keep the will in equilibrium, so all heaven conspires in and through its corresponding ultimates in nature to keep the body in equilibrium and health.
"Disease is a disturbance of that equilibrium, and all its phenomena are strictly representative of spiritual states and their variations. Germs, microbes, bacteria, etc., are always in the first place the products or effects of disease, the representative forms of the evil spheres. Being once produced, they may become carriers of the sphere and evoke it again into action in those persons in whom it is latent. Where the spheres are not latent, the earners will be absolutely innocuous."—Page 40.
The truth here is, that all disease-producing conditions originate in the spiritual world. Their cause is in hell; their active centres are evil spirits and societies; their corresponding forms in nature have no power to produce disease, only they are planes of influx for the producing spirits. When these natural correspondents of evils are introduced into the body, evil spirits infest these substances and operate upon the body to disorder its functions; and at the same time they communicate their sphere to the mind, and exciting its corresponding evil forms, whether hereditary or acquired, occasion mental disorders which again carry themselves down into the corresponding bodily organs and their functions. This is
