Eleventh Lecture

And so these things really involve looking into the deep secrets of nature. This looking into the deep secrets of nature, I would say into the mysteries of nature, actually leads to the possibility of directly connecting the view of the sick person with the view of the effective remedy. Just as I know that a magnet attracts iron, and if I have a magnet and bring iron filings close to it, the iron filings are attracted, when I recognize the effect of the magnet on the iron filings, I know what is happening. If I know in the same way how spiritual copper gloss is, on the other hand, what a person lacks when they have the symptoms of Graves' disease, then that is what it means to permeate medicine with spiritual insight.