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Source: "The Birth of the Rosicrucian Fellowship" by Augusta Foss Heindel

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   AN ACCOUNT OF MAX HEINDEL'S PREPARATION AND WORK IN THE OCCULT FIELD:

                        EARLY YEARS OF MAX HEINDEL: 

   Max Heindel, Rosicrucian Initiate and founder of The Rosicrucian 
Fellowship, was born on July 23, 1865. His father was Francois L. Von 
Grasshoff, of a noble family connected with the German Court during the time 
of Prince Bismarck. After emigrating to Copenhagen, Denmark, he met and 
married a Danish woman, three children being born to them. The oldest of these 
was Carl Louis Von Grasshoff, who later adopted the pen name of Max Heindel.

   At the age of sixteen Max Heindel entered the shipyards of Glasgow, 
Scotland, where he learned engineering. As Chief Engineer of a trading steamer 
he took trips into many lands, thus gaining a wide knowledge of the world and 
its people. For a number of years he was Chief Engineer on a large Cunard Line 
passenger ship plying between America and Europe.

   Between the years 1895 and 1901, he was a consulting engineer in New York 
City. During this time he married, the marriage being terminated by the death 
of his wife in 1905. A son and two daughters were born of this marriage.

   After going to Los Angeles, California, in 1903, Max Heindel became 
interested in the study of metaphysics, joining the local branch of the 
Theosophical Society and serving as its vice-president from 1904-1905. During 
this time there began to grow within him an increasingly intense desire to 
understand the cause of the sorrows and sufferings of humanity and to help 
alleviate them. He began the study of astrology, which he found to his delight 
gave him the key by means of which he found he could unlock the mysteries of 
man's inner nature.

   The events in Max Heindel's life immediately subsequent to 1905 are given 
in the following account of the birth of the Rosicrucian Fellowship. Until his 
transition on January 6, 1919, he was active in doing the pioneer work of 
launching the Fellowship, including the acquisition of land for the 
establishment of International Headquarters in Oceanside, California, the 
building of necessary buildings, publishing of books, etc.

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                   THE BIRTH OF THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP:

   In order to make the origin of the Fellowship clear to our readers we will 
give a history of how and when Max Heindel met the Elder Brothers of the 
Rosicrucian Order. We will, moreover, use his own words at times to make the 
matter more clear.

   During the summer of 1905, through overwork on account of his extreme 
desire for spiritual knowledge, Max Heindel was taken seriously ill in Los 
Angeles with heart trouble, so ill that for months his life was despaired of. 
Much of the time during this illness he spent out of the body, consciously 
working and seeking for the truth as he might find it on the invisible planes. 
He was undaunted by sickness, however, and as soon as health permitted, he 
went on the lecture platform to spread his occult knowledge.

   In May, 1906, this work was cut short in San Francisco be the great 
earthquake, and his lecture tour led him to Seattle and the northern part of 
the country. After a course of lectures in that city he was again forced to 
spend some time in a hospital with valvular heart trouble. Still undaunted, he 
once more took up his work of lecturing in the northwestern part of the United 
States.

   In the fall of 1907 during a most successful period in Minnesota, there 
came to Mr. Heindel a friend who had for months been begging him to go to 
Berlin to meet a man whom she claimed to be a most wonderful lecturer and 
teacher. Failing by correspondence to induce him to leave his work in America, 
she had come to Minnesota for the express purpose of personally urging him to 
go. She was successful at last in persuading him to make the trip.

   After reaching Germany he attended lectures and had several interviews with 
this teacher. But in a short time he found that this man had little to give 
him, and that what he gave out was not new to him. In disappointment he was 

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ready to go back to America. As he sat in his room in great dejection, feeling 
that he had given up a big work in America to take this trip, a being, who he 
later learned was an Elder Brother of the Rosicrucian Order and who afterward 
became his Teacher, appeared, clothed in his vital body, and offered to help 
him on certain occult points. The information which the Teacher gave him was 
concise and logical and beyond anything Mr. Heindel was capable of writing. On 
a later visit the Teacher offered to impart to him the teachings which he 
desired, provided that he keep them secret. Max Heindel had for several years 
searched and prayed that he might find something wherewith to appease the soul 
hunger of the world. Having suffered and known the longings of his own heart, 
he could not give the promise to the Elder Brother, and refused to accept 
anything that he could not be permitted to pass on to his soul-hungry 
brothers. The Teacher left him.

   Can you imagine the feeling that would naturally come over a starving man 
who had been denied food for some time to have some one offer him a piece of 
bread but before he could taste of it to have it snatched away? The last 
condition would be more wretched than the first. So it was with Max Heindel. 
About a month later, however, the Teacher appeared in his room again and told 
him that he, Max Heindel, has stood his test. He stated that if he had 
accepted the offer, namely, to keep the teachings a secret from the world, he, 
the Elder Brother, would not have returned. He was told that the candidate 
whom they had at first chosen, who had failed to pass his test in 1905; also 
that he, Max Heindel, had been under the observation of the Elder Brothers for 
a number of years as the most fit candidate should the first one fail. In 
addition he was told that the teachings must be given out to the public before 
the close of the first decade of the century, which would be the end of 
December, 1909.

   At this last interview with the Teacher he was given instructions as to how 
to reach the Temple of the Rose Cross, which was near the border between 

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Bohemia and Germany. At this Temple Max Heindel spent a little over one month 
in direct communication with and under the personal instructions of the Elder 
Brothers, who imparted to him the greater part of the teachings contained in 
THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION. The first draft of this book, which was made 
while he was in the Temple, the Teacher told him was but an outline. The heavy 
psychic atmosphere of Germany was particularly adapted to the communication of 
mystical thought to the consciousness of the candidate, but he was told that 
the three hundred and fifty pages of manuscript which he had written would not 
satisfy him when he reached the electric atmosphere of America, and that he 
would then wish to rewrite the entire book. In his great enthusiasm he at 
first doubted this. He felt that he had received a wonderfully complete 
message. But the Elder Brother's predictions were true. After Mr. Heindel had 
spent a few weeks in New York City, what the Elder brothers had told him 
proved to be a fact. The style in which the manuscript was written did not 
then please him, and he set about the work of rewriting.

   He rented a cheap hall bedroom on the seventh floor of a rooming house, and 
during the hottest summer months of 1908 he sat in this hot room typing from 7 
A.M. until 9 and sometimes 10 P. M., when he would go out for his dinner. 
After a walk through the hot streets of New York he would again resume his 
work on the manuscript, continuing until after midnight. The heat becoming too 
intense, he moved to Buffalo, New York, where he finished the manuscript about 
September, 1908.

   The next problem which faced him was how to get the book published and 
where he was to procure the means for its publication. On account of the heat 
of that season of the year he was unfortunate in starting lectures and classes 
in Buffalo. But later he found a good field for his work in Columbus, Ohio, 
where Mrs. Rath-Merrill and her daughter assisted him in the drawing of 
diagrams. In this city he spent a number of successful months in lecturing and 
teaching, and then formed the first Rosicrucian Center, November 14, 1908. 

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After each lecture he distributed free mimeographed copies of the twenty 
lectures of the Christianity Series. Starting with Lecture No. 1, THE RIDDLE 
OF LIFE AND DEATH, he gave to each one present a copy to take home to study. 
These copies he ran off on his mimeograph machine at night after the lecture. 
With a small hammer, a packet of tacks in his pocket, and his advertising 
cards under his arm, he walked miles each day to place these cards where they 
would reach the eyes of the public. He wrote his own newspaper articles and 
placed them in the hands of the editors, who were sometimes very prejudiced 
against the new teachings. Mr. Heindel, however, with his pleasing 
personality, could usually win them over, sometimes getting a full column 
write-up which brought a goodly crowd.

   After delivering twenty lectures in Columbus, his path led him to Seattle, 
Washington, where he had made many friends in 1906. He hoped to interest some 
friend there in assisting him to print his book. This friend proved to be 
William M. Patterson, who not only assisted him to get the book into the hands 
of the publisher but, being a printer and editor himself, was able to give him 
much valuable advice as to the publishing. Mrs. Bessie Brewster and Kingsmill 
Commander were also most helpful in assisting him in the editing of the 
manuscript. Following this, and accompanied by William M. Patterson, he took 
the manuscript of the COSMO-CONCEPTION and the twenty lectures to Chicago, 
where they were later published.

