Hahnemann’s later spiritual views

Similia Vol 37 No 1 – June 2024

Author: Peter Morrell

Abstract

‘The causes of our diseases cannot be material.’

When Hahnemann said that ‘diseases will not cease to be (spiritual) dynamic derangements of our spirit-like vital principle in sensations and functions, that is to say, immaterial derangements of our state of health,’ he came close to some of the ideas of thinkers from ages before his own, what might be termed ‘magical thinking.’ He goes on to say: ‘the deeper-seated, immaterial nature of the disease, and its dynamic (spiritual) [‘(spirit-like)’ in the 6th Edition] origin, which can only be removed by dynamic means.’ And also that ‘by far the greatest number of diseases are of dynamic (spiritual) origin and dynamic (spiritual) nature, their cause is therefore not perceptible to the senses.’

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