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MAGNETISM 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 practitioner 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 causes 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. The cause of 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 inust be in the life of the patient, not in the life of another person. How can any good come to me personally unless there is a cause generated by me? The Karna may not be dissolved in that case, but may be weakened. That objection, really speaking, falls to the ground. There are other cbjections to the Christian science; one is that the knowledge of the cause of disease is not the correct knowledge as tirught by this school. The knowledge which is given to them is that there is no such thing as disease. It does not exist, Those who understand the doctrine will never say this is the truth. They only want to divert the mind of the
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