SIMPLIFIED
SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY: A COMPLETE TEXTBOOK ON THE ART OF ERECTING A HOROSCOPE
WITH PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIA AND TABLES OF PLANETARY HOURS — By Max Heindel — 7th Edition, 1928 — Rosicrucian Society — With VERY SCARCE DUST JACKET
Publisher: The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside (1928)
Max Heindel's SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY: A COMPLETE TEXTBOOK ON THE ART OF ERECTING A HOROSCOPE WITH PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIA AND TABLES OF PLANETARY HOURS. Seventh edition from 1928. The book is in well preserved
condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for very light shelfwear. The
pages are crisp and clean save for previous owner's signature on the inside
front board. The very scarce dust jacket is in fair condition with chipping
around the spine ends and page borders. Please see pictures. The book provides a course in developing one's skills through astrology from a Rosicrucian perspective. 198 pages and illustrated, followed with several pages of Rosicrucian Fellowship publications at rear. Please see below for more information on the author, Max Heindel.
Biography Max Heindel, born on July 23, 1865, was a Danish-American
Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. In 1903, Max Heindel moved to Los
Angeles, California, seeking work. After attending lectures by the theosophist
C.W. Leadbeater, he joined the Theosophical Society of Los Angeles, of which he
became vice-president in 1904 and 1905. He also became a vegetarian, and began the
study of astrology, which he felt gave him the key to unlocking the mysteries
of man's inner nature. After a sustained illness, he said that he spent much of
the time during this illness out of his body, consciously working and seeking
for the truth as he might find it on the invisible planes. In the fall of 1907,
during a most successful period of lectures in Minnesota, he travelled to
Berlin (Germany) with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis, who had been for months
trying to persuade him, in order to hear a cycle of lectures by a teacher in
the occult field called Rudolf Steiner. During his short stay at Germany, he
developed a sincere admiration of the personality of this knowledgeable
lecturer, as later shown in the dedication of his magnum opus ("esteemed
teacher and valued friend"). It was then, with his mind already made up to
return, feeling that in vain he had given up a big work in America to take this
trip, that Heindel reports to have been visited by a Spiritual being (clothed
in his vital body) Heindel returned to America in the summer of 1908 where he
at once started to formulate the Rosicrucian teachings, the Western Wisdom
Teachings, which he had received from the Elder Brothers, published as a book
entitled The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception in 1909. It is a reference work in the Christian
mysticism practice and in the Occult study literature, containing the
fundamentals of Esoteric Christianity from a Rosicrucian perspective. The Cosmo
contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary processes of man and the
universe, correlating the science of his day with religion. The first edition
was printed in 1909 and has changed little since then.
