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                                   PART II

                                   DISEASE






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                                 CHAPTER IV

                          GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASE

INTRODUCTION:

   Disease is really a fire,  the INVISIBLE FIRE which is THE FATHER endeav-
oring to break up the crystallized conditions which we have gathered in  our
bodies.   We recognize fever as a fire, but tumors,  cancers,  and all other
diseases are really also the effect of that invisible fire,  which endeavors
to purify the system and free it from conditions which we have brought about
by breaking the laws of Nature.

   Again,  we may say that disease is a manifestation of ignorance, the only
sin,  and healing is a demonstration of applied knowledge, which is the only
salvation.   Christ is an embodiment of the Wisdom Principle, and in propor-
tion  as  the Christ is formed in us we attain to  health.   Therefore,  the
healer should be spiritual and endeavor to imbue his patient with high  ide-
als  so that we may eventually learn to conform to God's laws  which  govern
the  universe,  and thus attain permanent health in future lives as well  as
now.
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   The Old Testament opens with the account of how man was led astray by THE
FALSE LIGHT of the Lucifer Spirits,  giving birth to all the sorrow and suf-
fering in the world;  it closes with the promise that the Sun of  Righteous-
ness  shall  rise,  with  Healing in its wings.  And in the New Testament we


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find the Sun of Righteousness,  THE TRUE LIGHT, come to save world,  and the
first fact that is stated in regard to Him is that He is of Immaculate  Con-
ception.

   Now this point should be thoroughly understood, that it is the Luciferian
taint  of  passion which has brought sorrow,  sin,  and suffering  into  the
world.   When the creative power is used for sense gratification, whether in
solitary or associated vice, with or without legal marriage, that is the sin
which cannot be forgiven;  it must be expiated.   Humanity as a whole is now
suffering for that sin.   The debilitated bodies,  the sickness that we  see
around  us  has been caused by centuries of abuse,  and until  we  learn  to
subdue our passions there can be no true health among the human race.

   Prior  to  the impregnation of the desire body with this  demoniac  prin-
ciple,  conception was immaculate and a sacrament.   Men walked in the pres-
ence of the Angels then,  pure and unashamed.   The act of fertilization was
as  chaste  as that of the flower.   Therefore when the  mischief  has  been
wrought, immediately the messenger, or Angel, girded them with leaves to im-
press upon them the ideal which they must learn to live, namely, that of the
plant.   Whenever  we are able to perform the act of generation in  a  pure,
chaste,  and passionless manner as the plant does,  an immaculate conception
takes  place and a Christ is born, capable of healing all the  suffering  of
humanity,  capable of conquering death and establishing immortality,  a true
light  to lead humanity away from the will-o'-the-wisp of  passion;  through
self-sacrifice to compassion.


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   This  then  is the great ideal toward which we are striving:  to  cleanse
ourselves from the taint of egoism and self-seeking.  Therefore we look upon
the  emblem of the Rose Cross as an ideal.   The seven red roses typify  the
cleansed blood;  the white rose shows the purity of life; and the golden ra-
diating  star symbolizes that inestimable influence for health,  helpfulness
and spiritual uplift which radiates from every SERVANT OF HUMANITY.

   Until the Christ life illumines us from within we do not comprehend, nei-
ther do we follow, the laws of Nature, and consequently we contract diseases
by our ignorant contravention of these laws.  As Emerson put it,  a man  who
is sick is a scoundrel in the act of being found out; he has broken the laws
of Nature.   That is why it is necessary that the gospel of Christ should be
preached;  that every one of us should learn to love our God with our  whole
heart and our whole soul and our brother as ourselves,  for all our  trouble
in the world,  whether we recognize it or not, comes from the one great fact
of our selfishness.   If the alimentative function is deranged,  what is the
reason?   It is not that we have overtaxed our system because we  have  been
angered,  and exhausted our nervous force by trying to get someone to  serve
our selfish ends,  and we feel resentful because we have not succeeded?   In
every case selfishness is the prime cause of most diseases;  selfishness  is
the supreme besetting sin of ignorance.

CAUSES OF MENTAL DISABILITIES:

   The  disabilities  which affect humanity may be divided  into  two  large
classes:   MENTAL  and  PHYSICAL.   The  mental  troubles  are  particularly


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traceable to the abuse of the creative function,  when they are  congenital,
with one exception which we shall note later.   The same holds true in  case
of impairment of the faculty of speech.  This is reasonable and easy to  un-
derstand.   The  brain and the larynx were built with half of  the  creative
force by the Angels,  so that man who, prior to the acquisition of these or-
gans,  was bisexual and able to create from himself alone, lost that faculty
when these organs were created and is now dependent upon the cooperation  of
another  of opposite polarity or sex in order to generate a new vehicle  for
an incoming Spirit.

   When we use spiritual sight to look at man in the Memory of Nature during
the time when he was yet in the making, we find that wherever there is now a
nerve,  there was first a desire current; that the brain itself was made  of
desire substance in the first place and also the larynx.  It was desire that
first  sent a motive impulse through the brain and created these nerve  cur-
rents,  that  the  body might be moved and obtain for  the  Spirit  whatever
gratification was indicated by desire.   Speech, also,  is used for the pur-
pose of obtaining a desired object or end.   Through these faculties man has
obtained  a certain mastery over the world, and if he could just  flit  from
one  body to another,  there would be no end to his abuse of his  power  for
gratifying every whim and desire.  But under the Law of Consequence he takes
with  him into a new body,  faculties and organs similar to those  which  he
left behind in the one preceding.

   When  passion has wrecked the body in one life,  it is stamped  upon  the
seed atom.  In  the  next  descent to rebirth it is therefore impossible for


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him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construc-
tion.   He is then usually born under one of the common signs,  and  usually
also,  the four common signs are on the angles; for through these signs pas-
sionate desire finds it difficult to express itself.   Thus the powerful im-
pulse which formerly ruled in his brain and which might be used for the pur-
pose of rejuvenescence is absent;  he lacks incentive in life and  therefore
he becomes helpless--a log upon the ocean of life--often insane.

  But the Spirit is not insane; it sees, knows, and has a keen desire to use
the body, though that may be an impossibility, for often it cannot even send
a correct impulse along the nerves.  The muscles of face and body are there-
fore  not  under the control of its will.   This accounts for  the  lack  of
co-ordination  which makes the maniac such a pitiable sight.   And thus  the
Spirit learns one of the hardest lessons in life,  namely,  that it is worse
than death to be tied to a living body and unable to find expression through
it because THE DESIRE FORCE necessary to accomplish thought, speech, and mo-
tion  HAS BEEN SPENT IN UNRIGHTEOUS LIVING in a previous life and  left  the
Spirit  without the necessary energy to operate its present fleshly  instru-
ment.

   Though mental disabilities,  when congenital,  are generally traceable to
abuse of the creative function in a past life, there is at least one notable
exception to this rule: Where a Spirit, who has a particularly hard life be-
fore  it,  comes down to rebirth and feels upon entering the womb  that  the
panorama of the coming life then shown it marks an existence too hard for it
to undergo, it sometimes tries to run away from the school of life.  At this


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time  the Recording Angels or their agents have already made the  connection
between  the  vital body and the sense centers of the brain in  the  forming
foetus;  therefore the effort of the Spirit to escape from the mother's womb
is  frustrated,  but  the  wrench that is given  by  the  Ego  deranges  the
connection between the etheric and physical sense centers, so that the vital
body is not concentric with the physical, causing the etheric head to extend
above the physical cranium.  Thus it is impossible for the Spirit to use the
dense vehicle;  it is tied to a mindless body which it cannot use,  and  the
embodiment is practically wasted.

   We also find cases where a great shock later in life causes the Spirit to
endeavor  to run away with the invisible vehicles.   As a result  a  similar
wrench is given to the etheric sense centers in the brain, and the shock de-
ranges the mental expression.   Everybody has probably felt a similar sensa-
tion on receiving a fright; a surging as of something endeavoring to get out
of the dense body;  that is the desire and vital bodies,  which are so swift
in their action that an express train is as a snail by comparison.  They see
and  feel the danger and are frightened before the scare is  transmitted  to
the inert and slow physical body in which they are anchored,  and which pre-
vents their escape under ordinary strain.

   But at times,  as said,  the fright and shock are sufficiently severe  to
give them such an impulse that the etheric sense centers are deranged.  This
most  frequently happens to persons born under common signs,  which are  the
weakest in the zodiac.  However,  as  a ligament that has been stretched and


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torn may gradually regain comparative elasticity,  so also,  in these cases,
it is easier to restore the mental faculties than in those cases where  con-
genital insanity,  brought over from past lives,  has caused inadequate con-
nection.

