We have at all times tried to impress upon the minds of students of
the Rosicrucian Philosophy the great necessity of always looking at the
bright side of life, and ever to hold out hope to unhappy and afflicted ones.
If we aspire to be helpers of humanity, workers in God's great vineyard,
we must always throw the life line to the drowning man, that is, give him
that hope, that help, which means life to him. The astrologer who voices
the doom of his patient and takes the last ray of hope away when one who is
suffering comes to him perhaps as the last resort is little less than a
murderer. This may be putting it very strongly, but the writer feels that
this point cannot be emphasized too much.
To illustrate the danger that lies in the prediction of death: a
woman wrote to Headquarters stating that she had but two more years to live,
for the astrologers had predicted this. Would we advise her, she asked, to
take up the Rosicrucian Philosophy and astrology, and should she go ahead
with the school which she had started, or would it be best to give everything
up and prepare herself or the coming event, her passing out of the
physical
Birth Chart No. 19A
body? We can assure you that this woman received a letter from
Headquarters that as surrounded by strong vibrations which scattered
effectually the thoughts of death. As a result of the letter she became a
student of the Philosophy and is today an active and healthy woman,
destined to reach a ripe old age. The astrologer who predicted this woman's
death might have been guilty of murder, but fortunately through her coming
in contact with one of our pupils who advised her to write to
Headquarters, this was averted.
In 19A we have a patient who has so many weak and afflicted planets
that the astrologer must use the greatest diplomacy in order to encourage
her. On the first house is the gloomy, pessimistic Capricorn, with the
ruler, Saturn, in the Midheaven afflicted by the conjunction of the negative,
visionary, worrisome moon and the irresponsible and fanatical Uranus; and to
make it even more unfortunate these three planets are in conjunction in the
fixed and martial sign of Scorpio, the natural eighth house sign, the house
of death. Mercury, the ruler of the mind, is in the gloomy and stubborn
sign of Taurus in opposition to the afflicted planets in Scorpio. Could we
find anything more unfortunate for mental trouble? When Taurus is afflicted
he assists Capricorn in magnifying the gloom side of life and increases his
brooding over imaginary ills, so you can imagine the temperament of this
poor woman. She was sadly in need of help.
Her request for help came to us in November, 1916. She was at that
time in such a mental state that she had threatened suicide, could do nothing
but weep, and was surrounded by imaginary troubles. But she was very
faithful in writing her weekly letters and did all possible to cooperate
with the healers. When she requested healing her progressed Mars was
square to the radical moon, Uranus, and Saturn in Scorpio, which caused this
mental disturbance. But fortunately the progressed moon at that time was in
25 degrees of Cancer trine and sextile to the afflicted planets in the 10th
and 5th houses respectively. This was the life line that was ready to be
thrown to help her.
Note that the artistic harmonious, and musical radical Venus is in
her own sign of Taurus, trine to the reverent and optimistic Jupiter. The
one window of light open to her was this good aspect — music and art. It
was necessary to bring harmony into this poor inharmonious mind, and we
prevailed upon her and her friends to provide her with music in the home and
to interest her in art. At the time of her request for help her progressed
sun was in 9 degrees and 50 minutes of Cancer, making a good aspect to
the radical Venus. This as the means of saving her reason. In May 1917
she wrote us she was feeling so much better that she did not need the help
of the healers any longer.
Here we can see what a wonderful work can be done through a true
knowledge of astrology. Had an unscrupulous astrologer met this woman and
predicted suicide, the danger of which as shown so plainly in the figure,
he might have been her murderer. Therefore, dear friends, we hope you
will take this as a lesson to use astrology to help and to heal and not to
wound.
Although we are unable to predict the dates of crises in her illness
on account of the lack of the birth hour, still the aspects between the
planets in this woman's chart, show sufficiently well the nature of the
illness and the yearly crises. We find the erratic and eccentric Uranus in
the psychic sign of Cancer, in opposition to Mars, the planet of impulse and
recklessness. Uranus is also in opposition to the life-given sun and to
Mercury, the planet of reason, both placed in the belligerent and violent sign
Capricorn. All four of these planets are square by Neptune in Aries, the
sign which rules the head and the brain.
