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This tabulation is simply an outline and its interpretation will be dependent upon the point of view of the student. We shall employ it later and add further columns to it and further correspondences. In all our considerations, what we have to say will have the following synthesis of structure behind it:

• The Soul.
• The subtler bodies of the mind and the emotions, which are simply qualified energy centers.
• The vital body with its seven major centers of force.
• The endocrine system, which is an effect of the seven centers, and the determining controlling factor in the physical body of man.
• The nervous system in its three divisions.
• The blood stream.

All the subsidiary organs of man are effects; they are not pre-determining causes. The determining causes in man, and that which makes him what he is, are the glands. They are externalisations of the types of force pouring through the Etheric centers from the subtler worlds of being. They express the point in evolution which the man has reached; they are vital and active or non-vital and inactive, according to the condition of the centers. They demonstrate a sufficiency, an oversufficiency or a deficiency, according to the condition of the Etheric vortices.

Again, the process of control may be stated to be via the nervous system; the close interlocking directorate of the nervous system, the brain and the blood stream (as a carrier of the life principle) governs the activities of the man—conscious, sub-conscious, self-conscious, and finally, super-conscious. The three centers in supreme control today for the majority are:

1. The Ajna center, the center between the eyebrows.
2. The Solar Plexus center.
3. The Sacral center.

Eventually, when man will have "become that which he is" (that paradoxical esoteric phrase), the centers of control will be:

1. The Head center, the Brahmarandra.
2. The Heart center, the Anahata.
3. The center at the Base of the Spine.

Between the present and the future, the emphasis will be laid upon a constantly shifting triplicity, and each man will be different from his fellowmen as to emphasis, as to the conditions of his centers, as to their glandular correspondences in the physical body, and therefore as to the diseases and the ills, inhibitions, and difficulties to which his flesh will fall heir. It is in this connection that it becomes obvious that the work of the physician and of the psychologist must eventually go hand in hand.

The three most important aspects of all diagnoses are:

• The Psychological, or the gauging of the inner bodies of man from the angle of their development, their integration and the total coordination of the personality, as these subtler aspects of the human being express themselves in consciousness.

• The work of the Endocrinologist, as he deals with the endocrine glands, viewing them as power stations through which energy—dynamic and illuminating—can pour through from the centers.

• The Physician, who, taking into consideration the conclusions of the two above experts, diagnoses the disease, and treats it in collaboration with the other two.

From the above remarks it will be seen that disease emerges into the physical body from the world of the unseen, and from the use, or misuse, of the subtler forces on the inner planes. It must be remembered, however, that disease—as it expresses itself in man—can be generally regarded as due to the following causes, and students would do well to have this most carefully in mind as they ponder on these matters:

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