In his book
"The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception"
(1909), in chapter five entitled "The relation of man to God", Max Heindel
put the following diagram:
But what Max
Heindel did not specify is that he did not elaborate this diagram, he took it
from an article published by The
Theosophist journal, December 1899, v .21, p.146-157, written by A. Schwarz,
and entitled "Study on the relation of man to God":
And contrary
to the Max Heindel’s diagram, the original diagram shows a connection between
the Divine Hierarchy and humanity, which justifies the title of the article,
while Max Heindel omitted that aspect (but still he put the same title in his
chapter).
I suspect
that the reason why Max Heindel omitted that aspect is because he did not want
to be accused of plagiarism (he even reversed the diagram), but also because he
did not understand that connection very well, since in his chapter he speaks
nothing about it, while the original article did it.
So, this indicates
to me, that probably Max Heindel simply put this diagram in his book to impress
his readers, but without really understanding what it represents.
Because the
following diagram of the original article, Max Heindel no longer dared to put
it:
And the Max Heindel's explanation in his chapter five is
very simplistic in comparison with the Mr. Schwarz’s explanation, although,
unfortunately Mr. Schwarz has mixed original Theosophy with Neo-Theosophy.
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