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Chapter I
Causes of Disease, Premature Old Age and Short Span of Life
In order to obtain a clearer understanding of the marvellous process of fasting for the purification of the body, resulting in the prevention and relief of untold suffering, the preservation of the vigour of youth and the prolongation of the span of life, it will be of great importance to give a brief account of how disease is built in the living organism. After we know how disease is built and what is the nature of it, we shall easily understand why fasting produces such amazingly good results in the cure of disease, the preservation of youth and the prolongation of the span of life.
As we shall see, in the last analysis the following thirteen causes of disease are comprised in one comprehensive cause ----violation of the Laws of Life. Hence the superlative importance of learning how to live in accordance with the requirements of these laws. When this has been accomplished we have automatically supplied those environmental conditions upon which perpetual health, youthful vigour and long life would become possible and inevitable. But in order to learn how to live in accordance and harmony with the Laws of Life it is indispensable to first learn how these Laws operate in the living organism and make it function, either normally (health) or abnormally (disease). Students of Psycho-Physiopathy who have learned in "Book One" how the Laws of Life make the body function will more easily understand the importance of the study of these laws in the prevention of disease, the purification of the body and the prolongation of the span of life.
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