“WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HOMOEOPATHIC MOVEMENT-PROFESSIONALLY “


The vital force circulates through the nervous system which is the circulatory system of vital government, just as the blood vessels convey digested food in the form of blood. Then that patient will be able to digest and assimilate all the lime or other element, or elements, from the ordinary articles of diet, without the dangers of over-feeding involved in forced feeding of elements glandular products, or physiological drugs.


Perhaps the answer to the question What Is Wrong with the Homoeopathic Movement–Professionally? is found through a discussion of the issues involved in the authors query, “Is it not because we are not in the least unanimous about the limitations of our particular method?”.

There is nothing the matter with homoeopathy. The attitude of mind of many–that homoeopathy has limitations–is largely what is the matter with the profession. The field of homoeopathy is too large for mortal conception. Homoeopathy is unique. It is a science that even the most fastidious cannot embrace in its entirely in a lifetime. Therefore there is bound to be a variance of opinions, due to the limit placed on each individual by each individuals experience. Each individuals vision or horizon is limited to the height of his mental attainment, so there is bound to be a variance of honest opinionS, due to the limit placed on each individual by each individuals experience. Each individuals vision or horizon is limited to the height of his mental attainment, so there is bound to be a variance of honest opinion.

Ignorance then, is the greatest handicap of our profession. That accounts for their limitations as teachers. If the students have not been properly taught, how can you expect them to follow doctrines that have not been taught?.

So our colleges are largely to be blamed. I can but touch that phase. However it is a fact that when dear old Hahnemann College of Philadelphia was dominated by those powerful intellects, like Hering and Farrington, their enthusiasm and ability just radiated homoeopathy to the students, and although, like all other medical colleges of the time, the students were graduated in two years, I would, today, rather have one of those old time prescribers doctor me than the present pseudo- scientists, whose knowledge is largely a record of vacillating theories apeing allopathy.

There are many reasons for this state of affairs. I think a mistake was made when Hahnemann College first undertook to give a degree in both medicine and homoeopathic medicine. The outcome of this was that since those first days of the masters of homoeopathy, the strong teachers have been the teachers of allopathy, whose teachings and prescriptions gradually usurped the homoeopathic teaching.

This is reflected in the November 1930, issue of the Hahnemannian Monthly where Doctor Margaret Hassler, in her presidential address before the members of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, states:.

Briefly, the result of this survey shows most clearly:.

First– A. lamentable indifference to the establishment of new societies, county or district, or to any effort to revive former societies. The indifference was explained by the frank statement of so many of our members that through their affiliation with its hospitals,they no longer saw the need for homoeopathic societies, nor any necessity for them as individuals to assert their homoeopathic affiliation.

Second–In the existing societies there was little or no evidence of a keen professional interest in homoeopathic matters per se, but a notable lack of interest in promoting an increased membership. Again, in some of these societies otherwise very active as high as one-third of the total membership were not members of the State Society.

But perhaps the founders of Old Hahnemann College were right in their concept, for complete knowledge of medicine is a three- fold development of physical, mental and spiritual therapy. One should first be grounded in the physical aspect of the trinity. Then a study of the action of remedies on the nerve plane, and last the esoteric teaching of the spiritual plane which dominates the mental and physical. I might dwell on the lack of coordination; lack of creating a homoeopathic consciousness (which field allopathy has monopolized), and the delay of our organization to that end. But all nature is an intelligent force gradually bringing that about herself. Many wonderful discoveries of research laboratories.

in physics are rediscovering or demonstrating homoeopathic principles; they pick up our spoor quiet often. No longer are infinitesimals “the fiction product of diseased mind.”.

If we had the space we could, with profit to all, discuss the various problems to reach Utopia, so I must confine my remarks largely to correct a number of rash statements, where the author of the caption question has confused the ignorance of the doctor mass with the scientific highly trained “honest-to- goodness” “dyed-in-the-wool” homoeopaths. There is a distinction to be made as wide as the poles. We shall attempt to prove that not only are many doctors incompetent to carry out strictly homoeopathic prescriptions, but they are that way because they have not been properly taught basic guiding principles.

