Solsystemets grænse

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Voyager er nået solsystemets ende

Af  THOMAS ANDREW, Los Angeles-korrespondent

Offentliggjort 14.12.10  kl. 19:23 

Sonden, der i dag er det fjerneste menneskeskabte objekt, har opdaget en særlig forandring.

Voyager 1 har tilsyneladende nået en milepæl i dens mission med at forlade vores solsystem.

17,4 mia. kilometer fra sit hjem på Jorden har veteransonden nu registreret en særlig ændring i partikelstrømningen omkring sig.

Ændring i partikelstrøm

Partiklerne, som stammer fra Solen, bevæger sig ikke længere udad - men til siden. Og det er en klart tegn på, at Voyager 1 er tæt på at tage det fulde spring ud i det interstellare rum, som er "himmelrummet mellem stjernerne.”

Forskerne registrerede første gang små ændringer i partikelstrømmen omkring Voyager i 2005. Det var første tegn på, at sonden var ved at forlade den såkaldte heliosfæren og vort eget solsystem.

Videnskabsmand Edward Stone, en af Voyager-projektets grundlæggere, er overrasket over rumsondens levedygtighed.

”Vi havde ingen idé om, hvor langt vi ville nå udenfor solsystemet. Vi ved nu, at vi om ca. fem år, vil være helt udenfor for første gang,” siger han til BBC News.

Voyager 1 blev opsendt den 5. september 1977, som en af to ubemandede rumsonder, der havde kurs mod planeterne Jupiter og Saturn.

I god form

Her optog sonden nærbilleder og foretog en række forskellige videnskabelige målinger. Efter nærpassager af de to planeter og deres talrige måner fortsatte Voyager 1 videre ud i rummet.

Og den er tilsyneladende i overraskende god form på grund af sin radioaktivt brændstof, som sikrer en kontinuerlig fremdrift.

På grund af den store afstand tager det dog i dag 16 timer, før radiobeskeder når frem til Jorden.

Data viser, at solvindens hastighed omkring Voyager 1 konstant er faldet med 72.400 kilometer i timen om året siden august 2007 - på det tidspunkt var hastigheden 209.000 kilometer i timen.

Rumsonden selv bevæger sig fortsat med fantastiske 61.000 kilometer i timen.

Begrænset kontakt

Hvis der ikke opstår uforudsete komplikationer, skulle det være muligt at kommunikere med både Voyager 1 og 2 helt frem til år 2030.

Begge sonder har brændstof nok - Voyager 1 kan holde fart helt til 2040 og Voyager 2 til 2034.

Om 40.000 år vil Voyager 1 passere 1,6 lysår fra stjernen AC+79 3888 i stjernebilledet Giraffen som et inaktivt artefakt fra Jordens daværende indbyggere.

90 minutter med musikstykker og hilsner på 55 af Jordens sprog er indlejret i en kobbergrammofonplade på rumsonden, som eventuelle intelligensvæsener kan muntre sig med.

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Astrologen Anette Hansen blev 56 år

HUN LÆRTE OS AT LEVE – OG AT DØ
Mindeord over Anette Elisabeth Hansen [17.5.1954 - 30.11.10]

af Birthe Kirk 
[www.birthekirk.dk]

Den 30 november, tirsdag nat, sov Anette ind efter længere tids sygdom. Hun efterlod sig kæreste, datter, barnebarn samt en del familie på sin fars side. Hun blev kun 56 år, men levede så intenst et liv, at der var begivenheder nok til at dække mindst 100 år.

Anette var ikke hvem som helst, hvilket jeg tror at mange, der havde det held at kende hende, vil give mig ret i. Og det blev i hvert fald til en del - også på fastlandet og de øvrige øer. Hendes smittende latter og til tider sorte humor, satte gang i enhver sammenkomst. Og for mig var hun min nærmeste veninde i over 30 år. 

Fra Ingeniør og teknisk tegner til kroejer
Anette voksede op i Næsby på Fyn og var som barn bandeleder i en af de tre førende bander på hjemegnen. Sidenhen var det særdeles god underholdning at høre hende berette om deres fejder. Det var her hun lærte at elske naturen og dyrene. Hendes heste var hendes et og alt, og hun sørgede for, at også hendes egen datter fik hest i tidlig alder.
Efter endt uddannelse blev hun ansat som ingeniør og teknisk tegner på faderens maskinfabrik. Ligeledes var hun i en periode ansat på fabrikken Myren.
Men en almindelig borgerlig løbebane passede ikke til hendes profil. Så engang i starten af firserne blev hun sammen med sin partner ejer af Nr.Højrup kro. Ud over at drive kroen på normal vis, blev der afholdt udviklingskurser af forskellig slags i kroens lokaler. Krodriften hørte dog ikke til hendes største succeser – efter nogle år gik den konkurs.

Hendes egentlige passion var astrologi, filosofi, religion mv
Hvor en dør smækker i, går en ny op, siges det. Og i hvert fald kom der nu for alvor gang i hendes egentlige passion, nemlig arbejde med mennesker i form af undervisning og rådgivning. Hun havde for længst sat sig ind i astrologi, blev fremragende i faget og udviklede sine egne systemer. Og hun blev en uvurderlig hjælp for de mange der søgte hende.
I løbet af halvfemserne gik vejen videre til Daghøjskolen i Odense og senere Askov Højskole.
De sidste 10 år levede hun i sit hus ved Tørre Sø strand ud til Kattegat. Dette blev de skønneste år i hendes liv, med uforglemmelige rejser til Island, det nordlige Norge, Sverige og Finland.
Virkede på mennesker og dyr som honning på bier
Hun havde en særegen tiltrækningskraft på både dyr og mennesker, besad en særlig evne til at leve sig ind i deres væsen.
Det er klart, at Anette efterlader sig et enormt tomrum, ikke kun for sine nærmeste pårørende og venner, men for de mange kontakter hun havde – for det var jo ikke bare kontakter. Hun så dem, hun mærkede dem – hun rørte deres sjæl. 
Dette fortsatte til det sidste. På Sanderum Hospice ved Odense var der en hær af ”engle”, som hun kaldte dem, der kappedes om at gøre hendes afsked med dette liv så smuk og fredfyldt, som det nu var muligt, og der var konstant et helt blomsterbed i det ene hjørne af hendes værelse.
Men endnu mere bemærkelsesværdigt, så virkede det som om Anette i de senere måneder havde formået at skrælle de sidste lag af sit ego. Der var ingen sorg, ingen ønsker eller lidenskab tilbage, kun en dyb taknemlighed, og hun sagde farvel aldeles afklaret, fredfyldt, blid og med et smil om læben.

