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d. The problems incident to the Activity or Inactivity of the centers are perhaps the most important from the standpoint of disease, because the centers govern the glandular system and the glands have a direct relation to the blood stream and they condition also the major and most important areas in the human body; they have both a physiological and a psychological effect upon the personality and its interior and exterior contacts and relations. The reaction is primarily physical but the effects are largely psychological, and it is therefore this fourth group upon which I shall principally enlarge, dealing with the diseases of disciples and giving some definite instructions upon the centers. This will indicate more clearly than elsewhere the causes of the many human ills and physical difficulties.

DIFFICULTIES INCIDENT TO SOUL CONTACT

We begin a study of the difficulties, the diseases and the psychological troubles (neurological and mental) of the aspirants and of the disciples of the world. These we shall study definitely from the angle of the seven centers, as well as considering the results of the forces and energies (I use these distinctive words advisedly) which pour through them. Much that I shall say will be open to question from the viewpoint of orthodox medicine, yet, at the same time, orthodox medicine has been steadily drifting towards the occult point of view. I shall not attempt to relate the esoteric attitude of healing, its propositions and methods, to the modern schools of therapy. The two are gradually approaching each other, in any case.

LAW V

There is naught but energy, for God is life. Two energies meet in man, but five others are present. For each is to be found a central point of contact. The conflict of these energies with forces and of the forces twixt themselves produce the bodily ills of man. The conflict of the first and second persists for ages until the mountain top is reached—the first great mountain top. The fight between the forces produces all disease, all ills and bodily pain, which seek release in death. The two, the five, and thus the seven, plus that which they produce, possess the secret. This is the fifth Law of Healing within the world of form.

This Law can be resolved into certain basic statements which can be tabulated as follows:

• We live in a world of energies and are a constituent part of them ourselves.

• The physical vehicle is a fusion of two energies and seven forces.

• The first energy is that of the Soul, the Ray energy. It is the producer of conflict as the Soul energy seeks to control the forces.

• The second energy is that of the threefold personality—the Personality Ray as it is resistant to the higher energy.

• The forces are the other energies or Ray potencies which control the seven centers and are dominated either by the energy of the personality or by that of the Soul.

• Two conflicts, therefore, proceed between the two major energies and between the other energies, focussed through the seven centers.

• It is the interplay of these energies which produces good health or bad.

There has been much teaching given anent the age-long struggle between personality and Soul, but it has always been presented in the language of Spiritual approach, of mysticism and of religion, or else in terms of character reaction, of abstract aspiration and of purity or non-purity. With these I shall not deal.

My theme is the effects of this conflict in the physical body. I wish, therefore, to confine myself only to the physiological and psychological problems incident to the struggle which, in the main, make hard the lot of the disciple.

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