CHAPTER XXXIII

ROSICRUCIAN HEALING

HOW THE ROSICRUCIANS HEAL THE SICK

   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  in-structing.

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  Ser-vice:  "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 giv-ing factors you may have called in vain upon the Divine Healing Force.

HEALING FORCE

   The healing force comes from God, our Heavenly Father,  the Great  Physi-cian of the universe;  it is latent everywhere;  by prayer and concentration it is liberated and directed to the sufferer; it manifested through the Mas-ter,  Christ Jesus;  it goes forth from the weekly healing meetings held  at the Rosicrucian Fellowship Headquarters.   Through the workings of this  su-preme  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, fibre, 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  sub-stances 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  conse-quently  for disease are many;  the following are the principal  ones:   Un-natural 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 sa-

cred 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 vi-tality 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;  conse-quently 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  pa-tient  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 ef-fluvia from his vital body, which is the etheric counterpart of the physical body  and the operating sphere of the vital forces.   The effluvia  are  ob-tained  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 VOLUNTAR-ILY AND FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF FURNISHING ACCESS FOR THE INVISIBLE HELP-ERS.   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 Help-ers  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 res-toration to health of all who suffer, particularly those who have applied to Headquarters.

   At the same time visualize the Ecclesia,  the healing Temple at Headquar-ters,  where the thoughts of all aspirants are finally gathered by the Elder Brothers and used for the stated purpose.