   We will give here a few of Max Heindel's own words descriptive of his work 
in Chicago: "THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION was published in November, 1909, 
about five weeks before the end of the first decade of the century. Friends 
had edited the original manuscripts and had done splendid work, but I had of 
course to revise it before giving it to the printer; then I read the printer's 
proof, corrected and returned it, and reread it after mistakes had been 
rectified. i read it again after the type had been divided into pages, and 
gave instructions to the engravers about the drawings and to the printer about 

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placing them in the book, etc. I was up at 6 A. M. and toiled until 12, 1, 2, 
or 3 in the night during all those weeks, amid endless confusion, with 
tradesmen and the roar of Chicago about my ears, sometimes almost to the limit 
of nervous endurance. Still I kept my faculties together and wrote many new 
points into the COSMO. Had it not been for the support of the Elder Brothers, 
I must have gone under. it was their work, however, and they saw me through. 
yet I was almost a wreck when the strain was past."

   While in Chicago the entire edition of the COSMO-CONCEPTION, with the 
exception of a few hundred copies which were taken to Seattle, was stored with 
a woman who conducted a publishing house. Being in debt this woman used the 
COSMO-CONCEPTION stored with her to pay her indebtedness to other publishers. 
When the request was later made from Seattle for more books, it was found that 
the first edition of two thousand copies was exhausted. This necessitated the 
ordering of the second edition. A sixty-page index was then added.

   While it might seem that the loss of two thirds of the copies of the COSMO-
CONCEPTION must have been a calamity to one of limited means, it was far from 
it. It proved to be a godsend, for the woman had been associated with New 
Thought, Theosophy, and various other advanced thought movements for a number 
of years and had furnished them with books she procured from large publishing 
houses. She induced them to accept the COSMO-CONCEPTION, which up to that time 
had been comparatively unknown. Thereby she created a demand which was one 
means of spreading the Rosicrucian teachings to many parts of the world. it 
was a cloud which truly had a silver lining.

   After having established Fellowship Centers in Columbus, Seattle, North 
Yakima, and Portland, Mr. Heindel returned to Los Angeles in November, 1909, 
to start work in that city.

   To continue with this hostory it is now necessary that the writer bring in 
her own associations. Previous to Max Heindel's leaving Los Angeles and 
between the years of 1898 and 1906 the writer, who was then Augusta Foss, and 

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Mr. Heindel had been close friends, spending much time together in the study 
of occultism, astrology, and kindred subjects. When he returned to Los Angeles 
in 1909 with the Rosicrucian Teachings, the writer found in the COSMO-
CONCEPTION that which she had been seeking for a number of years. It satisfied 
the inner longing. It was the food for which her soul had hungered. She at 
once threw herself heart and soul into the work, and assisted Mr. Heindel with 
his lectures and classes.

   Between November 29, 1909 and March 17, 1910, he conducted classes and gave 
lectures in Los Angeles. Giving three public lectures a week, he filled a hall 
holding one thousand full to the door each night. By March his health would 
not permit him to go on. Shortly afterward he was taken ill with the usual 
heart trouble, and while in the hospital at the very point of death he had a 
most remarkable experience. We will append his description of it in his own 
words:

   "On the night of the 9th of April, 1910, when the New Moon was in Aries, my 
Teacher appeared in my room and told me that a new decade had commenced that 
night, and that in the coming ten years it would be my privilege to give to 
the world a science of healing such as later described. The Fellowship would 
furnish helpers in the great work.

   "This was the first intimation I had had that such work was contemplated. 
The night before, my work with the newly formed Los Angeles Fellowship Center 
had terminated. i had traveled and lectured six out of seven nights, and 
several afternoons a week besides, since my Chicago publishing experience. i 
was sick and withdrawing from public work to recuperate. I knew it was very 
dangerous to leave the body consciosuly when ill, for the etheric body is then 
unusually attenuated, and the silver cord breaks easily. death under such 
conditions would cause the same sufferings as suicide, so the Invisible Helper 
is always cautioned to stay in his body when it is suffering. But at my 
Teacher's request I was ready for the soul flight to the Temple, and a guard 
was left to watch the sick body.

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   "As we have stated previously in our literature there are nine degrees in 
the Lesser Mysteries of whatever country, and the Rosicrucian Order is no 
exception. The first of these corresponds to the Saturn Period, and the 
exercises having to do with it are held on Saturn's day at midnight. The 
second degree corresponds to the Sun Period, and that particular rite is 
celebrated at midnight on Sunday. The third degree, corresponding to the Moon 
Period, is held on Monday at midnight; and so on with the remainder of the 
first seven degrees; each corresponds to a Period and is held on the day 
appropriate thereto. The eighth degree is celebrated at the New Moon and the 
full; the ninth degree at the summer and winter solstices.

   "When a disciple first becomes a lay brother or sister, he or she is 
introduced to the rite held on Saturday nights. The next Initiation entitles 
him also to attend the midnight services at the Temple on Sunday nights, and 
so on. It is to be noted, however, that while all lay brothers and sisters 
have free access in their spiritual bodies to the Temple during all days, they 
are barred from the midnight services of the degrees which they have not yet 
taken. Nor is it a visible guard who stands at the door and demands a password 
of each as he desires to enter, but a wall is around the Temple, invisible yet 
inpenetrable to those who have not received the 'Open Sesame.' Every night it 
is differently constituted, so that should a pupil by mistake or through 
forgetfulness seek to enter the Temple when the exercises are above his 
status, he would learn that it is possible to bump one's head against a 
spiritual wwall and that the experience is by no means pleasant.

   "As already said, the eighth degree meets at the new and full moon, and all 
who have not attained to it are debarred from that midnight service, the 
writer among them; for these degrees are no mere mummeries to be obtained by 
the payment of a few paltry coins, but require a measure of spirituality far 
beyond my present attainment, a stage to which I may not attain in several 
lives though not wanting in effort or aspiration. You will therefore 
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came for me, it was not to take me into that exalted gathering of the eighth 
degree but to another session of a different nature.

   "Besides, though this session was held in the night as it occurs in 
California, the time being different in Europe the exercises of the New Moon 
had been held in Germany hours before, so that when I arrived at the Temple 
with my Teacher, the sun was already high in the German heavens.

   "When we entered the Temple, some time was devoted to an interview with my 
Teacher alone, and in it he outlined the work of the Fellowship as the 
Brothers would wish to have it carried out. 

   "After the interview we entered the Temple, where the twelve Brothers were 
present. It was arranged differently from what I had seen it before, but lack 
of space forbids a detailed description. I shall only mention three spheres, 
suspended above one another in the center of the Temple, the middle sphere 
being about half way between floor and ceiling; also it was much larger than 
the two others, which hung above and below it.

   "The various modes of vision above the physical are: etheric or X-ray, 
color vision, which opens up the Desire World; and tonal vision, which 
discloses the Region of Concrete Thought, as explained very fully in THE 
ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES. My development of the latter phase of spiritual sight 
had been most indifferent up to the time mentioned, for it is a fact that the 
more robust our health, the closer we are enmeshed in the physical and the 
less able to contact spiritual realms. People who can say, 'I never had a 
day's sickness in my life,' at the same time reveal the fact that they are 
perfectly attuned to the physical world and totally incapable of contacting 
the spiritual realm. This was nearly my case up to 1905, though I had suffered 
excruciating pain all my life, the effects of a surgical operation on the left 
limb in childhood. The wound never healed until I changed to a meatless diet; 
then the pain also ceased. But my endurance during all the previous years was 
such that it never showed by a line on the face, and in every other respect I 

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had perfect health. It was noticeable, however, that when blood flowed as a 
result of an accidental cut, it would not coagulate, and a great quantity was 
always lost; whereas after two years on a clean diet the accidental loss of an 
entire nail in the morning resulted in the loss of only a few drops of blood; 
I was able to use the typewriter the same afternoon; there was no festering as 
the new nail grew.

   "Upbuilding of the spiritual side of the nature, however, brought 
disharmony to the physical body; it became more sensitive to conditions 
around; the result was a breakdown. This was all the more complete because of 
the before mentioned endurance that kept me on my feet for months after I 
should have given in, with the result that I came very close to death's door.

   "Out of this precarious condition, however, has come an increasing ability 
to function in the spiritual world. While, as said, my tonal vision and the 
ability to function in the Region of Concrete Thought here related were 
indifferent and chiefly confined to the lowest subdivision thereof, a little 
assistance from the Brothers that night enabled me to contact the fourth 
division, WHERE THE ARCHETYPES ARE FOUND, and to receive there the teaching 
and understanding of that which is contemplated as the highest ideal and 
mission of the Rosicrucian Fellowship.

   "I saw our Headquarters and a string of people coming from all quarters of 
the world to receive the teaching. I saw them issuing thence to bring balm to 
afflicted ones near and far. While here in this world it is necessary to 
investigate in order to find out about anything, there the voice of each 
archetype brings with it as it strikes the spiritual consciousness a knowledge 
of what that archetype represents. Thus there came to me that night an 
understanding which is far beyond my words to express, for the world in which 
we live is based upon the principle of time, but in the high realm of the 
archtypes all is an eternal Now."

   You will note in the above article that Max Heindel was able by the help of 
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Thought, where the archetypes of physical form are found. This can only be 
accomplished after passing through the fourth Initiation, or fourth degree, 
which corresponds to the first half of the Earth Period. Only after passing 
through the third stratum of the earth can a man function in the fourth 
division of the Region of Concrete Thought.

   At the time of this Initiation into the deeper Mysteries the Brothers 
imparted to him the knowledge that an Ecclesia or Temple was to be built on 
Mt. Ecclesia, where a Panacea was to be prepared. The spiritual outpouring 
obtained in such a place by the use of a certain formula given to Mr. Heindel 
on that memorable night in the Temple will be combined with a suitable 
physical substance to facilitate transmission. This Panacea cannot be prepared 
until the right conditions are made for it in the Ecclesia by the 
Probationers.

   Our Temple was erected and dedicated on December 25, 1920, before the 
second decade of the century had closed. This Temple, the Ecclesia, was 
erected for the purpose of affording more powerful means for the healing of 
disease. 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. 
Assistance is rendered by the Elder Brothers, who are using Headquarters as a 
focusing point. Added to this is the work of the Invisible Helpers, who are 
Probationers located in many parts of the world. The healing power generated 
in the Ecclesia has increased the efficiency of the work of the Invisible 
Helpers so that the cures effected are frequently quite miraculous, and our 
work of healing is spreading over the entire globe.

   The Rosicrucian Fellowship teaches that the wonderful organism called the 
human body is governed by immutable natural laws. All disease results from 
wilful or ignorant violation of Nature's laws. People are ill because in this 
life or in a previous one they have disregarded the fundamental principles on 
which the health of the body depends. If they wish to reagin and to retain 
health, they must learn to understand these principles and regulate their 
daily habits in conformity with them.

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                            THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER:

   The Rosicrucian Order, founded in the 13th century, is one of the schools 
of the Lesser Mysteries. The other Lesser Mystery schools are variously graded 
to meet the spiritual requirements of the most precocious among the earlier 
races of the eastern and southern people with whom they work. Christian 
Rosenkreuz is the 13th member of the Rosicrucian Order. Only the Brothers of 
the Order have the right to speak of themselves as "Rosicrucians."

   Seven of the Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order go out into the world 
whenever occasion requires, appearing as men among other men, or working in 
their invisible vehicles with or upon others as needed. But it must be 
strictly kept in mind that they never influence any one against his will or 
contrary to his desires, but only strengthen good wherever found. When any of 
the seven Brothers are working in the world, they have and use material bodies 
just as other people do, and they live in a house which people in general 
might consider the house of some well-to-do but not ostentatious person. They 
hold offices or positions of distinction in the community where they live, but 
it is only to give a reason for their presence and not create any question as 
to what they are, or who they are, or as to there being anything out of the 
ordinary in them. Outside of the house in which they live and in that house 
and through that house there is what may be called the Temple. This is etheric 
and is different from our ordinary buildings. it might be likened to the auric 
atmosphere that is around the Pro-Ecclesia at Headquarters. This is much 
larger than the material building and is etheric. Manson's word picture of a 
spiritual church gives an idea of what such structures are. They are around 
and through buildings and churches where people are devoted to spiritual 
things, and of course they differ in color. The Rosicrucian Temple is 
extraordinary and not to be compared with any other structure. It surrounds 
and interpenetrates the house in which the Elder Brothers live. This house is 
so permeated with spirituality that most people would not feel very 

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comfortable or at ease there.

   Five of the Brothers of the Rose Cross never leave the Temple, and although 
they possess physical bodies, all their work is done from the inner worlds. 
Though the Elder Brothers are human, they are vastly exalted above our own 
status. 

