Preparation for the Instructions of the Second and Third Main Levels

Positio X.

As specific and different as the causes are which bring forth these spiritual, spiritual-bodily, and bodily evils, and as specific and different as the brought-about evils themselves are, just as specific and different must also be the applied means to lift these evils again and to restore the proper cycle of the system.

Positio XI.

Since experience convinces us daily how difficult it is for physicians to treat those types of illnesses of the body whose causes do not fall into their eyes so easily, how much more sensitive do they become when the illness itself or the cause thereof, or both at once, have their seat in the spiritual-bodily or even in the spiritual faculties! Examples are found in morbis acutis acute diseases, delirio delirium, amore love, furore frenzy, melancholy, bite of the tarantula, and almost all other countless types of madness; especially [when] the imagination is brought out of the proper natural tuning. The means applied in such calming, in order to restore the tuning with its temperature into its natural state completely, would therefore have to be, according to the measure of the cause of the illness and the illness itself, so specifically qualified and of such a kind that they are capable of touching those cords which, through accidents, have partly lost their naturally appropriate tonum tone entirely, and partly have been tuned too far down or too far up. Among other things, music acts in a wonderful and almost inconceivable way on spiritual-bodily and also on spiritual illnesses, even if they have already brought the functions of their body, which they possess, into disarray.

Positio XII.

The means for the true cure of the soul are, however, sometimes also of such a kind and quality that the still inexperienced seeker, at first glance, believes he sees a contradiction in them, because, firstly, he knows the thing to be further developed, which is to be seen before him, little or not at all, and because, secondly, the means given to him for the final purpose seems to him not only unsuitable, but also quite contrary, sometimes even contradictory and, in general, paradoxical. If, for example,

we hold an object, for example, only slightly against the sun's rays at a certain distance, it can at most become warm; it will fail to express an igniting burn as if from a burning mirror a lens used to concentrate solar rays, yet everyone experienced in this science knows how quickly we reach this goal. To the inexperienced person, however, this phenomenon will seem all the more striking and almost impossible if he were to see the matter of such a mirror quite cold and, say, burning for example.