What is humanity's place in the universe, and how does the soul evolve through its long spiritual journey?
In this influential exposition of Rosicrucian philosophy, Max Heindel presents a vast spiritual vision in which humanity, nature, and the cosmos are bound together by laws extending beyond the physical world. The visible universe is only one aspect of a greater reality inhabited by unseen forces and evolving souls.
Drawing upon Christian mysticism and esoteric tradition, Heindel explores the nature of the soul, the meaning of reincarnation, the law of karma, and the purpose of human existence. His aim is to offer a coherent view of life and destiny, one in which spiritual development unfolds through successive stages of growth and experience.
Long regarded as the foundational text of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, this work remains one of the most widely read introductions to Rosicrucian thought and Mystic Christianity.
Chapters include: The Visible and Invisible Worlds, The Four Kingdoms, Rebirth and the Law of Consequence, The Scheme of Evolution, The Genesis and Evolution of our Solar System, The Occult Analysis of Genesis, Christ and His Mission, The Constitution of the Earth and Volcanic Eruptions, Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians...
Complete Illustrated Edition.
Excerpt: "The Western world is undoubtedly the vanguard of the human race, and, for reasons given in the following pages, it is held by the Rosicrucian that neither Judaism nor "popular Christianity," but true Esoteric Christianity is to be its world-religion.
Buddha, great, grand and sublime, may be the "light of Asia," but Christ will yet be acknowledged the "Light of the World." As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
In our civilization the chasm that stretches between mind and heart yawns deep and wide and, as the mind flies on from discovery to discovery in the realms of science, the gulf becomes ever deeper and wider and the heart is left further and further behind. The mind loudly demands and will be satisfied with nothing less than a materially demonstrable explanation of man and his fellow-creatures that make up the phenomenal world. The heart feels instinctively that there is something greater, and it yearns for that which it feels is a higher truth than can be grasped by the mind alone. The human soul would fain soar upon ethereal pinions of intuition; would fain lave in the eternal fount of spiritual light and love; but modern scientific views have shorn its wings and it sits fettered and mute, unsatisfied longings gnawing at its tendrils as the vulture of Prometheus' liver.