CAUSES OF PHYSICAL DISABILITIES:

   With regard to physical abnormalities and deformities,  the rule seems to
be that as the physical indulgence of passion reacts on the mental state, so
the  abuse of the mental powers in one life leads to physical disability  in
later existences.   An occult maxim says,  "A lie is both murder and suicide
in  the  Desire World."   The teachings of the Elder Brothers given  in  THE
ROSICRUCIAN  COSMO-CONCEPTION  explain  that whenever  an  occurrence  takes
place,  a  certain  thought form generated in the invisible  world  makes  a
record of the incident.   Every time the event is talked about or  commented
upon,  a new thought form is created which coalesces with the  original  and
strengthens it,  provided they are both true to the same vibration.   But if
an  untruth  is told concerning what happens,  then the  vibrations  of  the
original  and  those  of the reproduction are not identical;  they  jar  and
jangle,  tearing each other to pieces.  If the good and true thought form is
sufficiently strong, it will overcome and break down the thought forms based
upon a lie, and the good will overcome the evil but where the lies and mali-
cious thoughts are the stronger,  they may overcome the true thought form of
the  occurrence and thus demolish it.  Afterwards they will jar among  them-
selves,  and all will in turn be annihilated.  All things,  in the ultimate,
work together for good.

   Thus a person who lives a clean life, endeavoring to obey the laws of God


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and   striving   earnestly  for  truth  and   righteousness,   will   create
thought-forms  about  him of a corresponding nature;  his mind will  run  in
grooves  that harmonize with truth;  and when the time comes in  the  second
heaven to create the archetype for his coming life,  he will readily,  intu-
itively, by force of habit from the past life, align himself with the forces
of right and truth.  These lines being built into his body, will create har-
mony in the coming vehicles, and health will therefore be his normal portion
in the coming life.   Those who,  on the other hand,  have in the past  life
taken a distorted view of things, displayed a disregard for truth, and exer-
cised cunning,  extreme selfishness, and a disregard for the welfare of oth-
ers, are bound in the second heaven to see things in an oblique manner also,
because that is their habitual line of thought.   Therefore,  the  archetype
built by them will embody lines of error and falsity; and consequently, when
the body is brought to birth,  it will exhibit a weakness in various organs,
if not in the whole bodily organization.

   Again we warn students not to draw quick conclusions from these tentative
rules.   It is not our intention to imply that everyone that has a seemingly
healthy body has been a paragon of virtue in his past life,  and he who suf-
fers   from   one   disability  or  another  has  been   a   scapegrace   or
good-for-nothing.   None  of us are able to tell at the  present  time  "the
whole truth and nothing but the truth."   We are deceived because our senses
are illusive.   A long street seems to narrow in the distance,  when,  as  a
matter  of fact,  it is just as wide a mile away as where we  are  standing.
The sun and the moon seem much larger when near the horizon than when at the


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zenith;  but,  as a matter of fact, we know that they do not gain in size by
descending  toward the horizon,  nor lose by ascending into the  mid-heaven.
Thus we are constantly making allowances for and correcting sense illusions;
similarly,  with everything else in the world.  What seems to be true is not
always  so,  and what is true today regarding conditions of life may  change
tomorrow.   Therefore it is impossible for us to know truth in the  ultimate
under the evanescent and illusory conditions of physical existence.

   It is only when we enter the higher realms, and particularly into the Re-
gion  of Concrete Thought,  that the eternal verities are to  be  perceived;
hence  we must necessarily make mistakes again and again,  even despite  our
most earnest efforts always to know and tell the truth.   On that account it
is  impossible for us to build a thoroughly harmonious vehicle.   Were  that
possible, such a body would really be immortal, and we know that immortality
in the flesh is not the design of God.  Paul says that "flesh and blood can-
not inherit the kingdom of God."

   But  we  know that even today only a very small percentage are  ready  to
live as near the truth as they see it,  to confess it and profess it  before
men by service and by righteous and harmless living.  We can only understand
that such must have been few and far between in the by-gone days,  when  man
had not evolved the altruism that came to this planet with the advent of our
Lord and Savior,  Christ Jesus.   The standards of morality were much  lower
then,  and the love of truth almost negligible in the greater part of human-
ity, who were engrossed in their  endeavors  to accumulate as much wealth or


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gain as much power or prestige for themselves as possible.  They were there-
fore naturally inclined to disregard the interests of others,  and to tell a
lie seemed in no way reprehensible and sometimes even appeared  meritorious.
The archetypes were constantly full of weaknesses, and the organic functions
of the body today are interfered with to a serious degree as a result,  par-
ticularly as the Western bodies are becoming more high strung and more  sen-
sitive to pain on account of the Spirit's growing consciousness.


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                                  CHAPTER V

                         SPECIFIC CAUSES OF DISEASE

INSANITY:

   From the occultist's standpoint there are four classes of insanity.   In-
sanity is always caused by a break in the chain of vehicles between the  Ego
and the physical body.   This break may occur between the brain centers  and
the vital body, or it may be between the vital and desire body,  between the
desire body and the mind, or between the mind and the Ego.   The rupture may
be complete or only partial.

   When  the break is between the brain centers and the vital body,  or  be-
tween that and the desire body,  we have the idiots.   When the break is be-
tween  the desire body and the mind,  the violent and impulsive desire  body
rules and we have the raving maniac.   When the break is between the Ego and
the mind, the mind is the ruler over the other vehicles and we have the cun-
ning maniac,  who may deceive his keeper into believing that he is perfectly
harmless until he has hatched some diabolical, cunning scheme.   Then he may
suddenly show his deranged mentality and cause a dreadful catastrophe.

   There is one cause of insanity that it may be well to explain,  as it  is
sometimes possible to avoid it.   When the Ego is returning from the  invis-
ible  world  toward  reembodiment,  it  is  shown  the  various incarnations


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available.  It sees the coming life in its great and general events, much as
a  moving picture passing before its vision.   The it is given  the  choice,
usually,  of  several lives.   It sees at that time the lessons  it  has  to
learn,  the fate it has generated for itself in past lives, and what part of
that fate it will have to liquidate in each of the embodiments offered.  The
it  makes its choice and is guided by the agents of the Recording Angels  to
the country and family where it is to live its coming life.

   The panoramic view is seen in the Third Heaven where the Ego is naked and
feels  spiritually above sordid material considerations.   It is much  wiser
then that is appears here on Earth,  where it is blinded by the flesh to  an
inconceivable extent.   Later,  when conception has taken place and the  Ego
draws into the womb of its mother,  on about the 18th  day after that event,
it comes in contact with the etheric mold of its new physical body which has
been made by the Recording Angels to give the brain formation that will  im-
press upon the Ego the tendencies necessary to work out its destiny.

   There the Ego sees again the pictures of its COMING life as the  drowning
man perceives the pictures of his PAST life--in a flash.   At that time  the
Ego is already partially blind to its spiritual nature,  so that if the com-
ing life seems to be a hard one, it will oftentimes shrink from entering the
womb and making the proper brain connections.   It may endeavor to draw  it-
self  out  quickly and then,  instead of being concentric as the  vital  and
dense  bodies  should  be,  the vital body formed  of  ether  may  be  drawn
partially  above  the  head  of the dense body.  In that case the connection


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between the sense centers of the vital body and the dense body are disrupted
and the result is congenital idiocy, epilepsy, St. Vitus Dance,  and similar
nervous disorders.

   The  inharmonious relation between the parents which sometimes exists  is
often the last straw that makes an Ego feel that it cannot enter such an en-
vironment.  Therefore, it cannot be too seriously impressed upon prospective
parents that during the gestatory period it is of the utmost importance that
every thing should be done to keep the mother in a condition of  contentment
and harmony.  For it is a very hard task for the Ego to go through the womb;
it taxes all its sensibilities to the very utmost,  and inharmonious  condi-
tions in the home it is entering are, of course,  an added source of discom-
fort, which may result in the above named dreadful state of affairs.

   Black  magic in its minor forms, such as hypnotism,  for instance,  some-
times causes congenital idiocy in a future life.  The hypnotist deprives his
victims of the free use of their bodies.  Under the law of consequence he is
then tied to a body with a malformed brain,  which prevents his  expression.
We must not infer,  however,  that every case of congenital idiocy is due to
such malpractice on the part of the Ego in a past life; there are also other
causes which may bring congenital idiocy as a result.

   Drugs and breathing exercises, such as the Eastern aspirant uses,  have a
dreadfully  destructive effect upon the body, and it will therefore be  seen
that their use is altogether undesirable.  Many a man is today in the insane
asylum or in the grave of the consumptive on account of breathing exercises,


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and the effects of drugs are well known.  The atoms of the Western body have
been  highly sensitized in the ordinary course of evolution,  and the  exer-
cises  which may be used with impunity by an Eastern person,  whose body  is
not  so highly sensitized,  will cause the atoms of the Western body to  run
riot.  It is extremely difficult to bring them into proper repose again.

MEDIUMSHIP:

   Where a person becomes a medium for a disembodied Spirit which enters the
body,  as in the case of the trance medium where it takes possession of  the
body  and uses it as the owner might do,  there is little if any harm  done,
provided  the Spirit control does not abuse his privilege.   In fact,  there
are  some cases where Spirit controls have better idea of caring for a  body
than the owner himself,  and may sometimes improve the health.   But Spirits
of  a  high  ethical nature do not usually control a medium,  it  is  rather
earthbound  and low Spirits such as Indians and others of a like nature  who
obtain  a  control over mediumistic persons, and when in possession  of  the
body they may use it to gratify their low passions for drink and sex.   Thus
they  cause a disturbance to the system and a deterioration of  the  instru-
ment.

