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324 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
must go on together, and they reciprocally
other.
aid each
There are diseased conditions which no treatment
has been
can cure, or long relieve. When a vital organ
destroyed, or made permanently useless, the patient
must sink. When vitality has been so exhausted by
any cause, that the process of purification can not be
carried on, the poor body must clog up and perish.
When a certain amount of disease has settled upon the
brain or its membranes, or the spinal cord ; when the
Jungs are solidified or disorganized, so as to prevent the
uses of respiration ; when the liver can no longer per
form its function ; when digestion is destroyed ; when
the mesenteric glands are solidified or tuberculated,
clogged up with diseased matters; when the kidneys
fail ; when the heart is disorganized ; when the organic
nervous system can no longer give vigor to the capillary
system, and carry on the processes of nutrition and secre
tion, then comes the inevitable Death. A wise use of
the directions, given in this book will aid nature in doing
all possibilities ; but God can not perform impossibilities.
CHAPTER XXI.
DISEASES AND TREATMENT.
Nothing seems more difficult than to make a clear
classification of diseases. All the systems that we have
are defective, and some are involved and incomprehen-