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[Farbod Rahnamai]

The answer to this question, which is so natural, inevitably led me to the discovery of the nature of these chronic diseases.

To find out then the reason why all the medicines known to Homoeopathy failed to bring a real cure in the above-mentioned diseases, and to gain an insight more nearly correct and, if possible, quite correct, into the true nature of the thousands of chronic diseases which still remain uncured, despite the incontestable truth of the Homoeopathic Law of Cure, this very serious task has occupied me since the years 1816 and 1817, night and day; and behold! the Giver of all good things permitted me within this space of time to gradually solve this sublime problem through unremitting thought, indefatigable inquiry, faithful observation and the most accurate experiments made for the welfare of humanity.*
(*Yet I did not allow any of these unintermitted endeavors to become known either to the world or to my followers, not, indeed, because the ingratitude so frequently shown to me prevented me, for I heed neither ingratitude nor persecutions on my troublous path of life, which yet has not proved altogether joyless, because of the great goal toward which I have striven. No, I left it unmentioned because it is improper, yea, hurtful to speak or write of things still immature. Not until the year I827 did I communicate the essentials of the discovery to two of my pupils, who had been of the greatest service to the art of Homoeopathy, for their own benefit and that of their patients, so that the whole discovery might not be lost to the world if perchance a higher call to eternity had called me away before the completion of the book - an event not so very improbable in my seventy-third year.)
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[Shannon Nelson]

I find Hahnemann's writing often hard to dig thru -- the "flowers" get in
the way! So for my own benefit I like to paraphrase and strip down, and
thought I might as well post those paraphrasings. (I'm just simplifying the
language and leaving out (most of) the parts that to my mind don't help us
in understanding the *homeopathy* part of it.)

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The answer to this question led me to the discovery of the nature of these
chronic diseases.

I desired to find out why all the medicines known to Homeopathy failed to
bring a real cure in the above-mentioned [chronic] diseases, and to
understand as correctly as possible the true nature of chronic diseases.
This effort occupied me night and day since about 1816, and gradually God
permitted me to solve this sublime problem.

(*Yet I did not make these efforts known to anyone, simply because it is
improper, even hurtful, to speak or write of things still immature. Not
until 1827 did I communicate the essentials of the discovery to two of my
pupils, so that the understanding might not be lost to the world if I should
happen die before completing my book.)
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Shannon

on 3/25/04 5:23 AM, Farbod Rahnamai at frahnama@privatemail.me.uk wrote:

[Farbod Rahnamai]

Dear Shannon
It is a very good idea. Thanks a lot. I hope you keep continue.
Thanks
Farbod