1918: "In the struggle against influenza medicine and science could salvage only a few" - Yet homeopathic physicians salvaged most.

Why was one modality "helpless" and another victorious, though not acknowledged or celebrated? An article with insights into the philosophy of homeopathy. PLEASE take the time to read and reflect.

In this, yet another “Hidden Knowledge” stack, I will present an article that reveals the philosophy of the homeopathic profession, and their thoughts relating to the unnecessarily “gruesome" outcome of the 1918 pandemic.

The article is contained in The Homoeopathic Recorder of 1920 from page 225, titled The Physician’s Responsibility.

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The following is written by a so called “quack” as orthodoxy would have you believe.

(I’ve changed formatting and added highlights for ease of reading)

Scientific medicine must conform to at least three requirements:
1. It must be based on facts;
2. It must be rational, that is, logical;
3. It must be demonstrably true.

It is not enough for medicine to be simply "rational." When people believed that epidemics were sent by offended deities it was "rational" that their children should be offered as propitiatory sacrifices. If one believes that disease is merely an ''error of mortal mind" it will be "rational" to adopt the methods of "Mother Eddy."

So-called "Rational Medicine," since the days of Hippocrates (whose "four humors," "humoral diseases" and "humoral remedies" still exist, masquerading under the thinly disguised term "serum therapy") has always been "rational," but too often neither logical, based on facts nor demonstrably true.

Was old school medicine supported only by “rational” considerations and not actually based in “science”?

If the sick, during the 1918 pandemic, were treated over and over and over by the men of “medical science” with the same drug and serum/vaccine regime, only to consistently lead to excess death, is this based in actual science as they claim or simply “rational” belief?

What a confession of ignorance of the healing art and of blind worship of false gods is contained in the following paragraphs from a recent editorial in a prominent medical journal:

"No record in history equals the death roll [toll] of the World War and the accompanying pandemic of influenza. In these two giant convulsions man was helpless.

In the struggle against influenza medicine and science could salvage only a few. If we should experience a recurrence of the epidemic, either mild or severe, are we prepared to meet it?"

Statistics of the epidemic referred to show a total loss under "regular" treatment of approximately a million lives in the United States with a mortality rate of about thirty per cent.

A hecatcomb [hecatomb], indeed, on the altars of modern scientific medicine, the gruesomeness of which is brought home to us by the fact that in about fifty thousand cases reported by homoeopathic physicians the mortality was only about one per cent.

Let that sink in, 1% vs 30% mortality

As revealed in a previous stack, the homeopaths treated ~50,000 cases and had an average of 1% mortality, many physicians had no cases die, though some had many, but the details of these cases were not revealed. Compare this to the estimated 30% mortality for the “regular” practitioners of medicine, and this figure was a low estimate, it was as high as 50%.

I hope in a future stack to piece together just what drugs and “serums” the sick were bombarded with by the “men of science”, in addition to the overdose of Aspirin that was taken by the fear struck citizens of America, and likely across the world.

Another question I have yet to find information on is how did citizens of Germany, France and England fair during the pandemic of 1918, where they were treated homeopathically. I suspect the same low mortality, but records may not be available due to war.

A point to note here, if America lost approximately “a million lives” to “influenza”, then how could estimates claimed today be as high as 100 million lives lost around the world. In 1997 the estimate was only 20 million globally. Could it be the pandemic narrative has been brewing since the “genetic revolution” began in the late 1980s, in order to stir up fear towards viruses in a population ignorant to the actual history?

The Philosophy of the Art and Practice of Homeopathy

GENERAL INTERPRETATIONS CONTINUED

In the foregoing article (April number) I have classified Hahnemann, philosophically, as a Substantialist. The older and better known name, "Realist," might have been used perhaps acceptably, since the terms are practically synonymous.

The later substantialists broadened the scope of the already established principles of the older Realistic Philosophy by applying them in new fields.

In passing, it will be profitable to glance at some general principles which Hahnemann laid down for his guidance in his great work of creating a new science and art of medicine. These are to be found succinctly stated in the preface to the second edition of the Organon.

He there broadly defines medicine as "a pure science of experience, like physics and chemistry."

He declares that "medicine can and must rest on clear facts and sensible phenomena, for all the subjects it has to deal with are clearly cognizable by the senses through experience.

Knowledge of the disease to be treated, knowledge of the effects of the medicine and how the ascertained effects of the medicines are to be employed for the removal of disease—all this is taught adequately by experience and by experience alone.

