WE CAN NOW SEE HOW ANY TYPE OF ILLNESS FROM WHICH WE MAY SUFFER WILL GUIDE US TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FAULT WHICH LIES BEHIND OUR AFFLICTION. FOR EXAMPLE:

PRIDE, which is arrogance and rigidity of mind, will give rise to those diseases which produce rigidity and stiffness of the body.

CRUELTY produces pain.

HATE The penalties of hate are loneliness, violent uncontrollable temper, mental nerve storms and conditions of hysteria.

SELF-LOVE Excesive self-love result in diseases of introspection-neurosis, neurasthenia and similar conditions-which rob life of so much enjoyment.

IGNORANCE  AND LACK OF WISDOM bring their own difficulties in everyday life, and in addition should there be a persistence in refusing to see truth when the opportunity has been given, shortsightedness and impairment of vision and hearing are the natural consequences.

INESTABILITY OF MIND must lead to the same quality in the body with those various disorders which affect movement and coordination.

GREED AND DOMINATION OF OTHERS  result of diseases as will rendere the sufferer a slave to his own body, with desires and ambitions curbed by the malady. Moreover, the very part of the body affected is on  …pag. 17 accident, but is in accordance with the law of cause and effect, and again will be a guide to help us. For example, the heart, the fountain of life and hence of love, is attacked when especially the love side of the nature towards humanity is not developed or is wrongly used; a hand affected denotes failure or wrong in action; the brain being the centre of control, if afflicted, indicates lack of control in the personality. Such must follow as the law lays down. We are already to admit the many results which may follow a fit of violent temper, the shock of sudden bad news; if trivial affairs can thus affect the body, how much more serious and deep-rooted must be a prolonged conflict between soul and body.

… But yet there is no cause for depression. The prevention and cure of disease can be found by discovering the wrong within ourselves and eradicating this fault by the earnest development of the virtue which will destroy it; not by fighting the wrong, but by bringing in such a flood of its opposite virtue that it will swept from our natures…pag.18