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Illustrious Brother C.R.C. may ultimately incarnate and consummate for humanity the
vast spiritual and material labors of the Fraternity.

3. The discovery of the Universal Medicine, or panacea, for all forms of disease. There is
ample evidence that the Rosicrucians were successful in their quest for the Elixir of Life.
In his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, Elias Ashmole states that the Rosicrucians were
not appreciated in England, but were welcomed on the Continent. He also states that
Queen Elizabeth was twice cured of the smallpox by the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, and
that the Earl of Norfolk was healed of leprosy by a Rosicrucian physician. In the
quotations that follow it is .hinted by John Heydon that the Brothers of the Fraternity
possessed the secret of prolonging human existence indefinitely, but not beyond the time
appointed by the will of God:

"And at last they could restore by the same course every Brother that died to life again,
and so continue many ages; the rules you find in the fourth book. * * * After this manner
began the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross, first by four persons, who died and rose again
until Christ, and then they came to worship as the Star guided them to Bethlehem of
Judea, where lay our Saviour in his mother's arms; and then they opened their treasure
and presented unto him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and by the commandment of
God went home to their habitation. These four waxing young again successively many
hundreds of years, made a magical language and writing, with a large dictionary, which
we yet daily use to God's praise and glory, and do find great wisdom therein. * * * Now
whilst Brother C.R. was in a proper womb quickening, they concluded to draw and
receive yet others more into their Fraternity."

The womb herein referred to was apparently the glass casket, or container, in which the
Brothers were buried. This was also called the philosophical egg. After a certain period
of time the philosopher, breaking the shell of his egg, came forth and functioned for a
prescribed period, after which he retired again into his shell of glass, The Rosicrucian
medicine for the healing of all human infirmities may be interpreted either as a chemical
substance which produces the physical effects described or as spiritual understanding--the
true healing power which, whet a man has partaken of it, reveals truth to him. Ignorance
is the worst form of disease, and that: which heals ignorance is therefore the most potent
of all medicines. The perfect Rosicrucian medicine was for the healing of nations, races,
and individuals.

In an early unpublished manuscript, an unknown philosopher declares alchemy,
Qabbalism, astrology, and magic to have been divine sciences originally, but that through
perversion they had become false doctrines, leading seekers after wisdom ever farther
from their goal. The same author gives a valuable key to esoteric Rosicrucianism by
dividing the path of spiritual attainment into three steps, or schools, which he calls
mountains. The first and lowest of these mountains is Mount Sophia; the second, Mount
Qabbalah; and the third, Mount Magia. These three mountains are sequential stages of
spiritual growth. The unknown author then states: