MAX HEINDEL - SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY - THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP, 1928

SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY: A COMPLETE TEXTBOOK ON THE ART OF ERECTING A HOROSCOPE WITH PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIA AND TABLES OF PLANETARY HOURS — By Max Heindel — 6th Edition, 1928 Rosicrucian Society

 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. Sixth edition from 1928. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for some shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for previous owner's signature label on the inside front board. Front endpaper/first blank page appears to be missing. 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.

 Max Heindel, born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865, was a Danish-American Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic In 1903, 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, he travelled to Berlin (Germany) with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis, 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 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.