THE NEW AGE
Millions of dollars are spent to study cancer and other disorders but no doctor is ever employed to go out and study the cases of people who live long and publish his true findings. It is just as though the study of a stone would reveal the cause that pulls it to the earth when cast into the air.
If we would learn how to live 150 and 200 years, we should study the lives of those who do it. But there is no profit in health and longevity for those who profit from sickness. When some doctor is interested for himself, and at his own expense makes a study of these cases and publishes his true findings, he is silenced and liquidated and his report is discredited and destroyed as history shows.
Regardless of which road we take in matters of Health and Longevity, we find they all lead back to the Breath of Life.
When man first began to eat, he knew that food was not needed to sustain his body. He ate for pleasure and not from necessity.
The same state is presented today in the case of the smoker. He knows that tobacco plays no part in sustaining his body. On the contrary, he knows that tobacco is poisonous and destroys him by degrees. But the habit of smoking is too strong for him to conquer.
As long ages passed, the time came when man believed he had to eat to live. The eating habit had him in its grip, as the smoking habit has the smoker. His body had gradually adjusted itself to the practice, and craved food—as the smoker’s body craves tobacco.
Old Age is man’s oldest enemy. The Fountain of Youth is man’s fondest dream.
We have seen that senility is progressive degeneration. It is neither natural nor necessary. All its symptoms are pathological. The complex of these symptoms is also pathological. There should be a way to avoid it.
We have seen that Fasting retards the speed of the aging process, with a corresponding prolongation of the life-span. Why does man continue to look to food for the goal of his search, as he sees the body grow younger when no food is eaten?
For thousands of years the eating habit has held man in its grip. Current reports show that only a few in remote regions of the earth have escaped it.
Carrel was great, but he could not rise above the influence of his medical training. He demonstrated that the body cells are immortal, yet he said they died. He should have known that immortal cells are above the nutrition level, yet he said they had to be fed. These errors he had seen had his mind been clear and not clouded by false theories.
Immortal body cells neither eat nor die. They are in the same category as the cosmic stars and planets.
Body cells are composed of tiny stars that are as eternal and self-sustaining as the stars of the Cosmos. For the cells are composed of similar electrons, atoms and molecules.
It is the attempt to nourish the body that destroys it. It is the attempt to cure disease that destroys physical man.
In its present state, the body depends upon the chemical stimulation of food and drink. If that state were natural, the condition of the body would not improve under a fast. That state is the result of ages of eating and drinking. It is an unnatural state resulting from the body’s adjustment to a practice forced upon it. It was a case of meeting the practice by proper adjustment, or of perishing. The adjustment was made and resulted from a reduction of the body’s vitality and a decline in its integrity and duration.
This is devolution, degeneration, a process of decay, and somatic death is the end.
Advanced students assert that man has reached the bottom of the downward trend. He can go no lower. Hence the dawn of the approaching Golden Age is drawing near.
READ AND WATCH YOUR WORLD GROW
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The natural abhorrence of sane mankind for the sector’s cruelty and the contempt of able thinkers for his imbecile casuistry, have been expressed by the most popular spokesmen of humanity. If the medical profession were to outdo the anti-vivisection societies in a general professional protest against the practice and principles of the vivisectors. every doctor in the kingdom would gain substantially by the immense relief and reconciliation which would follow such a reassurance of the humanity of the doctor.
“Any good therefore, that
I can do
Or any kindness that
I can show
To any human being
Let me do it now. Let me
Not defer it nor neglect it for
I shall not pass this way again.”
—Author Unknown
“We squander health in search
of wealth;
We scheme and toil and save;
Then squander wealth in
search of health
And all we get’s a grave.
We live and boast of what
we own;
We die and only get a stone.”
MONEY WILL BUT…
“A bed but not sleep.
Books but not brains.
Food but not an appetite.
Finery but not beauty.
A house but not a home.
Medicine but not health.
Luxuries but not culture.
Amusements but not happiness.
A crucifix but not a Saviour.
A church but not heaven.”
FIRST GREAT LAW
The living body must function always in the direction of health, and sickness is the effect of obstructing natural function.
SECOND GREAT LAW
Sickness is the result of the body’s struggle to eliminate internal poisons resulting from bad environment and bad habits.
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of health and happiness cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get or purchase health and happiness as many have found to their sorrow.
The Laws under which we live are designed for our advantage. These Laws are immutable and we cannot escape from their operation. It is in our power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus express a life of health and happiness.
LESSON NO. 29—DEGENERACY OF CIVILIZED MAN
One of the greatest scientists of modern times wrote a book which he titled “Man The Unknown.” In that book this great scientist asked this question:
“How can we prevent the degeneracy of man in modern civilization? (P. 5).
