CHAPTER V
SPECIFIC CAUSES OF DISEASE
Insanity
From the occultist’s standpoint there are four
classes of insanity. Insanity is always caused by a
break in the chain of vehicles between the Ego and the
physical body. This break may occur between the brain
centers and the vital body, or it may be between the
vital and desire body, between the desire body and the
mind, or between the mind and the Ego. The rupture
may be complete or only partial.
When the break is between the brain centers and
the vital body, or between that and the desire body, we
have the idiots. When the break is between the desire
body and the mind, the violent and impulsive desire
body rules and we have the raving maniac. When the
break is between the Ego and the mind, the mind is the
ruler over the other vehicles and we have the cunning
maniac, who may deceive his keeper into believing
that he is perfectly harmless until he has hatched some
diabolical, cunning scheme. Then he may suddenly
show his deranged mentality and cause a dreadful
catastrophe.
There is one cause of insanity that it may be well
to explain, as it is sometimes possible to avoid it.
When the Ego is returning from the invisible world
toward re-embodiment, it is shown the various