In the Book “Organon of Medicine” Samuel Hahnemann in Aphorism 9 Writes :
“In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force, the Dynamis that animates the material body, rules with unbounded sway, and retains all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.”
Any Forces needs Forms to act. And Form inbuilt or carries its In-formation.
Edward Whitmont states:
“Matter always needs information if it is to become active. The information, however, is always immaterial.”
Further Dr Kent writes in his book “Lectures in Homeopathic Philosophy” :
“This paragraph introduces the vital principle, It would hardly seem possible that Hahnemann, in the time he lived, could say so much in a few lines. In the seventh section of the first edition of the Organon, Hahnemann wrote : “There must exist in the medicine a healing principle ; the understanding has a presentiment of it,” but after the Organon had gone through a number of editions Hahnemann had somewhat changed, and in this work, which is the 1883 edition, he distinctly calls a unit of action in the whole organism the vital force. You get the idea from some of his expressions that the harmony itself is a force, but I do not think that Hahnemann intends to teach that way. We cannot consider the vital principle as harmony, nor harmony as principle; principle is something that is prior to harmony. Harmony is the result of principle or law.”
Further Kent Writes that
“Hahnemann could perceive this immaterial vital principle. It was something he arrived at himself, from his own process of thinking. There was paucity of individual ideas at that time, i.e., ideas outside of the accepted sciences, but Hahnemann thought much, and by thinking he arrived at the idea contained in this paragraph, which only appears in the last edition, “In the healthy condition of man the immaterial vital principle animates the material body.” If he had used the words “immaterial vital substance,” it would have been even stronger, for you will see it to be true that it is a substance. At the present day advanced thinkers are speaking of the fourth state of matter which is immaterial substance. We now say the solids, liquids and gases and the radiant form of matter.”
“Substance in simple form is just as positively substance as matter in concrete form. The question then comes up for consideration and study: What is the vital force ? What is its character, quality or esse ? Is it true that man only has this vital force ? Is it possessed by no animal, no mineral ? For a number of years there has been a continuous discussion of force as force, or power to construct. The thought that force has nothing prior to it leads man’s mind into insanity. If man can think of energy as something substantial he can better think of something substantial as having energy. When he thinks of something that has essence, has actual being, he must think of that esse as something existing and as having something which has ultimates. He must think in a series whereby cause enters into effect and furthermore into a series of effects. If he do not do this he destroys the very nature and idea of influx and continuance.”
So Law of Polarity suggest if Energy needs to be exist it requires Matter. Both Energy and Matter is two side of the same coin. Both are Inter-dependent and Complementary to each other.
Kent writes more about this:
“There are many qualities predicated of simple substance, and one of the first propositions we have to consider is that simple substance is endowed with formative intelligence, i.e., it intelligently operates and forms the economy of the whole animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.”
Intelligence is a natural quality of life; just as fire is hot and air is invisible and water flows downward, so is life intelligent.
Likewise “Formative Intelligence” what Kent written suggest that every ‘Form’ has its Natural Quality to act Intelligently.
Further Kent writes:
“Everything with form goes on its natural course and assumes and continues its own private state. The laws of chemistry by analysis may be so revealed to man that he can detect all elements because they conduct themselves uniformly. The simple substance gives to everything its own type of life, gives it distinction, gives it identity whereby it differs from all other things. The crystal of the earth has its own association, its own identity; it is endowed with a simple substance that will establish its identity from everything in the animal kingdom, everything in the mineral kingdom.”
Now if We Summarise, Formative Intelligent Simple Substance which give Individual Identity and form, so behave differently with others.
In one Article of Peter Morrell on “Kent Metaphysical Legacy”, He writes:
“Simple Substance is continuously endowed with intelligence from first to last, Mineral, Plant and Animal Kingdoms.”
Also Kent have written:
This vital force, which is a simple substance, is again dominated by another simple substance still higher, which is the soul.
And our Ancient teaching says that:
“The Soul has no secret that the behaviour does not reveal”. Lao-Tzu.
