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KOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 154.
Is it wrong to use palmistry, astrology or phrenology as
a means of livelihood?
Answer: What is right or wrong depends upon the
viewpoint of the individual. Less than fifty years ago it
was thought right to kill a refractory negro. His master
could do so with impunity as he may nowadays kill a hog
or a horse. Today we would consider that murder. Some
people today look upon astrology as merely a matter of
calculation and upon palmistry and phrenology as material
sciences, without any spiritual significance. Who thus
views these sciences would be blameless if he used them as
a means of livelihood, while anyone who had obtained an
idea of the spiritual side of these sciences would, in the
estimation of the writer, be prostituting his knowledge.
Besides, no one who thus belittles these spiritual sciences
can ever give the highest and best advice to his clients,
for the glimmer of gold will always obscure the judgment.
Such has been the experience of the writer and many others
who hold the same views. The inquirer, at any rate, would
do wrong to use his knowledge of these spiritual sciences
for a livelihood, for his question shows that he must have
misgivings; and then he is already judged from within if
he prostitutes his talent.
There is a reward that is much more than gold. If
we use our knowledge to heal and to help we shall never
lack means of living and we shall be laying up treasure in
heaven where neither moth nor rust corrupt. Greater and
better opportunities for service will be ours if we devote our
talents to unselfish service.