Its subjects can only be derived from pure experience and observations, and it dare not take a single step out of the sphere of pure, well observed experience and experiments, if it would avoid becoming a nullity and a farce"

He continues: "Unaided reason can know nothing of itself (a priori), can evolve out of itself alone no conception of the nature of things, of cause and effects ; its conclusions about the actual must always be based upon sensible perceptions, facts and experiences if it would elicit truth. If in its operation it should deviate by a single step from the guidance of perception it would lose itself in the illimitable region of phantasy and of arbitrary speculation, the mother of pernicious illusion and of absolute nullity.”

Homeopathy stick to a strict system of medical philosophy, repeating it over and over and documenting experiences, especially cures. Is that science?

How often did and does the “old school” of ‘theoretical medicine” change their system or approach to treatment of disease? Repeatedly and regularly. It that science?

"Such," he says, "has hitherto been the splendid juggling of so-called theoretical medicine, in which a priori conceptions and speculative subtleties only showed things which could not be known, and which were of no use for the cure of disease.

"In the pure sciences of experience, in physics, chemistry and medicine merely speculative reason can consequently have no voice; there, when it acts alone, it degenerates into empty speculation and phantasy and produces only hazardous hypotheses which are, and by their very nature must be self-deceptive and false."

Ameke, the historian of homoeopathy, has made an illuminating comment on the last quoted paragraph. He says :

"The great difference between Hahnemann and the later natural historical school is expressed by himself in one small word of three letters ;—'and.'

Hahnemann speaks of 'physics, chemistry and medicine;' they said 'medicine is applied physics and chemistry," and founded medicine on these two sciences."

Interesting.

Homeopathy - medicine is a pure science of experience, like physics and chemistry - cause and effect.

Allopathy - medicine is founded upon applied physics and chemistry.

Hahnemann, as we shall see, founded medicine, not on physics and chemistry, but on the universal laws of Life and Motion.

Hahnemann starts with the conception of Life as a real or substantial, entitative power or principle, having laws of its own, and refers all the phenomena of health and disease to it under two names: Dynamis and the Life Force.

Life is a power and law unto its own. Let us meditate on that!

I’ve said it before, but this, for me, reinforces that Hahnemann was well ahead of his time, and now, today, during this time of awakening, his medical philosophy can be more readily understood and accepted…that is if you have been on a similar journey as I have been, especially since 2020.

The words "force" and "life force" have been used inaccurately in this connection, making it difficult to form a clear conception of what Life is in its philosophical relation to homoeopathy. The failure to make a distinction between Power and Force has caused confusion.

The word "force,'' generally, as well as in the Organon, is loosely used to express the idea of any operating or operative power or energy; of any active agency or power tending to change the state of matter; and this is the sense in which Hahnemann uses the word in the Organon when he speaks of the lifeforce as that which acts and is acted upon in disease and cure.

Are you still with me here?

Now, as a matter of fact, we do not act upon force, nor upon motion. These terms express abstract ideas of concepts which stand to the concrete things or reality back of them in the relation of effects to causes.

Force and motion are merely phenomena of the power which produces them.

Power is the property of any thing or substance by virtue of which it is able to produce changes in itself, or in any other thing or substance.

Motion is the result of the application of force.

Force is power or energy in action.

The power inherent in a body is quite another thing from the force exerted by it or upon it.

Action (motion) takes place only upon or in that which has the power to react or resist, the thing itself, whether it be a rock, a machine or a living organism. The thing itself is always substantial, having a real objective existence, even if it be intangible and invisible.

Strictly speaking, we do not act upon the life force, but upon life itself, the real substantial, objective, although intangible substance from which the living organism is evolved, and from which the life force proceeds.

The organism does not evolve out of nothing. "Out of nothing nothing comes." The living organism is a development, an evolution from a microscopic cell, which is itself an organism composed of living matter and a nucleus, developed from invisible, living substance.

Everything living comes from preceding life, in an unbroken chain, the last conceivable link of which is in the Infinite and Eternal Source of Life which men have called God. Metaphysical science recognizes this conception under the term "The Cosmic Life."

Does life come out of death? No. Everything living comes from an infinite and eternal line of “Life”. I’ve never thought about that before. So energy, or life force, is continuously passed on from generation to generation, which means we inherit the energy blueprint of our parents, and that of their parents, and all those who have gone before. What imprints are on that blueprint (my word)? What energy imprints are passed on from our predecessors, and how does that affect our life? These are the thoughts that have just come to me from reading that last statement. I don’t know about you but I’m getting a sense of karma-like principles here. Maybe this is where Hahnemman got the idea of inherited health issues.

In thinking upon this subject it is necessary to avoid confusion, to keep clearly in mind the distinction between the Thing Itself and its Action.

There can be no action without something to act: no phenomena without something of which the phenomena are an expression; no force without something which exerts the force; no thought without a thinker. The words action, phenomena, motion, force, thought, stand for abstract ideas, separated from the real, substantial things or causes which lie back of them, for purposes of thought.

