Gleanings of a Mystic (ePUB/PDF Bundle)

First published in 1922, Max Heindel's Gleanings of a Mystic gathers the mature essays and lectures of one of the most influential voices in modern Rosicrucianism — a collection of reflections on mystical Christianity, initiatic philosophy, and the inner path that Heindel himself had walked across a lifetime of devoted study and practice.

This Lodge of the Ancients edition presents Heindel's text in a carefully prepared volume suited to sustained study and contemplative reading. Heindel — founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship and author of The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception — writes here with the accumulated authority of his later years, treating themes including the mystical interpretation of the Christian mysteries, the nature of initiation, the soul's passage between lives, the discipline of spiritual development, and the place of the human being within the unfolding purpose of the cosmos.

The essays are at once practical and luminous. Heindel does not write as a theoretician but as a teacher, addressing the aspirant directly and returning repeatedly to the question of what the student of the mysteries must actually do — in character, in conduct, in daily practice — if the teaching is to bear fruit in a real life.

Gleanings of a Mystic offers the contemporary reader a direct encounter with the devotional and practical heart of Rosicrucian mysticism, uncluttered by system-building, addressed to anyone prepared to receive it as the teacher's counsel to his student.

The inaugural volume of the Rosicrucian Series from Lodge of the Ancients, which presents the foundational and enduring texts of the Rosicrucian tradition in editions prepared for the serious student.

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