We find that the benevolent ray of Jupiter is quenched by its
placement in the twelfth house sign of Pisces, indicating sorrow,
trouble, and self-undoing. There is is conjoined with the saturnine
Dragon's Tail and squared by the moon, the giver of visions and
imagination, making the mind morbid. He is also squared by Saturn, the
planet of gloom and melancholy. As a result of all these adverse, perverse,
and perverting influences the poor woman has always been weak-minded,
impulsive, reckless, gloomy, erratic, and visionary. In the year 1915 matters
cam to a crisis when the sun was in the twelfth house sign of Pisces,
ruling hospitals and asylums. The progressed moon also was there in
conjunction with the sun and th saturnine Dragon's Tail, and all of them
square Saturn, with the result that the woman as taken violently insane and
had to be confined in an asylum, where she has —
Birth Chart No. 19B
— been ever since. There has been little or no improvement so far as the
mental condition is concerned, and the condition of physical health is
also delicate.
It is not a hopeless case, however, for the principal inimical
influences are from cardinal signs, whose force is comparatively soon
spent, and the remainder are from common or flexible signs which are subject
to modification. Not that Neptune, the planet of the spiritual mind, is
sextile to Venus, the planet of music, and to the moon, the planet of
impressionability. Venus and the moon are trine; this shows that the native
loves music and that she may be helped by it. With respect to health we
find the moon in Gemini, the sign that rules the lungs, which gives a
tendency to colds in the lungs. Uranus is in Cancer, squared by Neptune and
in opposition to the sun, Mars, and Mercury, which shows nervous
indigestion, for Cancer rules the stomach. This can be minimized by proper
food, and if this can be provided it will help considerably to clear the mind.
In dealing with the question of insanity students should remember that
it is a rupture, complete or partial, in the chain of bodies linking the
spirit to the physical vehicle. When the rupture occurs between the dense
body and the vital body, or between the latter and the desire body, we have
the harmless mentally disabled individual. When the break is between the desire body and the mind, the reckless, impulsive, and violent desire nature takes charge of the
lower vehicle, and we have the violently raving maniac who must be restrained
by a straight-jacket and padded cell. But when the rupture takes place
between the mind and the spirit, the cunning and craftiness of the mind exert
themselves to take charge of the lower personality; an insane person of this
order may go about among us for years plotting and scheming with such
consummate cunning that we never suspect him of being abnormal until he
carries out some diabolical plot and then laughs and glouts over the
ruin, sorrow, and suffering which he has brought upon his victims.
This horoscope was sent us by the relatives of the native, with
permission to use it as a lesson. We find some very interesting points in
it, which may be of interest in the study of the science of diagnosis.
Two special points must be taken into consideration in the horoscope of
a patient: the sign on the Ascendant and Mercury. The Ascendant shows the
strength of the personality. If fixed signs are on the four angles, namely,
the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth cusps, then the patient will be apt to
help the healer with his will to overcome disease. If, however, common
signs are on the angles, then the patient is apt to drift with the tide, and
is prone to lean upon the Invisible Helpers, expecting them to do all the work, failing usually to do anything for himself. To get the best
cooperation from the patient it is most necessary that the mind be willing
to help. Where there is a weak or a stubborn mind, the patient can do much
to thwart the efforts made in his behalf, as we find in this horoscope.
Birth Chart No. 19C
Mercury being in a fixed sign in the tenth house and square to Neptune here gives a most dominating and stubborn mentality. This is a
person who will bear no interference or domination from others.
He has naturally a very devout and religious nature, but instead of
following the soul's ideals, which are expressed by Jupiter in
Sagittarius sextile to Mercury in Aquarius, his stubborn and ambitious mind
led him to respond to the vibrations of Venus square Jupiter, Mercury square
Neptune, and moon square Uranus.
