104 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
brothers took a vow tominister to all according to the
best of their abilityfree of charge. That vow included
healing, of course, in the case of such men as
Paracelsus, who had ability in that direction; by the
combination 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 secret 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 treatment 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 others 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 liberation, as well
as His. By helping the sick to attain health and by
teaching them to live in harmony with the laws of life
so that they may maintain health, we are hastening the