Congenital Alterable Transmissible Asymmetry: The Spiritual Meaning of Disease and Science
Language: English
Pages: 158
ISBN: 1480813737
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Since the soul is immortal and consequently indifferent to the concept of death, the evidence that the mind, with its unceasing fears, is always transcended in such moments of creating moral beauty is revealed in the frequency with which individuals have been known to have ended their mortal existences in spontaneous and hopeless attempts to save the life of a complete stranger. It is interesting to note that there is in the language no word, such as inspiration" or "intuition" with which we may describe such noble activities of the soul" -Chapter 2, The Intuition, pg. 12
disease, no premonition as yet that every illness from which we suffer has somehow been brought on by our transgressions against those all-encompassing laws of Nature to which the only response must be complete and eternal submissiveness. And, indeed, except for the errors of humanity, for which the Creator in His ultimate wisdom provided an intellect capable of overruling the gentle acceptances of the soul, no species has ever rebelled against the dictates of its superior. And more and more, as
combinations and permutations which may affect the congenital qualities of each of us and which make comprehensible the great variations in health of offspring of the same parents. There is obviously a maximum health which each infant can acquire with respect to ancestral norms and abnorms, but this is presumably seldom realized. If for example, one parent suffers from asthma and the other does not, such mating of abnormal with normal should end in the transmission of a lesser asthmatic defect to
and proper prerogatives of the former, while casting scorn, via the blind probings of its empirical method, upon the blessed, intuitive insights through which philosopher, poet, and scientist all arrive at the ultimate beatitudes. Let us consider the philosophers for a moment, for these, unlike the philosopher-scientists, have largely limited their scrutiny of reality to the appearance of the spiritual alone, rather than to the infinite transformations it assumes as it invades matter, animating,
sensuality, has turned from the ancient scrutinies of the ultimates to the profound dissection of the superficial so characteristic of our age. No longer are we being confronted with speculations regarding true teleology, such as “Why? Why were we and the world created?” Instead, “science” now concerns itself with the infinitely less hazardous “how?” “How did it occur? How has it evolved?” And from the depths of the enlarging darkness he has answered the awesome inquiry which is irrevocably
different diseases, but one disease with ten thousand different faces. For, instead of a unity of negation, that of the malignancies has an affirmative quality: each separate one possesses a reality which assumes the appearance of the cells within which it originates. Thus, cancer is merely the best known because it is the most frequently occurring; others being known, for example, as sarcoma, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, Hodgkins disease, etc. And so cancer has the microscopic