The recognition of a spiritual dimension of health by the WHO has indeed been a landmark event. It is doubtful however that the full import and significance of this fundamental aspect of human existence has been grasped even by well-intentioned persons. The reason is very simple. Only like understands like. The spiritual dimension is still a concealed possibility in the race as a whole. Even though its emergence is the inevitable next step in Nature’s scheme of things, yet it is a slow emergence. And often; in its infant beginnings this new consciousness wears the garb of its lesser members. Most of us see the shadow and the garb while the reality itself escapes us. These lesser reflections are translated in the human consciousness as philosophy, religion, ethics and occultism. While these four approaches can prepare man and even throw open a window to the spiritual truth, in themselves they are insufficient to solve the riddle of man and conquer for him freedom from suffering, limitation, death, disease and incapacity. Philosophy, religion and ethics prepare man’s thought, emotions and will for an awakening to the true spiritual impulse. Occultism explores the inner hidden dimension of existence and its forces and powers and faculties. This however misses the deepest truth, the last secret, and therefore, fails miserably in the end unless it enlarges itself by an act of surrender to the spiritual substance.
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