Venus is exalted in Pisces, the sign of self-undoing, and in the
eleventh house, square to Jupiter, which is strong in its own sign of
Sagittarius, the sign of religion. This indicates that a woman friend with
her flattery and attention, signified by Venus, was responsible for leading
him from his religious ideals into negative metaphysical speculation. In
addition, the versatile and restless moon makes a trine to Neptune in the
esoteric twelfth house, which gave him the desire for esoteric knowledge, but
the moon, being square to Uranus, led him to his undoing. A person with the
planetary positions and aspects which we find in this horoscope is not
satisfied to follow instruction or heed the warnings of those who know about
esoteric matters, but he must needs rush in and investigate for himself. the
sun in the Saturnian sign of Aquarius in opposition to Saturn in the sign of
Leo gives a vein of skepticism, a nature which demands evidence and which
must prove all things. This spirit was his undoing. The sun and Saturn being
in mutual reception in the tenth and fourth houses respectively, strengthened
this tendency.
With the moon trine Neptune and square Uranus this man
developed mediumship very quickly and was able to contact the invisible
realms. But he heedlessly sought his knowledge along dangerous paths.
While the yogi teachings may be safe for Eastern humanity, to one of the sensitive Western type these Eastern teachings are most dangerous. This poor man became attached to a group of Hindus, from whom he received instructions in breathing exercises and psychic development. He as also active in spiritualism wherein mediumship was
encouraged.
After a few years the progressed moon reached the opposition to
the radical Saturn and later a conjunction with the radical Mercury.
Neptune, being the higher octave of Mercury, works largely upon the nervous
system, and any undue stimulation will sometimes cause mental unbalance if
Neptune squares the mental planet Mercury, often expressing itself through
religious mania. This poor man repeatedly claims that he is the reincarnated
Jesus. Especially will Neptune give this tendency when in the twelfth house,
where it often causes incarceration in an institution for the insane. The
moon in the ninth house in Capricorn, square to Uranus, here increased the
evil by attracting undesirable entities to this already weakened mind,
which was easily driven out of the body, giving the obsessing entities
freedom to take possession of it.
To top off this most unfortunate condition the poor man, who has been
in an insane asylum for some years, is slowly dying of that dread disease
tuberculosis. This is shown by Jupiter in Sagittarius (Jupiter ruling the
arterial blood) square to Venus (which has rule over the venous blood) in
Pisces, two common signs.
We find the fiery sign of Sagittarius on the Ascendant, and its ruler, Jupiter, at home in Pisces. This planet is at home in two signs,
Sagittarius and Pisces. When planets are posited in the 1st, 4th, 7th, and
10th houses, their influence is much more potent, much stronger for either
good or evil than elsewhere, and especially if they are in fixed signs or
in their own homes. Jupiter is in its own home and in the 4th house, an
angle, and rules the arterial blood. It is in square aspect to the fiery
Mars, which is in the sign of the lungs, Gemini. Mercury, the ruler of
Gemini, ruling the air passing through the lungs, is in conjunction with the
sun, and these two planets are in the fiery sign of Leo ruling the heart.
Now that would be the physical effect of the two afflictions noted above?
It is necessary that a certain amount of air be taken into the lungs
in order to supply the oxygen which is needed to give life to the blood
which feeds the heart. With the ruler of Gemini, Mercury, burned up by the
heat of the sun and the capillaries of the lungs filled with the fire of the
feverish and afflicted Mars, we have a congested and feverish chest, and the —
Birth Chart No. 20A
— blood is clogged and becomes sluggish, causing spasmodic action as it
passes through the aorta. The lungs become feverish and breathing laborious,
causing spasms. We find Mars parallel to Saturn, which is in the sign of
the stomach, Cancer, and in the 8th house, indicating poor assimilation of
the food. We find the planet Venus, which rules the venous circulation, in
the hot and fiery sign of Leo in opposition to the spasmodic retrograde
Uranus, which is strong in its own sign Aquarius, giving uneven action to the
heart.
This boy will suffer more or less all through life with what is
commonly termed by the doctors, asthma. The first few years he suffered
very much from spasms. He will also be subject to coughs and colds, which
will, however, never develop into consumption as is often the case. With
Mars ruling the lungs there is frequently a congested, feverish condition in
the capillaries which burns up the oxygen. But here Mars is in sextile
to the life-giving sum in Leo, hence this boy will recuperate very
rapidly. He will be above the average in health in spite of the many
afflictions, and he will reach a ripe old age.