If we Study the Psychology and its Development, we find good correlation with concept especially C. J. Jung theory. Freudian Theory reached to the Unconscious Mind of the Human Being.
Conscious is what we perceive in Waking state, Subconscious is what we see in Dreams, and Unconscious is the experiences of our whole life.
Further Jung discovered the “Collective Unconscious”, which is having experiences of all the lives in the forms of ‘Forms’ itself which he called ‘Archetypes’.
Edward Whitmont writes :
“Since the archetype of form is space and time transcendent, man as a part of nature must be presumed to have unconscious awareness or information about the whole of nature, the planet, the cosmos. As a part of whole, man will have unconscious awareness of mankind and of collective dynamics, past, present and future, even though this awareness may not be directly accessible to his conscious ego. Our clinical experience in depth psychological work bears out this fact.”
Homeopathically, Archetypes can be used as what Scholten writes:
“Archetypes can be expressed with more than one concept. The archetype “father” can also be expressed with the concept “self-worth” or “vital values”. Again in language they look different, but for the archetypical psyche they are the same and can thus be interchanged without any problem. Of course we have to be careful with words: words can sometimes be attributed incorrectly or are vague and have more than one archetypical connection. The context has to decide that. That’s why language can be tricky in homeopathy.”
One more Concept Jung used in his discovery i.e. ‘Motif’:
“Symbol Motif are creation of a Collective Unconscious psyche that transcends personal psyche and space-time barriers, and harbors an awareness of cosmic dynamics.”
Have a look on some Single Medicine Rubrics of a Medicine ’Stramonium” from Kent Repertory Mind Section:
Mind; DELUSIONS; black objects and people (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; fowls, sees (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; images, phantoms, sees; rising out of the earth (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; murdered; that he was killed, roasted and eaten (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; rabbits, sees (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; talking, fancies herself; with spirits (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; side; imagined himself alive on one side and buried on the other (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; churchyard; that he is dancing in (1) : stram.
Mind; DELUSIONS; dogs; attack him (1) : 3**Stram.**
Mind; DELUSIONS; animals, of; creeping of; in her (1) : stram.
Also of a Medicine ‘Belladonna” From Kent Repertory Mind Section:
Mind; DELUSIONS; dogs; black (1) : 2~bell.~
Mind; DELUSIONS; cockroaches swarmed about the room (1) : bell.
Mind; DELUSIONS; giants, sees (1) : bell.
Mind; DELUSIONS; magician, is a (1) : bell.
Mind; DELUSIONS; insects, sees; shining (1) : bell.
Mind; DELUSIONS; riding on; an ox (1) : bell.
Mind; DELUSIONS; turtles, sees large, in room (1) : bell.
Also of a Medicine “Hyoscyamus” From Kent Repertory Mind Section:
Mind; DELUSIONS; birds; that he is picking feathers from (1) : hyos.
Mind; DELUSIONS; crabs, of (1) : hyos.
Mind; DELUSIONS; devils; possessed of a, is (1) : hyos.
Mind; DELUSIONS; devoured, had been by animals (1) : 2~hyos.~
Mind; DELUSIONS; driving; peacocks (1) : hyos.
Mind; DELUSIONS; peacocks, as if chasing (1) : hyos.
Mind; DELUSIONS; swine, thinks men are (1) : hyos.
Above All the Rubrics showing an Archetypes of Animals in Plant Remedies. And all three plant remedies are from same Plant Family “Solanaceae”.
So Here we arrive to ‘Delusion’.
A Symptom or Rubric showing Delusion which arises out of Perception from the Basic Experience, i.e. Unconscious, and that Basic Feeling or Experience pertain to certain Forms and Symbols of Collective Unconscious which we called Archetypes which suggest the a Source of all the Outer and Inner Expressions. This is the Level of Simple Substances which Endowed with Primitive Beings like: Plants, Mineral and Animals.
Dr Vipul & Dr Ankita Aghara
The Higher Purpose Homeopathic Clinic
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