Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-11
Keeping the Body Clean

In my article in this department las
week l stated that the entire formula
for curing diseases, according to the
science of vitosophy, is embraced in the
words, Keep clean, learn the current oil
your magnetism and control it."
These words express great deal, ano
they need elaborate explanation. nc
keep clean" in the vtosophical sense
means more than taking daily bath
1t means getting clean internally as well
as externally, and eliminating from ting
body not only all unwholesome food and
undesirable foreign matter, but 1T implies
getting rid of lot of congestion which
normally does not occur. In other words
the body produces and discharges In q
healthy condition a great deal OF ma
terial which If allowed to become arrested
and clogged up in the system is sure to
produce disease.
Take for example common cold
When a man has cold" as he calls
it, he is generally under the impression
that it is due to climatic conditions or
to indiscreet exposure to the weather.
He is wrong in this and wrong in the
name he gives to. it. What he really mas
is .hot" instead of cold for his
temperature has risen and he is suffering
frcm congestion, which is a polite way
of saying that he is filthy. Filth Is mat
ter in the wrong place, and some OF the
matter which ought to have passed out
through the skin and bowels is retained
in the system and fever and headache is
the result.
There are only two ways in which a
man can take cold" One is by allowing
the skin and bowels to become clogged
with matter which should have been ex-
GREETED long ago. The other is by be-
coming overheated and ahowing part OF
the body to become too rapidly cooled,
which will produce congestion by disturb
ance of the balance of magnetism
No man ever takes cold when he is
naked Lumbermen on the Mississippi,
exposed to all the vigors of Minnesota
winter, are practically immune But
when a raftsman gets his feet wet he
will Immediately immense his whole body
in the icy water and allow his clothing
to afterward dry on his body, and he
never suffers any inconvenience. 1 have
done the same thing many times with
satisfactory results. By the complete
immersion uniformity of magnetic balance
is secured and no 'cold" results.
If every person who is suffering from
-'colds," ''la grippe" or even consumption
would admit the fact that these diseases
are all caused by filth alone the cure
would be easy The first step in the
the second is to put the body in nor
NAL condition. Keep clean, learn the
current of your magnetism and control
it. and you will never have disease.
In vitosophy we teach that there are
seven conditions essential to life. These
are earth, water, food, companionship,
magnetism, air and liberty They are
the great cleansers of the human body.
and it is the neglect of these simple con-
ditions which causes man to be the filth
lest animal in the universe.
Keeping clean, therefore, implies that
every man must come into proper contact
with EARTH water food, companionship,
magnetism. air and liberty daily. Mod
ern civilization has taken us so far from
the earth. that few people ever come In
contact with it. Living on elevated floors,
insulating ourselves from contact with the
earth with shoes and carpets, and avoid
ing everything earthly as communicating
we have paid a heavy penalty in dis
eased conditions.
Few people drink enough water, and