We will judge first the character of this person and for this purchase
we note that there are four cardinal signs on the angles. This is a great
help toward making people mentally alert and well balanced, but
unfortunately here we find that mercury, the significator of the mind is
combust, and the moon is in conjunction with Saturn. This renders the mind
slow and melancholy, subject to fears, which of course never materialize.
Uranus is elevated and square to Neptune, which gives a tendency toward
spirit control, but we have the trine of the sun to Neptune to minimize the
danger. The native has a strong love nature as shown by the trine of Venus
and Jupiter, but the conjunction of moon and Saturn shows that the marriage
partner is likely always to wet-blanket and resent advances. Mars
opposition Neptune from the first to the seventh house makes it plain that
there will be quarrels and trouble, all of which have an important bearing
upon the sickness and its cause.
The Sun in Leo afflicted by Jupiter in Taurus shows that the
arterial circulation is poor, a condition which is somewhat minimized by the
trine of Jupiter and Venus, the two planets which govern the circulation.
But the rhythmic motion of respiration is seriously interfered with because
Uranus is in Cancer and elevated. This planet is spasmodic in its
action and affects the diaphragm when placed in Cancer. Here it is, as
said, highly elevated and square to Mars and Neptune, both in angles, a
configuration that is very strong. The rhythmic rise and fall of the
diaphragm is —
Birth Chart No. 20B
— absolutely essential to proper and regular respiration, an as this action
is interfered with to a degree by the afflictions here shown, we have the
condition known as asthma.
It is well known that sufferers from this disease sometimes go a
very long time without sleep because of their inability to lie down. Morphine
is often given to relieve their condition and give them the rest they
crave with all their being. The danger of this drug cannot be overestimated
in any case, but it is greater for a patient who has Jupiter in Taurus
afflicted by the sun like this one, for this always gives an inherent abnormal
appetite, a tendency to go to extremes in whatever is taken by way of the
mouth. Hence it is no wonder that this person has become addicted to the
use of morphine.
There is hope, however, as shown by the horoscope. The moon rules
the alimentary canal and is responsible for the passage of the food through
the digestive tract. She is conjunct Saturn, and naturally this results in
a sluggish condition of the bowels. Uranus in Cancer operates upon the
stomach in such a way as to distend it periodically. With a full colon, a
distended stomach, and the diaphragm moving erratically what wonder that
the heart refuses to force the vital fluid into the lungs and take it from
them? Heroic methods should be taken to clear the system and keep it clear.
While this will not relieve the spasmodic action of the diaphragm, it will at
any rate take the pressure away from the apex of the heart and thus
materially help to reduce the condition. Mars is sextile to the sun,
therefore, the heart can be strengthened. He is also sextile to Saturn
showing the possibility of securing at least better action and circulation in
the digestive tract.
The worst condition in this horoscope, the one most difficult to
overcome, is Jupiter in Taurus square to the sun. It has been our
experience that even though it is pointed out to people that they have
abnormal appetites and they acknowledge it, they usually refuse to mend
their ways. As the above affliction is in fixed signs, it is exceedingly
difficult to overcome. The best assistance, however, would be from the trine
of Venus to Jupiter, which excites the love nature and makes the native
amenable to kindliness. The tender care of a woman would perhaps do more than
anything else to help him overcome the habit he has formed. A healer with
Aquarius rising and whose Saturn is not in Pisces would very likely have a
beneficial effect in this case.
The disease designated by the name of asthma is one of the most
difficult to diagnose, for many are suffering from symptoms which are
diagnosed by the doctors as those of asthma because of the shortness of
breath, wheezing, and coughing when frequently the person does not in reality
have asthma. There are various kinds of this disease. For instance there is
hay asthma, which comes in the fall of the year when the hay and grain are
ripe. Sometimes it comes from the noxious pollen of poisonous flowers, which
causes a contraction of the passages to the lungs; these when inactive fill
with mucus, causing labored breathing. Then we have the heart or stomach
asthma, which is often the result of irregularity of the blood flow through
the valves of the heart, resulting in labored breathing and contraction of
the chest and lungs. Therefore the astrologer may find the diagnosis
difficult.
We will in this lesson endeavor to give a few helps showing according
to the afflictions the differences in diseases which may have similar
outward symptoms but the causes of which may be different.
Case 20C is that of a man born March 6, 1831, 4 P.M. The horoscope
for this case is 10A. We find the disturbing Saturn in Leo, the
sign ruling the heart, square to Mars in Taurus, which has rule over the
throat, and opposition to Mercury, which is in the nervous sign of Aquarius.
Mars is also square to Mercury and parallel to Neptune. This configuration
of planets in fixed signs, would indicate spasmodic heart action, for
Mercury opposition Saturn would cause contraction of the valves of the
heart, thereby interfering with the excessive blood flow caused by Mars square
Saturn. We also find the Sun in Pisces, a common sign, square to the moon
in Sagittarius. Common signs when afflicted interfere with the organs of
respiration, given a tendency to trouble with the lungs. This man
suffered greatly with what some doctors diagnosed as asthma and others as
heart trouble, and he also frequently suffered from severe colds. Astrology
shows that he had valvular heart trouble and that is was not a true case
of asthma. He died from an abscess of the liver. For details regarding
this condition see No. 10A.
In the case of horoscope 20D, that of a man born August 25, 1867, we
find Saturn in Scorpio, a fixed sign, square to Venus and Mercury in Leo,
the sign ruling the heart. We again find some trouble with poor heart
action; but the most disturbing affliction is found in th stomach, for the
moon and Uranus are in conjunction in the sign of Cancer, which has rule
over this organ, and both are square to the inflammatory Mars, Uranus
also being square to Neptune, all in cardinal signs. In this horoscope we
find the seat of the trouble in the stomach, showing impulsive and unnatural
habits regarding food, with a tendency to bolt the food and also excessive
drinking with meals, which would cause the stomach to become distended,
thereby pressing upon the heart and interfering with respiration.
In horoscope 20E, that of a woman born June 23, 1898, we find a very —
Birth Chart No. 20D
— different cause, and we may diagnose this as a real case of hay
asthma. Neptune is conjunction Mercury in the sign of Gemini, which has rule
over the lungs. From the indications of personal appearance we should think
that this young woman had Virgo rising with Gemini in Midheaven, giving
Mercury as the life ruler. Neptune, being the higher octave of Mercury,
has rule over the nervous system. Neptune's influence is similar to
that of Saturn — constricting, astringent. When in Gemini, we may
expect a —
Birth Chart No. 20E
— disturbance in the bronchioles, especially during the summer months, as
was the case with this young woman, whose trouble was caused by the
inhalation of the pollen of certain grasses and flowers.
You will, however, find that in most cases of asthma there is
impaired circulation. The blood stream is sluggish, showing an affliction
to Venus or Jupiter. When the blood is impure, elimination will also be
sluggish.
Great care should be used in the selection of food. The patient should eat very lightly and only such foods as are easily digested but which give the proper nourishment. Especially is this true of the evening meals,
for attacks of asthma invariably follow a heavy meal at night. Raw onion
sandwiches eaten the last thing at night and cut the phlegm and insure a
sound sleep.
Sagittarius, a common sign, is on the Ascendant, and the life ruler,
Jupiter is in the 9th house in the sign of Virgo; Jupiter is also square to
the Ascendant. People with common signs on the four angles rarely make
sufficient effort to surmount the obstacles of life, and when we also find
the afflicting planets in these common signs, and the sun in the watery sign
of Cancer an in the 8th house, we have as in the case of this woman one
who would rather be an invalid than make the effort to keep the body in
health, and we can see how weak the effort will be to overcome.
First, people with the sun and moon in Cancer are very fond of
good things to eat, and when the moon is also trine to Venus this enhances
their love for food and there is a tendency to overeat. Let us see what will
be the result.
We find the planet Venus, which has rule over the venous blood, in
the sign of Gemini, and in the 7th house, square to the inflammatory Mars and
to Jupiter. Jupiter, which has rule over the arterial blood, is afflicted by a —
Birth Chart No. 21A
— conjunction of Mars, hence the circulation is very much obstructed,
especially as Jupiter is in the sign of Virgo, which has rule over the small
intestine. When the patient eats very heartily (especially as Cancer people
are very fond of starches), with the obstructed circulation and the
disturbed assimilation of food in the small intestine what may we expect but
that the bowels are filled with putrid matter. Fermentation set in, causing
derangement of the entire circulatory system. Saturn, the obstructor, in
conjunction with Uranus in the sign of Scorpio, which has rule over the
rectum, and in the 12th house, the house of self-undoing, also the house of
hidden things, is an indication that the young woman had formed secret habits
which caused much irritation to the organs of elimination and which had their
result in causing cancer of the rectum.
She was ailing for a long time with dreadful pains across the lower
bowels and at the lower end of the spinal column. The question may be
asked, Is there not a cure for this dread disease of cancer? Yes, when in
its first stages, it may be cured by eliminating all food for a few days,
drinking only pure, distilled water flavored with lemon juice, and giving
the bowels a thorough cleansing with high enemas. Then start with
the mono-diet, continuing this for three weeks if the patient is able to
stand it, but not to exceed three weeks. The patient should eat nothing but
carrots. This vegetable may be prepared in various ways to make it
palatable, grinding it and drinking the juice, baking or steaming it or
making it into salads flavored with a little olive oil and lemon. The
carrot has a pronounced healing effect, especially when used as a poultice,
and it has a wonderful healing power for ulcer and cancerous growths.
Male, born December 14, 1857. Place and hour of birth unknown, but
from personal appearance and traits of character we have placed Sagittarius
on the Ascendant. Planets' positions for noon, G.M.T.
The doctors had told this man that he had cancer, and nothing could
shake his belief that he would some day pass out with the dread disease. He
kept up his letters to the Healing Department regularly for several months,
but they were always filled with doubt of our methods and discouragement
regarding the future. He also rebelled at the restrictions in diet, claiming
that he was too weak and sick to live without his daily beefsteak and fried
potatoes.
Later through the instrumentality of his son, who was working in our
office as stenographer, this man with his wife rented a cottage on a tract
which adjoined the Headquarters grounds. In order to make it possible for
his father to partake of the health diet served in our dining hall, the son
applied for a job as gardener for his father.
The first few weeks this poor man as a great trial to the cook. When
he failed to get what he demanded, he left the table hungry. This lasted for
a few days until hunger forced him to eat what was served. His demands were
for two eggs fried in butter, a large bowl of soft, boiled mush with several
teaspoons of sugar and plenty of cream, fried potatoes, white bread, and
two or three cups of strong, black coffee with several teaspoons of sugar in
each. The sugar bowl was emptied at each meal. He greatly tried the
patience of both Mr. Heindel and myself. But the young son, who had —
Birth Chart No. 21B
— supported his father for a number of years was desperately anxious to
help us to help the latter. After a few weeks the patient adjusted himself,
and immediately his health began to improve. The eruptions on his face and
his breast began slowly to disappear, and his general health and strength
began to return.
During the day it was observed that he was constantly eating candy;
his pockets were filled with this sweet. Before coming to Headquarters he
would eat one to two pounds of candy every day, and thought it necessary to
do so to keep up his strength.
We note the conjunction of the moon and Venus just above the Ascendant
in the negative sign of Sagittarius. The moon and Venus conjoined, no
matter where they may be in the horoscope, give a desire for sweets, pastry,
etc.
In this case we find Saturn posited in the sign of the stomach,
Cancer, and retrograde to a square aspect with Mars, which is placed in a
Venus sign. this man had for years filled his body with an excess of starch,
protein, and sugar. With his afflicted progressed Saturn in Cancer he was
not able to extract the vitamins from his food, and he was in the habit
of overeating and of bolting it. Naturally the body stores up excess amount
of food taken. His stomach refused to digest such quantities of food,
or rather was too weak and lacking in the juices necessary in digestion.
