ASTROLOGY AS AN AID TO HEALING 147of any further preparation, but obtained results at once
by substituting harmony for the planetary discord
which caused the disease wherewith He was dealing.
Only in one case did He take refuge in the higher law
and say, “Arise, thy sins are forgiven.”
Likewise with the ordinary methods employed in
the Rosicrucian System of Healing, they depend upon
a knowledge of the planetary inharmonies which cause
disease and the correcting influence which will remedy
the same. This has sufficed in all the instances which
have come under our notice to date. However, there is
a more powerful method available under a higher law
which may accelerate recovery in cases of long
standing, and under certain circumstances where the
sincere and heartfelt recognition of wrong exists, may
even obliterate the effects of disease before destiny,
cold and hard, would otherwise so decree.
When we look with spiritual vision upon one who
is diseased, whether the physical body be emaciated or
not, it is plainly evident to the Seer that the finer
vehicles are much more tenuous than during health.
Thus they do not transmit to the physical body a
proper quota of vitality, and as a consequence that
instrument becomes more or less disrupted. But
whatever may be the state of emaciation of the rest of
the physical body, certain centers which are tenuous
during health in a degree varying with the spiritual
development of the man, become clogged in an
increasing degree according to the seriousness of the
disease. This is particularly true of the main center
between the eyebrows. Therein the Spirit is immured,
sometimes to such an extent that it loses touch with the
outer world and its progress and becomes so