   In the case of the materializing medium, we may say that the influence is
always  injurious.   The materializing Spirit entrances the victim and  then
draws the ether of the vital body out through the spleen, for the difference
between  the materializing medium and the ordinary person is the  fact  that
the connection between the vital body and the dense body is exceedingly lax,
so  that  it is possible to withdraw this vital body to a very great extent.


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The  vital body is the vehicle whereby the solar currents which give us  vi-
tality are specialized.   Deprived of the vitalizing principle,  the body of
the  medium at the time of the materialization sometimes shrinks  to  almost
one-half  its  usual size;  the flesh becomes flabby and the spark  of  life
burns very low.  When the seance is over and the vital body replaced the me-
dium is awakened and in normal consciousness.  He then experiences a feeling
of  the most terrible exhaustion and sometimes,  unfortunately,  resorts  to
drink to revive the vital forces.  In that case, of course,  the health will
very  soon suffer and the medium will become a total wreck.   At  any  rate,
mediumship should be avoided,  for apart from this danger to the  instrument
there are other and far more subtle bodies,  and particularly in  connection
with the after-death state.

OBSESSION:

   Obsession  is a state where a discarnate Spirit has taken permanent  pos-
session of the body of someone after dispossessing the owner.  But sometimes
people who have formed the habit of drunkenness or some other low vice  seek
to  excuse themselves by claiming to be obsessed.   Wherever a person  makes
that statement concerning himself,  one may nearly always be sure that it is
nothing but an excuse,  for a thief who has stolen something here in the ma-
terial world does not go about and tell people of his theft, neither does an
obsessing  entity go around proclaiming the fact.   It is very certain  that
such an entity does not care what is thought about the man whose body he has
stolen,  so that there is not reason why he should tell and risk being exor-
cised.


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   There  is an infallible means of knowing whether a person is  really  ob-
sessed,  namely,  by diagnosis of the eye.  "The eye is the  window  of  the
soul,"  and only the true owner is capable of contracting and expanding  the
iris,  or pupil of the eye, so that if we take a person who claims to be ob-
sessed or whom we think is obsessed,  to a room which is darkened,  we shall
find  that the pupil of his eye will not expand if he is obsessed.   Neither
will the pupil contract when we bring him into the sunlight,  nor expand  if
we  ask him to look at an object at a distance or contract when he is  asked
to read small type.   In short, the pupil of the eye will respond neither to
light nor to distance when a person is obsessed, but there is also a certain
disease called locomotor ataxia, where the iris will not respond to distance
but is responsive to light.

   No  one  who maintains a positive attitude of mind can  ever  become  ob-
sessed,  for so long as we assert our individuality that is strong enough to
keep  all outsiders away.   But in spiritualistic seances where the  sitters
are negative there is always a great danger.  The best way to avoid becoming
obsessed would be to maintain this positive attitude,  and anyone who is  at
all negatively inclined should avoid going to spiritualistic seances,  crys-
tal  gazing,  and other methods of evoking spirits.   This is bad  practice,
anyway,  for  those  who have gone beyond have their work to  do  there  and
should not be brought back here.

   At  the moment of death when the seed atom in the heart,  which  contains
all  the experiences of the past life in a panoramic picture,  is  ruptured,
the  spirit  leaves its physical body taking with it the finer  bodies.   It
then hovers over the dense body which is now dead, as we call it, for a time


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varying from a number of hours to three and one-half days.   The determining
factor as to the time is the strength of the vital body,  the vehicle  which
constitutes the soul body spoken of in the Bible.  There is then a pictorial
reproduction of the life,  a panorama in reverse order from death to  birth,
and  the pictures are etched upon the desire body through the medium of  the
reflecting ether in this vital body.  During this time the consciousness  of
the Spirit is concentrated in the vital body, or at least it should be,  and
it has therefore no feeling about the matter.  The picture that is impressed
upon  the vehicle of feeling and emotion, the desire body,  is the basis  of
subsequent suffering in the life in Purgatory for evil deeds,  and of enjoy-
ment in the First Heaven on account of the good done in the past life.

   The investigations of later years have revealed the additional fact  that
there  is  another process going on during these  important  days  following
death.  A cleavage takes place in the vital body similar to that made by the
process  of initiation.   So much of this vehicle as can be  termed  "soul,"
coalesces with the higher vehicles and is the basis of consciousness in  the
invisible worlds after death.  The lower part which is discarded, returns to
the physical body and hovers over the grave in the great majority of  cases,
as stated in the COSMO.   This cleavage of the vital body is not the same in
all persons but depends upon the nature of the life lived and the  character
of  the person that is passing out.   In extreme cases this division  varies
very much from normal.   This important point was brought out in many  cases
of supposed spirit obsession which have been investigated from Headquarters;


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in  fact it was these cases which developed the far-reaching and  astounding
discoveries brought out by our most recent researches into the nature of the
obsession from which the people who appealed to us were suffering.  As might
be expected,  of course,  the division in these cases showed a preponderance
of evil,  and efforts were then made to find out if there were not also  an-
other  class  of people where a different division with a  preponderance  of
good takes place.   It is a pleasure to record that this was found to be the
case,  and after weighing the facts discovered,  balancing one with another,
the following seems to be a correct description of the conditions and  their
reasons:

   The vital body aims to build the physical,  whereas our desires and  emo-
tions tear down.   It is the struggle between the vital body and the  desire
body which produces consciousness in the Physical World,  and which  hardens
the  tissues so that the soft body of the child gradually becomes tough  and
shrunken in old age,  followed by death.   The morality or immorality of our
desires and emotions acts in a similar manner on the vital body.   Where de-
votion to high ideals is the mainspring to action,  where the devotional na-
ture has been allowed for years to express itself freely and frequently, and
particularly where this has been accomplished by the scientific exercises of
Retrospection  and  Concentration,  the quantity of the  chemical  and  life
ethers gradually diminishes as the animal appetites vanish, and an increased
amount  of the light and reflecting ether takes their place.   As  a  conse-
quence,  the  physical health is not as robust among people who  follow  the
higher path as among people  whose  indulgence  of the lower nature attracts


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the  chemical  and life ethers,  in proportion to the extent and  nature  of
their vice, to the partial or total exclusion of the two higher ethers.

   Several  very  important consequences connected with  death  follow  this
fact.   As it is the chemical ether which cements the molecules of the  body
in  their places and keeps them there during life,  when only a  minimum  of
this material is present, disintegration of the physical vehicle after death
must by very rapid.   This the writer has not been able to verify because it
is difficult to find men of high spiritual proclivities who have passed  out
recently,  but it would seem that this is so from the fact recorded  in  the
Bible that the body of Christ was not found in the tomb when the people came
to  look  for it.   As we have said before in relation to this  matter,  the
Christ spiritualized the body of Jesus so highly,  made it so vibrant,  that
it was almost impossible to keep the particles in place during His ministry.
As  stated  before,  a worldly life increases the proportion  of  the  lower
ethers  in  the vital body to that of the higher.   Where,  in  addition,  a
so-called "clean life" is lived and excesses avoided, the health during life
is  more  robust than that of the aspirant to the higher life,  because  the
latter's  attitude to life builds a vital body composed principally  of  the
higher ethers.   He loves "the bread of life"  more than physical sustenance
and therefore his instrument becomes increasingly high-strung, nervous,  and
delicate,  a sensitive conditions which greatly furthers the objects of  the
Spirit, but which is a hardship from the physical viewpoint.


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   In  the majority of mankind there is such a preponderance of  selfishness
and a desire to get the most out of life as they view that matter,  that ei-
ther  they are busy keeping the wolf from the door or  accumulating  posses-
sions and taking care of them,  and hence they have very little time or  in-
clination  to  undertake the soul culture so necessary to  true  success  in
life.

   Therefore  there is so little that persists in each life of the  majority
and evolution is so frightfully slow that until one is able to view the  act
of death from the higher regions of the World of Concrete Thought and, so to
say,  look downwards, it does not appear that anything is saved of the vital
body.   This  body seems to return complete to the physical body  and  hover
over the grave, there to disintegrate simultaneously with the latter.   As a
matter of fact,  an increasing part cleaves to the higher vehicles and  goes
with  them into the desire world,  there to be a basis of consciousness  in,
and to live through, the purgatorial and heaven lives,  generally persisting
until  man enters the second heaven and unites with the nature forces  there
in  his efforts to create for himself a new environment.   By that time,  it
has been absorbed by the spirit or almost so,  and whatever may remain of  a
material nature will quickly fade away.

   But there are some people who are of such an evil nature that they  ENJOY
a life spent in vice and degenerate practices,  a brutal life,  and who  de-
light  in giving pain.   Sometimes they even cultivate the occult  arts  for
evil  purposes  so that they may have a greater power  over  their  victims.
Then their fiendish, immoral practices result in hardening their vital body.

