“The Rosicrucian Fellowship aims to educate and construct, to be charitable even to those from whom we differ, and never to vent the venom of vituperation, spite, or malice even upon those who seem deliberately determined to mislead. We revere the Catholic religion; it is as divine in its essence, as Mystic Masonry both, are rooted in hoary antiquity, both were born to further the aspiration of the striving soul, and both have a message and a mission in the world not apparent upon the surface today, because man-made ceremonial as a scale has hidden the kernel of divinity in each. It is the object of the present articles to remove that scale and show the Cosmic purpose of these two Great Organizations, which are so bitterly antagonistic to each other. We do not aim to reconcile them, however, for though they are both designed to farther the emancipation of the soul, their methods are different, and Jjbg attributes of the soul fostered by one method will indeed be very different from the quality of the soul nurtured in the other school. Therefore the strife must continue until the battle for the souls of men has been lost and won. The issue is not, however, the persistence of the Masonic or Catholic institutions; but the outcome will determine the nature of the training humanity will receive in the remaining Periods of our evolution. We shall endeavor to show the cosmic root of both of these institutions, the purpose of each and the training which each will inaugurate, if successful ; also the nature of the soul quality which may be expected to result from each method. “

CONTENTS

Part I Lucifer, the Rebel Angel
Part II The Masonic Legend
Part III The Queen of Sheba
Part IV Casting the Molten Sea
Part V The Mystery of Melchisedec
Part VI Spiritual Alchemy
Part VII The Philosopher’s Stone “What It Is and How It Is Made
Part VIII The Path of Initiation
Part IX Armageddon, the Great War, and the Coming Age

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

The helpful messages and the spiritual encouragement that the readers have received from the inspired words in the earlier volumes we know have been far-reaching in their effects. We also feel that in years to come enlightened and advanced students and seekers along mystical and occult lines will realize more and more the true value of the works of Max Heindel. His words reach the very depths of the heart of the reader. Many who have read his first work, “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception,” have been thrilled by their contact with it.

- August Foss Heindel

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. THE DAYS OF NOAH AND OF CHRIST
CHAPTER II. THE SIGN OF THE MASTER
CHAPTER III. WHAT IS SPIRITUAL WORK?
CHAPTER IV. THE WAY OF WISDOM
CHAPTER V. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
CHAPTER VI. THE DEATH OF THE SOUL
CHAPTER VII. THE NEW SENSE OF THE NEW AGE
CHAPTER VIII. GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE
CHAPTER IX. MYSTIC LIGHT ON THE WORLD WAR PART I
CHAPTER X. MYSTIC LIGHT ON THE WORLD WAR PART II
CHAPTER XI. MYSTIC LIGHT ON THE WORLD WAR
CHAPTER XII. MYSTIC LIGHT ON THE WORLD WAR PART IV
CHAPTER XIII. THE ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER AND THE INCEPTION OF TH0E ROSICRUCIAN CHAPTER XIV. THE LESSON OF EASTER
CHAPTER XV. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT PART I
CHAPTER XVI. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT PART II
CHAPTER XVII. THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD
CHAPTER XVIII. RELIGION AND HEALING
THE ROSICRUCIAN PRINCIPLES OF HEALING
CHAPTER XIX. ADDRESS AT THE GROUND BREAKING FOR MT. ECCLESIA
CHAPTER XX. OUR WORK IN THE WORLD PART I(ISSUED MAY, 1912)
CHAPTER XXI. OUR WORK IN THE WORLD PART II
CHAPTER XXII. OUR WORK IN THE WORLD PART III
CHAPTER XXIII. ETERNAL DAMNATION, AND SALVATION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BOW IN THE CLOUD
CHAPTER XXV. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS