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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics (24)
mental and physical subnormality. The third was an unhealthy or abnormal mental attitude. Melancholia, morbid emotions, excess of feeling, such as passions, lusts, greeds, and hates, affected the mumia, from which they reacted into the physical body, where they resulted in ulcers, tumors, cancers, fevers, and tuberculosis. The ancients viewed the disease germ as a unit of mumia which had been impregnated with the emanations from evil influences which it had contacted. In other words, germs were minute creatures born out of man's evil thoughts and actions.
Physiology and Human Nature (84c)
Timaeus: as it crumbles, into its nutriment which then passes into flesh, and this flesh falling into, the blood causes all such maladies to be more...
Physiology and Human Nature (87a)
Timaeus: but are confined within, and mingle their vapor with the movement of the soul and are blended therewith, they implant diseases of the soul...
Physiology and Human Nature (83e)
Timaeus: and all other such humors as pour forth in the daily purgings of the body. And all these are factors in disease, whenever the blood is not...
Physiology and Human Nature (85b)
Timaeus: its action is more gentle during sleep, but when it attacks persons who are awake it is harder to shake off; and because it is a disease of...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (114)
Behold! man becometh weak, faint and sick, and if no remedy be used, then he soon falls into death. The sickness is caused either by some bitter and...
Physiology and Human Nature (86a)
Timaeus: and it produces diarrhoea and dysentery and all suchlike maladies. When a body has become diseased mainly from an excess of fire, it...
Physiology and Human Nature (82a)
Timaeus: For seeing that there are four elements of which the body is compacted,—earth, fire, water and air,—when, contrary to nature, there occurs...
Physiology and Human Nature (84d)
Timaeus: being due partly to air, partly to phlegm, and partly to bile. Whenever the lungs, which are the dispensers of air to the body, fail to keep...
Physiology and Human Nature (83c)
Timaeus: To all these humors the general designation “bile” has been given, either by certain physicians or by someone who was capable of surveying a...
Physiology and Human Nature (85a)
Timaeus: White phlegm, also, is dangerous when it is blocked inside because of the air in its bubbles; but when it has air-vents outside the body it...
Physiology and Human Nature (83b)
Timaeus: in its attack on any part of the body that is not as yet corrupted. And at one time the black matter acquires a sharpness in place of its...
Physiology and Human Nature (86e)
Timaeus: but the wicked man becomes wicked by reason of some evil condition of body and unskilled nurture, and these are experiences which are...
Physiology and Human Nature (82e)
Timaeus: the density of the bones, and, as it oozes and drips from the bones, moistens the marrow. Now when each of these substances is produced in...
Physiology and Human Nature (85c)
Timaeus: boils and sends up all kinds of eruptions; but when it is confined inside it produces many burning diseases; and of these the gravest occurs...
Physiology and Human Nature (82c)
Timaeus: Again, in the structures which are naturally secondary in order of construction, there is a second class of diseases to be noted by him who...
Physiology and Human Nature (88a)
Timaeus: and is in a very passionate state, it shakes up the whole body from within and fills it with maladies; and whenever the soul ardently...
Physiology and Human Nature (86b)
Timaeus: Such is the manner in which diseases of the body come about; and those of the soul which are due to the condition of the body arise in the...
Physiology and Human Nature (84e)
Timaeus: countless diseases of a painful kind are produced, accompanied by much sweating. And often, when the flesh is disintegrated, air which is...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (115)
Now if a learned physician inquireth of the sick person from what his disease is proceeded, and taketh that which is the cause of the disease,...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput IV (27)
For deformity and disease are a defect of form, and a deprivation of order. And this is not altogether an evil, but a less good; for if a dissolution ...