   In such extreme cases where the animal nature  has  been paramount, where


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there has been no soul expression in the preceding Earth life,  the division
in the vital body spoken of before cannot take place at death,  for there is
no dividing line.   In such a case, if the vital body should gravitate  back
to  the dense body and there gradually disintegrate,  the effect of  a  very
evil life would not be so far-reaching,  but unfortunately there is in  such
cases an interlocking grip of the vital and the desire bodies which prevents
separation.   We have seen that where a man lives mostly in the  higher  na-
ture,  his spiritual vehicles are nourished to the detriment of  the  lower.
Conversely,  where his consciousness is centered in the lower  vehicles,  he
strengthens them immeasurably.  It should be understood that the life of the
desire body is not terminated by the departure of the spirit;  it has a  re-
sidual life and consciousness.   The vital body is also able to sense things
in a slight measure for a few days after death in ordinary cases (hence  the
suffering caused by embalming, post-mortem examinations,  etc.,  immediately
after  death),  but where a low life has hardened and endured it with  great
strength, it has a tenacious hold on life and an ability to feed on odors of
foods and liquors.  Sometimes, as a parasite, it even vampirizes people with
whom it comes in contact.

   Thus an evil man may live for many,  many years unseen in our very midst,
yet so close that he is nearer than hands and feet.   He is far more danger-
ous than the physical criminal for he is able to prompt others of a  similar
bent  to criminal or degenerate practices without fear of detection or  pun-
ishment by law.

   Such beings are therefore one of the greatest menaces to society  imagin-
able.  They  have  sent  countless  victims  to  prison, broken up homes and


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caused an unbelievable amount of unhappiness.   They always leave their vic-
tims  when  the latter have come into the clutches of the law.   They  gloat
over their victims's sorrow and distress,  this being a part of their fiend-
ish  scheme.   It is amazing when one searches the Memory of Nature  of  the
past to find how prevalent this interlocking condition of the desire and vi-
tal bodies was in former centuries and millenniums.  We realize,  of course,
in a sort of an abstract way,  that the farther we go back into the  history
of  men the more savage we find them,  but that in our own historical  times
this  savagery should have been so common and so brutal and that  might  was
the measure of right absolutely and beyond dispute,  was,  to say the least,
quite a shock to the writer.  It has been taught that selfishness and desire
were purposely fostered under the regime of Jehovah to give incentive to ac-
tion.   This in the course of time had so hardened the desire body that when
the advent of Christ took place,  there was almost no heaven life among  the
people then living.

   Earthbound Spirits,  such as previously mentioned, gravitate to the lower
regions of the Desire World which interpenetrates the ether, and are in con-
stant and close touch with those people on Earth most favorably situated for
aiding them in their evil designs.  They usually stay in the earthbound con-
dition for fifty,  sixty, or seventy-five years, but extreme cases have been
found in which such people so remain for centuries.

   When the Spirit has left the SIN BODY,  as we call this body in  contrast
to the soul body, to ascend to the Second Heaven,  it  does not disintegrate


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as quickly as the ordinary shell left behind by normal people,  for the con-
sciousness in it is enhanced by its dual composition; that is to say,  being
composed of both a vital and desire body, it has an individual or a personal
consciousness that is very remarkable.  It cannot reason, but there is a low
cunning present which makes it seem as though it were actually endowed  with
a spiritual presence,  an Ego,  and this enables it to live a separate  life
for many centuries.  The departed Spirit meanwhile enters the Second heaven,
but  having done no work on Earth to desire or merit a prolonged stay  there
or  in the Third heaven,  it only stays there sufficiently long to create  a
new environment for itself and it is then reborn much earlier than usual--to
satisfy the cravings for material things which draw it so strongly.

   When  the Spirit returns to Earth, this sin body is  naturally  attracted
towards it,  and usually stays with it all its life as a demon.   Investiga-
tions have proved that this class of soulless creatures were very  prevalent
during Biblical times,  and it was to them that our Savior referred as  dev-
ils,  they being the cause of various obsessions and bodily ills such as are
recorded in the Bible.

   In  addition to the entities already mentioned who dwell in a   sin  body
made by themselves, and who thus suffer entirely from their own deeds in the
period  of expiation,  two classes were found which were similar in  certain
respects  although different in others.   In addition to the divine  Hierar-
chies and the four life waves of Spirits now evolving in the Physical  World
through  the  mineral,  plant,  animal, and human kingdoms, there also other


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life waves which express themselves in the various invisible worlds.   Among
them  there  are  certain  classes of sub-human  spirits  which  are  called
elementals.  It sometimes happens that one of these elementals takes posses-
sion of the sin body of some one of a savage tribe,  and thus adds extra in-
telligence to that being.   At the rebirth of the spirit that generated this
sin body,  the usual attracting brings them together,  but on account of the
elemental  ensouling  the sin body,  the spirit becomes different  from  the
other members of the tribe,  and we find them then acting as medicine men or
in a similar capacity.   These elemental spirits ensouling the sin bodies of
Indians also act upon mediums as spirit controls,  and having obtained power
over the medium during life, when he dies, these elemental controls oust him
from the vehicles which contain his life experience.  Thus the medium may be
retarded in evolution for ages,  for there is no power that can compel these
spirits to let go, once they have gained control of such a body.  Therefore,
though mediumship may produce no seeming evil effect in a lifetime, there is
a  very,  very grave danger after death to the person who allows another  to
take possession of his body.

HYSTERIA, EPILEPSY, TUBERCULOSIS, AND CANCER:

   Hysteria,  epilepsy,  tuberculosis,  and cancer were all found to  result
from  the erratic propensities of a past life.   It was noticed that  though
many of the subjects had been,  in the past lives investigated,  almost  ma-
niacal in the gratification of their lasciviousness,  they were at the  same
that  the  physical  body generated in the present life was normally healthy


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and their disability altogether mental,  while in other cases where the  in-
dulgence  of  the passional nature was coupled with a vile character  and  a
cruel disregard of others, epilepsy together with rachitis, hysteria,  and a
deformed body were the present result.  Frequently, cancer,  especially can-
cer of the liver or breast resulted.

  In this connection,  however,  we wish again to warn students not to draw
hasty  conclusions that these are hard and fast conditions.   The number  of
investigations  made,  though  very large and an arduous task  for  one  re-
searcher to handle, are too few to be really conclusive in matters involving
millions of human beings.   They are, however, in line with the teachings of
the COSMO given by the Elder Brothers regarding the effect of materialism in
bring about rachitis, a softening of a part of the body that should be hard,
and  tuberculosis,  which hardens tissues that should be soft  and  pliable.
Cancer is essentially similar in effect;  and when we consider that the sign
Cancer is ruled by the Moon,  the planet of generation,  and that the  lunar
sphere is under the sway of Jehovah, the God of generation, whose Angels an-
nounce  and  preside over birth as instanced in the case of  Isaac,  Samuel,
John the Baptist, and Jesus, we readily see that abuse of the creative func-
tion can cause both cancer and lunacy in the most differentiated forms.

IMPAIRMENT OF VISION:

   Regarding  lack of vision or disabilities or the organ of sight,  it  has
long been known among researches that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in


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a past life.   Recent investigations have developed the further  information
that  much of the eye trouble now prevalent among people is due to the  fact
that  OUR EYES ARE CHANGING;  they are,  in fact,  becoming responsive to  a
higher octave of vision that before, because the ether surrounding the Earth
is  becoming  more dense and the air is growing more rarer.   This  is  par-
ticularly true in certain parts of the world, Southern California among oth-
ers.  It is noteworthy in this connection that the Aurora Borealis is becom-
ing more frequent and more powerful in its effects upon the Earth.   In  the
early years of the Christian Era this phenomenon was almost unknown,  but in
the  course of time as the Christ wave which descends into the Earth  during
part  of  the year,  infuses more and more of its own life  into  the  dead,
earthly  lump,  the ETHERIC VITAL RAYS become visible at  intervals.   Later
they became more and more numerous and are now commencing to interfere  with
our  electric activities,  particularly with telegraphy,  which  service  is
sometimes completely demoralized by these radiating streamers.

   It  is also noteworthy that the disturbances are confined to wires  going
east and west.  Rays or lines of force from the plant Group Spirits, radiate
in  all  directions from the center of the Earth towards the  periphery  and
then outwards,  passing through the roots of plants or trees,  then  upwards
towards the top of same.

   The currents of the animal Group Spirits, on the other hand, encircle the
Earth.  The comparatively weak and invisible currents generated by the Group
Spirits of the plants,  and the very strong powerful rays of force generated


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by the Christ Spirit now becoming visible as the Aurora Borealis, have hith-
erto been of about the same nature as static electricity, while the currents
generated  by the animal Group Spirits and which encircle the Earth  may  be
likened  to dynamic electricity which gave the Earth its power of motion  in
bygone ages.   Now,  however, the Christ currents are becoming more and more
forceful and their static electricity is being liberated.   The etheric  im-
pulse  which they give will inaugurate a new era,  and the sense organs  now
possessed by mankind must accommodate themselves to this change.  Instead of
the etheric rays which emanate from an object bringing a reflected image  to
the retina of our eyes, the so-called "blind spot" will be sensitized and we
shall look out through the eye and see directly the thing itself instead  of
the  image upon our retina.   Then we shall not only see the surface of  the
thing we observe,  but we shall be able to see through it as those who  have
cultivated the etheric vision do now.

