chapter 1, the genius of homoeopathy, Stuart Close

1. The psychological point
of view
DR ANANTHAKRISHNAN
DEPT OF ORGANON OF MEDICINE

2. Great personalities
Homoeopathy a system
Principles and organizations

3. Great personalities
 Great Personalities.-All great forward movements in religion,
science or art originate in the mind of some individual who appears
at the psychological moment and announces his mission. His
personality and his teaching represent the truth for which he stands.
EG – Moses, Luther, Lincon, Plato, Bacon, Hippocrates, Hahnemann

4.  Always, following the appearance of a great teacher or leader,
opponents, detractors, or corruptors spring up and attempt to stay,
or destroy, or divert to their own glory the progress of the new
movement.
True followers have always to be on guard against false teaching.

5.  Lesser lights and lesser leaders there must and always will be, to
whom, each in his own rank and degree, honor and loyalty are due;
but the disciple is never above his master.
They stand on the mountain tops of human experience, from
whence they have a field of view and a grasp of truth never before
attainable.
Eg – Moses , received the “ tables of law” direct from Almighty

6. Homoeopathy a system
 The fundamental principles of homeopathy are embodied
in a system of doctrines, laws and rules of practice which
were first formulated, named and set forth by Hahnemann
in his Organon of the Rational Art of Healing.

7.  The practical demonstration of homeopathy is committed to its
personal representatives, whose success will be to their efficiency.
Efficiency in homeopathy implies and involves native ability,
acquired technical proficiency and logical consistency in the
application of its principles.
 The exercise of these qualifications requires honesty, courage,
fidelity to a high ideal and a right point of view.

8. Homoeopathic principles + personal skills = professional
success
 Personal skill refers to the mentality which the physician
has to develop by him selves.

9.  who makes Homoeopathy - mutilated or emasculated???
 Some short sighted, superficial and weak-kneed individuals,
actuated by their prejudices.
 Subjects such as the "life force" the single remedy, potentiation,
infinitesimals, the minimum dose, and the totality of the symptoms
as a basis for the prescription, they have characterized as
unessential, "so long as the principle of similia was maintained."

10.  Individual practitioners, nominally followers of Hahnemann, have drifted
away from his teachings and method, and some have attempted to inject
into or graft upon homeopathy all sorts of "fads and fancies;" but the
mongrel thing thereby created deceives no one who has derived his from
the fountainhead. Homeopathy as set forth by Hahnemann, while not
perfect. is complete in all essentials as a system.
 The dominant school of medicine has not only denied that the so-called
"homoeopathic law" is a law of nature, but denied that there is any
general law which governs the relation between drugs and disease and
have ceased searching for one.

11.  Regarding present system of medicine, Marchand de Calvi (French
Academy of Medicine) once said, "there is not, nor has there been for
some time, either principle, faith or law. We build a Tower of Babel, or
rather we are not so far advanced, for we build nothing; we are in a vast
plain where a multitude of people pass backwards and forwards; some
carry bricks, others pebbles, others grains of sand, but no one dreams of
the cement;: the foundations of the edifice are not yet laid, and as to the
general plan of the work, it is not even sketched”.
 “The most general doctrine that exists is the doctrine of homeopathy!
This is strange and lamentable ; a disgrace to medicine--but-such is the
fact."

12. Principles And Organizations
 Organizations are formed for the purpose of maintaining and
advancing principles, but it often happens that in the stress of
building and maintaining the organization the principles are pushed
into the background, neglected or forgotten. The man too often
becomes the slave of the machine instead of its master. The
organization becomes a Frankenstein which destroys its creator.
 The individual truth-seeker must, therefore, keep his eyes open
and walk circumspectly if he would keep in the path of progress,
maintain his mental integrity and preserve liberty of thought, speech
and action.

13.  Organizations like men are subject to disease, decay and death.
When they become corrupt they die, for corruption is elementary
death.
 But principles never die.

14.  Principles are essential truth.
 Truth is absolute, infinite and immortal.
 Truth, like the fabled Phenix, burns itself on the altar and arises
from its own ashes.
Homeopathy, as already pointed out, has a two-fold existence-as
an institution or organization

15.  Truth is not revealed to institutions, but to men. Let us
have done with fictions and deal with realities. An
organization is a machine; an inanimate, soulless thing; a
figment of the imagination ; a creature of the law, deriving
its existence and seeming vitality only from the individual
men who compose it; ceasing to be when their relations are
dissolved.

16. Thanks ……

17. Notes
Great Personalities appears at the psychological moment and
announces his mission.
Disciples have always to be on guard against false teaching.
The Master - to whom the first great revelation of truth was made and
by whom it was first developed and proclaimed.
Homoeopathy a System First formulated, named and systematically set
forth by Hahnemann in his Organon of the Rational Art of Healing.
Practical demonstration of Homoeopathy is committed to its personal
representatives.

18.  Personality of the individual is the condition precedent to professional success
personal side of Homoeopathy
Homoeopathy is a complete system of therapeutic medication nothing
conflicting to its established principles can be added to it, nothing taken away, if
it is to stand in its integrity.
Mutilated homoeopathy lame, crippled thing
Emasculate homoeopathy impotent homoeopathy
This happens when subjects such as life force, the single remedy, potentiation,
infinitesimals, the minimum dose and the totality of the symptoms counted as
unessential so long as the principle of similia' was maintained.

19.  Principles and Organizations organizations are subject to
disease, decay and death. Principles never die. But if the
individuals in an organization follow the truth, as all the
organizations are transitory, they will also perish but truth
like the fabled phoenix burn itself in the altar and arise from
its own ashes.