The Direct Correlation Between Wrong Behavior and the Shadowing of the Consciusness Centers

Certain wrong behavior or thought forms shadow certain consciousness centers.

There is a direct correlation because, as stated before, every consciousness center

also has an ethical quality. Since each consciousness center supplies particular

organs with energy, they obtain less life power, because of the wrong behavior

and the shadowing resulting from it; consequently, the organs become sluggish

and finally ill.

There is always a correlation — which can be proven — between the illness of an

organ, the consciousness center concerned and the violation of the divine ethical

attribute represented there. Besides, a conclusion is possible in both directions:

from illness towards the wrong behavior, as the cause, as well as from the wrong

behavior towards the organic lack of energy, as the result.

Let us take, for example, the stomach, which is allocated to the center of wisdom:

The function of the stomach is to break down the food brought to it, by means of

the strong gastric acid and some digestive juices which it produces, thus

contributing to digestion. But the stomach is forced to "swallow" what is brought

to it, be it good or bad.

Figuratively speaking, the stomach reacts to any swallowing down of anger from

undigested conflicts. If we do not accept and receive matters in a positive way,

but react negatively and swallow many things down, they lie in our stomach like

a stone; they are not digested, because the stomach becomes cramped and does

not produce sufficient gastric juice or it produces too much. According to man’s

type of reaction, the stomach then overproduces or lacks gastric acid. We then say

that anger upsets the stomach or that we are sour.

By swallowing down anger and undigested matters, on the one hand, the nerves,

and thereby the stomach become cramped. On the other hand, the consciousness

center of wisdom becomes shadowed, whereby less spiritual energy flows into the

stomach. When this wrong behavior of failing to resolve and digest conflicts

continues, the center of wisdom becomes more and more shadowed — it

represents, among other things, the actualization and the deed — and the stomach

becomes more and more lacking in energy and finally becomes ill.

Let us take two other examples: the ears and the eyes. When the ears become ill,

there is something we do not want to hear or someone we do not want to listen to;

we do not want to listen to our neighbor or, possibly, to obey him. We are

unwilling to accept something, because we want to pursue selfish interests —

because we lack selfless love.

If we have an eye complaint, it is easy to deduce that there is something we do

not want to see. We do not want to open ourselves to something which we could

or should see. We close our eyes to something. We are "short-sighted", we do not

see the correlations, the whole; or we are far-sighted, that is, we do not see what

lies before us, what is close to us and should directly concern us. Also eyelids or

tear-ducts may be affected; perhaps we hold back tears which normally we should

shed; or we use tears in a selfish way, in order to exert pressure on our neighbor

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These two examples have an underlying egoistic motive in common, a lack of

selflessness — a lack of love. Thus, the wrong behavior usually consists of many

thoughts, sensations and emotions which, in the course of time, build up a

corresponding energy complex that affects the respective consciousness center

and eventually hits the organism, this means that particular organs become ill.

These examples may be sufficient to realize how close the correlation between

body and soul is and that the cause of illness is to be found in negative thoughts

and sensations.