   As  time goes on and the Christ by His beneficient ministration  attracts
more and more of the interplanetary ether to the Earth,  thus making its vi-
tal body more luminous,  we shall be walking in a sea of light,  and when we
learn  to forsake our ways of selfishness and egotism through  the  constant
contact with these beneficient Christ vibrations, we shall also become lumi-
nous.   Then the eye as it is now constituted would not be of service to is,
therefore it is now beginning to change and we are experiencing the  discom-
fort incident to all reconstruction.


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SHELL SHOCK:

   It  was found by examining a number of people in normal health that  each
of  the prismatic atoms composing the lower ethers radiated from itself  the
lines of force which set spinning the physical atom in which it is inserted,
enduring the whole body with life.   The united trend of all these units  of
force  is toward the periphery of the body,  where they constitute what  has
been called the "Odic Fluid," also designated by other names.   When the air
pressure from without is lowered by residence in a high altitude, a tendency
to nervousness becomes manifest because the etheric force from within rushes
outward unchecked;  and were the man not able to shut off the outflow of so-
lar energy in part by an effort of will to overcome the difficulty,  no  one
could live in such a place.

   We  have heard of "shell shock"  and we are aware that numbers of  people
who had not even the slightest wound were found dead on the battlefield.  In
fact,  we had seen and spoken with people who had passed out in this  manner
but were at a loss to know why death had resulted.  They all disclaimed fear
and  were unanimous in their assertion that they had suddenly become  uncon-
scious and a moment later they had found themselves in their present  condi-
tion.   They were unlike their fellows in that they had not a single scratch
on their bodies.   Our preconceived idea that it must have been a  momentary
fear at a particularly close call which, though unrealized, had caused their
demise,  prevented a full investigation;  but the ascertained results of the
consequences  of a fall led us to believe that something similar might  take
place in this connection; this surmise was correct.


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   One  night  some time ago while in transit to a place in  a  far  country
where I had a mission to perform, I heard a cry.  Though the human voice can
be heard only in air,  there are overtones which are heard in the  spiritual
realms at distances exceeding those traversed by wireless messages.  The cry
was close by,  however,  and I was on the scene in an instant,  but not soon
enough to give the needed help.   I found a man sliding down a slanting  em-
bankment,  bare  of vegetation,  perhaps a dozen feet in width,  and  as  it
proved on subsequent examination, almost smooth, and without a fissure which
would  have afforded a hold for his fingers.   To have saved him would  have
involved materialization of both hands and shoulders, but there was no time.
In  a moment he had slid over the overhanging precipice and was  falling  to
the floor of the canyon below, probably several thousand feet.

   Prompted by a natural spirit of fellow feeling I followed and on the  way
observed  the phenomenon which is the way observed the phenomenon  which  is
the basis of this article, namely, that when the body had attained a consid-
erable velocity,  the ethers composing the vital body commenced to ooze out,
and  when the body crashed to rocks below,  a mangled mass,  there was  very
little if any ether left in it.  Gradually, however,  the ethers drifted to-
gether,  took form,  and hovered with the finer vehicles above  the  mangled
corpse;  but the man was in a stupor and unable to sense or realize the fact
of his altered condition.

   As soon as I saw that he was beyond help, I went on;  but on thinking the
matter over it dawned on me that something unusual had happened and that  it
was my duty to find out  if  the  ethers left that way in everyone who fell,


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and if so,  why.   Under old time conditions this would have been difficult,
but the advent of the flying machine claims many victims.   It was therefore
easy  to ascertain the fact that when a falling body has attained a  certain
velocity,  the higher ethers leave the dense body,  and the falling man  be-
comes insensible.   As the body reaches the ground,  it is mangled,  but the
poor man may regain consciousness when the ether has reorganized itself.  He
will  then begin to suffer from the physical consequences of the  fall.   If
the fall continues after the higher ethers have left, the increased velocity
dislodges the lower ethers, and the silver cord is all that remains attached
to the body.  This is ruptured at the moment of impact with the ground,  and
the seed atom passes on to the breaking point, where it is held in the usual
way.

   From  these facts we came to the conclusion that is the normal air  pres-
sure which holds the vital body within the dense.   When we move with an ab-
normal velocity,  the pressure is removed from some parts of the body and  a
partial  vacuum formed,  with the further result that the ethers  leave  the
body  and  flow into this vacuum.   The two higher ethers,  which  are  most
loosely bound,  are the first to disappear and leave the man senseless after
they have produced the panorama of life in a flash.   Then if the fall  con-
tinues to increase the air pressure in front of the body and the vacuum  be-
hind,  the more closely bound lower ethers are also forced out, and the body
is dead before it reaches the ground.

   When a large projective passes through the air,  it creates a vacuum  be-
hind it by the enormous velocity  wherewith  it  moves, and if the person is


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within this vacuum zone while the shell is passing,  he suffers in a measure
determined  by  his own nature and his proximity to the center  of  suction.
His  position  is  in fact a reverse replica of the man who  falls;  for  he
stands  still  while a moving body removes the air pressure and  allows  the
ethers to escape.  If the amount of ether dislocated is comparatively slight
and is composed only of the third and fourth ethers which govern sense  per-
ception and memory,  he will probably suffer only a temporary loss of memory
and inability to sense things or move.   This disability will disappear when
the  extracted  ethers are again fitted inside the dense body--a  much  more
difficult achievement than where the physical body succumbs and the  reorga-
nization takes place without reference to that vehicle.

SCLEROSIS OR HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES:

   Our bodies are gradually hardening from childhood to old age,  on account
of  the chalky substances contained in most of the foods we usually  nourish
our bodies upon.  This calcareous matter is primarily deposited in the walls
of the arteries and veins,  causing what is known to the medical  profession
as arterio-sclerosis or hardening of the arteries.  The arteries of a little
child are exceedingly soft an elastic, like a rubber tube,  but gradually as
we advance through childhood, youth, and on toward old age, the walls of the
arteries  become harder in consequence of the deposits of chalk left by  the
passing  blood.   Thus in time they may become as stiff and inelastic  as  a
pipe  stem.  There  is  a  condition  which is called pipe-stem artery.  The


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arteries  then become brittle and may break,  causing hemorrhage and  death.
Therefore it is truly said that a man is as old as his arteries.   If we can
clear the arteries and capillaries of this earthy matter,  we may  gradually
prolong life and the usefulness of our body.

   From the occult standpoint, of course, it is no matter whether we live or
die,  as the saying is,  for death to us does not mean annihilation but only
the shifting of the consciousness to other spheres;  nevertheless,  when  we
have  brought a vehicle through the useless years of childhood past the  hot
years of youth,  and have come to the time of discretion when we are  really
beginning to gain experience, then the longer we can prolong the time of ex-
perience the more we may gain.   For that reason it is of a certain value to
prolong the life of the body.

   In order to accomplish that result,  we must first select the foods  that
are least impregnated with the choking substances which cause the induration
of  arteries and capillaries.   These may be briefly stated to be the  green
vegetables and all fruits.   next,  it is of importance to seek to eradicate
the choking matter which we have already absorbed, if that is possible,  but
science has not yet found any food or medicine that will with certainty pro-
duce that effect.   Electric baths have been found to be exceedingly benefi-
cial  but  not  entirely satisfactory.   Buttermilk is the  best  agent  for
eradicating this earthy substance and next comes grape juice.  If taken con-
tinually and in generous quantities, these substances will considerably ame-
liorate the hardened condition of the arteries.




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                                 CHAPTER VI

                            HEREDITY AND DISEASE

   Unfortunately,  people seem to lay their bad traits to heredity,  blaming
their  parents for their faults,  while taking to themselves all the  credit
for the good.  The very fact that we differentiate between that which is in-
herited  and that which is our own shows that there are two sides  to  man's
nature, the side of the FORM, and the life side.

   We  are drawn to certain people by the law of causation,  and the law  of
association.  The same law which causes musicians to seek the company of one
another  in concert halls,  gamblers to congregate at the race tracks or  in
pool rooms,  people of a studious nature to flock to libraries,  etc.,  also
causes people of similar tendencies, characteristics,  and tastes to be born
in the same family.   When we hear a person say, "Oh,  yes,  I know I am ex-
travagant, but i just cannot help it.  It runs in the family," it is the law
of association;  and the sooner we recognize, that instead of making the law
of  heredity an excuse for our evil habits,  we should seek to conquer  them
and cultivate virtues instead, the better for us.