Carrel asked the question in deep seriousness, then answered it on Page 28, but apparently knew it not. He said:
“Our civilization...has created conditions of existence which...render life itself impossible.”
If what we are pleased to call “civilization” has created conditions of existence which render life itself impossible, that explains why “man in modern civilization” is degenerating.
Fifty years before this great scientist asked that question, Dr. S. A. Strahan, in an address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, told why man in modern civilization is degenerating. He said:
“All the deteriorating influences of modern civilized life tend toward the reduction of vital energy, and to the degeneration of the race” (Densmore, P. 380).
For half a century it has been known why man in modern civilization is degenerating, and yet nothing has been done about it by the health boards of the various states which spend the tax money of the people “to promote the public health.”
The artificial, degenerating, health-destroying, life-shortening conditions of living called civilization, are the direct cause of the degeneracy of man, including the poverty and misery by which he is surrounded, and nothing is done about it. Here may be the reason why:
“The press of February 26th, 1948, stated that ‘sickness brings the physicians of the U.S.A. $1,500,000.00 daily, according to a report of the director of the Public Health Nursing Service of the American Red Cross.’
“According to an estimate broadcasted by the California Tuberculosis Association in 1934, sickness costs the people of the U.S.A. $15,729,925,396.00 a year-nearly sixteen billion dollars.”
No one can believe the health boards of the nation would dare to do anything to interfere with that golden stream of revenue.
Man’s body is composed of condensed Cosmic Rays in the form of cells, and it is animated by cosmic rays in the form of gases called air.
The lungs are the gas chambers, the Life Organs; the Cosmic Rays, as gases in the atmosphere are the Essence of Life. To stay the breath is to stop the Life. When we cease to breathe we cease to live.
The internal lining of the lungs of those who dwell in the cities of civilization is as black as coal (anthraconecrosis) with a coating of tar and carbon that seriously obstruct the free flow into the blood of the Vitalizing Gases of the air, and the body sinks into degeneration as a result.
The logical consequences are that this man in modern civilization is steadily sinking, decaying, dying by slow degrees. If he drops dead, as many do, the doctors term it “a heart attack,” and brush the incident aside as of small importance. Here is how the poisoned air of civilization knocks them out:
1. J. P. Morgan, New York Banker, age 75, died suddenly of a “heart attack.
2. J. P. Morgan’s partner, only 45, dropped dead of a “heart attack.
3. Alfred McCann, noted food scientist, dropped dead of a “heart attack” in the bathroom of his home, age 52.
4. O. O. McIntyre, noted newspaper columnist, age 53, dropped dead of a heart attack.
5. Allen R. DeFoe, M.D., who became famous as the Dionne quintuplets’ doctor, died of pneumonia in a hospital five minutes after admitted.
6. Edward Star Judd, M.D., chief of the surgical staff of the Mayo clinic and former president of the A.M.A. died suddenly of pneumonia, age 57.
7. Dr. F. N. Wilson, University of Michigan heart specialist, died suddenly of a “heart attack.
8. John B. Swan, age 64, Soo Line engineer, died suddenly March 20th, 1944, of a “heart attack.
9. The press of June 4th, 1944, reported that Dr. C. E. Ryan, M.D., age 69, died of heart attack as he was delivering a baby.”
To normalize and purify the vitiated, devitalizing atmosphere of civilization would require the destruction of civilization, of what constitutes civilization, such as the filthy cities, the stinking barnyards and foul hog pens, the coal mines and other mines, oil wells, oil refineries, industrial plants, tobacco factories, gas engines, motor cars, trucks, buses, etc.
That is the civilization which has created the conditions of existence which render life itself impossible (Carrel).
It appears from the findings and conclusion of Dr. Carrel that there is little worth saving in a civilization that has created conditions of existence which render life itself impossible. One or the other must go. Shall it be human life or civilization?
It appears that a system of illusion, erroneously termed modern science, has badly blinded most people. Maybe we might learn something by reading what Carrel said about science in his “Man The Unknown.” This is what he wrote:
“Science follows no plan. It develops at random....It is not at all actuated by a desire to improve the state of human beings....Men of science know not where they are going. They are guided by chance” (P. 23).
When man left his native home in the hills and forests, where God originally put him, and began to build a false science on illusion and the artificial centers called cities, which constitute the heart of that condition termed civilization which produces poverty, want, sickness, despair, degeneration, slow death by degrees, war and slaughter, he set in motion the terrible monster that is slowly destroying him.
The fury of the atomic bomb, unleashed in 1945, did more than destroy two Japanese cities-it destroyed the smug self-satisfaction that covered the world to reveal with what horrid brutality “civilization” is maintained.
CIVILIZATION
Wage earners are Economic Slaves, the lowest of which is the common laborer.
