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230 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
integrity of constitution. There must be good brain,
good nervous fluid, and good muscular fiber, before we
can have real strength, and true, persistent energy of
character and action. These must come from a deep
vitality, and a rich elaboration of nutrient materials.
Men of strong desires, strong passions, strong wills,
have strong lives ; and a strong life must be, to a great
extent, a healthy one.
Weakness, mental, or passional, or physical, is a sign
of disease, as it is a consequence. It is want of devel
opment, or exhaustion, or hereditary taint, or acquired
morbid condition, or all together, one producing the
other. If we blame the weak, the vascillating, the
craving, the spiritless, nerveless, hopeless, purposeless,
we must blame them only for what has brought them
to this condition. It is a condition of disease, which, if
possible,
we must cure.
Happiness is a sign of health, and a full enjoyment
of life can not exist without it. A condition of happi
ness is said to be " a sound mind in a sound body." This
is a simple description of a healthy condition. Happi
ness is the end or final cause of all sentient life. There
is no other conceivable reason for the creation of any
being. Happiness is, therefore, the positive and neces
sary result of every true life, as misery is the inevitable,
because equally necessary, result of a false life. As
health is the condition of a true life, the result and sign
of health is happiness.
Hence all unhappiness of every kind, all pain, grief,
regret, jealousy, discontent, anxiety, is the result of
disease, bodily or mental, in ourselves or others. Sor
row seems to" me just as much the effect of a disease