Message of the Stars - The Rosicrucian Fellowship

1 TheMessage of the StarsBYMAX HEINDELANDAUGUSTA FOSS HEINDELAN ESOTERIC EXPOSITION OFNATAL AND MEDICAL ASTROLOGYEXPLAINING THE ARTS OFREADING THE HOROSCOPE ANDDIAGNOSING DISEASE_____TWENTIETH EDITIONThe Rosicrucian FellowshipMount Ecclesia2222 Mission AvenueOceanside, California, USA, 92058-2329 COPYRIGHT 2011byTHE Rosicrucian FELLOWSHIPAll rights including translation to copy or translate will be readilygiven upon written request.(ISBN 0-911274-10-3)(ISBN 978-0-911274-10-3) (760) 757-6600 Max Heindel Augusta Foss HeindelMax Heindel, spiritual Initiate and messenger of the RosicrucianBrotherhood, was born in Denmark on July 23, 1865.

2 He became ashipping engineer and eventually immigrated to the United States. By1905 he had become seriously interested in the study of metaphysicsand spent the next few years consciously working and searching forspiritual Truths. When he was visiting Germany in 1907, the ElderBrother of the Rose Cross who became his Teacher made contact withhim on the inner planes. He was instructed in the etheric Temple ofthe Rose Cross, receiving the occult Teachings that he eventuallyincorporated intoThe Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, published inNovember 1909. He founded The Rosicrucian Fellowship in August1909, and spent his remaining years, until January 6, 1919, writing,lecturing, establishing Fellowship Headquarters in Oceanside,California, and generally spreading the Teachings of EsotericChristianity the pioneer spiritual Teachings which will prepare allhumanity for the New Age of Aquarius, when all nations will join inUniversal SYMBOLISM Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time totime speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts.

3 And wakenour consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words. MaxHeindel. The Emblem of the Western Mystery School of theRosicrucians is one such symbol: in its entirety it represents God inmanifestation. It expresses the key to man s past evolution, his presentconstitution, his future development, and the method of blue background represents God the Father; the golden starsymbolizes Christ born within the spiritual aspirant and radiating fromthe five points the head and four limbs; the red roses indicate thepurification of the human desire nature on the cross of matter theblood of the aspirant cleansed from passion.

4 The white rose symbolizespurity of heart and also the larynx with which, once purified, humanitywill speak the Creative Word. The white cross represents the physicalbody. The golden star represents the Golden Wedding Garment theetheric vehicle which the Spirit builds during lifetimes of purity reading shows that the cross also indicates plant, animal,and human life-waves. The lower limb is the plant nourished throughthe roots with spiritual currents from the Earth; man, the upper limb,receives spiritual influences from the Sun through the head; animals aresustained by spiritual currents horizontally surrounding the lamp of wisdom and the heart show the two streams ofevolving humanity: those following the path of intellect (occult) andthose following the path of love (mystic).

5 There can be nocontradiction in Nature; therefore, the heart and the mind must becapable of uniting. Eventual union of head and heart will signify thePerfected the foot of the page is thefleur-de-lis, the emblem of theTrinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but as only the Father and HolySpirit were active at the time here represented, we find but two of thepetals colored with red, thus showing beings created we see as a stream flowing upwards, providedwith two bodies, the dense and the vital, but after a time the desirebody is added and is shown by the red appearing in the each stream looks alike outwardly, they are vastlydifferent.

6 The one on the left is known in our literature as the Sons ofCain. They are full of positive energy and are thecraftsmen of theworld, thephree-messen, who carve their way through life, ratherenjoying the obstacles which they know strengthen the character; theywork through the intellect, as is shown by the lamp from the flame ofwhich proceednine rays, showing the positive path chosen by theesoteric other stream develops the heart side of life, and the divineflame proceeding from it shows buteight rays, a negative path; thosefollowing it desiring that they should have a leader; someone to follow,someone to worship.

7 They are thechurchmen of the world who obey theteachings of their stream of life flows onward side by side till a time comeswhen the wise and loving ones guiding the evolution decide that tohasten progress it is necessary that the two unite, and plan that thisshall be accomplished by the building of a temple for the worshippersby the craftsmen and that both streams would unite in a MysticalMolten Sea. We can see the wonderful impulse by the chalice raisedfrom each and filled with the red wine of life. You will read the storyof this in the building of Solomon s Temple. This plan was frustratedby the treachery of the Sons of Seth those on the right.

8 And after thiseach swung further away from the other than serious condition now is shown in which some appear to fallaway entirely through materialism. But still the race lives on, thechurchman and the scientist, the mystic and the occultist, each pursuingtheir own path independent of the other, till a stage of such materialismis reached that the spiritual guiders see grave dangers ahead. Toprevent the plan of evolution being defeated, a great destruction of thehuman bodies is permitted which for a time looks as if it would wipehumanity off the earth. See the break in each stream.

9 But this calamityhas the desired effect: we now see again great force and each streamturned directly toward the other, where they may shortly unite as the foot of the page we find another symbol, so small that you mayhave overlooked it. Here is a small black cross that represents thephysical body. In the enlarged head of the cross is seen the heart. Heartand head have united, and the result is shown in the spreading ray theresultant soul of ContentsCHAPTER IEvolution as Shown in the 3 Early Atlantean Epoch ( ) .. 14 Middle Atlantean Epoch ( ).. 15 Later Atlantean Epoch ( ).. 17 Aryan Epoch ( ).

10 25 Piscean Age ( ) .. 26 Aquarian Age ( ) .. 28 CHAPTER IIThe Measure of Amenability to Planetary 30 CHAPTER IIIWere You Born Under a Lucky star ? .. 55 Amulets, Birthstones, and Planetary Colors .. 60 When Is the Best Time to Be Born? .. 67 CHAPTER IVReading the Horoscope. Introduction .. 70 The 72 The Signs of the Zodiac .. 79 Cardinal 80 Fixed 81 Common 83 Comparative Effect of Cardinal, Fixed, and Common Signs on the Angles .. 84 The Four 86 The Sun, The Moon, and The Ascendant .. 87 The Rising Sign .. 88 CHAPTER VInfluence of the Twelve Signs When 92 CHAPTER VIThe Intrinsic Nature of the Planets.