Hun havde undervist i at leve godt og gav os slutteligt en enestående lektion i at dø på den smukkeste måde. Æret være hendes minde.

Bisættelsen fandt sted i Pårup Kirke lørdag den 4/12  kl.13:30.

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Tycho begraves igen

http://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/et-storslaaet-farvel-til-tycho-brahe

Berlingske.dk

Et storslået farvel til Tycho Brahe

Genbegravelse af Tycho Brahe. Foto: MICHAL CIZEK

For tredje gang blev den verdenskendte danske astronom fredag begravet, efter at hans rester igen er blevet undersøgt. Det er endnu uvist, om vi bliver klogere på hans mystiske død.

Af Michael Friislund
Fredag den 19. november 2010, 22:57

Det er ikke hver dag, at en verdensstjerne siger farvel. Og sjældnere er det, at man begraver en videnskabelig pionér, som har påvirket hele den måde, moderne videnskab fungerer i dag. Men mest bemærkelsesværdigt er det måske, at det er tredje gang, begravelsen finder sted.

En af Danmarks helt store berømtheder, den verdenskendte astronom Tyge Ottesen Brahe bedre kendt som Tycho Brahe, fik i går fred. For tredje gang. Selv om han døde for over 400 år siden, har forskere de seneste fire dage endevendt knogler og ejendele for at vide mere om Tycho Brahes sundhedstilstand og dødstidspunkt. Målet er på længere sigt at løse mysteriet om hans pludselige død i 1601.

Den eksakte dødsårsag har hidtil været ukendt, men en af de mest anerkendte teorier er kviksølvforgiftning, formentlig gennem selvmedicinering.

Ikke forgæves opgravning

Selv om forskerne ikke vil love, at mysteriet bliver endeligt løst i denne omgang, er opgravningen langt fra forgæves, forklarer forskningschef og initiativtager til opgravningen, Jens Vellev, lektor fra Aarhus Universitet:

»Vi regner med, at vi ved hjælp af CT-scannere kan genskabe et billede af Tycho Brahes ansigt, som det så ud for 400 år siden. Men det bliver formentlig først til næste år eller næste år igen.«

Forskningsteamet har arbejdet intensivt på tre forskellige lokaliteter, og arbejdet har allerede båret frugt, forklarer kommunikationschef fra Aarhus Universitet Svend Aage Lund Mogensen, som de seneste fire dage har holdt verdenspressen opdateret med den løbende udvikling i hele projektet:

»Der er blevet taget prøver fra tøj, hår og knogler, og forskerne har allerede nu fundet ud af, at der i selve graven var knogler fra otte mennesker, heriblandt Tycho Brahes kone Kirsten Jørgensdatter.«

En statsmands begravelse

Tycho Brahe er bedst kendt for sine systematiske observationer af nattehimlen, som har dannet grundlag for den astronomiske forskning, som vi bruger i dag.

Hans største opdagelse var formentlig Stella Nova, en supernova, som han brugte til at påvise forandringer i stjerneverdenen. Hidtil havde man ellers antaget, at stjerneverdenen var uforanderlig.

Klokken 15 fredag blev Tycho Brahe så begravet i den gotiske Týnkirke i midten af Prag. Under ledelse af den tjekkiske ærkebiskop Dominik Jaroslav Duka mødte op mod 2.000 mennesker op i den stopfyldte kirke for at deltage i ceremonien, hvor også Danmarks kirkeminister, Birthe Rønn Hornbech (V), var tilstede. Det er tredje gang siden sin død i 1601, at Tycho Brahe stedes til hvile i sin grav ved siden af alteret i Týnkirken. I 1901 gravede man ligesom i dag Tycho Brahes kiste op og undersøgte blandt andet hans kranie. Derefter blev han lagt tilbage i den tinkiste, som forskerne gravede op i mandags.

Læs også

·         Brahe siger farvel igen

·         Tycho Brahes jordiske rester i god stand

·         Brahes hjerne lå i en glasskål

Galaktiske gamma-bobler

Gigant-bobler fundet i Mælkevejen
50.000 lysår lange, men aldrig set før

Kilde: BERIT HARTUNG - BT - Torsdag den 11. november 2010, 11:00

Fermi-teleskopet afslører kæmpestore gammastrålebobler.

De er 50.000 lysår lange tilsammen. Alligevel er det først nu, at forskerne har fået øje på to gigantiske bobler i Mælkevejen.

På en pressekonference forleden fortalte det amerikanske rumfartsorganisation NASA, at Fermi-teleskopet har fundet boblerne.

Gammastrålerne er blevet afdækket ved at behandle informationer fra Fermi-teleskopet med op til ti milliarder elektronvolts styrke.

- Min første reaktion, da jeg så dem, var 'wow!', siger astronom David Spergel ved Princeton University til den norske avis Dagbladet.

Han mener, fundet giver anledning til videre undersøgelser for at forstå hidtil ukendte processer i Mælkevejen.

Boblerne kommer af en galaktisk gammastråletåge, som ifølge opdageren Doug Finkbeiner er opstået efter, at hurtige partikler mødte gas.

En interaktion mellem gas, lys og partikler, som rejser tæt på lysets hastighed, har holdt strukturren skjult, indtil det lykkedes Finkbeiner og hans NASA-team at afdække de to kæmpebobler.
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Dalí 's tallerkener

Den spanske multikunstner, Salvador Dalí, der selv var født i Tyrens tegn  (11. maj 1904), interesserede sig meget for symbolik. Han skabte ud over et helt originalt sæt tarotkort også adskillige skitser og brugsgenstande med astrologiske motiver.

Heriblandt en serie på tolv tallerkener, hvoraf museet har kunnet opspore billeder af halvdelen – se : http://samlinger.asmu.dk/kultur/  – med sine helt originale fortolkninger af de tolv tegns psyke og symbolik.

