The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity is a Rosicrucian text, written by the famous mystic and occultist Max Heindel. The first edition was printed in November 1909, it has little changed since then and it is considered to be Max Heindel’s magnum opus. 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 process of man and the universe, correlating science with religion. It is, till current days, the basic book for the philosophy courses of the school, the Rosicrucian Fellowship, founded by the author between 1909 and 1911.

The author talks about the true man and his journey through involution, evolution and epigenesis, presenting practical methods to help the development of latent potentials in each one of us and how to transmute our latency into dynamic powers in order to achieve, according to the author, direct knowledge and conscientious work in the inner planes.

It deals with many esoteric topics and also metaphysics, physiology and cosmology (the visible and invisible worlds, human evolution, death and rebirth, nutrition, esoteric training, …). It contains a history of the evolution of the human spirit and related bodies (from before awareness, through various incarnations of our planet on various planes, and into the future development) and of animal, vegetable and mineral life waves (each, of the myriad of life forms and types of consciousness on this physical plane, experiencing their own points in evolution). It also presents an esoteric interpretation about the mission of Christ and an occult analysis of Biblical texts which include the fall of man, the Law of Cause and Consequence and Bible and rebirth, and many other themes which were further developed in the subsequent books, lectures and lessons given by the author at the time (1910s) in the United States.

Table  Of Contents
PART I.
Man’s Present Constitution and Method of Development.
Frontispiece, The Lord’s Prayer.
A Word to the Wise
The Four Kingdoms
Introduction
Chapter I. The Visible and Invisible Worlds
Chemical Region of the Physical World
Etheric Region of the Physical World
The Desire World
The World of Thought
Chapter II. The Four Kingdoms
Chapter III. Man and the Method of Evolution.
Activities of Life; Memory antl Soul-growth
The Constitution of the Seven-fold Man
The Borderland
The First Heaven
The Second Heaven
The Third Heaven
Preparations for Rebirth
Birth of the Dense Body
Birth of the Vital Body and Growth
Birth of the Desire Body and Puberty
Birth of the Mind and Majority
The Blood; the Vehicle of the Ego
Chapter IV. Rebirth and the Law of Consequence
Wine as a Factor in Evolution
A Remarkable Story

PART II.
COSMOGENESIS AND ANTHROPOGENESIS.
Chapter V. The Relation of Man to God
Chapter VI. The Scheme of Evolution.
The Beginning
The Seven Worlds
The Seven Periods
Chapter VII. The Path of Evolution
Revolutions and Cosmic Nights
Chapter VIII. The Work of Evolution.
Ariadnes Thread
The Saturn Period
Recapitulation
The Sun Period
The Moon Period 213
Chapter IX. Stragglers and Newcomers
Classes of Beings at the Beginning of the Moon Period

Chapter X. The Earth Period
Saturn Revolution of the Earth Period
Sun Revolution of the Earth Period
Moon Revolution of the Earth Period
Rest Periods Between Revolutions
The Fourth Revolution of the Earth Period

Chapter XI. Genesis and Evolution of Our Solar System
Chaos’
The Birth of the Planets

Chapter XII. Evolution on the Earth.
The Polarian Epoch
The Hyperborean Epoch
The Moon ; the Eighth Sphere
The Lemurian Epoch
Birth of the Individual
Separation of the Sexes
Influence of Mars
The Races and Their Leaders
Influence of Mercury
The Lemurian Race
The Fall of Man
The Lucifer Spirits
The Atlantean Epoch
The Aryan Epoch ‘
The Sixteen Paths to Destruction
Chapter XIII. Back to the Bible
Chapter XIV. Occult Analysis of Genesis.
Limitations of the Bible
In the Beginning
The Nebular Theory
The Creative Hierarchies
The Saturn Period
The Sun Period, the Moon Period
The Earth Period
Jehovah and His Mission
Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis
A Living Soul
Adam’s Rib
Guardian Angels
Mixing Blood in Marriage
The Fall of Man

PART III
Man’s Future Development and Initiation

The Evolution of Religion
Jesus and Christ -Jesus
Not Peace but a Sword
The Star of Bethlehem
The Heart an Anomaly
The Mystery of Golgotha
The Cleansing Blood
Chapter XV. Christ and His Mission.

Chapter XVI. Future Development and Initiation.
The Seven Days of Creation
Radiates, Mollusks, Articulates and Vertebrates
Spirals within Spirals.
Alchemy and Soulgrowth
The Creative Word
Chapter XVII. The Method of Acquiring First-Hand Knowledge.
The First Stops
Western Methods for Western People
The Science of Nutrition
Table of Food- Values
The Law of Assimilation
Live and Let Live
The Lord ‘s Prayer
The Vow of Celibacy
The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland
Esoteric Training
How the Inner Vehicle is Built
Concentration
Meditation
Observation
Discrimination
Contemplation
Adoration
Chapter XVIII. The Constitution of the Earth and Volcanic
Eruptions
The Number of the Beast

Chapter XIX. Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians
Initiation
The Rosicrucian Fellowship
Rays from the Rose Cross
Symbolism of Rose Cross
Index
The Healing Power