Contagion and Immunity - An Esoteric Perspective

'When there is weakness of the lungs, an underlying cause may be the emotional body' as explained in Esoteric Healing (p 232 – 237).

Disease of the lungs is linked to the tubercular miasma and is one of the three main diseases of humanity (cancer, tuberculosis and syphilitic diseases).

Most of humanity functions primarily through the astral (emotional) body. Astralism and desire fans consumption. Consumption was a term used for TB last century, the cure for which was rest, fresh food and air (often in the hills and mountains) and penicillin.

The endless desire to earn, spend and consume is a world-wide phenomenon. Currently, having basic needs met is of primary importance – food, money to pay the rent, health care, work, etc. Essential services and workers are just that, essential. This is a natural astral purification adjustment.

The outer form of the planet (…) is impregnated to a certain depth with the seeds and germs (…); as immunity is built up, however, as methods of cure are developed, as preventive medicine comes into its own, and as man himself arrives at increasing mental and soul control of the animal and desire natures, these forms of human suffering will disappear, and (no matter what statistics may say) they are disappearing among the more controlled areas of the human family. EH 235

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Laura Clark was the director of the NZ School of Natural Healing (1996 – 2009). She has taught esoteric philosophy and associated subjects for many years, bringing current terminology to the ancient texts.

Awakening the Group Heart Centre (Meditation)

This meditation (see pdf download above) is a means of shifting the centre of attention from the solar plexus to the heart, from “me and mine’ to “we and us”, of soul control.

As the Aquarian era develops, this shift will become increasingly widespread until selflessness will become the norm for most people. The interdependence of all will be seen, valued and applied, and the benefits for all, reaped.

Relevant Quotes from the Alice Bailey books:

The immunity of man is an amazing matter, could you but realise it; he resists and throws off constantly and continuously every kind of disease—those which are the result of contact with others, those which are prevalent in the very atmosphere at every time, those which are latent within his own bodily organism, and those which are inherited and to which he has a constant predisposition.  Man's fight for health is ceaseless and unending, ranging all the way from ordinary fatigue and tiredness (plus the universal tendency to take cold), to mortal disease, ending in death. Esoteric Healing p 225

The five major types of disease, with their allied and subsidiary effects, can and do produce results where the disciple is concerned; he is not immune until after the third initiation. Esoteric Healing p 235

In relation to disease, a germ still remains a point of energy, but it might be regarded as energy which is not functioning correctly in relation to the particular form which has become susceptible to its activity or aware of its presence.

Germs are the first effect of an original cause.  Some few (…) have a deep-seated and mental origin and one of such magnitude that the finite minds of men cannot yet grasp them.  Such causes, for instance, may have their effects as a fierce and fiery and hot devotion to an idea or a person, or they may work out as an equally fierce and fiery fever in the physical body, and to this fever, according to its symptoms, a technical name will be given by the medical profession.  The originating cause is the same, and the effects in the personality will differ according to the focus of the attention or where the emphasis of the life is laid. 

When I used these words, "the focus of attention," I did not refer to any mental attitude or to an attentive mind, but to the impact of life force in any given direction, any locality and any aspect of the human body, where the directed life energy goes.  Germs are living organisms, great or small.  They find their way into the human mechanism through the medium of the life force which, in its turn, uses the heart and the blood stream as its agents of distribution.  In the same way, the energy of consciousness uses the nervous system and the brain as its distributing agency.  Where there is inherent or inherited weakness, there the life force is not properly focussed, and there will be found some form of congestion, or some form of arrested development, or some form of predisposition to disease.  When this is the case, germs can find a fruitful place in which to display their malignant activity.  When the vitality is great and the life force has free and unimpeded circulation, then there will not be these predispositions, the germ cannot find a lodging, and there will not be the risk of infection.

For instance, scarlet fever is contagious, but not all those exposed to it succumb.  The ability to throw off infection and immunity from contagious diseases is largely a matter of vitality (perhaps vitality in particular areas of the body where the focus of the attention and the emphasis of the life force may be found).  It can also be based upon the activity of the blood corpuscles, which serves to keep the blood stream in good condition. Esoteric Healing p 321

Painting by Nicholas Rohrich - 'Kanchenjunga' 1944