THE BROTHERHOOD OF LIGHT HORARY ASTROLOGY — C.C. ZAIN (ELBERT BENJAMINE) — 7 ISSUES, #86 - 92 — ZODIAC HOROSCOPE OCCULT Publisher: The Church of Light, Los Angeles (1930)
Scarce original seven (7) lesson issues from 1930, all in sequential order, of the The Brotherhood of Light, Horary Astrology, in well preserved condition. For all issues, the softcover wraps are clean, solid and tight with light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean. The topics for each issue are listed as follows:
Issue 86: How to Erect a Horoscope
Issue 87: Strength and Aspects
Issue 88: Seven Steps In Judging
Issue 89: Doctrine of Horary Astrology
Issue 90: First Six Houses
Issue 91: Second Six Houses
Issue 92: How to Select a Time
The Church of
Light (Brotherhood of Light) was incorporated November 2, 1932 in Los Angeles,
California. Its mission is "to teach, practice, and disseminate The Religion of
The Stars, a way of life for the Aquarian Age, as set forth in writings of C.C.
Zain." (The Church of Light, "Vision for the 21st Century.") The
three founding officers were President C.C. Zain, pen name of Elbert Benjamine
(1882-1951), Vice President Fred Skinner (1872-1940) and Secretary-Treasurer
Elizabeth D. Benjamine (1875-1942). (The Church of Light, "Where We Are
Located.") The Church is
the continuation of an initiatic organization, the Brotherhood of Light,
established in the same city in 1915. The Brotherhood of Light lessons, on the
three branches of occult science, were written between the spring of 1910 and
1950 by Elbert Benjamin (also known as C.C. Zain, and born Benjamin Parker
Williams). Benjamine had been invited in 1909 by the leaders of the Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor (HBofL) in Denver to join them as successor to Minnie
Higgin, who had been the order’s astrologer until her death that year. The
surviving Council members proposed to Benjamine that he rewrite the order’s
teachings in a systematic form as the basis for a new organization that would "bring occultism to the life of ordinary people." After five years of preparation and study, Elbert Benjamine
came to Los Angeles in 1915 and began to hold meetings. "At that point it still
operated as a secret society. On November 11, 1918, the Brotherhood of Light
opened its doors to the public, offering classes and a home-study course." The
1932 reorganization as The Church of Light was a response to ordinances passed
that year by Los Angeles County "prohibiting both the teaching and practice of
astrology."