The teachers themselves having no conception of what it is all about! Most present day college curriculums are largely a haphazard, chaotic confusing course of study, with but a feeble laboratory attempt to demonstrate their teachings, and a woeful lack of instruction in esoteric and exoteric principles. This applies to nearly all colleges. I shall attempt to prove that “we should have none such” mincemeat, as “the widely accepted standard tests of the regular school,” but instead, that we have officially accepted (but little taught) texts composed of fixed guiding principles; and that we have already two foundations at work (American Foundation for Homoeopathy , and Mid-West Homoeopathic Institute) which are going to teach their principles and keep homoeopathy on the map, and establish a national, if not international, homoeopathic consciousness.

The various planes of therapeutics consciousness. The various planes of therapeutics, physical, mental, and spiritual, will be covered, with particular attention to the plane on which the homoeopathic remedies work. It will also point out that the failure of so-called homoeopaths in homoeopathic practice is because they have been trying to practise homoeopathy on an allopathic basis, without rule or reason or fixed principles to guide them, not that our texts are not filled with scientific doctrine, but that the doctrines have not been taught-excepting to those fortunate enough to have had a master teacher.

If you will all take a course at the Post-Graduate College of the American Foundation for Homoeopathy at Boston next summer, you will be given the surprise of your life, and I will promise that you will be not only satisfied, but thrilled, and better skilled, after taking that course. If not I will give you a check for the full amount of your tuition, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Yes, I agree with you, “all we want to know is the truth,” that is those of us who are not too prejudiced for such an attitude closes and locks up the mind and understanding. But the truth is a relative term. What may seem the truth to one person, is a fallacy to one who knows. Those who are seeking the truth will have the doors of Heaven opened unto them and a Divine influx of knowledge and understanding will flow into them. “Seek and ye shall find.” Knock and the doors of Heaven shall be opened unto you of knowledge and understanding will flow into them. “Seek and ye shall find.” Knock and the doors of Heaven shall be opened unto you.

All fine teaching, but already many of you who are reading this will at once close your mind to such wisdom as I have just said, but if you will put your mind in a state of humility and open it by the key “Oh, Lord, what is it that ye will have me to do?” and pray in spirit, every day, “give me this day my daily bread, the manna of Heaven will fall like the dew for you to gather and feast upon, and it will nourish your mind and soul.

I suppose such teaching gives most of you “a pain in the neck”. While they are the teachings of the inner mysteries, they may give you mental indigestion if you have no appetite for them. It is the esoteric doctrine of homoeopathy, and you are not even ready for the exoteric doctrine of Hahnemanns teachings. Such are the self-centered and enlightened(?) pseudo-scientific physical minded group of men who deny the vital doctrine of matter, mind, and spirit. They deny God. They believe that a cell is the cause of itself, without prior spiritual existence or influx.

“THE REGULAR SCHOOL HAS MANY STANDARD TEXTS WHICH ARE WIDELY ACCEPTED”.

Yes, the regular school has many standard texts, the second hand book stores and waste paper mills are paying one quarter cent per pound for them, as so much waste paper, to “make new and better ones”. Their riotic haste to abandon their kaleidoscopic

theories cant even keep them up to date, so to their annual editions, they issue a monthly loose-leaf suffix. God forbid that we ever get in that fix. Homoeopathy has only fixed principles to guide us. We progress by accretion without death or decay. I value my masters work cheaply at 5.00 per pound. It is possible that there is a single homoeopath who is not aware that we have many standard texts, aside from the Organon, all filled with guiding principles as the foundation stones of homoeopathy, and that by repeated borings, we have found still greater strata of solid rock to carry any weight of intellect that may bear upon it?

William H. Schwartz