   A considerable period of intensely zealous life as a VISIBLE helper must be 
LIVED by the aspirant before he has evolved his soul body to such a degree of 
luminosity that it attracts the Teacher. (Note: At the same time the pupil is 
building his soul body, he is also accumulating a power within in like 
proportion.) No listless, easy-going study or dreamy contemplation will bring 
the Teacher. He is himself a SERVANT in the highest sense of the word, and no 
one who is not serving with all his soul need expect to meet him. When he does 
come, he will need no credentials, for the very first sentence spoken by him 
will carry conviction, and so will every other word he ever speaks to the 
pupil, for being ednowed with the consciousness which we shall all possess in 
the Jupiter Period (a self-conscious picture consciousness) each sentence will 
bring before the listener a series of pictures which will accurately 
illustrate his meaning. For instance, if he undertakes to explain the process 
of death, the pupil sees inwardly the passing Spirit leaving the body; he may 
note the uncoiling of the silver cord; he sees the rupture of the seed atom in 
the heart and how its forces leave the body and cling to the Spirit. The Elder 
Brother is able to accomplish this with his pupil in the following manner:

   First, he, the Elder Brother, fixes his attention upon certain facts which 
he wishes to convey to the mind of his pupil. The pupil, who has become fitted 
for Initiation by evolving within himself certain powers (which are still 
latent, however), is like a tuning fork tuned to a pitch identical with that 
of the vibrations of the ideas sent out by the Elder Brother in the pictures. 
Therefore, the pupil not only sees the pictures, but he is able to respond to 
their vibration. Thus vibrating to the ideal presented by the Elder Brother, 
the latent power within the pupil is converted into dynamic energy, and his 

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consciousness is lifted to the level required for the Initiation which he is 
being given. This is the reason why the secrets of true Initiation cannot be 
revealed. IT IS NOT AN OUTWARD CEREMONIAL BUT AN INWARD EXPERIENCE. This 
description is the nearest to what Initiation really is that can possibly be 
given to one who has not experienced it himself. There is no secret about the 
pistures in the sense that one would not tell it, but they are secret because 
no earthly words are coined which could adequately describe such a spiritual 
experience. It is true that the Initiation takes place in the Temple 
particularly suited to the needs of a certain group of individuals who vibrate 
within a certain octave, and that there are others present. But it is not what 
they do or say which constitutes Initiation, for Initiation is an inward 
experience whereby the latent powers that have been ripened within are changed 
to dynamic energy, which Initiation teaches the pupil use.

  THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP: ITS RELATION TO OTHER ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETIES:

   The Rosicrucian Fellowship, founded by Max Heindel under the direct 
gudiance of the Elder Brothers of the Order, is the authorized representative 
for the present period of the ancient Rosicrucian Order, of which Christian 
Rose Cross, or Christian Rosenkreuz is the Head. This Order is not a mundane 
organization, but has its Temple and headquarters on the etheric plane. It 
authorized the formation of the Fellowship by Max Heindel for the purpose of 
carrying the Western Wisdom Teachings to the Western people. In earlier ages 
the Order carried on its work through various secret societies in Europe and 
elsewhere; but the growth and advancement of the people of the United States 
have in recent years reached such a point that the Order deemed it advisable 
to establish an exoteric center here for the extension of its work. The 
Rosicrucian Fellowship is its latest manifestation in physical form, putting 

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out the most up-to-date version of the Rosicrucian Teachings, in twentieth-
century scientific terms, which are at the same time simple and devoid of 
technical abstractions. 

   The particular work of the Fellowship, now (1966) being governed by a Board 
of seven Directors elected from among its Probationers by the voting members 
(Mrs. Heindel passed on in May of 1949), is to disseminate the esoteric 
doctrines of the Christian religion, since the Rosicrucian Philosophy is an 
esoteric Christian philosophy. It is destined to become the universal religion 
of the world, because the Christ is to have charge of human evolution during 
the present Great Sidereal Year of approximately 25,000 years. Anyone who is 
willing to conform to the regulations of the Fellowship, the Preparatory 
School for the Rosicrucian order, and who is not a hypnotist, or 
professionally engaged as a medium, palmist, or astrologer, is eleigible to 
enroll and study its Teachings by correspodence. There is no fixed price on 
any of the lessons. The work is carried on by means of freewill offerings and 
the income from the sale of books.

   Other Rosicrucian societies in the United States claim, we believe lineal 
descent from earlier branches of the ancient Rosicrucian Order in England, 
France, Egypt, or other countries. The Rosicrucian Fellowship has no lineal 
connection with these organizations, but represents a renaissance of the Order 
in the Western World.

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