Museet hører meget gerne om yderlige hverdags-genstande fra Dalí 's hånd.
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Tycho Brahe får ny begravelse

http://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/tycho-brahe-faar-ny-dag-og-ny-begravelse

Tycho Brahe får ny dag og ny begravelse

Tycho Brahe var en verdensberømt astronom, men få ved at han 
tillige var digter. Foto: NF

Manden, der er forbundet med de uheldige dage, får en ny begravelse, efter at videnskabsfolk igen undersøger hans jordiske rester i Prag.

Onsdag den 22. september 2010, 05:01

Den verdenskendte danske astronom Tycho Brahes grav i Prag bliver igen genåbnet. Det sker mandag den 15. november. Myndighederne har givet lov til, at graven med astronomens knogler, skægrester og ligklædestykker genåbnes med henblik på yderligere videnskabelige undersøgelser af astronomens liv, der sluttede for 409 år siden.

                    Læs også: Forskere må nu åbne Tycho Brahes grav

Resterne af den verdenskendte astronom ligger i en halvanden meter lang forseglet zinkkiste i Teynkirken i Prag. Den blev senest åbnet i 1901, da en tjekkisk læge undersøgte de jordiske rester af astronomen. Den danske Tycho Brahe-ekspert, Jens Vellev, siger, at de jordiske rester af Tycho Brahe samt hans hustru vil blive taget op den 15. november med henblik på skanning og andre undersøgelser.

                       Læs også: Historiker: Tycho Brahe forgivet på Christian IVs ordre

Formålet med projektet i Prag er at skabe et billede af Tycho Brahes liv og måske finde årsagen til hans død. Og hvorfor han rejste til Prag fra Øresundsøen Hven. - Kan undersøgelserne af hans knogler give et fingerpeg om hans liv. Var han hypokonder, spørger Jens Vellev, der er lektor i middelalder- og renæssancearkæologi ved Aarhus Universitet.

                      Læs også: Forskere ser lyset fra Tycho Brahes stjerne

Én teori går på, at Tycho Brahes blære sprang, fordi han ikke tids nok fik forsørget i forbindelse med en middag hos en baron, og hvor der blev drukket tæt. Enten den 19. eller den 20. november vil der blive en genbegravelse af Tycho Brahes rester i en ny trækiste, måske med deltagelse af notabiliteter fra det danske kongehus.

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Kondratieff-cyklus

Professor Nickolai Kondratieff var kort efter den russiske revolution i 1917 med til at udvikle den første sovjetiske femårsplan, hvor han analyserede faktorer, der ville stimulere den sovjetiske økonomiske vækst. I 1926 offentliggjorde Kondratieff sine resultater i en rapport med titlen, "Long Waves in Economic Life". Ligesom Einstein og Newton, er Kondratieff indsigt begyndt at påvirke folks opfattelse radikalt og permanent vedrørende forståelse af den økonomiske historie.

Kondratieffs vigtigste opdagelse var, at den kapitalistiske økonomi viste lange cykliske bølger af op- og nedture der varede mellem 50-60 år per cyklus. En Kondratieff cyklus går gennem fire forskellige faser af gavnlig inflation (foråret), stagflation (sommer), gavnlig deflation (efteråret), og deflation (vinter).

Begreber, der nøje svarer til horoskopets kvadranter (de klassiske tetratopos) ... blot er det ikke umiddelbart klart hvilke(n) astrologisk(e) indflydelse(r), der giver nævnte cyklus, der svinger en del i længde.

Saturns cyklus er på ca. 30 år og Uranus' på 84 år, så hvis det skal være et enkelt himmellegeme, der skaber Kondratieffs cyklus, så skal det ligge mellem disse to. Dette er området for Kentaurerne, en slags asteroider, hvoraf Chiron er den mest kendte.

Chirons cyklus er på ca. 50 år, hvilket umiddelbart ville passe på længden af en Kondratieff-cyklus. Eneste problem er, at hans cykler synes at være af lidt forskellig længde ... 40-60 år er nævnt ... så der kræves nok mere en et enkelt himmellegemes indflydelse for at forklare den astrologisk.

Konkrete tal: Siden den sidste Kontratieff cyklus sluttede omkring 1949, har vi set gavnlig inflation 1949-1966, stagflation 1966-1982, gavnlig deflation 1982-2000 og er altså inde i en 'Kondratieff-vinter' i disse år.

Vi har i denne cyklus haft et 'forår' på 17 år, en 'sommer' på 16 år, et 'efterår' på 18 år ... og må derfor påregne at 'vinteren' varer 5-8 år endnu.
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Jupiter er nærmere Jorden end i 50 år

Der er godt nyt til alle dem, der aldrig har kunnet finde Uranus på nattehimlen. Lige nu leder Jupiter let på vej

08:47 - 16. sep. 2010 | Ritzau /Nyheder

Solsystemets største planet, Jupiter, kommer natten til tirsdag i næste uge tættere på Jorden, end den har været siden 1963. Og i disse dage har dens bane bevæget Jupiter i en position i forhold til Solen og Jorden, så den lyser op hele natten.

Det giver i disse dage glade amatører en sjælden mulighed for at kikke nærmere på såvel Jupiter som på en anden og endnu fjernere planet, Uranus, hvis ellers himmelen er klar, oplyser astrofysiker Michael Linden-Vørnle fra Tycho Brahe Planetariet.

Jupiter er nemlig nem at spotte med det blotte øje hele natten, hvor den lyser op på den sydøstlige horisont som en meget klar stjerne. Med en almindelig håndkikkert, der forstørrer syv gange, kan man også få øje på Jupiters fire største måner - Io, Europa, Ganymede og Callisto. Bedst er det dog med lidt bedre kikkerter af den slags, som jægere og fugleentusiaster bruger, og som forstørrer tyve gange, oplyser Michael Linden-Vørnle.

Også normalt kan man have fornøjelse af at studere Jupiter, bare med en almindelige kikkert.

- Men det unikke lige nu er, at Jupiter kan bruges som ledestjerne til at spotte Uranus, som ellers ikke er til at finde, hvis man lige kender til astronomi, siger astrofysikeren.

Uranus står mindre end en grad nordligere end Jupiter og lidt oven for. Den kan ses i en kikkert som lille, lyssvag og grønlig skive.

