* 1865 – Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic ( d. 1919 )

* Heindel, Max, How Shall We Know Christ at His Coming ?, May 1913 ( stenographic report of a lecture, Los Angeles ), ISBN 0-911274-64-2 www

* July 23 – Max Heindel, Danish-born Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic ( d. 1919 )

** Max Heindel, Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic ( b. 1865 )

* Heindel, Max, The Web of Destiny ( Chapter I-Part III: " The Dweller on the Threshold "-- Earth-Bound Spirits, Part IV: The " Sin Body "-- Possession by Self-Made Demons — Elementals, Part V: Obsession of Man and of Animals ), ISBN 0-911274-17-0, www

* Bernard, Christian ( 2001 ) Rosicrucian Order AMORC: Questions and Answers Grand Lodge of the English Language Jurisdiction, AMORC, San Jose, California, ISBN 978-1-893971-02-8 ; based upon the earlier versions by Harve Spencer Lewis 1929 and following, and Heindel, Max ( 1910 ) ' The Rosicrucian philosophy in questions and answers M. A.

Max Heindel was vice president during 1904 and 1905.

Another Rosicrucian group, the Rosicrucian Fellowship headed by Max Heindel, also mentioned Rosicrucians worship Christ as " The Solar Logos " ( Rays from the Cross Magazine, June, 1933 ), although this is not traditional Christian doctrine.

According to Max Heindel, the etheric " double " serves as a medium between the astral and physical realms.

Max Heindel divided the subtle body into: Vital Body made of Ether, our instrument for specializing the vital energy of the sun, seen by clairvoyant vision to extend about an inch and a half outside the body ); the Desire body, which is our emotional nature and pervades both the vital and dense bodies, seen by clairvoyant vision to extend about 16 inches outside our visible body, related to the Desire World ; and the Mental body, which functions like a mirror, reflects the outer world and enables the Ego to transmit its commands as thought, word and action.

* Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Mysteries ( Chapter IV: The Constitution of Man: Vital Body-Desire Body-Mind ), 1911, ISBN 0-911274-86-3

* Max Heindel

Later, in the early 20th century, Max Heindel, a Rosicrucian Initiate, emphasizes that the roots of the Brothers of the Rose Cross, immersed in the western mystery tradition, are almost impossible to be traced as " theirs is a work which aims to encourage the evolution of humanity, they have labored far back into antiquity -- under one guise or another ".

Some occultists including Rudolf Steiner, Max Heindel and ( much later ) Guy Ballard, have stated that Rosenkreuz later reappeared as the Count of St. Germain, a courtier, adventurer, and alchemist who reportedly died on February 27, 1784.

* Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Mysteries ( Chapter IV: The Constitution of Man: Vital Body-Desire Body-Mind ), 1911, ISBN 0-911274-86-3.

* According to the Rosicrucian Initiate Max Heindel, the foundation of the Order of the Rose Cross occurred in 1313, early 14th century.

* Heindel, Max & Heindel, Augusta Foss, The Message of the Stars ( Part II: Medical Astrology ), ISBN 0-911274-18-9

* Heindel, Max & Heindel, Augusta Foss, Astro-Diagnosis-A Guide to Healing, ISBN 0-911274-06-5

In 1945 he joined the Rosicrucians under Max Heindel, working in a branch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

* Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Mysteries ( Chapter III: The Visible and the Invisible Worlds ), 1911, ISBN 0-911274-86-3

* Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine by Max Heindel ( 1933 ; from Max Heindel writings & with introduction by Manly Palmer Hall ): " THE SECRET DOCTRINE is one of the most remarkable books in the world ...

The Rosicrucian Fellowship – " An International Association of Christian Mystics " – was founded in 1909 by Max Heindel with the aim of heralding the Aquarian Age and promulgating " the true Philosophy " of the Rosicrucians.

The Columbus Center was followed by centers in North Yakima, Washington ( November 1909 ), Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California ( February 27, 1910 ), the city where Heindel reencountered his theosophist friend Augusta Foss.

In Los Angeles, Max Heindel gave conferences three times a week to audiences of nearly one thousand people from November 29, 1909 till March 17, 1910.

The order of publication was placed by Max Heindel on the New Moon of November 1909 and the book was published a couple of weeks later by the Full Moon, some 5 short weeks before the end of the first decade of the 1900s.

* Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, first edition in 1909 ( ISBN 0-911274-34-0 ) www. rosicrucian. com

Max Heindel presents in his The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ( 1909 ) an evolutionary process of man and the universe, correlating science with religion.

* Rosicrucian Fellowship-Max Heindel

* Rosicrucian Fellowship-Max Heindel

* Rosicrucian Fellowship-Max Heindel

In the early 20th century, Max Heindel presented in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception a cosmology related to the scheme of evolution in general and the evolution of the solar system and the earth in particular, according to the Rosicrucians.

* Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Mysteries ( Chapter III: The Visible and the Invisible Worlds ), 1911, ISBN 0-911274-86-3

The first Rosicrucian study center had been already previously formed in Columbus, Ohio ( November 14, 1908 ), where Heindel lectured and taught for a number of months.

The highly evolved entity that visited Heindel eventually identified himself as an Elder Brother of the Rosicrucian Order, an Order in the inner worlds formed in the year 1313 and having no direct connection to physical organizations which call themselves by this name.

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, a Rosicrucian text written by Max Heindel, advances the concept of epigenesis as the key related to the evolution ( after an involutionary period ) of human beings.

Mount Ecclesia | The Ecclesia's facade at The Rosicrucian Fellowship: the school founded by Max Heindel around the time The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception was written.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity is a Rosicrucian text by Max Heindel ( ISBN 0-911274-34-0 )

Rays from the Rose Cross is a Christian esoteric magazine established in June 1913 by Max Heindel, author of The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and founder of The Rosicrucian Fellowship ; its original name was Echoes from Mount Ecclesia.

Examples of esoteric cosmologies can be found in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Nagualism, Nagualism ( Carlos Castaneda ), Tantra ( especially Kashmir Shaivism ), Kabbalah, Sufism, the teachings of Jacob Boehme, The Urantia Book, the Sant Mat / Surat Shabda Yoga tradition, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, The Cosmic Tradition of Max Theon and his wife, Max Heindel ( The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ), elements of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, the Fourth Way propounded by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, PaGaian Cosmology and many current New Age teachings, to give only a few examples.

* The Visible and Invisible Worlds according to Max Heindel & related Diagrams in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception