Esoteric Healing - Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease

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Esoteric Healing - Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease

A. Uncontrolled and Ill-Regulated Emotion

Given these basic facts, it can be seen how wrong emotional

attitudes and a general unhealthy condition of the astral body must be

potent factors in producing discomfort and disease. This is due to the

fact that the vital or etheric bodies of the masses of humanity are

governed primarily and swept into activity through the action of the

astral body. Agitation in that body, any violent activity under stress

of temper, intense worry or prolonged irritation will pour a stream of

astral energy into and through the solar plexus center, and will

galvanize that center into a condition of intense disturbance. This

next affects the stomach, the pancreas, the gall duct and bladder. Few

people (and I might well ask who is exempt at this particular time in

the world's history) are free from indigestion, from undesirable

gastric conditions, or from trouble connected with the gall bladder.

The tendency to criticism, to violent dislikes, and to hatreds based

on criticism or a superiority complex, produces much of the acidity

from which the majority of people suffer. I would like to add in

passing that I am here generalizing. So many people are prone to an

inferiority complex [39] in relation to themselves, but to a

superiority complex where their relation to other people is concerned!

Stomachic physical plane effects are closely tied up with the desire aspect of

the physical body, which finds expression in the eating and drinking of

that which is desired, leading subsequently to those attacks of

biliousness to which so many are prone.

I offer these above illustrations to demonstrate the effect of the

prevalent wrong attitudes to life and people which today distinguish

mankind and produce the above mentioned conditions.

The ills which are based on criticism, upon hatred, and upon the

capacity to judge each other (usually unkindly) work through from the

throat center to the solar plexus. This interrelation existing between

the centers is one that has never been properly considered. The centers

in the etheric body pass varying kinds of energies amongst themselves,

and a great deal of the energy transmitted from one center to another

is undesirable, flowing from the centers below the diaphragm to those

above.

The physical body (etheric and dense) can be pictured as a house

with two telephonic installations - one bringing in energies from

without the house and the other being in the nature of a house

telephone from room to room. The analogy is far more accurate than

appears to the casual thinker. In every modern house, light and water

and gas and telephonic interchange are brought.

Light, the symbol of the soul;water, the symbol of the emotions;telephonic interchange, the symbol of mind with its inter-communication of knowledges;and gas, the symbol of the etheric nature.

It is interesting and saddening to note that that which at present

goes out of the average house is the refuse that is undesirable - this

is the correspondence to that which is [40] selfish and sad and the

demand for the satisfaction of personal needs and desires.

It can be seen, therefore, why I have so emphatically impressed the need of harmlessness upon

all of you, for it is the scientific method, par excellence and

esoterically speaking, of cleaning house and of purifying the centers.

Its practice clears the clogged channels and permits the entrance of

the higher energies.

The emotional causes of disease and the mental attitudes which

produce physical discomfort are at this particular time those which are

the most prevalent. When they are persisted in over a long period of

time, and are carried over from life to life, they cause the more

violent aspects of the conditions referred to above, and from them

serious and destructive diseases can emerge, necessitating, for

instance, the removal of the gall bladder or those operations incident

to the appearance of chronic gastric ulcers. Other diseases grow from a

constant pandering to the desire nature, though sexual diseases come

under another category. It can be seen from the above how desirable it

is that the true healer should combine in himself, not only a measure

of esoteric knowledge, but - until he is an initiate - something of

psychology, something of the work of a magnetic healer, and also be a

trained medical man or surgeon.

Much of the healing now done is worse than useless, because the

three above mentioned conditions are lacking. Most doctors, especially

those who are called general practitioners, are good psychologists and

they have also a sound knowledge of symptoms and of anatomy and of

curative measures which are usually lacking in the average metaphysical

healer. But they are entirely ignorant of one great field of knowledge

- that concerning the energies which meet and war within the human

frame and of the [41] potencies which can be set in motion if certain

esoteric truths are admitted in place. Until they work with the etheric

body and study the science of the centers, they can make little further

progress. The esoteric healer knows much about the inner forces and

energies and has some understanding of the basic causes of the exoteric

diseases, but his ignorance of man's mechanism is deplorable, and he

fails to realize two things:

First,

that disease is sometimes the working out into manifestation of

undesirable subjective conditions. These, when externalized and brought

to the surface of the human body, can then be known, dealt with and

eliminated. It is well to remember also that sometimes this working out

and elimination may well bring about the death of that particular body.

But the soul goes on. One short life counts for very little in the long

cycle of the soul, and it is counted well worthwhile if a period of ill

health (even if it eventuates in death) brings about the clearing away

of wrong emotional and mental conditions.Second,

disease is sometimes incident upon and part of the process of the

withdrawal of the soul from its habitation. This we call death, and it

can come quickly and unexpectedly when the soul withdraws with

suddenness from its body. Or death can spread itself over a long period

of time, and the soul may take several months or years for its slow and

gradual emergence from the body, with the body dying by inches all the

time.

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