Uranus hænger næsten fem gange længere fra Jorden end Jupiter, der på tirsdag vil komme så nær som 592 millioner kilometer fra Jorden. Det er 75 millioner kilometer nærmere, end når Jupiter er længst væk, hvad den kommer igen i 2076.

Først i 2022 flytter Jupiter sig igen længere væk fra Jorden, omend kun få hundrede tusinde kilometer.

 
Kilde: http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1411724.ece#ixzz0zgl5uAuF  

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Henry Hejø - den glemte pioner

Medlemmer af Hejø-slægten, bosidddende i Norge, har netop doneret en kasse med astrologen Henry Hejø's efterladte papirer til Astrologisk Museum. Denne donation er museet særlig glad for, da den åbner for indblik i et næsten lukket kapitel af efterkrigstidens historie om dansk astrologi.

De hidtil kendte biografiske detaljer om dirigenten og astrologen Henry Hejø skrev vi om i SOPHIE nr. 30 – http://pub.asmu.dk/Download/ – hvor dette nye materiale viser ham som en myreflittig formidler af astrologien i 1950'erne. Han stiftede Institut for Astrologi i Søndeborg. Han udgavet et blad, kaldet 'Den nye Tid - astrologisk månedblad'. Han skabte et korrespondancekursus i astrologi. Han skrev lærebogs-hæfter om planeter, tegn og endda hæfter om esoterisk astrologi. Altså et overordentlig spændende bekendtskab, hvor materialet fortæller os om et betydeligt virke og ry i samtiden, mens han i dag er gået helt i glemmebogen.

Værker
Hans kilder tæller navne som Alan Leo og især Edward Whitman, hvis lærebogshæfter, han tilsyneladenede blev stærkt inspireret af, også i hæfternes layout og udstyr. De var, som det var sædvane på den tid, stencileret og duplikeret materiale, men i liggende A5-format. Altså et A4-format skåret midt over, hvilket sandsynligvis har været en rationel måde at trykke mange eksemplarer på. Tallet 400 står på forsiden af en hustabel for Danmark (56° nordlig bredde), som han prducerede, og en efemeride for 1909-11. Eksemplarerne er nummererede, så formentlig har oplaget været på 400 eksemplarer, et efter forholdene ganske stort oplag.

Materialet om Henry Hejø indeholder også et eksempel på hans udfærdigelse af skriftlige horoskoper. Det er en bog på 48 sider i kvartformat (26 x20 cm) som er lidt kortere end A4-formatet. Uhyre systematisk og ordentligt gennemgås horoskopets planeter og deres positioner sammen med en ottesiders indledning om, hvad et horoskop indeholder af symboler. Hele fremgangsmåden minder om et godt computerhoroskop fra vore dage, så om Hejø havde levet nu, ville han formentlig have elsket computeren til sit astrologiske arbejde.

Tidsskrift

Tidsskriftet 'Den nye tid' udkom med sit første nummer i juli 1955 under Uranus-Jupiter konjunktionen det år. Det havde mottoet 'Bladet, der fortæller Dem om fremtiden' og udkom altså et år før det første nummer af Irene Christensens 'Stjernerne'. Bladet eksisterer ikke mere og det udkom tilsyneladende kun i dette ene nummer. Det blev trykt i et stort antal, der slet ikke var salg i. Familien gemte på restoplaget i en årrække, indtil det hele blev makuleret på nær et enkelt eksemplar. Museet har nu det måske eneste eksemplar, der er tilbage. Det var nydeligt bogtrykt og i lommeformat (16 x 12 cm) med omslag i lidt finere papir. Det var på 20 tætbeskrevne sider, alle forfattet af Hejø selv, og havde følgende indhold:

- Den nye tid (leder) (1 s)
- Hvad er astrologi (2 s)
- Deres horoskop for juli 1955 (i alt 11 sider)
- Vædderen - 1. dekane, 2. dekane, 3. dekane (etc. for alle 12 tegn)
- Hvad er et horoskop ? (2 s)
- Hvor begynder og ender den 3. verdenskrig? (2 s m/horoskoper)
- Har de heldet med dem i juli? Lotteri- og tipschancer (2 s)
- De storpolitiske begivenheder (0,5 s)
- Er Asiens esoteriske kraft vor redning? (0,5 s)

Brevskole
Hejøs's Astrologiske Korrespondance Kursus var en serie på otte hæfter, hver på tolv sider i det karakteristiske liggende A5-format. Kartonomslag og rygtape. Meget pædagogisk bygget op med tegninger og en række spørgsmål, der skulle svares på til sidst. Alt udgivet fra Institut for Astrologi på Havretoften i Sønderborg.

Sekskantet nordpol

En rumsonde afslørede i 2007, at Saturn har en fuldstændig regelmæssig sekskant som nordpol. Den roterer stille og roligt og bevarer sin helt regelmæssige form. Astronomerne klør sig i nakken.




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The Age of Aquarius

Med til den astrologiske diskografi hører selvfølgelig også musicalen 'Hair' fra 1967, der blev spillet på Broadway i 1968, opført i Cirkusbygningen i Kbh 1972 samt filmatiseret af Milos Forman i 1979. Her er et klip fra begyndelsen af filmen efterfulgt af mega-hittet, den astrologisk inspirerede sang, 'Aquarius' :


 - se evt. mere her : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(film)

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The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds

LINER NOTES FOR 
THE ZODIAC: COSMIC SOUNDS 
ON THE WATER LABEL
By Richie Unterberger

At first glance and hearing, The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds might seem like an anomaly in the Elektra catalog. When it appeared in 1967, the label was recognized primarily for its eclectic catalog of folk recordings, and starting around 1965 for its run of extremely important folk-rock records by Love, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Tim Buckley, and others.  Just a couple of catalog numbers in advance of the album was the debut by the Doors, which would advance Elektra to a whole new level.


