More than 200 years have passed since Samuel Hahnemann began producing his systematic treatise of ‘right’ medical practise in the form of Homeopathy. He was not the first to recognize ‘similia similibus curateur’; ‘likes are cured by likes’, though it was he who developed the highly ordered principles in application of the art. It was only later into his practise, that he developed a greater appreciation of chronic diseases and the mysterious obstacles to cure they represented.

Many of Hahnemann’s original theories and conclusions remain firmly rooted in contemporary Homeopathic practise. Over the years there have been additions, expansions, perversions, abuses and neglect of his great insight, but one thing has remained abundantly clear – Homeopathy is an energy-based medicine, capable of facilitating energetic response in the body. To fully grasp the magnitude of this truth one need only consider Newton’s Laws of motion:

1. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. (aka; Law of Inertia)
2. The relationship between an object’s mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F=ma. Acceleration and force are vectors; in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

In the late 19th century theosophist Helena P. Blavatsky introduced ageless sets of principles to be formally considered in her two volumes of ‘The Secret Doctrine’. Of these principles, she identified the prevalence of the energetic qualities of the Seven Rays, which throughout our ancient and modern history have been evidenced. Energetic action and reaction to an evolutionary process present in science, astrology, and archaeological finds. Bound in legendary mythology and theology she established a broader landscape upon which Homeopathic and Life principles may be considered and applied.

This paper will examine the energetic quality of miasmatic behaviour, as Hahnemann outlined in The Chronic Diseases. Further it will demonstrate the energetic legitimacy of the Life Force, by utilizing the available resources of Theosophical and Esoteric philosophies to demonstrate the seven streams of naturally occurring energy influence which animate our world. The correlation of energetic behaviour and Homeopathic practise is to provide a larger framework for the Homeopathic practitioner to consider when assembling a truly complete picture of symptom totality.

As Hahnemann himself dedicated the 6th edition of The Organon of the Medical Art, ‘Aude sapere’; ‘Dare to Know’, that is precisely what the purpose of this paper will be.