We would not be far wrong to say that civilization is commercialism, and the latter is composed chiefly of capitalists and their hirelings. The hirelings are the Economic Slaves who are dependent on others for a living. They have no time to acquire knowledge, and are not noted for their wisdom. The position they fill is proof of their mental inferiority, and they are in the great majority in civilization.
This vast majority constitutes the servants of Commercialism. They spend their days in weakening work and degrading toil. They have little opportunity for physical, mental and spiritual development. They must look for light to those who live on the fruits of their labor. If they found the true light it would soon end their days of economic slavery. So their mind, their education and their religion must be controlled in order to keep them in darkness.
“The word ‘Education’ is a misnomer. The schools do not educate; they domesticate. People are trained like dogs and horses. They are trained to do the things and think the thoughts that those in authority want them to do and to think. They are trained to accept without prejudice and to obey without question the dictates of authority” (Humanity).
In the Golden Age publication of 1933 the editor of it reported that there were 150,000 homeless girls and women in the U.S.A.—female tramps in the greatest nation on earth. They were looking for work that they might labor to live. Economic slaves reduced to beggars in a Nation said by politicians to have the highest living standard in the world. That is just one of the sad consequences of modern civilization.
If we happen to have enough intelligence left, in this day of degeneracy, to recognize these facts and the fortitude to face them, we realize that the condition called civilization is a controlled, regimented system of living that is designed to darken the mind and control the man. It is constituted of an artificial environment from which everything natural is eliminated and populated by people so completely misled that they are incompetent to recognize these facts.
Only the blind, dumb and deceived would join in the criticism of those who are still able to see these things in their true light, and have the courage to raise their voice in protest against them.
When Carrel asked, “how can we prevent the degeneracy of man in modern civilization?” he had his answer in his own statement as follows:
“The environment which molded the body and soul of our ancestors during many millenniums has now been replaced by another. This silent revolution has occurred almost without our noticing it. We have not realized its importance. Yet it is one of the most dramatic events in human history. For any modification in their surroundings inevitably and profoundly disturbs all living beings” (P. 10).
Carrel refers briefly to this new environment that replaced the old. He says it consists of cities with “monstrous edifices and of dark narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gases, torn by the noise of taxicabs, trucks, and trolleys, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds. Obviously it (the city) was not planned for the good of its inhabitants” (P. 25).
We can prevent the degeneracy of man in modern civilization only by removing the cause, and that cause is no mystery. Carrel has revealed part of it.
ALEXIS CARREL
In our work we quote often from the valuable book of Alexis Carrel, titled Man The Unknown, 16th Edition, Copyright 1935.
Carrel and Lakhovsky were the greatest scientists of the 20th century in matters of Life and Living; yet they were biased by medical training and occasionally went off at a tangent.
Carrel studied the body, while Lakhovsky studied its animating force. The former showed that the body cells are immortal, and the latter showed that vitality is the action of the. Breath of Life on the positive and negative poles of the cells.
Lakhovsky showed that as the poles of the cells become seriously corroded, they fail to respond to the electro-magnetic Breath of Life, and the cells fall in function below the Life Level of Vibration. That state is termed death. He did not put it in those words, but that is what he meant.
When an attempt was made in the U.S.A. to translate into English Lakhovsky’s great work, “The
Secret of Life,” the medical trust opposed it. When it was finally so translated, such a small number of the English edition was printed, that it was hard to get. We managed to get a photostatic copy from the Library of Congress, at considerable cost.
In his work, Carrel was amazed to find that so little is known of the body and its functions. He showed that most all the theories in medical works as to Life and Living are erroneous, and he declared, “The childish physico-chemical conceptions of human beings,” advocated by medical art, “have to be definitely abandoned” (P. 108). He discovered that so little is actually known about man, that he titled his book “Man The Unknown.”
Carrels exceptional skill was duly noted, and he was invited to become a staff member of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York, and served as such from 1906 to 1939. In 1912 he won the Nobel Prize for his success in suturing blood vessels and transplanting organs in the body.
His book we have mentioned is remarkable for two principal reasons: In showing that he was an extraordinary man, and in exposing and exploding the many ridiculous medical claims and preposterous medical theories. Such as “Life is the expression of a series of chemical changes” (Osler),
His book should be read by all who still have faith in medicine and medical doctors.
The work contains so much naked truth in exposing medical ignorance, that it made him unpopular with his medical brethren. That may have been the cause why he left the Rockefeller Institute in 1939, and why he was arrested in France in 1944 on a charge that he, as director of the Vichy-supported Carrel Institute of Paris, “Founded the organization for the purpose of supplanting the great French Universities, and of introducing Fascism and Marxism to students,”—as the press of August 31st, 1944, reported under a Paris date line.
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