    The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds, however, was like none of those records. It was not so much the product of a group or artist as it was a collectively-hatched concept album, matching psychedelic mood music with spoken prose and all manner of exotic and electronic instrumentation. It was, as the subtitle boasted, "celestial counterpoint with words and music." And as the back sleeve instructed, in capital purple letters, it "MUST BE PLAYED IN THE DARK." Should there have been any doubt that it was serious, the astrological sign of each contributor listed on the back sleeve was announced, in parentheses, after each name, even for Elektra owner Jac Holzman. Artist Abe Gurvin and art director William S. Harvey concocted a suitably florid sleeve, with a mosaic of colors so bold and gaudy they nearly glowed in the dark, supplemented by huge wavy title lettering and a nocturnal backdrop.
    Divided into 12 separate tracks, one for each astrological sign, it appeared just as both psychedelic rock and astrology itself were coming into vogue in the youthful counterculture. In some respects it was similar to other instrumental psychsploitation albums of the time, with a spacy yet tight groove that could have fit into the soundtrack of 1966 Sunset Strip documentaries, played in large measure by seasoned Los Angeles session musicians. In other respects, it was futuristic, embellished by some of the first Moog synthesizer ever heard on a commercial recording, an assortment of exotic percussive instruments, and sitar. The arrangements were further decorated by haunting harpsichord and organ, along with standard mid-1960s Los Angeles rock guitar licks. For those who took the astrology as seriously as the music, there was the dramatic reading of narrator Cyrus Faryar, musing upon aspects of each astrological sign in a rich, deep voice without a hint of irony.
    Only a few of the musicians involved in the album were listed on the back cover, and much mystery has surrounded the conception and realization of the record in the ensuing years. As it happens, though, the album featured some of the creme de la creme of the Los Angeles session musician clique, as well as some notable contributors with strong ties to the early-1960s folk music that had been Elektra's backbone prior to 1965. In addition, there were precedents for albums not tied to a particular artist in the Elektra discography. Only two or three years before, the company had released a 13-volume series of Authentic Sound Effects, as well as records on how to play bass and blues guitar. The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds was not an accidental one-shot aberration from an out-of-control producer, but in fact instigated by Elektra founder and president Jac Holzman himself.


    "The idea was mine," Holzman confirms. "It was not my first choice for a concept album. But the person I broached [my first choice] to stopped returning my phone calls and stole the idea for himself. I was pissed, and then decided that the Zodiac was an even better concept, and far more hip for its time. Plus, it neatly divided itself into twelve tracks."
    Producing the album was Alex Hassilev, one-third of the Limeliters, the successful pop-folk group of the early 1960s who had recorded their debut LP for Elektra in 1960 (followed by numerous other ones for RCA). Hassilev had recently formed a production company with Mort Garson, who had arranged one of Alex's RCA albums (as well as doing some arranging for fellow Limeliter Glenn Yarborough). "Mort was going to do most of the arranging, I was going to do most of the producing, and we were going to make millions of dollars," says Hassilev today. "But of course, that never happened."
    Yet in the meantime, "we had sold a concept to Jac to do a series of concept albums called 'The Sea,' 'The City,' and I think there was another one as well. He went for it." But Rod McKuen did his own album matching words about the sea to arrangements by Anita Kerr on the early '67 Warner Brothers LP called The Sea, which to Hassilev's recollection "kind of torpedoed our project. As I recall, Rod was supposed to be part of that project; that's how we sold it. And Rod jumped ship, and went over to Warners with Anita Kerr.  That was definitely a bitter pill, 'cause [Garson] wrote a bunch of music that never saw the light of day."
    Something of the original sea concept did survive on the Dusk 'Til Dawn Orchestra's Sea Drift LP, produced by Hassilev with an orchestra conducted by Garson, and released on Elektra just before The Zodiac (in fact, it bears catalog # 74008, just one digit shy of The Zodiac's #74009). In comparison to The Zodiac, according to Hassilev, the wholly instrumental Sea Drift "was a much more conventional album, a symphonic type of album. I went to England to record it with English musicians. The Dusk 'Til Dawn Orchestra was a bunch of English session players, like twelve strings and four celli and that kind of stuff. It was supposed to have had Rod McKuen on it. It was a bad scene.
     "In any event, we went ahead with The Zodiac. Mort was of course assigned the task of writing the music for the individual signs." The Juilliard-educated Garson, already in his early forties, was a seasoned veteran of the industry in many capacities, including composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and pianist. Most famous as the co-author of Ruby & the Romantics' 1963 #1 smash "Our Day Will Come," he'd also done arrangements for discs by Doris Day, Mel Torme, the Lettermen, Esther Phillips, and the Hollyridge Strings (famous for their easy-listening adaptations of Beatles songs). It was not, to say the least, the average resume for an artist engaged in any role on a recording for Elektra Records, the most adventurous independent label of the 1960s. And Hassilev was not the sort of producer one might have been expected to get entrusted with an experimental concept album about astrology. Not only was his background commercial folk, but he had barely produced anything prior to The Zodiac, although he did have one of the first home studios in Los Angeles, where Carole King used to cut demos in her early days in the city.


    But Elektra was the type of label to take risks that others might have dismissed as reckless. "Jac, being a very adventurous guy, sonically speaking, really believed in finding new things," enthuses Hassilev. "He bought the idea of doing a kind of electronic score for this project. And Mort assembled this group of musicians, including Paul Beaver." Beaver would play the electronic instruments on The Zodiac, including the Moog synthesizer, a creation at that point known to few, and used by many fewer.
    "Paul in those years was primarily known as a film music effects guy," says Hassilev. "I went down to Paul Beaver's warehouse with Mort to check out what we could use in the way of devices Paul had. He had a warehouse in downtown L.A. filled from one end to the other with these arcane instruments, theremins, and strange beasts that he created himself. So we hired him to be on the sessions, and Emil Richards."
    Percussionist Richards boasted a staggering array of credits. Over the course of his lengthy career he has worked with everyone from Henry Mancini, Dizzy Gillespie, and George Harrison to Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert, as well as on over 1700 movies. "At that time, I recorded with just about everybody who came through the West Coast," he remembers. "I'm a friend of Mort Garson's; I was his percussionist, usually did a lot of his stuff. I have a collection of over 700 percussion instruments, and he wanted some strange stuff, I guess.
    "I turned him onto Paul Beaver, who at that time was one of the only guys into electronics. Paul and I had a group going at that time called AHA, the Aesthetic Harmony Assemblage. Paul was the first guy to use the Moog out here; he introduced the synthesizer to the West Coast." The Zodiac, according to Richards, was not the first album to use the Moog synthesizer: "I think we preceded [it] with an album I did for Uni called Stones. We took everybody's birth stone, and I wrote twelve songs. I was actually, I think, the first one to use the Moog on the West Coast. [The Zodiac] was closely behind this."
    Adds Hassilev, "The AES [Audio Engineering Society] convention was taking place as we were getting this album together. It may have even been going on during the recording of it. I do know that I went down to the AES convention to check out this thing called the Moog synthesizer, and to meet Robert Moog. And I was just bowled over by this thing. We decided to hire the Moog, which was the only existing one in town at that time. I mean, nobody had started to work with this instrument yet. We hired it right out of the AES convention and brought it here. But of course, it didn't play in real time. We overdubbed it."


