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diseases and their misnomers. Names ought to indicate 

 the true nature and not merely the external effects of 

 the diseases. If a physician cannot see deeper than a 

 boor, then he is a boor and not a physician. What is 

 there in the ocean, in the earth, in the air, or in the 

 firmament — i.e., the ' fire ' — which should not be known 

 to a physician ? Why is professional ignorance so great 

 and success so little, but because the practitioners study 

 only external effects and the anatomy of the external 

 form, and are not able to look with the eye of the spirit 

 into the mysterious part of Nature ? We cannot see the 

 life in things that are dead ; the eyes of the soul must 

 open, and we must become able to see not only the 

 house of life, but its living inhabitant." 



Therapeutics 



" If we wish to restore health, we should be able 

 to use the virtues contained in all the four elements of 

 the celestial and terrestrial realm. Man's organism is 

 composed of many parts ; if one part is diseased, all the 

 other parts suffer, and one disease may be the death 

 of the whole. Man has in him the whole firmament, 

 the upper and lower spheres ; if his organism is sick it 

 calls for help to heaven and to the earth. As the soul 

 must fight against the devil with all her strength, and 

 call God to her aid with her whole heart, her whole mind, 

 and all her powers ; so the diseased physical organism 

 calls to its aid all the celestial and terrestrial powers 

 with which it has been invested by God to resist the 

 cruel and bitter death " (Par amir., i. 2). 



Faramirum ; or, The Book of the Causes and the 

 Beginning of Diseases — The Five Causes. 



" There is only one eternal and universal Cause of 

 everything, which is God, and if we were to write in 

 a true Christian spirit, we should not make any divi- 



