190 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
pain connected with it. However, they were quickly
assisted by one another and by those who had been
helped by the Elder Brothers to see the matter right:
that there was no actual pain. As soon as they were
convinced that their wounds were but illusions and
taught that they could shape their bodies in the normal
and healthy state, they could quickly remedy the
condition.
Removal of Tonsils
Removal of the tonsils is a subject on which our
opinion is frequently asked and we have always
discouraged the removal of these necessary organs, for
it has been found that serious throat and lung diseases
are often experienced in later life as a consequence of
removing the tonsils, and an increasing number of
physicians today denounce this operation as wholly
unnecessary.
The tonsils are ruled by Taurus, one of the signs of
Venus. There is great sympathy between signs ruled by
the same planet. Libra, the other Venus sign, rules the
kidneys. Removal of tonsils from the Taurus region
affects secretion of urine in the Libra region.
Therefore, when we remove the tonsils from a child we
increase the tendency to gout and rheumatism in later
years.
As a matter of fact, enlarged tonsils are due to
conditions connected with the arrival at puberty and
adolescence, perhaps accentuated by a wrong diet, and
this is a factor in most of the other throat diseases, for
the larynx is the opposite of the generative organs, as