...the cause of disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p46</ref>
...In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the agent of pain, physical illness etc.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p25</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p6</ref>
...In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body.In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance...this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace,the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p3</ref>
==Subconscient==
...In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], ...habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital...a most obscure material which governs... with the condition of the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses…
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p6</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p9</ref>
...If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-environmental-consciousness#p6</ref>
The suggestions that create illness or unhealthy conditions of the physical being come usually through the subconscient...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40</ref>
==Forces of Disintegration==
...They[there] are forces of disintegration...this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will ...The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49</ref>
...The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression of the vital force"...the depression...comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. ...this depression...created[creates] ...a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. ...It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p14</ref>
...There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but it's all the same thing!... For the cells,the problem is...whether to follow the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposing.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p7</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-6-1972#p32</ref>
...Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even... that almost ...wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p12</ref>
...This[The] divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>
==Adverse Forces==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p95</ref>
...Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59</ref>
...it is some part of your body or... a fragment of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, ...the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the door. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion…
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/february-25-1970#p8</ref>
...Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature ...nor with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance. We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a disease.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p62</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p18</ref>
...The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p14</ref>
==In Specific Illnesses==
...Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>
...Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure from the vital world and there may be momentary possessions also... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p22</ref>
...skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often.