There was also a large amount of waste matter which the organs of elimination
were unable to throw off. Mars has rule over the rectum, being the ruler
of Scorpio which governs this organ. With Mars afflicted by the
obstructive progressed Saturn we might expect that the man would suffer from
constipation.
With all this ash stored up in the body can we wonder that the
system has to find some means of throwing out this poison? The result was
that the skin of the nose, throat, face and breast (Mars ruling Aries the
face, Scorpio the bridge of the nose, and Saturn in Cancer the breast) was
used as a dumping ground for the body waste. After eight months of Mt.
Ecclesia diet this man moved back to the city with not a trace of cancer on
his body; all sores had entirely healed. Mars sextile to the life-giving
sun brought vitality. Wherever a good aspect between these two planets is
found, there is great hope of overcoming disease.
Saturn in Cancer in the eighth house, the house of death, will
eventually be the case of the native's demise, together with the moon and
Venus in a common sign and in the house of self-undoing. In time his desire
for sweets and rich food will probably lead to excesses which will be the
cause of his death.
The Rosicrucian work of healing is carried on by the Elder Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order through a band of Invisible Helpers whom they are
instructing.
The work is conducted according to the commands of Christ Jesus, namely, "Preach the gospel and heal the sick."
The Elder Brothers
These are high spiritual beings through whom the Christ Spirit is working for the benefit of humanity.
The Invisible Helpers
The Invisible Helpers are those who live a worthy life of
helpfulness during the daytime while in their physical bodies, and whose
evolutionary development is such as to earn the privilege of being helpful
through the instrumentality of the Elder Brothers at night while
functioning in their etheric bodies, as indicated in the words of the
Rosicrucian Evening Service: "Tonight while our physical bodies are
peacefully resting in sleep, may we as Invisible Helpers be found faithfully
working in the vineyard of Christ." These Invisible Helpers are gathered
together in bands according to their temperaments and their abilities. They
are under the instruction of other Helpers who are physicians, and all of
them work under the guidance of the Elder Brothers, who naturally are the
moving spirits of the whole work.
Not infrequently patients are aware of the presence of the Invisible Helpers.
Right Living
Necessary for a Cure
The Invisible Helpers never refuse to answer an appeal for help, but
in order to respond to the Divine Healing Force patients must adopt the
gospel of right living; they should observe a pure meatless diet; they must
fill their living and sleeping rooms with pure air, their minds with
pure thoughts and their daily lives with pure actions. The Divine Healing
Force is pure; if you ask for it in order to be relieved of your ailments,
you must be willing to conform to the natural laws of purity. Pure air,
pure food, pure thinking and pure living! If you ignore these great health
giving factors you may have called in vain upon the Divine Healing Force.
Healing Force
All healing force comes from God, our Heavenly Father, the Great
Physician of the universe; it is latent everywhere; by prayer and
concentration it is liberated and directed to the sufferer; it manifested
through the Master, Christ Jesus; it goes forth from the weekly healing
meetings held at the Rosicrucian Fellowship Headquarters. Through the
workings of this supreme force the Invisible Helpers raise the vibrations of
the patient to a higher rate, thus enabling him, first, to eliminate the
disease poison from the system, and second, to rebuild every blood corpuscle,
fiber, tissue, and organ until the whole body is made new. This is done,
not in a miraculous manner but in accordance with nature's laws. If the
patient continues to break these laws and by a wrong mode of living to
accumulate poisonous substances in the system, he frustrates the healing
work.
Cause of Disease
The wonderful organism called the human body is governed by
immutable natural laws. All disease results from willful or ignorant
violation of nature's laws. People are ill because in this earth life or in
a previous one they have disregarded the fundamental principles on which the
health of the body depends. If they wish to regain and to retain their
health, they must learn to understand these principles and to regulate their
daily habits in conformity with them.