   Man  is essentially spirit and he comes here equipped with a  mental  and
moral nature,  which are entirely his own,  taking from his parents only the
material  for  the physical body.  Thus while heredity in the first place is


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true  only  as  regards  the material of the dense body  and  not  the  soul
qualities,  which are entirely individual, the incoming Ego also does a cer-
tain amount of work on its dense body,  incorporating in it the quintessence
of  its  past  physical  qualities.   No body is an  exact  mixture  of  the
qualities of its parents,  although the Ego is restricted to the use of  the
materials taken from the bodies of the father and mother.   Hence a musician
incarnates  where he can get the material to build the slender hand and  the
delicate ear, with its sensitive fibres of Corti and its accurate adjustment
of the three semicircular canals.  The arrangement of these materials,  how-
ever, is to the extent named, under the control of the Ego.

   In the foetus,  in the lower part of the throat just above the sternum or
breast bone, there is a gland called the thymus gland, which is largest dur-
ing the period of gestation and which gradually atrophies as the child grows
older and disappears entirely by or before the fourteenth year,  very  often
when  the  bones  have been properly formed.   Science has  been  very  much
puzzled as to the use of this gland,  and few theories have been advanced to
account for it.   Among these theories one is that it supplies the  material
for  the manufacture of the red blood corpuscles until the bones  have  been
properly  formed in the child so that it may manufacture its own blood  cor-
puscles.  That theory is correct.

   During  the  earliest years the Ego which owns the child-body is  not  in
full possession,  and we recognize that the child is not responsible for its
doings, at any  rate not before the seventh year, and later we have extended


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it to the fourteenth year.   During that time no legal liability for its ac-
tion attaches to the child,  and that it as it should be,  for the Ego being
in the blood can only function properly in blood of its own making,  so that
where, as in the child-body, the stock of the blood is furnished by the par-
ents through the thymus gland,  the child is not yet its own master or  mis-
tress.   Thus it is that children do not speak of themselves so much as  "I"
in  the  earlier years,  but identify themselves with the family;  they  are
Papa's girl and Mama's boy.   The young child will say "Mary wants this"  or
"Johnny  wants that,"  but as soon as they have attained the age of  puberty
and have begun to manufacture their own blood corpuscles,  then we hear  the
boy or girl say, "I" will do this or "I" will do that.   From that time they
begin  to assert their own identify,  and to tear themselves loose from  the
family.

   Seeing,  then, that the blood throughout the years of childhood,  as well
as the body,  is inherited from the parents,  the tendencies to disease  are
also  carried over,  not the disease itself,  but the tendency.   After  the
fourteenth  year,  when the indwelling Ego has commenced to manufacture  its
own  blood corpuscles,  it depends a great deal upon itself whether  or  not
these tendencies shall become manifested actualities in its life.


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                                 CHAPTER VII

                       EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

   Flesh and alcohol have the tendency to make man ferocious and to turn his
spiritual  sight  away  from the higher worlds and  focus  vision  upon  the
present material plane.   Therefore the Bible tells us that at the beginning
of the rainbow age, the age where we live in an atmosphere of clear and pure
air, so different from the misty atmospheric condition of Atlantis spoken of
in the second chapter of Genesis, Noah first brewed wine.  Material develop-
ment has taken place in consequence of the present focusing of our  energies
upon the material world, which resulted from partaking of meat and wine.

   Christ's first miracle changed water into wine.  HE HAD RECEIVED THE UNI-
VERSAL SPIRIT at the baptism,  and had no need of artificial stimulants.  He
changed  the  water to wine to give to others less advanced.   But  no  wine
bibbers can inherit the kingdom of God.   The esoteric reason is this,  that
while the lower ethers vibrate to the seed atoms in the solar plexus and the
heart,  and thus keep the physical body alive,  the higher ethers vibrate to
the  pituitary  body and pineal gland.   By imbibing this  false  rebellious
spirit that is fermented OUTSIDE the body,  and is different from the spirit
that is fermented INSIDE,  by sugar, these organs are temporarily dazed  and
cannot vibrate  to  the  higher world, and so because of age-long abuse, man


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has ceased to function in the higher worlds.   If he takes too much of  this
spirit of alcohol, the organs named may be slightly awakened so that he sees
the lowest realms of the desire world and all the evil things therein;  that
happens in the disease known as delirium tremens.  To sum up,  as the evolu-
tion  of soul depends upon acquisition of the two higher ethers  from  which
the  beautiful wedding garment is made,  and as these ethers are attuned  to
the organs named in the same manner that the lower ethers are attuned to the
seed  atom  in  the heart and the seed atom in the solar  plexus,  you  will
readily understand the deadly effects to the spiritual man,  of alcohol  and
drugs.  To elucidate further I quote an incident of life.

   There is an old saying:   "Once a Mason always a Mason";  that means that
when anyone has received the initiation of the Masonic Order,  and by virtue
of that becomes a Mason, he cannot resign, for he cannot give up that knowl-
edge and the secrets which he has learned any more than a person who goes to
college  can give back his learning received at that institution and  there-
fore,  once  a  Mason always a Mason, and likewise,  once  a  pupil,  a  lay
brother,  of a mystery school, always a pupil and a lay brother of said same
mystery school.  But though that holds good and life after life we come back
connected with the same order that we have been affiliated with in  previous
lives, we may in any one life so conduct ourselves that it is impossible for
us to realize this in our physical brains, and I will, as said, cite for the
benefit of all students a case which is very much to the point.


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   When  I was taken into the Temple of the Rosicrucian order in  Germany  I
was surprised to see a man whom I had known on the Pacific Coast; that is to
say I had seen him a few times; we had never spoken.  He seemed at that time
to be in a station in the society, where we were connected, much above mine,
and I had never had personal acquaintance with him.  However,  he greeted me
there  warmly,  and seemed to understand all about his connection with  said
society, about our meeting there, and so forth; and I looked forward upon my
return  to  America  to getting much information from this  brother  when  I
should be fortunate enough to meet him here in the West.   When I arrived at
the city where he was, I was told by mutual friends that he had been expect-
ing me and was looking forward anxiously to meeting me.   Therefore,  when I
did meet the gentleman,  I at once went up to him and shook him by the hand.
He also seemed to recognize me and called me by name.   It seemed there  was
every  indication that he knew all that had happened while we were both  out
of the body.   Besides,  he had told me in the Temple that he remembered ev-
erything  that happened to him when out of the body;  this of course  I  be-
lieved for he was of a much higher degree than the first,  into which I  had
just been admitted.

   On the day of our physical meeting,  after a few moments'  conversation I
said something which caused him to stare at me blankly.   I had referred  to
some  incident of our meeting in the Temple,  and he showed plainly that  he
knew nothing whatever of it.  I had, however, said so much that I was forced
to say more,  or appear very foolish so I told him that he had professed  to
remember everything.  This  he  denied,  and  at the end of the interview he


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begged  me very earnestly to endeavor to find out why it was that he  was  a
lay brother of the Rosicrucian Order, yet could not remember that which took
place during his absence from the body.   He was as I knew at various Temple
services.   He took part,  yet in his physical brain he was absolutely igno-
rant of that which had occurred.  The mystery was solved a little later when
I learned from him,  out of the body, the fact that he smoked cigarettes and
used drugs which clouded his brain to such an extent that it had become  im-
possible for him to carry anything through of his psychic experiences.  When
I told him that in the body,  he made a valiant effort to rid himself of the
habit which he acknowledged.  This case illustrates how careful we should be
to be clean in our habits;  in everything to regard this body of ours as the
Temple of God,  and refrain from defiling it as we would refrain from defil-
ing  a house of God built of stone and mortar,  which is not  one  millionth
part as holy as the body wherewith we have been endowed.  The brain, in par-
ticular, is the great and important instrument whereby we are doing our work
in  the Physical World,  and we obviously should not use any intoxicants  or
drugs which muddle it and thus prevent our making the progress we expect.




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                                PART III

                                HEALING




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                    (Picture Plate of The Healing Christ)


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                                CHAPTER VIII

                      ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF HEALING

   It  is  a  trite saying that "man if of few days and  full  of  trouble."
Among all the vicissitudes of life none affects us more powerfully than loss
of health.  We may lose fortunes or friends with comparative equanimity, but
when health fails and death threatens, the strongest falter; realizing human
impotence we are more ready to turn to divine power for succor then than  at
other  times.   Therefore,  the office of spiritual adviser has always  been
closely associated with healing.

   Among  savages the priest was also "medicine man."   In  ancient  Greece,
Aesculapius was particularly sought by those in need of healing.  The church
followed in his steps.   Certain Catholic orders have continued the endeavor
to assuage pain during the centuries which have intervened between that  day
and the resent.   In times of sickness the "good Father" came as a represen-
tative of our Father in Heaven,  and what he lacked in skill was made up  by
love and sympathy--if he was indeed a true and holy priest--and by the faith
engendered in the patient by the priestly office.   His care of the  patient
did  not commence at the sick bed, nor was it terminated at  recovery.   The
gratitude  of the patient toward the physician was added to  the  veneration
felt for the spiritual adviser, and as a consequence the power of the priest


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to help and uplift his erstwhile patient was enormously increased,  and  the
tie between them was closer than possible where the offices of spiritual and
medical adviser are divorced.

