Human qualities of natural beauty, love, virtue and spirituality are mostly interdependent within the physical health. The ancient Greeks knew this well, when they were deifying athletics and hygiene as the bridge to beauty, strength and divinity. They dedicated their athletic games to Olympic Gods, Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon and Athena in order to signify their value as a sacrament. “Virtue and love said Plato, are both a kind of health” while hate, envy, fear and jealousy are the by- products of disease. Disease of stomach and liver, for instance, can easily alter the entire human character, by disabling the solar plexus (or the emotional brain) from its natural function. When such a mighty solar gland is out of order, peace, virtue and love are dethroned from their natural function, while worry, fear and insecurity sets in.
Fear and love are opposed to one another, when the one sets in, the other has departed. We never see a loving person to fear or the fearing one to love. Pure love is celestial power and fear for the divinity is an unthinkable issue. The same applies to spirituality; Spirit is a divine current which flows freely in us, if our physical and mental health permits it. “A dormant faculty in the brain; a dead fibre in the body; a thought of failure in the mind; a feeling of constraint in the heart; a stoppage any where, however so slight will make a man less spiritual by so much’’ said the wise thinker ‘E. Purinton’. Climate also plays an important role in the harmonious function of the body, mind and soul. “Where there is dry light the soul is wisest and best” Says Heraclitus.
Nietzsche observed the same in his little book “Ecce homo”, “selective regimen and dry climate with clear skies, are vital for a good metabolism and spiritual growth, he said. Wisdom is an unfolding evolution or a spiritual journey; no specific school or foreign assistance is necessary for this trip, save the guiding of the individual instinct; So long as we keep our inner rectitude for truth at all cost. “We arrive quicker somewhere, said Cromwell, if we don’t know where we are going”. Just by following our inner impulse or our natural instinct, we will arrive safer at our destination.
Spiritual progress is a soul metamorphosis, like the egg to silk worm, then to butterfly and it has nothing to do with religious studies. Hurdles in our unfolding journey are strengthening friends and must never be abandoned. They contain vital inspiring instructions for our spiritual journey. There is always a guiding spirit in all of us, if we but only listen carefully and follow without fear and hesitation. Sinning and suffering are all part and parcel of our spiritual growth, as they are indispensable Soul exercises; No ball can bounce high enough, unless it first hits the ground hard;
Body healing is also an internal guiding process. It has nothing to do with medical and pharmaceutical pseudo-assistance. The body has been equipped internally for this kind of job; it is totally a biological task. Benjamin Franklin wisely said: “God does the healing and doctor takes the fee. It is preposterous to say that if something is taken internally or put on the outside of the body that it will cure disease. All acute diseases are the body’s own healing efforts to expel obstruction from its internal domain and to restore the circulation, amelioration.
Healing is an on going process day and night in order to correct our living mistakes. It is a biological auto-therapeutic action for every living creature. All discomforts, like cold, pain, lack of appetite and so forth, are signs of this internal repairing activity. The body is telling us to rest and not to eat until this repair is finished. Animals in the wild know this truth and obey it, but we humans don’t; drugs have no curing power; they only interrupt the body’s healing process by stupefying the nerves and supplying false comfort by palliation. The side effects of these practices are horrendous! They create incurable and often deadly chronic diseases later.
Obedience to the body’s voice is an act of a developed mind, said the philosopher Dr Alexander Wilde, “Show me your doctor who you are employing and I will tell you of the Intellectual level to which you have attained, he said, Your belief in regard to drugs, remedies and church worship, marks the stratum of the intellectual level to which you have attained”. Man is supposed to be the embodiment of Deity, the crown of the creation, the God in human flesh, but is he today? Unfortunately, the contrary is true. Modern Civilization with its misleading therapeutics and religious superstition has made him the sickliest and the cruellest creature in the universe. Isn’t it a great pity? Omnipotence gave us a free will and the intellect to ride high.
This is our main task. We are not made to crawl and beg after the pseudo-religious dogmas and therapeutic cults. For all our needs in life, we are directly responsible. No one can give it to us, but our selves. No one can take it away from us, but our selves. Omnipotence in us is willing to supply whatever we desire if we trust and believe in our selves. Man in a perfect state is a God in flesh. God in anthropomorphic shape up in the sky is the product of ignorance and superstition. The best faith and the rarest to find in humans, is to have complete faith in them selves. If we believe in our selves, work and persist in our dreams, we will be richly rewarded. We have the same share in the universe as God him self. The choice is ours.
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