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Mount Ecclesia is the location of the international headquarters of the fraternal and service organization The Rosicrucian Fellowship (TRF), located on grounds in Oceanside, California.〔(Take a Hike: Oceanside's Rosicrucian Fellowship gardens ). The San Diego Union-Tribune. 2009〕 It is also the location of its spiritual temple, called "The Ecclesia", situated upon the promontory of a high mesa overlooking the San Luis Rey River Valley and the Franciscan Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in 1798. On April 7, 1995, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Rosicrucian Fellowship Temple. The Rosicrucian Fellowship observes the basic condition, set by its founder Max Heindel, that no price, membership dues or fees, should be put on its teachings. The Fellowship's funding and maintenance is achieved through the voluntary giving of members and friends and with the assistance of volunteer workers. Mount Ecclesia seeks to become a Spiritual Center in the world, as an effort: ==Foundation== Mount Ecclesia was founded after the Elder Brother of the Rose Cross known as the Teacher suggested to Max Heindel, Founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, that permanent Headquarters be established to support the twin mission of the Organization: 1.) to spread the Rosicrucian Teachings, (the deeper Esoteric Christian Mysteries) and 2.) to Heal the Sick (according to the spiritual method delineated by the Order of the Rose cross). A spiritual vision of the location was given to Mr. Heindel through "Jupiter Consciousness/picture consciousness/spiritual vision" with the mission to find it and start the work. After months of unfruitful search along the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego California, Mr. and Mrs. Heindel decided, on April 30, 1911, to go visit the famous Franciscan Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in 1798 in Oceanside. On their way there, by horse and buggy, they find the location matching the vision given earlier by the Teacher and discover that the land is for sale! All excited Mr. Heindel interrupts the trip to the Franciscan Mission to return to the real estate office to buy the land. But the sign said "Office closed to reopen on Wednesday May 3". The Heindels were very disappointed to find the Real Estate office closed, but having business to take care of in San Diego they boarded the train south. On May 3, 1911 Mr.and Mrs. Heindel and their friend Mr. Patterson returned to Oceanside to buy the land. Shortly after 3.00 pm (at 3.05 pm) Mr. Heindel signed the deed of purchase and secured it with a down payment. They went back home in Ocean Park with great excitement and the same evening Mr. Heindel named the property Mount Ecclesia. It took them six months to get ready to leave their small cottage in Ocean Park. They finally came down to The Rosicrucian Fellowship's new Headquarters on the land of Mount Ecclesia to dedicate it to the Great Work of the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross. The dedication ceremony was planned for 12.40 PM on October 28, 1911 in Oceanside California. Mount Ecclesia was launched on October 28, 1911, through a ceremony of ground-breaking which consisted in planting a large Cross with the initials C.R.C. — representing the symbolical name Christian Rose Cross, who is the Head of the Order of the Rose Cross (Rosicrucian Order) — painted in gilt letters on the trefoils of the three upper arms and with a climbing rose. An excerpt of the first hand description of the mentioned event is as following : The Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" was erected, for the purpose of affording more powerful means for the healing of disease, and dedicated on December 25, 1920. Spiritual Healing meetings are held in this holy place at a regular time each day by the Probationers who have consecrated their lives to this work. As in all the solar temples, "The Ecclesia" portal is facing east (the rising sun). In front of the portal stand two palm trees. The portal is constituted by an triangular-shaped structure upon two round columns. At the centre of the triangular surface there is an equilateral triangle, symbol of Trinity, inscribed by “the eye of God.” The columns fuse Greek (Ionic, Doric and Corinthian) and Roman (Tuscan and composite) styles, each one with a capital crowned by a finial globe. There are three steps between the columns leading to the Temple entrance. At the entrance there are two square pilasters stading from the Temple walls, each showing two faces. The round 12-sided building architecture is composed by round arches and narrow round inward windows. Its great dome is composed by a cupola crowned by a golden globe with a finial of lights. The inner portal and the Temple's interior is ornamented with alchemical and astrological symbols. It is a solar temple dedicated to the coming Age of Aquarius. On June 29, 1920 (from 11:55 A. M. until 12:02 P. M.), the vision of an event of Spiritual nature at ground's site was reported as following: On July 23, 1920 (at noon), during the laying of the cornerstone in the north-eastern corner of the temple, the purpose of The Ecclesia was stated in accordance to the commands of Christ, namely, "Preach the gospel and heal the sick": On December 25, 1938, the Rosicrucian Fellowship opened a Sanitarium building〔(Mt. Ecclesia Sanitarium, Oceanside, California ). ''Pamona Public Library Digital Collections''〕 which was used for a number of years to treat patients suffering from non-contagious diseases. Nearly since its inception the Fellowship has been providing, on a love offering basis, the service of Spiritual Healing; the first service took place on June 23, 1914. Currently, the healing applications are received by the Fellowship's centers worldwide or directly by the Healing Department at Mount Ecclesia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Ecclesia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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