    Although the assortment of percussive and electronic instruments was pretty advanced for its time, the sessions for the album were actually pretty straightforward. Hassilev: "Mort wrote the score, and pretty much it was all written out, every note. There was probably some slight improvisation of the percussion. We recorded the album, I believe, probably in four sessions. The narration, of course, was overdubbed, but the tracks were played live. All parts of the tracks, except the Moog."
    Recording live presented its own challenges, particularly in "capturing Paul Beaver's sounds and all of Emil Richards's stuff. I mean, Emil ran around that studio like a sprinter. I'm not kidding! Because the score called for him to play five or six different instruments during the course of one song. Some of this stuff was large. He would run from one to the other, and play them on cue. It was something that really hadn't been attempted quite in that way before, at least not to my knowledge.
    "Emil had just an incredibly large collection of stuff that arrived in a semi truck. He had the water chimes; they're a chime that has a doppler effect. It goes"--here Hassilev breaks off to mimic a swift high-to-low descension--"'Baaawwmm.' [It's] literally a set of metal plates that are lowered manually into water. He also had a fantastic bamboo instrument that makes the most incredible percussive rattling noise." The water chimes, clarifies Richards, are "four brass discs; I commissioned someone to build this instrument for me. You dropped them into a trough of water, and that microtonally bends the pitch downward. " The bamboo instruments, he adds, were "angklungs, bamboo rattles from Southeast Asia."
    It was the Moog that supplied the freakiest swoops and textures on The Zodiac, and the greatest challenge to capture on tape. "The Moog, while a wonderful instrument, had very unstable oscillators," explains Hassilev. "They were good, but you had to warm up the machine. It took time for everything to stabilize. And then it wouldn't necessarily stay in frequency, which meant the tuning would go out. It had problems. It wasn't until later, when they were able to stabilize the output of the oscillators, starting with the ARP synthesizer and others, that they became more accepted."
    Filling out the personnel for The Zodiac on more conventional guitars, bass, and drums were top Los Angeles sessionaires, although unfortunately the precise names and details have been lost to memory. Hassilev is fairly certain that bassist Carol Kaye and drummer Hal Blaine--both at the very top of the list for rock, pop, and session calls in Los Angeles in the 1960s--comprised the rhythm section. Holzman thinks Blaine was on the date for sure; Cyrus Faryar remembers Bud Shank playing bass flute, and Mike Melvoin, who played on numerous jazz and pop sessions (including some harpsichord on the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds), contributing keyboards. Kaye, who did uncounted sessions in the 1960s (including some others with Garson, and some other dates with Beaver), recently confirmed after listening to the record that it is indeed her on bass: "That's me on the whole thing. [The] double paradiddles, tons of slides, and the octave licks [are] typical of my playing." Garson, she adds, "was an extremely talented arranger. I can see his face now, sort of smiling here and there as if he was up to some mischief."


    Once the music was finished, Moog and all, one more component would be needed to put it to bed. This was the spoken astrological narrative, written by Jacques Wilson, and voiced by Cyrus Faryar. Like Hassilev, Faryar was a young veteran of the early-1960s folk boom, having played with Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (led by ex-Kingston Trio member Guard, and also including Judy Henske) and the Modern Folk Quartet. Also a session musician who played on some of Fred Neil's finest records, he was well known to Hassilev. "Cyrus has an absolutely gorgeous voice," beams Hassilev. "That's why I suggested him for the role."
    "Although I had a chance to review the text, one never knows how it is going to sound," says Jac Holzman. "Because Cyrus was new to this type of recording, as were we all, I didn't listen carefully to his track, since I intended to have him redo it against the finished stereo music track. The musicians' union frowned on overdubs, but with him there in the studio, who was to know. After the sessions, when I listened closely to how Cyrus fitted into the music, plus the quality of his reading, we just kept most of everything he did. It was wonderful."
    "I had a great and grand time doing it," says Faryar. "The funny thing about it was that I got paid, like, a couple of hundred bucks. For some reason, years after that, I was thinking, 'You know, I didn't get my whole paycheck.' This is like ten years or eight years or something after it was all over. I went down to Elektra one day and talked to Suzanne Helms, the lioness in charge of everything down here. They looked it up and they'd been holding this $800 check for me for like, about, eight years! The rest of my session money, for doing the job."


    Over the years Faryar (who eventually recorded a couple of albums himself on Elektra in the early 1970s) came across admirers of The Zodiac and his narration in some of the most unexpected places. At one party he met the late Graham Bond, the brilliant but erratic British blues-jazz-rock musician noted for dabbling in the occult, who moved to the States in the late 1960s. "When Graham showed up, the scuttlebutt was that he was the illegitimate son of Aleister Crowley, legendary author, necromancer, and mystic," reminisces Faryar. "Graham never denied that, and I think he allowed the rumor to circulate and played upon it. He was sort of introduced into society at this party at some record guy's house. He was an impressive fellow--large and stocky and like a movie kind of guy, flashing eyes and the whole bit. Just checking it out to see if any of these people were real, or if they were going to fuck with his head or something like that.
    "We met, and Graham knew it [The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds] by heart! He said, 'Cyrus! Are you the bloke that made that record?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I love that record, mate, come here!' It was just hysterical. And we just became  pals. Right away, his whole facade just evaporated, and he was just this real guy. I will always remember that as a great moment."
    There would be no follow-up to The Zodiac on Elektra; there are, after all, only twelve astrological signs, all of which had been used up by a track apiece on the album. Garson, however, would go on to devote more than half a dozen LPs to separate, individual Zodiac signs on A&M, and use the Moog and electronics on obscure albums like Electronic Hair Pieces and Wozard of Id. He's more renowned, however, for scoring National Geographic, as well as doing the theme for that series. Now living in San Francisco and still composing, he declined to be interviewed for these notes, preserving some of the mysterious aura that has surrounded The Zodiac since its release. As the album became harder and harder to find over the years, its price tag followed its lyrics into the heavens, no doubt bolstered by the cover, which was eye-catching even by Elektra's own high standards.


