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great Intelligence caused the beautiful human body to exist, and then
ran away and left it to its fate, for they know that the Intelligence still
presides over each and every function of the body, and maybe safely
trusted and not feared.
That Intelligence, the manifestation of which we call "Nature" or "The Life
Principle", and similar names, is constantly on the alert to repair
damage, heal wounds, knit together broken bones; to throw off harmful
materials which have accumulated in
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the system; and in thousands of ways to keep the machine in good
running order. Much that we call disease is really a beneficent action of
Nature designed to get rid of poisonous substances which we have
allowed to enter and remain in our system.
Let us see just what this body means. Let us suppose a soul seeking a
tenement in which to work out this phase of its existence. Occultists
know that in order to manifest in certain ways, the soul has need of a
fleshly habitation. Let us see what the soul requires in the way of a
body, and then let us see whether Nature has given it what it needs.
In the first place, the soul needs a highly organized physical instrument
of thought, and a central station from which it may direct the workings
of the body. Nature provides that wonderful instrument, the human
brain, the possibilities of which we, at this time, but faintly recognize.
The portion of the brain which Man uses in this stage of his development
is but a tiny part of the entire brain-area. The unused portion is awaiting
the evolution of the race.
Secondly, the soul needs organs designed to receive and record the
various forms of impressions from without. Nature steps in and provides
the eye, the ear, the nose, the organs of taste and the nerves whereby
we feel. Nature is keeping other senses in reserve, until the need of
them is felt by the race.
Then, means of communication between the brain and the different
parts of the body are needed. Nature has "wired" the body with nerves in
a wonder-
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ful manner. The brain telegraphs over these wires instructions to all
parts of the body, sending its orders to cell and organ, and insisting
upon immediate obedience. The brain receives telegrams from all parts
of the body, warning it of danger; calling for help; making complaints,
etc.
Then the body must have means of moving around in the world. It has
outgrown the plantlike inherited tendencies, and wants to "move on."
Besides this it wants to reach out after things and turn them to its own
use. Nature has provided limbs, and muscles, and tendons, with which
to work the limbs.
Then the body needs a frame work to keep it in shape, to protect it from
shock; to give it strength and firmness; to prop it up, as it were. Nature
gives it the bony frame known as the skeleton, a marvelous piece of
machinery, which is well worthy of your study.
The soul needs a physical, means of communication with other
embodied souls. Nature supplies the means of communication in the
organs of speech and hearing.
The body needs a system of carrying repair materials to all of its system,
to build up; replenish; repair; and strengthen all the several parts. It
also needs a similar system whereby the waste, refuse matter may be
carried to the crematory, burned up and sent out of the system. Nature
gives us the life carrying blood - the arteries and veins through which it
flows to and fro performing its work - the lungs to
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oxygenize the blood and to burn up the waste matter. (See "Science of
Breath." Chapter III.) The body needs material from the outside, with
which to build up and repair its parts. Nature provides means of eating
the food; of digesting it; of extracting the nutritious elements; of
converting it into shape for absorption by the system; of excreting the
waste portions.
And, finally, the body is provided with means of reproducing its kind,
and providing other souls with fleshly tenements.
It is well worth the time of anyone to study something of the wonderful
mechanism and workings of the human body. One gets from this study a
most convincing realization of the reality of that great Intelligence in
nature - he sees the great Life Principle in operation - he sees that it is
not blind chance, or haphazard happening, but that it is the work of a
mighty INTELLIGENCE.
Then he learns to trust that Intelligence, and to know that that which
brought him into physical being will carry him through life - that the
power which took charge of him then, has charge of him now, and will
have charge of him always.
As we open ourselves to the inflow of the great Life Principle, so will we
be benefitted. If we fear it, or trust it not, we shut the door upon it and
must necessarily suffer. The student may well ask what has all this to do
with Occult Therapeutics, and may complain that we are giving him a
lesson in Hatha Yoga, in which
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latter statement he would be near the truth. But we cannot get away
from the idea that there is that in Nature which tends towards keeping a
man in perfect health, and we cannot help feeling that the true teaching
is rather to instruct people how to keep well in the first place rather
than to point out how they may get well after they have violated Nature's
laws. The Yogis think that it is illogical to build up a cult around
methods of healing - they feel that if cults must be built up let them
rally around the centre of Health, allowing the curing of disease to be
merely incidental.
In "Hatha Yoga", our forthcoming book, we will give the principles of the
Yogi Philosophy of perfect health, in which is taught the doctrine that
Health is the normal condition of man, and that disease is largely a
matter of ignorance and the disobeying of natural laws of living and
thinking. We will teach there that the healing power exists in every man,
and may be called into operation consciously or unconsciously. Occult
healing is merely the calling into play of this inner force within the
individual (sometimes with the assistance of other individuals) , and the
opening up of the system to the recuperative energies already within
itself.
All healing is occasioned by what we have called the "Vital Force" in the
individual. The active principle of this Vital Force is, as we have
explained, that manifestation of universal force - Prana. In order to avoid
repetition we would refer you to "Science of Breath" and to "Lesson
Seventh" of this
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