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, inauguratingbegettal in
sin, and caused sorrow, pain and death; also that
Christ, the true Light of the coming New Galilee,
inaugurated theImmaculate Conception, and preached
the gospel of redemption from sin byLove. Celibacy is
expedient 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 beloved into existence, and thus the ills
that now afflict humanity through generations of
begettal in passion will cease; even Death will at last
be overcome in the new dispensation, because the