    For years afterward, Hassilev had a studio in Los Angeles and continued to produce, working on projects as diverse as albums by Hoyt Axton and Ananda Shankar (Ravi Shankar's nephew, who combined traditional Indian music with modern electronics), a single by Seals & Crofts, and commercials with Van Dyke Parks. He's still playing as part of the Limeliters, and still proud of The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds. "What I chiefly remember is that the recording of the music for me was just a joy," he summarizes. "Working with Cyrus was wonderful, and working with Jac was great too. Jac was there for all the sessions, supervising this whole project. In that period, he was the hands-on for everything." -- Richie Unterberger

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Max Heindel - første moderne danske astrolog

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel

Max Heindel (1865-1919)

Max Heindel - born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was a Christian occultist, astrologer, andmystic. He died on January 6, 1919 at Oceanside, California, United States.

Contents [hide] 1 Early infancy 2 Life experience 3 Rosicrucian Initiate 3.1 Heindel-Steiner connection 3.2 Magnum opus 3.3 Esoteric school 4 Occult writings 4.1 Quotations 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Early infancy

He was born into the noble family Von Grasshoff, which was connected to the German Court during the lifetime of PrinceBismarck. The father of Max Heindel, Francois L. von Grasshoff, migrated to Copenhagen when he was a young man and married a Danish woman of noble birth. They had two sons and one daughter. The oldest of these sons was Carl Louis Von Grasshoff, who later adopted the pen name of Max Heindel. The father died when the eldest son was six years of age, leaving the mother and three small children in straitened circumstances. Max Heindel's infancy was thus lived in genteel poverty. His mother's self-denial was carried to such an extreme that her small income was dedicated to private tutors for her sons and daughter, so that they might eventually take their place in society as members of the noble classes.

[edit] Life experience

Heindel left home at the age of sixteen to learn engineering at the ship-yards of Glasgow, Scotland. As Chief Engineer of a trading steamer, he traveled extensively, and eventually found himself working on one of the large passenger steamers of theCunard Line plying between the America and Europe. From 1895 to 1901, he was a consulting engineer in New York City. During this time he married, the marriage being terminated by the death of his wife in 1905. A son and two daughters were born of this marriage.

In 1903, Max Heindel moved to Los Angeles, California, seeking work. After attending lectures by the theosophist C.W. Leadbeater, he joined the Theosophical Society of Los Angeles, of which he became vice-president in 1904 and 1905. He also became a vegetarian, and began the study of astrology, which gave him the key to unlocking the mysteries of man's inner nature. He met his future wife Augusta Foss around this time. However, overwork and privation brought him severe heart trouble in 1905, and for months he lay at the point of death. Upon his recovery he was more keenly aware of the needs of humanity. It is said that he spent much of the time during this illness out of his body, consciously working and seeking for the truth as he might find it on the invisible planes.

From 1906 to 1907 he started a lecture tour, in order to spread his occult knowledge. He began in San Francisco and then went toSeattle. After a course of lectures in that city he was again forced to spend some time in a hospital with valvular heart trouble. Upon his recovery, still undaunted, he once more took up his work of lecturing in the northwestern part of the United States.

[edit] Rosicrucian Initiate

Max Heindel, a photograph by the "Iguazu Falls" in Misiones, Argentina

In the fall of 1907, during a most successful period of lectures in Minnesota, he travelled to Berlin (Germany) with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis, who had been for months trying to persuade him, in order to hear a cycle of lectures by a teacher in the occult field called Rudolf Steiner. During his short stay at Germany, he developed a sincere admiration of the personality of this knowledgeable lecturer, as latter shown in the dedication of his magnum opus ("esteemed teacher and value friend"). He sat in on several lectures and had one or two interviews with Steiner and he could learn about occult truth from the founder of laterAnthroposophy, but at the same time he understood that this teacher could not help him to advance along the path of spiritualdevelopment.^[1] It was then, with his mind already made up to return, feeling that in vain he had given up a big work in America to take this trip, that Heindel reports to have been visited by a Spiritual being (clothed in his vital body).

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. As he afterwards mentions, the Elder Brother gave him information which was concise and logical and beyond anything he was capable of writing. Later, he found out that during a previous visit of the Elder Brother, he was put to a test to determine his worthiness to be messenger of the Western Wisdom Teachings. He recounts that only then he was given instruction how to reach the etheric Temple of the Rose Cross, near the German/Bohemian border, and how at this Temple he was in direct communication with and under the personal instructions of the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross. The Rosicrucian Order is described as being composed of twelve Elder Brothers, gathered around a thirteenth who is the invisible Head. These great Adepts, belonging to human evolution but having already advanced far beyond the cycle of rebirth, are reported as being among those exalted Beings who guide mankind's evolution, the Compassionate Ones.

[edit] Heindel-Steiner connection

Current research on the connection between the two seers Max Heindel and Rudolf Steiner describes that "he[Heindel] felt that what Steiner was doing was not appropriate for America where pragmatism and clear linear thinking is predominant" and "that he did not find what he was looking for there (a Western oriented spirituality that was accessible to the general public)".^[2] It is also described that Heindel's magnum opus [see following section] having a "more far-reaching body of Teachings" contains "information not otherwise available in the public domain or available without supersensible perception of an advanced degree".^[3] This body of Teachings, Western Wisdom Teachings, was further developed in Heindel's subsequent investigations and works and it is not available in Steiner or any other source as it contains material and specific clairvoyant accounts "not be found elsewhere in any occult sources"; thus, it is concluded through the available sources that "The similarities are due to a common source to both men (Rosicrucian influences and teachers)".^[4]

[edit] Magnum opus

See article: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

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 in 1909.^[5] It is a reference work in the Christian mysticism practice and in the Occult study literature, containing the fundamentals of Esoteric Christianity from a Rosicrucian perspective. The Cosmo contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary processes of man and the universe, correlating science with religion.

