Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00228)

Dec 18 2004

Dear Vera:

You asked: about blood transfusion and organ donations - does THEOSOPHY
offer anything.


THEOSOPHY does not recommend either of these for the reason that the astral
body and Karma attached to those are always incompatible and dangerous to
some extent. 

Physical medicine and the science of modern healing look on the human body
as a fairly adaptable series if interchangeable parts - which is not so.

The Universe organizes through the astral body each person with their own
particular set of personalized and individual organs and substances. These
are always related to the individual's Karma. 

To some extent Medical science recognizes incompatibilities such as in blood
transfusions and the compatibility (by DNA testing) of proposed organ
transplants (heart, lungs, etc. ) and cures for cancer attacked parts of the
body. 

One of our problems is psychological: Most fear death. Those who have had
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES ( NDE ) have lost such fear as they realize that
they as SPIRITUAL SOULS survive physical death. Med. Sc. Tries to preserve
"life"-- at any cost, in the most shattered of physical bodies.

THEOSOPHY states all bodies are replaceable under nature's rules and laws.
And while everyone grieves for the loss of a loved one, There is the
knowledge that under Karma we will all meet again, and love and live and
work together, in the future. [ For example, we don't grieve when one goes
to sleep before another does? We know that we will wake up and continue
life in a fresh day. It is so with the larger separation of "death." ]

I attach here an article written generally on this. 


THE CURE OF DISEASES


MORTAL ills and the needs of the stomach rank next after the instinct of
self-preservation among all the subjects which engage the attention of the
race. 
If we do not go on living we cannot do the work we think there is to do; if
we remain hungry we will lose the power to work properly or to enjoy, and at
last come to the door of death. From bad or scanty food follows a train of
physical ills called generally disease. 

Disease reaches us also through too much food. So in every direction these
ills attack us; even when our feeding is correct and sufficient it is found
that we fall a prey because our Karma, settled by ourselves is some previous
life, ordains that we enter on this one handicapped by the hereditary taint
due to the wickedness or the errors of our fathers and mothers. 

And the records of science show that the taint in the blood or the lymph may
jump over many lives, attacking with virulence some generation distant very
far from the source. 

What wonder, then that the cure of disease is an all-absorbing subject with
every one! The Christian knows that it is decreed by Almighty God that He
will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children even to the third and
fourth generation, and the non-believer sees that by some power in nature
the penalty is felt even so far.

All of this has given to the schools of mental and so-called "metaphysical"
healing a strong pull on the fears, the feelings, the wishes, and the bodies
of those to whom they address themselves, and especially in the United
States. 
That there is more attention given to the subject in America seems true to
those who have been on the other side of the Atlantic and noticed how small
is the proportion of people there who know anything about the subject. But
in the United States in every town many can be found who know about these
schools and practice after their methods. Why it has more hold here can be
left to conjecture, as the point under consideration is why it has any hold
at all. It is something like patent medicine. 

Offer a cure to people for their many ills, and they will take it up; offer
it cheap, and they will use it; offer it as an easy method, and they will
rush for it under certain conditions. 

Metaphysical healing is easy for some because it declares, first, that no
money need be paid to doctors for medicine; second, that medical fluids and
drugs may be dispensed with; and third that it is easily learned and
practiced. The difficulties that arise out of the necessities of logic are
not present for those who never studied it, but are somewhat potent with
those who reason correctly; - but that is not usual for the general run of
minds. 

They see certain effects and accept the assumed cause as the right one. But
many persons will not even investigate the system, because they think it
requires them to postulate the non-existence of that which they see before
their eyes. 

The statements quoted from the monthly Christian Science in March PATH are
bars in the way of such minds. If they could be induced to just try the
method offered for cure, belief might result, for effects indeed often
follow. 

But the popular mind is not in favor of "mind cure," and more prominence is
given in the daily papers to cases of death under it than to cures. And very
full reports always appear of a case such as one in March, where "faith
curers," in order to restore life, went to praying over the dead body of one
of the members of a believing family.

