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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 galvanise 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 generalising. So many people are prone to an inferiority complex 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.

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 inter-relation 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 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:

1. First, that disease is sometimes the working out into manifestation of undesirable subjective conditions. These, when externalised 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.

2. 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.

We might therefore conclude that:

• Disease is a purificatory process, carried out in order to produce a purer expression, life aroma, influence and Soul usefulness. When this is the case, a cure is possible.

• Disease can be a gradual and slow process of dying and of thus releasing the Soul. A cure then will not be possible, though palliative and ameliorative measures are needed and should most certainly be used. The length of the life can be prolonged, but a permanent and final cure is out of the question.

• This the average mental healer fails to realize. They make a horror out of death, whereas death is a beneficent friend.

• Disease can be the sudden and final call to the body to relinquish the Soul and set it free for other service. In all these cases everything possible should be done from the standpoint of modern medical and surgical science and the allied sciences of which there are today so many. Much too can be done from the angle of mental and Spiritual healing, aided by the science of psychology. Some day there must come cooperation in these various fields and a synthesising of their efforts.

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