Hindu Medicine c8.94

c8.94

Such concepts are the offspring of a pre-critical period of thought when observation and imagination combined for the purpose of unveiling nature’s secret ways. They sprang from the same source which brought forth the impressive symbolical figures of astrology in the West, for instance the idea of the essence of Venus or Mercury which manifests itself in the spheres of the universe, and, simultaneously, in man’s organism, character and destiny. Western alchemy and kindred esoteric teachings in European tradition up to the end of the 18th century are formed along the same pattern of thought which engendered the Hindu concept of the humors.