Illness

Specific types

• Mental illness

Specific illnesses

• Cancer

Illness may be irrevocable or often may be avoided

"As to illness or poverty: Such calamities may be either irrevocable or, and it is often the case, they may be avoided."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, July 17, 1937: Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1750)

No reference in the teachings on whether stars have influence in healing disease; for the most part these are sheer superstitions

There is no reference in the Teachings as to whether the stars have any influence on healing such diseases. These astrological ideas are for the most part sheer superstitions."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, July 17, 1937: Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1750)

See also

• Suffering
• Explaining illness to patients

To-dos for this page

• Add many more quotations better representative of the teachings on the subject.