district of Mount Ecclesia, home to the Rosicrucian Fellowship, is noted for its singular architecture and the preservation of nature grounds and gardens, offering a unique meditative walking experience. Accommodation and vegetarian meals are also provided during the winter and summer school activities. Financial model 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, and never to ask for money for membership, for information, for education, nor for healing. The Fellowship has always balanced along the edge of the subsistence level with its funding and maintenance being achieved through the voluntary giving of members and friends, legacies, book-sale profits, housing rentals and cafeteria income and with the assistance of volunteer workers. By setting the example and through self-discipline, Mount Ecclesia seeks : «to unite and harmonize each with the others by teaching a religion that is both scientific and artistic, and to gather all churches into one great Christian Brotherhood.» The Rosicrucians do not seek temporal power. They seek to serve God by helping their suffering fellowmen. A place of training for the work is beautifully attained in Mount Ecclesia, and now THE ECCLESIA, the TEMPLE OF HEALING, is being built by the loving free-will offerings of friends who give not money alone but personal service and prayers. This method of building is a little new and somewhat slow in these days, as it is not permitted to call out to the world for funds or labor. Each offering must come as a result of the inner promptings of the HEART. Christ's stronghold. Gallery See also Esoteric Christianity New Galilee and the New Jerusalem The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception References Further reading A Probationer. , in Rays from the Rose Cross, May/June 1996, pages 38–43 A Probationer. , in Rays from the Rose Cross, July/August 1996, pages 30–37 External links Tour of Mount Ecclesia The Rosicrucian Fellowship Take a Hike: Gardens provide respite from everyday bustle, on Sandiegotribune.com Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California Temples in California Esoteric Christianity Rosicrucianism Religious buildings and structures in San Diego County, California Oceanside, California Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California