During a recent tour over this country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
back, I had the opportunity of meeting hundreds of disciples of these
schools, and found in nearly all cases that they were not addicted to logic
but calmly ignored very plain propositions, satisfied that if cures were
accomplished the cause claimed must be the right one, and almost without
exception they denied the existence of evil or pain or suffering. 

There was a concurrence of testimony from all to show that the dominant idea
in their minds was the cure of their bodily ills and the continuance of
health. The accent was not on the beauty of holiness or the value to them
and the community of a right moral system and right life, but on the cure of
their diseases. 

So the conclusion has been forced home that all these schools exist because
people desire to be well more than they desire to be good, although they do
not object to goodness if that shall bring wholeness.

And, indeed, one does not have to be good to gain the benefit of the
teachings. It is enough to have confidence, to assert boldly that this does
not exist and that that has no power to hurt one. 
I do not say the teachers of the "science" agree with me herein, but only
that whether you are good or bad the results will follow the firm practice
of the method enjoined, irrespective of the ideas of the teachers.

For in pure mind-cure as compared with its congener "Christian Science," you
do not have to believe in Jesus and the gospels, yet the same results are
claimed, for Jesus taught that whatever you prayed for with faith, that you
should have.

Scientific research discloses that the bodies of our race are infected with
taints that cause nearly all of our diseases, and school after school of
medicine has tried and still tries to find the remedy that will dislodge the
foulness in the blood. 

This is scientific, since it seeks the real physical cause; metaphysical
healing says it cures, but cannot prove that the cause is destroyed and not
merely palliated. 

That there is some room for doubt history shows us, for none will deny that
many pure thinking and acting pair have brought forth children who displayed
some taint derived from a distant ancestor. Evidently their pure individual
thoughts had no power over the great universal development of the matter
used by those human bodies.

Turning now to medicine we find the Italian Count Mattei promulgating a
system of cure by the homeopathic use of subtle vegetable essences which may
well give pause to those who would make universal the curing by faith or
mind alone. Some of his liquids will instantly stop a violent pain, restore
sight, give back hearing, and dissipate abnormal growths. His globules will
make a drunken man sober, and, given to the nurse who suckles a babe, will
cure the child who takes the milk. The drunkard and the child do not think
about or have faith in the remedies, yet they cure. Is it not better to
restore health by physical means and leave the high teachings of the
healers, all taken from well know sources, for the benefit of our moral
nature? 

And if Christian healers read these lines, should they not remember that
when the prophet restored the widow's son he used physical means - his own
magnetism applied simultaneously to every member of the child's body, and
Jesus, when the woman who touched his garment was cured, lost a portion of
his vitality - not his thoughts - for he said "virtue" had gone out from
him? 
The Apostle also gave directions that if any were sick the others should
assemble about the bed and anoint with oil, laying on their hands meanwhile:
simply physical therapeutics following a long line of ancient precedent
dating back to Noah. 

Moses taught how to cure diseases and to disinfect places where contagion
lurked. It was not by using the high power of thought, but by processes
deemed by him to be effectual, such as sprinkling blood of animals
slaughtered in peculiar circumstances. 

Without declaring for or against his methods, it is very certain that he
supposed by these means subtle forces of a physical nature would be
liberated and brought to bear on the case in hand.

The mass of testimony through the ages is against healing physical ills by
the use of the higher forces in nature, and the reason, once well known but
later on forgotten, is the one given in the article of January, 1892, - that
diseases are gross manifestations showing themselves on their way out of the
nature so that one may be purified. 

To arrest them though thought ignorantly directed is to throw them back into
their cause and replant them in their mental plane.

This is the true ground of our objection to metaphysical healing practices,
which we distinguish from the assumptions and so-called philosophy on which
those methods are claimed to stand. For we distinctly urge that the effects
are not brought by any philosophical system whatever, but by the practical
though ignorant use of psycho-physiological processes.

William Q. Judge	Path, September, 1892


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I hope this may be of some help,


Best wishes,

Dallas


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-----Original Message-----
From: Vera Santos 
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:30 PM
To: 
Subject: [bn-study] help needed

Your friend asked: about blood transfusion and organ donations - does
THEOSOPHY offer anything.