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No. 9 SELF-DIAGNOSIS The ability to diagnose is not confined in its application to the human body alone; it leads to the understanding of human nature. in general, consequently imparts knowledge to diagnose the cause of social evils and those problems which involve nations and races. The latter will depend upon the knowledge of human nature and the almost endless variety of temperaments. Still, however varied the temperaments, they are all traceable to one of three bases and two inclinations, the latter revealing the blend of temperamentals according to index. Basic knowledge of one trend leads to all others like unto radiations issuing from one center. The knowledge of diagnosis opens the portals of the objective and enables one to recognize more fully the abstract, assuring means that tend toward perfect health of body and power of mind, which make man capable of coping with conditions and environments, as if playing a game. Diagnosis, nay, self-diagnosis, is by far a greater asset in life than the most stupendous inheritance gauged by possessions, as the latter are valueless or a source of misery if not ingeniously controlled. Self-diagnosis is the talisman, the mascot, that averts the evil eye of ignorance, and spares untold troubles, both to the body as well as mind, easing every heartache humankind is prone to undergo. Self-diagnosis assures one of the life line with all its branches. Thus, if I know that I am intellectually based with physical inclination in high, placing the spiritual in second, then it follows that as far as the physical is concerned I will have to attend to the dynamics which by nature is my fundamental principle in matter. The lungs and heart may be normal and the chest-wall high, I must all the more attend to rythmic breathing and not indulge in amorous intercourse of a sensuous nature lest further progress in intellectual pursuits be retarded, altho I may be an intellectual giant on some lines. There is no limit set to this type if care is given to the body. Owing to the physical in high, all ailments of the digestives or alimentaries All would be due to lack of oxygenation. ailments in this instance would be reflex and, in the second instance, affectations; none of the symptoms leads to any seriousness other than those based upon the dynamics and the heart. The correction of the two latter removes all the effects. The intellectually based are given to pulmonary troubles, tuberculosis, cancer, hardening of arteries, apoplexy and atrophy. All of these may become chronic and eventually incurable; and again, any and all of these ailments never need to assert themselves, where the dynamics are attended to and judgment is used in the use of reasonable measures in as far as digestives and generatives are concerned. All sympathetic troubles, be they of the stomach, liver, or kidneys, the bladder, the alimentaries, or the sex organs, need never alarm the intellectually based, as they are all of a passing nature-acute attacks due to some imposition. Power of resistance, thru additional oxygenation, will quickly eradicate any and every attack. The first inclination, when physical is in high, borrows, as it were, the ailments of the physically based, which symptomically seem to be identical with a basic trouble. They appear stubborn, less bearable, greatly annoying, but easily and quickly dispelled when the dynamics improve. The intellectually based should know first of all the weak points that go with his temperament, and in consequence pay attention to the base in the first instance, while the inclinations must remain. in the second category of attention. Where the intellectually based is spiritually inclined in high, his symptomic troubles will be those of the spiritually based, and altho in appearance equal, nevertheless are quickly removed by the same means as in the case of an intellectual-physical. No matter how serious the troubles, they never need alarm the patient, as a sympathetic trouble never proves fatal. A malady is fatal only where the disease corresponds with the base. Nature has made this a rule for man to feel safe in his domain, and not to be compelled to grope in uncertainties, or be subject to fate. That nature is rather particular, we readily concede, referring to the diseases of the vegetable kingdom. When speaking of potato we are aware of the potato bug pest; when we think of cotton we can see the weevil, while the blight of the walnut differs entirely from the pest that afflicts the peach. Speaking of a dog, we see fleas, but in a case of lice we are aware of chickens, or a Pole that is neither a Russian nor one that is apt to be a-rushin' into demɔcracy. There is not a plant, not an animal, that' can be afflicted by all the pests characteristic of the whole of the vegetable kingdom. |