactions differ from person to person.

Please remember the following:

• During an invocation, the most important requirement is to be calm and focused.
• Never carry out invocation when you are under time pressure or feeling stressed.
• Take your time and wait until you feel completely relaxed and entirely at ease, safe, and secure.
• Now, allow yourself to be guided step-by-step and you will learn how to use healing prayers correctly.

Read through the prayer in your head several times, repeating each time:

In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

This sentence can also be adapted and the prayer said in the name of Allah, or of the Universe, or in the name of Light or of Love—do what feels right for you. However, do not alter the phrase “so shall it be” under any circumstances. If you were to do so, you would sacrifice the power of the energetic flow, since this is an ancient phrase with great inherent power and energy. Recite it slowly and with all your heart in order to allow it to develop its full strength and power.

Let me share with you the first prayer of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, which invokes all of them together for healing and protection.

FIRST PRAYER

The Fourteen Holy Helpers

O, Fourteen Holy Helpers
banish wounds and hurt.
May evil be banished
and love enter the heart.

O, Fourteen Holy Helpers
banish wounds and hurt.
May evil be banished
and love enter the heart.

O, Fourteen Holy Helpers
banish wounds and hurt.
May evil be banished
and love enter the heart.
So shall it be!
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen

Evil is banished and good summoned with this cleansing prayer. Joy in life shall be yours. All Fourteen Holy Helpers are entreated to program your body for good health.

This prayer helps with:

• finding joy in life again
• depression
• anxiety
• protection
• sorrow
• psychosis
• nightmares

Healing crystal for the First Prayer
Clear quartz (clarity)
Wearing or being close to clear quartz brings clarity and the insight to see yourself more clearly, recognizing what is real and true. At the same time, it awakens primordial instincts, preparing you to find the way to inner truth. It helps to remove blockages that cause many diseases.