| Healing, 84:carried down into the physical body, produce disease of various kinds, the many tensions andHealing, 84:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Much is said today in modern medicalHealing, 86:onto the etheric plane before the real clue to disease and its cure can be ascertained. ForHealing, 87:the emotional natures, and much of his physical disease will lie below the diaphragm also. You willHealing, 88:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease 3. Causes Arising in the Mental Body I startedHealing, 89:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease A. Wrong Mental Attitudes I would like to deal,Healing, 89:deal, first of all, with the basic premise that disease and physical liabilities are not the resultHealing, 89:to cyclic control is one of the major causes of disease; and as these laws are given form on theHealing, 90:which produce the outer forms of malignant disease. When humanity regains an understanding of theHealing, 91:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease B. Mental Fanaticism - The Dominance ofHealing, 92:physical equipment; but the basic cause of the disease is the emotional rebellion, and thereforeHealing, 92:of mental healing and with the teaching that all disease is the product of wrong thought. You areHealing, 93:express them in the form of two questions: Is disease the result of thought? Can the power ofHealing, 93:that human thought is not responsible for disease. It antedates the arrival of humanity upon theHealing, 93:arrival of humanity upon the planet. There is disease in the mineral world, in the vegetableHealing, 93:you of the two definitions of the causes of disease which I earlier gave. Let me call them to yourHealing, 93:Let me call them to your careful attention: "All disease is the result of inhibited soul life. ThisHealing, 93:This is true of all forms in all kingdoms." "Disease is the product of and subject to threeHealing, 94:of man." [94] If you analyze the four causes of disease here given, you will note that disease willHealing, 94:causes of disease here given, you will note that disease will eventually be controlled by theHealing, 94:released and rightly directed by the mind, then disease can be handled and brought eventually to anHealing, 94:of a higher rhythm upon the lower forces that disease can be controlled. Disease is therefore theHealing, 94:the lower forces that disease can be controlled. Disease is therefore the result in the physicalHealing, 94:brought so many groups to believe in the cure of disease by thought power and to ascribe theHealing, 94:thought power and to ascribe the appearance of disease to wrong thinking. But in reality, humanityHealing, 94:problem. We cannot consequently affirm that disease, as a general rule, has any relation toHealing, 95:to wrong rhythms. Consequently, I repeat that disease is not the result of thought. Healing, 95:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease C. Frustrated Idealism There are, however,Healing, 95:and the emotional life is a fruitful source of disease and of establishing wrong rhythms. It isHealing, 95:life and the consequent resultant activities: Disease is a form of activity. Mental activity andHealing, 95:etc. The life becomes consequently embittered. Disease then appears in the physical body, accordingHealing, 96:forces and energies which can disrupt and dispel disease, but the process must be aided by theHealing, 97:any group work in healing. Thought neither cures disease nor causes it. Thought must be employed inHealing, 97:and so cause nervous trouble and sometimes brain disease, but the mind itself and thinking, per se,Healing, 97:mind itself and thinking, per se, cannot cause disease and trouble in the physical body. As theHealing, 97:begin to control the racial consciousness, disease - as we now know it - will be greatly lessenedHealing, 98:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease I would here give you, as a group, another rule,Healing, 99:instead of curing it. It can stimulate the disease itself to dangerous proportions and disruptHealing, 99:kill the person concerned by so increasing the disease that the patient's normal resistance canHealing, 99:the capacity of the patient, the tension of the disease, and know also whether or no it is the willHealing, 99:or no it is the will of the soul that the disease should be cured. We have covered much ground ofHealing, 99:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease The Sacred Art of Healing I do not intend, inHealing, 99:in this treatise, to deal with the pathology of disease, with its systems and their maleficentHealing, 100:world some idea of the true and occult causes of disease and their hidden origins, and with theHealing, 100:that type of energy which will counteract the disease. This is necessarily a vast subject and oneHealing, 100:of ray force can be used with certain types of disease, necessitating the use of certain specificHealing, 100:and absorbs those forces which are producing the disease, drawing it forth from the patient. ThisHealing, 100:of the healer from all contamination by the disease, so that the forces can find no place in hisHealing, 101:the person to be healed can produce the cure of disease, provided it is the destiny of the man toHealing, 101:to the center nearest to the location of the disease. In this work there is no risk to the healer,Healing, 101:but may lead to an increase in the power of the disease