   It  is patent that the art of medicine has reached a stage of  efficiency
which  could not have been attained save by devotion to that one  particular
end and aim.  The safeguards of sanitary laws, the extinction of insect car-
riers  of disease are monumental testimonies to the value of  modern  scien-
tific methods.   Thus it may seem as if all were well and there were no need
of further effort.  But in reality, until humanity as a whole enjoys perfect
health,  there is no issue more important than the question,  How may we at-
tain and maintain perfect health?

   In addition to the regular school of surgery and medicine,  which depends
exclusively upon physical means for the care of disease,  other systems have
sprung up which depend entirely on mental healing.   It is the custom of or-
ganizations which advocate "mind cure," "nature cure,"  and other like meth-
ods to hold experience meetings and publish journals with testimonials  from
grateful  supporters who have benefited by their treatments,  and if  physi-
cians  of the regular school did likewise there would be no lack of  similar
testimonies of their efficiency.

   The  opinion of thousands is of great value,  but it does not prove  any-
thing,  for thousands may hold an opposite view.   Occasionally a single man
may  be right and the rest of the world wrong,  as when  Galileo  maintained
that the Earth moves.  Today the whole world has been converted to the opin-
ion for which he was persecuted as a heretic.   We maintain that as man is a
composite being, cures are successful in proportion  as  they remedy defects


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on the physical, moral, and mental planes of being.

CURING VS. HEALING:

   As the great majority of people do not make a distinction between  curing
and healing, it may be well to explain the difference which is primarily one
of cooperation or the lack thereof.  One person may undertake to "cure"  an-
other by massage or drugs;  the patient in either of these cases is  passive
as the clay that is being molded by the potter.   There is no doubt that un-
der  such treatment trouble may disappear and the person be made  well,  but
this  is  only a temporary relief:   he has not received the  proper  appre-
ciation of the underlying cause of his disease,  he does not understand that
the illness was a consequence of breaking the laws of Nature,  and is there-
fore  very  liable to go and do the same things over again with  the  result
that  his  malady  returns.   A "cure" is a physical  process.   Healing  is
radically different; there the sufferer is always required to cooperate both
spiritually and physically with the healer.

   To  make this clear we can do not better than view the life and  work  of
our great Leader, the Christ.  When people came to Him to be healed they did
not expect a physical treatment, but knew that relief would be given through
the  power of the Spirit.   They had unlimited confidence in Him,  and  that
this  was  essential we see from the incidents recorded  in  the  thirteenth
chapter of Matthew where He is said to have gone among the people with  whom
Jesus, the original owner of the body, had dwelt  in  early youth.  They saw


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only the outward man:   "Is this not Jesus,  the son of Joseph;  are not his
brethren with us?"  etc.  They believed that nothing great could come out of
Nazareth,  and according to their faith it was done unto them,  for we  read
that "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief."

   But  faith without works is dead,  and in every case where Christ  healed
anyone,  this person had to do something;  he had to cooperate actively with
the great Healer before his cure could be accomplished.   He said,  "Stretch
forth thy hand,"  and when the man did so the hand was healed;  to  another,
"Take  up thy bed and walk,"  and when he did so the malady disappeared;  to
the blind, "Go and bathe in the pool of Siloam"; to the leper, "Show thyself
to the priest,  offer your gifts,"  etc.  In every case there was active co-
operation  upon the part of the one to be healed,  which helped the  Healer.
They were simple requirements, but such as they were they had to be complied
with,  so  that the spirit of obedience could aid the Healer's  work.   When
Naaman  came to Elijah and thought that this prophet was going to  come  out
with a great show of magic and ceremony to dispel the leprous spots from his
body he was domed to disappointment.  And when the prophet sent word to him,
"Go and wash seven times in the river Jordan,"  he was enraged to the  point
of crying out,  "Have we not great rivers in Assyria and why should I go and
wash  in the Jordan?   What nonsense!"  He lacked the spirit  of  submission
which is absolutely necessary in order that the work may be done,  and it is
safe to say that had he persisted he would not have received the healing  of
his  malady.  Neither  would  any  of  those  who  were  healed  by his mal-


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ady.   Neither  would  any  of  those  who  were  healed by the Christ  have
been affected unless they had obeyed and had done as they were bidden.  This
is a law of Nature that is absolutely sure.   It is disobedience that brings
disease.   Obedience,  no matter whether that involves washing in the Jordan
or stretching forth a hand, shows a change of mind, and the man is therefore
in a position to receive the healing balm which may come through the Christ,
or  through a healer of one kind or another as the case may be.   Primarily,
in all cases,  the healing force comes our Heavenly Father, Who is the Great
Physician.

   These are the three great factors in healing:  first, the power, from our
Father in Heaven;  next, the healer, and third, the obedient mind of the pa-
tient upon which the power of the Father can act through the healer in  such
a way as to dispel all bodily ills.

   Let us now understand that the whole universe is pervaded with the  power
of the Father, always available to cure all ills of whatever nature; that is
the great certainty.

   The healer is the focus,  the vehicle through which the power is  infused
into the patient's body.  If he is a proper instrument, consecrated,  harmo-
nious,  really and truly in tune with the Infinite, there is no limit to the
wonderful  works of the Father which may be performed through him  when  op-
portunity presents a patient of a properly receptive and obedient mind.


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                                 CHAPTER IX

                THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP METHOD OF HEALING

WHY THE ROSICRUCIANS HEAL:

   Among  all the foolish and fallacious nonsense which has been  circulated
concerning  the Rosicrucians during the past centuries,  there is one  great
truth:   "Members of the Order aim to heal the sick and have superior  means
of  accomplishing this benevolent purpose."   Earlier religious orders  have
sought to advance spiritually by castigating and abusing the body,  but  the
ROSICRUCIANS exhibit the tenderest care for this instrument.   There are two
reasons for their healing activities.   Like all other earnest followers  of
Christ they are longingly looking for "the day of the Lord."  They know that
Lucifer,  the  false  Light  of  Lemuria,  implanted  passion,  inaugurating
BEGETTAL IN SIN,  and caused sorrow, pain and death;  also that Christ,  the
true Light of the coming New Galilee, inaugurated the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,
and preached the gospel of redemption from sin by LOVE.  Celibacy is expedi-
ent for the aspirants in the East, as those lower races are soon to die out,
but  is  contrary  to the  scheme  of evolution for the West,  because a new
race  is  to  be  cradled  here,  and  GENERATIVE  PURITY  is  therefore the
watchword  of   the  Disciple  in   this  part  of   the   world.    A   new 
race  is  to  be  LOVED  into  existence,  and  thus  the  ills   that   now


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afflict humanity  through generations of  begettal  in  passion  will cease;
even Death will at last  be overcome in the new dispensation, because the e-
thereal purity of the bodies will obviate necessity for renewal.

   While there is much definite information about that age in the Bible, one
point is shrouded in insoluble mystery:   "The day knoweth no man,  not even
the Angels in Heaven, nor the Son."  Christians in all ages since the Gospel
was first preached have yearned for that day when the Sons of Light shall be
manifest.  The Father alone, being Highest Initiate among the Lords of Mind,
is  able  to foresee the time when the separative,  self-seeking  mind  will
yield  to the self-negating,  unifying spirit of love.   One point  is  very
clear,  however:  It will be just as impossible for anyone to live under the
conditions of the New Heaven and the New Earth who has not the properly con-
stituted body,  called "Wedding Garment" in the Bible, as it was for the de-
generate Atlanteans who lacked lungs to breathe when the atmospheric  change
came.

   It is a scientific fact that the state of the blood affects the mind  and
vice  versa.   A sound body is therefore indispensable  to  sane  mentality.
Only  a sane mind can transcend passion; only a sound body can generate  an-
other that is as pure.  The ROSICRUCIANS have aimed to heal the body that it
may harbor a sane mind and a pure love, for each conception under those con-
ditions  is a step toward the day of the lord for which we all long  so  ar-
dently.   This is the reason for the healing activities, and it is the mean-
ing of our motto, "A Sane Mind, a Soft Heart, a Sound Body."


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   It has been written in various works that the members of the order took a
vow to heal others free of charge.  This statement is somewhat garbled.  The
lay  brothers took a vow to MINISTER to all according to the best  of  their
ability FREE OF CHARGE.   That vow included healing, of course,  in the case
of such men as Paracelsus, who had ability in that direction;  by the combi-
nation  method  of  physical  remedies applied  under  favorable  stars  and
spiritual  counsel he was highly successful.  Others were not suited  to  be
healers  but  labored  in  other  directions, BUT  ALL  WERE  ALIKE  IN  ONE
PARTICULAR--THEY NEVER CHARGED FOR THEIR SERVICES,  and they labored in  se-
cret without flourish of trumpet or sound of drum.

