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Microbes: their origin and the forces behind them*

And then if there is a group of such small entities, they may clash with one another, because
among themselves they do not have a very peaceful life: clashing with one another, fighting,
destroying, demolishing each other. And that is the origin of microbes. They are forces of
disintegration. But they continue to be alive even in their divided forms and this is the origin
of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will and that is
what makes them so dangerous. And unless one knows the quality and kind of bad will
and is capable of acting upon it, there is a ninety-nine per cent chance of not finding the true
and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a
subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you,
within you, for years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill.

There is another reason. The origin of the microbes and their support lie in a disharmony, in
the being’s receptivity to the adverse force. I will tell you a story. I do not know whether I
have already told it to you, but I am going to tell you now for it will give you an illustration.
I was in Japan. It was at the beginning of January 1919. Anyway, it was the time when a
terrible flu raged there in the whole of Japan, which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
It was one of those epidemics the like of which is rarely seen. In Tokyo, every day there were
hundreds and hundreds of new cases. The disease appeared to take this turn: it lasted three
days and on the third day the patient died. And people died in such large numbers that
they could not even be cremated, you understand, it was impossible, there were too many
of them. Or otherwise, if one did not die on the third day, at the end of seven days one was
altogether cured; a little exhausted but all the same completely cured. There was a panic in
the town, for epidemics are very rare in Japan. They are a very clean people, very careful
and with a fine morale. Illnesses are very rare. But still this came, it came as a catastrophe.
There was a terrible fear. For example, people were seen walking about in the streets with a
mask on the nose, a mask to purify the air they were breathing, so that it might not be full of
the microbes of the illness. It was a common fear.... Now, it so happened I was living with
someone who never ceased troubling me: “But what is this disease? What is there behind
this disease?” What I was doing, you know, was simply to cover myself with my force,
my protection so as not to catch it and I did not think of it any more and continued doing
my work. Nothing happened and I was not thinking of it. But constantly I heard: “What is
this? Oh, I would like to know what is there behind this illness. But could you not tell me
what this illness is, why it is there?” etc. One day I was called to the other end of the town
by a young woman whom I knew and who wished to introduce me to some friends and
show me certain things. I do not remember now what exactly was the matter, but anyway
I had to cross the whole town in a tram-car. And I was in the tram and seeing these people

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