[edit] Esoteric school

See article: The Rosicrucian Fellowship

From 1909 to 1919, suffering a severe heart condition and with an adverse financial situation, but with an indomitable will and great energy, Max Heindel was able to accomplish the great work for the Brothers of the Rose Cross. With the help, support and inspiration of his wife Augusta Foss, to whom in August 1910 he was joined in marriage, he gave successful teaching lectures; he sent correspondence lessons to the students, who formed groups in many of the larger cities; he wrote volumes which are translated into many languages all over the world; he founded The Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909/11 at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside (California); he published the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in 1913 and, above all, he launched the Fellowship's Spiritual Healing service.

It is described that, at his death, his body dropped slowly as if loving hands were holding him and laying him down gently; as he looked up, smiling into Mrs. Heindel's face, he spoke his last words: "I am all right dear".

Last, it is worthy of mention that the work prepared by Max Heindel, has been, since then, continued through students of the Western Wisdom Teachings who, as Invisible Helpers of mankind, assist the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross to perform the Spiritual Healing around the world. This is the special work in which the Rosicrucian Order is interested^[6] and is provided according to the commands of Christ, namely, "Preach the gospel and heal the sick."

[edit] Occult writings

• The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, first edition in 1909 (ISBN 0-911274-34-0) www www2 (1911 ed.) www3 (1920 ed.)
• The Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures (ISBN 0-911274-84-7) www
• The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers - Volume I (ISBN 0-911274-89-8) www www2
• The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers - Volume II (ISBN 0-911274-90-1) www www2
• The Rosicrucian Mysteries (ISBN 0-911274-86-3) www a review www2 www3
• Letters to Students (ISBN 0-911274-09-X) www
• Gleanings of a Mystic (ISBN 0-911274-87-1) www www2
• Mysteries of the Great Operas (ISBN 0-911274-88-X) www www2
• Teachings of an Initiate (ISBN 0-911274-19-7) www
• Ancient and Modern Initiation (ISBN 0-911274-82-0) www
• The Web of Destiny (ISBN 0-911274-17-0) www www2
• Freemasonry and Catholicism (ISBN 0-911274-04-9) www www2 www3
• The Vital Body (ISBN 0-911274-16-2) www
• The Desire Body (ISBN 0-911274-03-0) www
• The Rosicrucian Principles of Child Training (ISBN 0-911274-62-6) www
• How Shall We Know Christ at His Coming? (ISBN 0-911274-64-2) www www2
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas (ISBN 0-911274-65-0) www www2
• The Mystical Interpretation of Easter (ISBN 0-911274-69-3) www
• Nature Spirits and Nature Forces (ISBN 0-911274-70-7) www
• The Message of the Stars (ISBN 0-911274-18-9) www www2
• Simplified Scientific Astrology (ISBN 0-911274-01-4) www www2
• Astro-Diagnosis - A Guide to Healing (ISBN 0-911274-06-5) www
• Occult Principles of Health and Healing (ISBN 0-911274-81-2) www
• Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine, from his 1905/6 lectures (edited 1933; Introduction by Manly Palmer Hall) www, an addendum
• New Age Vegetarian Cookbook, 492 pages

[edit] Quotations

An insight into the starting point of the author's writings:

• When a new philosophy is presented to the world it is met in different ways by different people. (...) Both these classes stand in their own light. "Set" ideas render them impervious to rays of truth.

• 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.

• Only when that co-operation is attained and perfected will man attain the higher, truer understanding of himself and of the world of which he is a part; only that can give him a broad mind and a great heart.

• Across every threshold the skeleton form of Death throws his fearsome shadow. Old or young, well or ill, rich or poor, all, all alike must pass out into that shadow and throughout the ages has sounded the piteous cry for a solution of the riddle of life—the riddle of death.

• The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

• Christ said, "The Truth shall make you free," but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Ger Westenberg. Max Heindel en The Rosicrucian Fellowship.Chapter 4 Heindel in GermanyPDF (Translation by Elizabeth C. Ray). 2009 STICHTING ZEVEN, The Hague, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73736-33-1
2. ^ David, Alexandre, Heindel-Steiner Connection and ResolutionPDF (1677 KiB). Accessed January 8, 2008
3. ^ Weber, Charles, The Heindel-Steiner Connection, 2005
4. ^ Auen, Jeff, Heindel-Steiner connection according Jeff Auen, in spiritualscience and rosicruciansophia groups
5. ^ Ger Westenberg. Max Heindel en The Rosicrucian Fellowship. Chapter 5 Messenger of the RosicruciansPDF (Translation by Elizabeth C. Ray). 2009 STICHTING ZEVEN, The Hague, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73736-33-1
6. ^ "Their agreement was this: First, That none of them should profess any other thing, then to cure the sick, and that gratis" inFama Fraternitatis, 1614

[edit] See also

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Max Heindel

• Christian Rosenkreuz
• Afterlife - Life review - Silver cord
• Age of Aquarius - Astrology - Epochs (Anthropogenesis)
• Alchemy - Astrology and alchemy - Rose Cross: Alchemy and Astrology
• Bible
• Clairvoyance - Memory of Nature - Music of the Spheres
• Christ - Second Coming
• Christian mysticism - Esoteric Christianity - Vegetarianism
• Esoteric cosmology - Plane (cosmology) - Subtle bodies
• Esoteric knowledge - Esotericism - Mysticism - Occultism - Theosophy
• Rebirth - Law of Cause and Effect
• The Rosicrucian conception of God and the scheme of evolution
• Rosicrucian Manifestos

[edit] External links

• Works by Max Heindel at Project Gutenberg
• MAX HEINDEL: A Short Biography
• Texts in Spanish and Google Earth resources
• Chronology about Max Heindel and The Rosicrucian Fellowship
• The Mystic and Occult in Max Heindel's Writings
• Description of Heindel's books
• Ancient and Modern Initiation
• Foss-Heindel Residence, where Max Heindel lived for a relatively short period of time