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useful for some beings while they are evil for others. 

 The salamander eats fire, the ox eats grass, the peacock 

 can swallow snakes and the ostrich stones ; but man 

 requires a different kind of food." 



Philosophy informs us that the world is made out of 

 the will of God. If, then, all things are made out of 

 will, it logically follows that the causes of all internal 

 diseases are also originating within the will. All 

 diseases, such as are not caused by any action coming 

 from the outside, are due to a perverted action of 

 the will in man, such as is not in harmony with the 

 laws of Nature or God. If his will begins to move 

 in disharmony with these laws, then will a state of 

 disharmony be created, which ultimately finds its ex- 

 pression on the external visible plane, and it is not 

 necessary that the diseased person should be intellec- 

 tually aware of the cause of such an inharmonious action, 

 for the will in man produces the harmonious and in- 

 harmonious performances of his internal organs without 

 man being aware of it and without the consent of his 

 intellect. A mere thought, an idea, a mental impres- 

 sion, may produce such an inharmonious action of will, 

 and as the name "Tartarus" expresses that which is 

 perverted, impure, or opposed to good, diseases of such 

 an origin are called by Paracelsus " Tartaric Diseases." 



"First of all should the physician know that there 

 are three invisible substances which by their coagulation 

 form the physical body of man, and which are sym- 

 bolised as 'sulphur^ mercury, and salt.^ The 'sulphur* 

 represents the auras and energies, the * mercury ' the 

 fluids, and the ' salt ' the material and substantial parts 

 of the body; and in each organ these three substances 

 are combined in certain proportions, differing from each 

 other. These three substances are contained in all 

 things, and the digestive power is the great solvent for 

 these substances, of which each part of the body assi- 

 milates whatever it will require. Dew falls from the 