   Christ gave two commands to His messengers:  "Preach the Gospel"  (of the
coming Age) and "Heal the sick."  One is as binding as the other,  and,  for
the foregoing reasons,  as necessary.  To comply with the second command the
Elder  Brothers  have evolved a system of healing which  combines  the  best
points in the various schools of today with a method of diagnosis and treat-
ments  as certain as it is simple,  and thus a long step has been  taken  to
lift  the art of healing from the sands of experiment to the rock  of  exact
knowledge.

   It is a true, good and valid reason when we say that we want to help oth-
ers  for  Christ's  sake.   He is now immured in  the  Earth,  groaning  and
travailing  and  waiting for liberation.   Pain and sickness are  caused  by
transgression  of the laws of life,  therefore,  they crystallize the  dense
body,  give a firmer grip on the vital body and retard the day of  our  lib-
eration,  as  well  as  His.  By  helping  the  sick to attain health and by


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teaching  them  to live in harmony with the laws of life so  that  they  may
maintain health,  we are hastening the day of His coming.  May God bless our
efforts and strengthen our hands in the Good Work.

THE INVISIBLE HELPERS:

   Our  method  of  healing is not altogether a spiritual  matter.   We  use
physical means wherever it is possible.   There are times even when we  send
our patients to a doctor in order that they may obtain quick relief from him
by  a certain treatment which we cannot give as promptly by  other  methods.
Also, the diet of patients receives careful attention, for naturally, as the
body is built up of physical substances, we are giving medicine by using the
right food.   But in addition,  healing is carried on by the Elder  Brothers
through a band of Invisible Helpers whom they are instructing.

   These  Invisible Helpers are Probationers who during the daytime  live  a
worthy life of helpfulness and thereby fit themselves or earn for themselves
the  privilege  of being helpful through the instrumentality  of  the  Elder
Brothers  at night.   These Probationers are gathered together in bands  ac-
cording  to their temperaments and ability.   They are under instruction  of
other Probationers who are doctors,  and all of them work under the guidance
of  the Elder Brothers,  who naturally are the moving Spirits in  the  whole
work.

   The  system of forming and organizing a band of Invisible Helpers is  ac-
complished by the use of the effluvia from their vital bodies.  The first of
this is obtained at the time when the probationer  signs  his obligation and


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it is renewed every day when he makes the record upon his report blank.   So
long as he is faithful and lives the life of purity and service it forms  an
unbroken  link between him and the ELDER BROTHERS.   Each group  of  healers
usually  consists of twelve Probationers besides their instructor  and  they
are generally taken from the same locality because the night is the same for
them  all.   It would not be feasible to group one living in Australia  with
one  living in Alaska for one would be going about his daily work while  the
other is taking his nightly rest.   But people taken from almost anywhere in
North  or  South America spend about the identical hours in rest  and  recu-
peration  and these Probationers are then grouped according to their  rising
signs so that they may form a complete circle.

   Regarding the system used to find those who have written to  Headquarters
for help, the same method is followed as in finding the  Probationers.  That
is to say, applicants for relief are required to write the letter of request
with pen and ink.   Thus the paper is impregnated with a part of their vital
body and this is taken from the letter by the Elder Brothers. It contains an
accurate gauge of the condition of the individual from whom it came  and  it
also acts as an "open sesame"  to  the  Helpers who are given charge of this
case. Through that they have free access to  his  body,  and a  considerable
number of patients  who come for healing write that they have both seen  and
felt the Helpers working both inside and outside their bodies. As the condi-
tion  of the patient changes so does the record.  Therefore the patients are
required to write with pen and ink a few words every  week  and  mail  it to


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Headquarters.  Thus the Elder Brothers are in constant touch with their con-
dition  and  are  able to direct intelligently the work  of  restoration  to
health.

   This work never ceases.   It is continuous,  as the Sun is always  absent
from a part of the globe and the Probationers in that part are active in the
work of healing and helping during the hours of bodily rest.

   Anatomically man belongs to the mammals,  whose blood corpuscles are  not
nucleated.   The nuclei found in the blood of lower animals are the  vantage
ground of the Group Spirits, but the higher animals are so far advanced upon
the road to individualization that their blood is free from this  influence.
In  the  foetus where the mother acts as a Group Spirit for  the  first  few
weeks,  she  nucleates the blood,  but as soon as the Ego begins  work,  the
first thing it does is to disintegrate these nucleated blood corpuscles, and
at the time of the quickening not a single such corpuscle remains.   The Ego
is master of its vehicle, a heritage which no one may take from it under any
pretense whatever.   To do so is black magic, whether the person knows it or
not,  and  though  the  benevolent motive would of  course  have  a  certain
mitigating  effect in another direction, the fat nevertheless  remains  that
one  is  upon dangerous ground when attempting to meddle with the  blood  of
anyone who does not desire it and who has not asked for such treatment.

   There is only one exception to this rule.   Children until the age of pu-
berty are,  so to say,  a part of their parents,  because there is stored in
the  thymus gland an essence of the parental blood which the child  uses  in
manufacturing its own supply during the years of childhood, while the desire


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body is in the course of gestation.   As time goes on the supply in the thy-
mus gland becomes smaller and smaller and the child attains more and more to
a  realization of its own individuality.   By the time the thymus gland  has
disappeared the desire body has matured sufficiently to take part in the al-
chemy  of  transmuting the Saturnine skeleton into  the  Jupiterian  vehicle
which  will thus incorporate the essence of the present physical body.   In-
terference with the blood stops this process; therefore it is only until the
time  of  puberty that the parent may at for the child in giving  the  ether
which admits the Invisible Helper.

   The  greatest drawback to our healing activity comes from the  negligence
of patients.   Our requirements are very simple.   We only ask them to write
once a week with pen and ink,  so that the etheric effluvia coming from  the
hand  during writing may furnish our Invisible Helpers with a key of  admis-
sion  to the patient's system.   But simple as is this rule,  some  fail  to
write.   Here is a case where a person who had for many years had  vertebrae
displaced and who was cured by our treatment, though osteopaths,  chiroprac-
tors,  and several others who had tried,  had found it impossible to replace
these  vertebrae.   The poor man was therefore in constant pain and sick  in
bed most of the time, entirely unable to work.   The treatment of our Invis-
ible Helpers replaced the vertebrae,  and they are still in place.   The man
went  to work and it seemed wonderful.  But becoming so elated at  the  idea
that  he  was so entirely free,  he disregarded our instruction to  keep  on
writing,  so  that our Invisible helpers might have the chance to  keep  his
vertebrae in place for a sufficient length of time till they would stay put.


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Now comes the following letter showing that we were right in requesting  him
to do this,  and he did wrong not to obey.   He says:   "A short time ago  I
wrote that I was cured,  and would discontinue my weekly letters,  but I see
now that I have made a big mistake.  Since then my back has pained me nearly
all the time and I am getting round-shouldered again,  though the  vertebrae
are in place where the injury was.   It seems as though I am asking a lot of
you to take this up the second time, but I did not realize the influence the
Invisible Helpers had over me and how much I was dependent on them."

THE SPIRITUAL PANACEA:

   In  the coming of the Christ to Earth we have an analogy between  it  and
the administering of the spiritual Panacea, according to the law, "As above,
so below."   There is in every little cell of the human body a separate cell
life,  but  over and above that is the Ego which directs  and  controls  all
cells so that they act in harmony.   During certain protracted illnesses the
Ego becomes so intent upon the suffering that it ceases to vivify the  cells
fully;  thus bodily ailment breeds mental inaction and it may become  impos-
sible  to throw off disease without a special impulse to dispel  the  mental
fog and start the cell activities anew.   That is what the spiritual Panacea
does.   As  the inrushing Christ Life on Golgotha commenced  to  dispel  the
shell of fear bred by inexorable law that hung like a pall about the  Earth;
as  it started the millions of human beings upon the path of peace and  good
will,  so also when the Panacea is applied does the concentrated Christ Life
therein contained rush through the patient's body and infuse each cell  with


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a  rhythm that awakens the imprisoned Ego from its lethargy and  gives  back
life and health.

   In order to describe the Panacea an experience of the author will be  re-
lated:   A substance was shown to him in the Temple of the Rosicrucians on a
certain memorable night,  with which the Universal Spirit could be  combined
as readily as great quantities of ammonia combine with water.  Three spheres
were suspended one above the other in the center of the Temple,  the  middle
sphere  being  about half way between the floor and ceiling.   It  was  much
larger than the other two,  which hung one above and one below.   Inside the
large central sphere was a smaller contained which held a number of packages
filled with that substance.  When the Brothers had placed themselves in cer-
tain positions, when the harmony of certain music had prepared the way, sud-
denly  the three globes began to glow with the three primary  colors,  blue,
yellow,  and red.   To the vision of the writer it was plain how during  the
incantation  of the formula the container having in it the before  mentioned
packages  became aglow with a spiritual essence that was not  there  before.
Some  of  these were later used by the Brother with  instantaneous  success.
Before them the crystallizing particles enveloping the spiritual centers  of
the patient scattered like magic, and the sufferer awoke to a recognition of
physical health and well-being.


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