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

—  Max Heindel , book The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (1909) Introduction

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American asrologer and occultist 1865–1919

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