What is Health?
'Illness is one of the forms of experience by which humans arrive at a knowledge of God; as he says,
''Illnesses are my servants which I attach to My chosen friends'' Thus we ought not to necessarily see it as an event, a mechanism of the body, that is serving to cleanse, purify, and balance us on, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual planes.
Considered from this perspective, a bout of flu, a cold, diarrhea,even some unwanted agonizing pain are friends, enabling our bodies to purge unwanted and potentially harmful toxic by-products of metabolsm.
Western medicine endeavors to halt or Impede the Various eliminative functions of the body, to stop the urge to vomit with stomach remedies; to block diarrhea with potions; to end fever with asprin and related drugs.
Behind every natural action of the human body is an inherent wisdom, a mechanism that allows the body to heal itself. In fact, no herb, food, or any other substance or procedure can do anything on it's own to heal; it can ONLY aid and assist the body of it's own self-healing role.
If your finger is cut, it is not the stitches or the bandage or the iodine that causes it to heal, it is the skin itself that performs this miracle. When we think of Illness, we almost always first think of injury or acute pains the first stage. But today many people are realizing that other aspects of our mental world, our feelings and thoughts, can become un-balanced and cause illness and suffering, even though there maybe nothing clinically 'wrong' with a person.
This approach to health and disease has come to be known as 'Holistic'. The interconnection between the physical and spiritual realms exists all through nature, of which humans are a part.
One might say that animals are more attuned to it; Dolphins, and whales, transcend even the 3rd dimension, sometimes horses and other animals give a particular sound just before they die, and animals nearby know the meaning of this sound. Animals have a greater awareness of the unseen realms.
Humans should have this knowledge, but they do not seek it, Humans are more bound to the physical realm. There must be a knowledge and consideration of the physical, mental, and spiritual planes of existence for there to be true health. By understanding each of these planes of being, we can arrive at the correct modes of balancing and treating each one. If the subject of disease is looked into deeply into enough, the origin of all illness can be said to lie in the mind. Our thoughts.
The hierarchy of Creation The hierarchy of creation extends from the most minute forms of Terrestrial life up to God. The construction of this hierarchy was designed by God and is kept in form and balance by his will.
In general terms, the whole of his creation is divided into 2 parts;
The known world of our human creation and the unseen. The generally unknown world of the heavens.
The world below, as it were, is the sublunary world, consisting of four elemental spheres;
The terrestrial, vegetative, animal, and human kingdoms. These four componants are arranged in ascending order of creation, so that the Human being occupies the highest position in the order of the physical creation.
This dimension is governed by the rules of nature, which is to say the dominion of growth and decay, of life and death. Above this created world of Human existence lies the realm of the heavens, which are eleven in number.
Each of these heavens is occupied by angelic forms and ultimately is populated with souls that depart from human bodies and earthly existence. Each of the elemental spheres; The terrestrial, vegetable, animal, and human kindoms, is composed in two parts; a
n elemental sphere and an interspace, with which it connects to the sphere above it's own. Thus the terrestrial sphere connects with the second elemental sphere, via the in-organic world.
When the element of water is combined with the terrestrial sphere, the vegetative world is created. Likewise the addition of air to earth and water creates fire. the human form is made up. The human kingdom is the interconnection to the heavenly realms.
For most humans; the first heaven is represented by the moon. ''This planet God made made form light of his own heart, the Fount of God, the absolute of the heart; Love.'' Prophet muhammad
