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• Individual disease, due to interior conditions in a man's own equipment, to his mental state, or to an emotional condition which can produce serious ills. This is inherited from the past.

• Disease inherent in humanity as a whole. There are certain diseases to which all men are prone; the germs of these diseases are latent in the physical vehicles of the majority of men, only awaiting predisposing conditions in order to manifest. They might be regarded as group diseases. Diseases which are, curiously enough, accidental. To these a man falls heir when, for instance, he succumbs to some infectious or contagious complaint.

• Diseases inherent in the soil. Of these as yet but little is known. The soil of our earth, however, is very ancient, and is impregnated with disease germs which take their toll of the vegetable, animal and human kingdoms, manifesting differently in each, yet being due basically to the same causes.

• Diseases which are the difficulties of mysticism. These are the peculiar ills and complaints which attack the disciples and aspirants of the world. These can be traced in every case to the pouring in of energy through centers which are not properly equipped, or adequately developed, to handle the force.

The method whereby these Astral forces (which are, as we know, preeminently the determining life forces for the majority of men at this time) work out into manifestation is a relatively simple matter. In the Astral vehicle of expression there are, as you may realize, the correspondences of the seven centers in the Etheric body. These are essentially the seven major focal points of force, and each of them is expressive of one of the seven Ray energies. Let me first of all make clear which centers express these seven Ray types:

On the Astral plane there will also be found in every Astral body seven corresponding focal points through which energy can enter, Raying forth then into the vital centers in the Etheric physical body as seven differentiated types of force. These types of force produce both bad and good effects, according to the quality of the negative dense physical body. These differ according to the type of Ray or force, and it may be interesting if I here indicate to you the good and the bad effects and the corresponding diseases.

THE RAYS:  LIGHT AND SHADOW ASPECTS

                                                 Astral Force          Center               Shadow Aspect              Disease                      Light Aspect    

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