This is what the Master Healer, Christ Jesus, meant when he said to
the man who was a cripple: "Thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a
worse thing come unto thee." (John 5-14.) Even the Christ could not give
lasting health unless the recipient of the healing force refrained from
indulging wrong habits which cause disease, and lived in obedience to the
God-given laws that rule man's body as well as his relations to his fellow
creatures.
The Right to Health
Some people "demand" perfect health and claim they have a right to
it. They forget that either in this or a former life some have forfeited
their God-given right through disobedience to nature's laws, which are God's
laws. Through suffering they have to learn obedience. When they have
mastered their lesson and are willing to "sin no more," their right to health
will be restored to them.
Violations of the
Laws of Health
The Divine Healing Force is constructive; wrong methods of living which disregard the laws of nature are destructive.
The omissions and transgressions responsible for wrong living and consequently for disease are many; the following are the principal ones: Unnatural food; too much food; ill-proportioned food; lack of fresh air and
sunshine; lack of cleanliness; lack of exercise; lack of rest and sleep;
lack of self-control; sleeping in unventilated rooms; harboring thoughts of
anger, hatred, and resentment; yielding to a hasty temper; gratifying low
desires; harming fellow creatures whether human or animal; abusing the
sacred generative function.
Since all the organs and functions of the body are interdependent,
the abuse and consequent affliction of one part hurts all the others,
furthers the accumulation of disease poison throughout the system, and lowers
the vitality of the whole. The local symptoms are only evidence of the whole
body being at fault. Therefore, all true healing, in order to achieve
lasting results, is directed not to the suppression of symptoms but to the
removal of the cause that made the symptoms appear.
Spiritual Healing
Spiritual healing operates on the higher planes of being but is
effected in strict adherence to natural laws which prevail below as above;
consequently all natural therapeutics applied on the physical plan are in
harmony with the work of the Invisible Helpers on the higher planes.
Right Food is
Natural Medicine
As the body is built up of the physical substances introduced into
the blood by the daily food, right food is the natural medicine which the
patient must take in order to cooperate with the Invisible Helpers in their
task of reconstructing his system.
Effluvia Transmitted
in Weekly Report
Before the Invisible Helpers can work with the patient they must have
effluvia from his vital body, which is the etheric counterpart of the physical
body and the operating sphere of the vital forces. The effluvia are
obtained by having the patient write every week a letter consisting of a few
words or a few lines with pen and ink. This is important as a pen charged
with fluid is a greater conductor of magnetism than a dry pencil. The ether
which thus impregnates the paper upon which the patient writes week by week
gives an indication of his condition at that particular time and furnishes
an entrance key to his system. It is something which he has given voluntarily and for the express purpose of furnishing access for the Invisible Helpers.
Unless the patient does his part to do anything for him; so it may be seen
that it is of the utmost importance to keep up the weekly letters to
Headquarters.
Time Required
for Cure
Instantaneous cures are frequent where the Invisible Helpers are
called upon to assist in cases of acute disease. In the case of a chronic
ailment which is of long standing and has taken years to develop, a certain
amount of relief may be experienced immediately; complete recovery, however,
which is equivalent to a renewal of the whole system, can usually be achieved
only in gradual stages. As said before, the healing work of the Invisible
Helpers is not suppression of symptoms but reconstruction of the whole
system, and in order to be accomplished it requires time as well as the
patient's faithful and constant cooperation along the lines indicated above.
Healing Meetings
at Headquarters
Healing meetings are held at Rosicrucian Headquarters on the nights
when the moon enters cardinal signs in the zodiac. The hour of service is
about 6:30 P.M. The virtue of the cardinal signs is dynamic energy which
they infuse into every enterprise started under their influence, and
therefore the healing thoughts of the helpers all over the world are
endowed with added power when launched upon their errands of mercy under
this cardinal influence.
If you would like to join in this work, sit down quiet when the clock
in your place of residence points to the given hour, 6:30 P.M., meditate
on health, and pray to the Great Physician, our Father in Heaven, for the
restoration to health of all who suffer, particularly those who have applied
to Headquarters.
At the same time visualize the Ecclesia, the healing Temple at
Headquarters, where the thoughts of all aspirants are finally gathered by the
Elder Brothers and used for the stated purpose.
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