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336 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
infancy, too, we mostly outgrow them, and we shall
in time.
altogether
I can not omit here what is to me an evident fact, that
there are diseases affecting vitality, higher or deeper
than those we have just considered. There are causes
affecting the health of the spirit and its hold upon the
bodily organization, into which I seek in vain to pene
trate. Strength comes to us from sources we know
nothing or but vaguely about; and we are overwhelmed
with weakness and despair, from similar occult influ
ences. We see the spheres of being around and below
us, or external to us, but we have only dim revealings
of those which are above or internal. There are, how
ever, multiplied evidences of their existence, in and
out of our own interior consciousness. Of the nature
of such diseases, or their causes, I am not yet able to
speak. I can only say, generally, that as the best way
to keep a healthy mind, is to give it a healthy body for
its basis, so the best guarantee for spiritual health, is
that of the combined animal and organic systems.
CHAPTER XXIII.
DISEASES OF THE GENERAL SYSTEM.
I shall now endeavor to give such an account of
diseases and treatment as the reader can perfectly un
derstand, and may find practically useful. It is done
with brevity, because I have already laid down the broad