Common Cold

Would you please explain both the cause and the hidden symbology of the common cold?

Hilarion: It is amusing to us that it should be called the "common" cold for it is all too common among mankind. If men but understood what they were doing which draws this affliction to them, they would rapidly cease to do so and the "common" cold would become uncommon.

All illness is self-created. Those who suffer, suffer but from themselves. The common cold as you call it, is an affliction which stems from a very widely distributed thought form which has suffused itself throughout all regions of the earth where man is living.

This thought-form is created by anger which actually results in physical pain upon another. That is fisticuffs or fighting. When the pain or the focus of the anger is felt by the victim, then the thought- form is created. The thought-form consists partly of anger and partly of the pain.

Those who have in past lives or this life deliberately struck other in anger automatically feed the substance of the thought-form. Because the thought forms are always drawn and attracted to their originators, it is quite natural for this gigantic thought-form related to the cold to be attracted into the bodies of those who feed its substance. When this happens the symptoms of a cold are felt.

Thus, the way to avoid a common cold is primarily to eliminate all feelings of anger and irritation towards another and particularly to avoid striking any other human being in a fit of anger, including children. It is not a sin to discipline children but when a parent strikes a child in anger then a great deal of damage is done at the subconscious level to the child and also to the parent.

In summary, we would say that the disposition in many people to catch the common cold is primarily due to the anger and irritation feelings which they harbor within them. However, the body itself becomes more inclined to develop cold symptoms when it is subjected to the excesses and abuses of diet which are common in most countries of the world, we refer to meat eating and the intake of large quantities of concentrated sugars. If these abuses of diet were eliminated, man would find that his tendency to develop cold symptoms would be much lessened.

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