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 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
the etheric bodies. This is indicated in the words of the Rosicrucian Fellowship
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 instructed by
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 diet--meatless, insofar as it
is possible. Meat should be left off gradually, however, in order that the body
may adjust itself to the change. Patients 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 someone asks for it in order
to be relieved of ailments, he or she must be willing to conform to the natural
laws of purity: pure air, pure food, pure thinking, and pure living! If the
patient ignores these great health-giving factors, he 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 daily and weekly healing meetings held at
the Rosicrucian Fellowship Headquarters (Oceanside, California). 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 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. The recipient had to live in
obedience to the God-given laws that rule man's body and his relations with 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 lessons 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 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 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. Local symptoms are actually
evidence that the whole body is at fault. All true healing, therefore, 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 plane are in
harmony with the work of the Invisible Helpers on the higher planes.
Right Food is Natural Medicine
Since 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. This 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 a weekly 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 the time of writing, and furnishes an entrance
key to his system. It is something which he has given voluntarily and for the
express purpose of furnishing access to the Invisible Helpers. Unless the
patient does his part in this respect, the Invisible Helpers are unable 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 when 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, usually can 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.
This reconstruction requires time as well as the patient's faithful and constant
cooperation along the lines indicated.
Healing Meetings at Headquarters
Healing meetings are held at Rosicrucian Headquarters on nights
when the Moon is in Cardinal Signs of the Zodiac (Aries, Cancer, Libra and
Capricorn). The hour of this service is 6:30 pm (7:30 pm during Daylight Savings
Time). The virtue of the Cardinal Signs is the dynamic energy which they infuse
into every enterprise started under their influence. Therefore, the healing
thoughts of 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 quietly when
the clock in your place of residence points to the given hour, 6:30 pm (7:30 pm
during Daylight Savings Time), meditate on health and divine love, 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.
