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Beloved Members, Greetings!
We now come to another interesting point in our progress of
development. I know that many of you often have wondered about the
passage in the Bible which describes how some of the persons kneel ing along the roadside touched the hem of the garment of Jesus and were healed or helped, and Jesus explained that it was their faith
that cured them. Many have insisted that this statement on the
part of Jesus was incomplete or metamorphic. We do not believe
that he meant to say that just through their faith alone they were healed, and that if they had stayed at home and had similar faith
in him they would have been healed. He meajit that.through their
faith-they_were led to come close to him, to seek him and appeal to him, a n d t h a t through these things they received the help they
needed. A very wonderful lesson on faith could be learned from
these instances, but it is not my intention to deal with faith now
for we have already covered that point. However, it might be well
to say that our faith in our teachers, our instructions, or the system we are using is very essential, and I feel sure that the faith our members have in the higher work of the Order is resp on sible for having led so many of them to great heights.
The point I wanted to touch upon was that part of the incident dealing with the fact that these sick persons touched the hem or
some part of the garment of Jesus. Now this garment may or may not
have been worn by Jesus sufficiently long to have absorbed some of the marvelous creative vibrations emanating from his body, but it is certain that his aura was so great and so extensive, as well as so powe rful in h e aling vibrations /_7that the moment persons came
close to Jesus of came within_that aura they were helped. This is
the important point with which I want_ t o _ d e a l .
THE AURA’S The radiations from our auras are exactly in propor-
STRENGTH tion to our own psychic development. It is very
strange that in the past we have had very little help from science in regard to the human aura, although science has in its own hands many marvelous instruments that measure the human aura~. I remember that during the fi»rst National^ Conveiitluu Which I conducted in Pittsburgh in 1917 the opportunity was given to us
to^coriHuct many demonstrations of our principles. In the city of
P ittsburgh was a p h y sician named Omar Cruikshanfr. This pKyslcian
belonged to a great many'medical societies/ Scientific bodies, and
recfrnedassociations^ He Rad enough initials after his name to
cover^EwcT or “t h r e e ' l i n e s . H e was "consulted by other physicians as
an expert in diagnosing. He~~had a* marv elous laboratory adjoining
his ottices in one of the big buildings, and in the lab oratory 'there were all kinds o fTelectrical and chemical
instruments arid“equipment. He,_had one large electric
chair in whirttr a person could sit and have tiis electric
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We soon found that a person sitting in that chair and thereby becoming highly electrified could easily have his aura measured. The moment any one of us put our hands within two, three, or four
feet of him, certain electrical phenomena occurred. This clearly
demonstrated how far into space his aura extended around him. One
by one our members sat in the electric chair on a high glass pla t form and discovered whether their auras were extending twelve
inches or thirty-six inches or more away from the body. In some
cases the aura was so strong that it would cause a small electric
lamp to light up. Other things would occur through the strength
of the aura. We realized then that this man, and o t h e r s like him
in various cities, had scientific instruments which clearly proved ttie existence of an aura around everything^ and e s p e c ially^ around living bodies^ I f science had undertalcen” in the past to give the subject of auras the proper attention, every one of us would know more about it and would have learned this information in high school at least.
ABILITY Our auras are the result of our vitality and our psychic
TO HEAL development combined. A good, strong, healthy person
with little psychic development will have a strong aura, as far as vitality is concerned, but it will not extend very far
away from the body. A person with h igh psychic development will
have a very strong, ptHcfsing, and creative aura radiating through
and from ‘the physic_ai body to a wide space around it. The psychic,
creative par t of this aura will be stronger than the purely p h y s
ical vitality of it. Such persons make excellent healers or
nurses and’ doctors. We have tested this fact through the work of
nurses ancT physicians who belong to our organization and who have
watched their work with patients in the hospotal. Very often a
person with gnr-h frpat-iw power in his aura w ill cause peopr§~~~to
b e “Healed by just coming in contact^with themT ft is more than
likely~that many persons who came^ close to Jesus were instantly healed o f some of their chronic, conditions or weaknesses, and it must be true that on some occasions the aura of Jesus was like an
electric shock to those who came in contact with it. I think that
this accounts for a great m a ny o f the m i racles performed by Jesus, ancT^Lt also accounts for m a ny of^the~ wonderful~"cures made by our members and others in the past who have attained great psych ic devel o p m e n t .
Now, beginning with this week I want you to keep up some of your recent exercises, because I want to continue building your aura to the point where it becomes so highly magnetized that you can feel the aura of your own body, which of course, is a very
difficult thing to do. Try to get in touch with those who
are ill and say nothing about any kind of treatment you are giving, but merely put yourself where occasionally a sick person can come in contact with you and therefore be
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benefited. Make some tests, if you can, by standing near persons
who are ill; just look at them occasionally and let the power of
your body go into them. Even if these persons are strangers who
appear to be ill, or pale, or suffering, you will find that by standing near them or sitting near them a while you can benefit them so that they will take on a better color and seem to feel
better. Next week I will deal a little more in detail with this
subject and you can make other experiments. Fraternally,
YOUR CLASS MASTER
SELF-EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
The following questions are presented merely as a self-quiz to test your understanding of the important points in the lesson. Do not send your answers to the Grand Lodge.
1. Why were the persons who touched the garment of Jesus
healed?
2. How may the strength and extent of the human aura be
measured scientifically?
3. What is the difference between the aura of a strong,
healthy person who has little psychic development and that of a person who is highly developed psychically?
4. How may the aura be used to heal the sick?
The Weekly Application
Whatsoever thou resolvest to do, do it quickly. Defer not till the evening what the morning may accomplish.—UNTO THEE I GRANT
We m ust distin guish between fa ith based on knowledge a n d b lin d faith. B lin d fa ith can have beneficial results, but it can also lead a person into error and danger. Thus it is not a dependable faith. F a ith based on knowledge, however, is well founded a n d consistently brings beneficial results. It is based on know n facts or on know n references. A n example o f b lin d fa ith is a belief th a t if a person th in k s a n d lives positively, n o th in g can possibly h a rm him . There are no facts or authorities to support such faith. It is true th a t m a n y such persons w ill find th a t their positive liv in g keeps them from h a v in g far less problems th a n someone w ho does not live positively. B ut it does not keep problems from arising and confronting them. A n exam ple of fa ith based on knowledge is a belief th a t a person can travel a strange road a n d reach a destination in a certain a m o u n t of tim e a n d w ith a given a m o u n t of fuel, based on knowledge o f the autom obile’s characteristics, road m aps, a n d previous trips of a s im ila r kind.
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1} Many miraculous healings resulted from the contact with the powerful healing vibrations of the aura of Jesus.
U The radiations from our aura have strength and magnetism in proportion to our psychic development.
U Auras are the result of vitality and psychic development combined.
Mechanical devices have been able to measure the extent and power of the vibrations of the aura.
U Members of the Rosicrucian Order have been able to perform miraculous cures as the result of the development of their auras.
Continue building your own aura until it becomes so highly magnetized that you can feel it yourself.
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Always there has been a vanguard of thinking men and women who have paved the way for mankind’s evolutionary progress. Notable among these have been Rosicrucians. Great names abound in the traditional history of the Order, and as
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