and its intensification by stimulating theHealing, 101:beginners must avoid any concentration upon the disease itself or the area in the physical bodyHealing, 103:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Here are the first rules which I would have theHealing, 105:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Three Major Laws of Health There are three majorHealing, 110:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Our discussion has necessarily been sketchy, forHealing, 111:that the physical vehicle be rendered free from disease and clutched away from the processes ofHealing, 111:however, be desirable (and it often is) that the disease be permitted to do its work and death openHealing, 111:and nature has her own wise ways of doing this. Disease and death must be recognized as liberatingHealing, 111:another direction" and, in this present cycle, disease and death will inevitably supervene. This isHealing, 111:into its component parts and basic essence. Disease is essentially an aspect of death. It is theHealing, 111:that where there is illness or discomfort or disease which is not related to the final dissolution,Healing, 112:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease The Causes of Disease Summarized In every occultHealing, 112:Psychological Causes of Disease The Causes of Disease Summarized In every occult consideration ofHealing, 112:Summarized In every occult consideration of disease it must be accepted as a basic proposition thatHealing, 112:must be accepted as a basic proposition that all disease is a result of the misuse of force in someHealing, 112:on this matter. Ninety per cent of the causes of disease are to be found in the etheric and astralHealing, 112:the development of the race and its evolution. Disease is therefore the working out intoHealing, 113:planetary life - of this we can know little. All disease is caused by lack of harmony between formHealing, 113:are: Heart complaints. Nervous diseases. Disease is a fact in nature. When this is accepted, menHealing, 114:of Cause and Effect, or of Karma, governs all disease. This embraces individual, group, nationalHealing, 114:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease 4. Diseases due to the Life of DiscipleshipHealing, 114:the Life of Discipleship Earlier I told you that disease originated in the four following causes:Healing, 115:primarily focused. [115] The five major types of disease, with their allied and subsidiary effects,Healing, 115:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease A. The Diseases of Mystics However, the discipleHealing, 115:treatise was summed up in the statement that disease is the result of the blocking of the free lifeHealing, 118:entirely new field of psychological approach to disease, whether physiological or nervous. A smallHealing, 119:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease I have discussed these two conditions at lengthHealing, 119:of the mystic and the new mode of approach to disease (from the soul angle and the realm of causes,Healing, 119:its valuable application to human need. Law IV Disease, both physical and psychological, has itsHealing, 120:the personality are focused, and this leads to disease. The art of the healer is concerned with theHealing, 120:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease B. Diseases of Disciples We will divide what weHealing, 120:are susceptible to the major categories of disease. They are attempting to be one with allHealing, 120:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease 1. The Specific Problems of Disciples TheseHealing, 121:and not as a result of the efficiency of the disease. The reason that these three major diseases,Healing, 121:unity they are prone to fall a ready prey to the disease. This is a fact little known or realized,Healing, 121:but usually of a functional nature only. Organic disease of the heart arises in more deeply seatedHealing, 122:between problems and physical reactions and disease because the inflow, distribution and directionHealing, 122:direction of energy do not necessarily produce disease. Always, however, during the novitiate whichHealing, 123:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Let us now consider the four problems from theHealing, 126:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Many psychological difficulties arise whilst thisHealing, 128:good men and aspirants share in this universal disease of humanity which must take its tollHealing, 129:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease b. Diseases of the nervous system, due to theHealing, 131:who is the Sound and sounding forth knows not disease, knows not the hand of death." In these fewHealing, 132:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease This third group of difficulties, problems andHealing, 132:the most important from the standpoint of disease, because the centers govern the glandular [133]Healing, 133:- Chapter I - The Psychological Causes of Disease Law I All disease is the result of inhibited soulHealing, 133:- The Psychological Causes of Disease Law I All disease is the result of inhibited soul life andHealing, 133:which constitute any Particular form. Law II Disease is the product of, and subject to, threeHealing, 134:ill health, and which, therefore, work out as disease or as freedom from disease. Law IV Disease,Healing, 134:work out as disease or as freedom from disease. Law IV Disease, both physical and psychological, |
