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purpose of curing diseases. No person with justice have any doubt as to this matter, but whether it is advisiable to use these powers or not is a different matter. The ordinary objection is that no person has a right to interfere with the Karma of another person. But can he do so? If he can, he is the same person as the Christians call God, for only God could interfere to regulate the facts or the laws of the universe. The laws of nature, which are fixed, regulate nature. No person can change the law of Karma. It is arranged by a fixed law which no power in the universe can change. If this is so the objection is not valid at all, but the Theosophists say that a practioner changes the state of the patient and Karma is not allowed to operate freely, and therefore will come into the persons life in some other existence, physical, mental or spiritual. Therefore the cure harm, according to their view. Is there any truth in this? There are, in the first place, physical cures by practical treatment through medicines, etc., and by the desire of another person. disease is primarily some force generated in the life of the patient. If that force is not weakened there can be no cure; you may give medicine, use mental healing, etc., but until the Karma is ready to be exhausted the cure will not operate. That there shall be a physical effect in the form of physical good, the cause must
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be in the life of the patient, not in the life of another person. How can any good come to me personally
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