We do not see motion; we see a body change its position in space, as when one picks up a book from one side of the desk and places it on the other side. We do not see force; we see the effects of force upon a body in changing its position in space. We do not see Life; we see only its manifestation in organism.

But knowing intuitively and by experience that there can be no effect without a cause; that there can be no motion without force, and no force without something or somebody to exercise power, we assume the existence of that power or person as an ultimate fact, and name it, although we cannot see the power or person with the physical eye, even with the aid of an ultra microscope. We see the primary fact, substance, power or person with the mental eye and are satisfied.

To refuse to see and acknowledge the substance, principle, power or person behind the force, and to confine thinking within the limits of matter, phenomena and force is to kill the highest aspirations of the soul, to stultify the intellect and to land the thinker in the morass of materialism. A certain class of thinkers, especially in science, plume themselves upon their rigid limitation of thought within the bounds of physical phenomena. They deny not only the validity of any attempt to see what lies beyond phenomena, but the reality and substantial existence of anything lying beyond that arbitrary boundary.

Metaphysics is their pet aversion. Such men invariable entangle themselves in a maze of contradictions and absurdities, and mislead their followers. They juggle with words, invert the terms of a logical proposition, formulate "circular syllogisms" and make causes follow effects.

Now where have we seen “men of science” making causes follow effects. Kind of like failing to acknowledge the historical data that shows CO2 lagging BEHIND temperature, and not the way they want us to believe!

Metaphysical thought and inquiry are quite as legitimate and valid, and quite as capable of being conducted logically and scientifically as physical research. There is a valid and scientific metaphysics as well as physics.

George Henry Lewes says:

"It is experience—our own or that of others—on which we rest. We are not at liberty to invent experience, nor to infer anything contrary to it, only to extend it analogically. Speculation to be valid must be simply the extension of experience by the analogies of experiences ***

"It is possible to move securely in the ground of Speculation so long as we carefully pick our way, and consider each position insecure till what was merely probable becomes proven."

Hahnemann apparently tried to make clear his distinction between power and force in his use, in the Organon, of two terms:

"Dynamis," the life power, the substance, the thing itself, objectively considered and

Life-Force," the action of the power;

but his translators, failing to recognize these philosophical distinctions, have made a sorry muddle of it.

Life:

Life is not primarily a phenomenon. It is the cause of phenomena. Life is not, strictly speaking, a force; it is a substance, a power or principle which acts to exert or cause force.

Life is a substantial, self-existent, self-acting entity, not a mere abstraction.

Life is not a product; it is the producer, whether it be of matter or motion. In brief, Life is incorporeal vital substance.

Life, in the dynamical sense, is the universal principle and cause of vital action and reaction, organization, growth, self-preservation and reproduction, inherent in all living things.

Life is included under the general principle of science which declares that ''force is persistent and indestructible;'' and this is the scientific statement of the doctrine of Immortality.

Life and mind logically and necessarily precede organization and thus must be not only the cause but the Controlling power of organization.

Life built the body and life preserves it, as long as it is needed for the purposes of or "indwelling rational spirit,"' as Hahnemann calls it.

All schools of modern philosophy now agree that "life can come only from previous life." As a scientific doctrine the theory of "spontaneous generation," after centuries of stubbornly contested existence, has been abandoned by all except a very few stubborn persons of the materialistic school who still cling to the ancient fallacy, unaware that the ground has been cut from under them and that they have been left, like Mahomet's coffin, suspended in midair.

Step by step, with many long periods of inactivity, and sometimes of retrogression, the search for the origin of life has gone on. Repeatedly, when brought up against the logical necessity of taking the final step and acknowledging the One Infinite and Eternal Source of Life, the searchers have turned back and begun over again, only to return to the same inescapable point.

Chemist, physicist and biologist alike, each in his own special path, pursues it to the end, and there finds himself standing with his fellows on the brink of the great mystery which can only be solved by admitting the existence of The Supreme Being.

The chemist, guided by the law of chemical affinity and molecular attraction, reaches the sphere of Universal Attraction. He stops and turns away.

The biologist, tracing life back through organism to the cell, and still further back to the formless bit of protoplasm, lying as it were, on the shore of the infinite ocean of life, also halts and turns away, rather than spread the sails of his little hark and sail by faith, if he must, into the haven which is in view if he will but open his eyes and look.

The physicist analyses matter, divides and subdivides it until it disappears in the hypothetical, inanimate, unintelligent ether of space, which he conceives to be the source both of matter and force, and there he also halts.

Each is unsatisfied, and must ever remain so, until like Hahnemann, he yields to that innermost urge of the soul which demands of every man that he take the final step and acknowledges the Infinite Life and Mind of the Universe, the source of all power, the Father Eternal, to whom he owes allegiance.

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