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Max Heindel

American religious leader

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Max Heindel was an American religious leader and the founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship. Heindel's teachings were heavily influenced by theosophy, and he published doctrines that were purportedly secret. The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in Seattle in 1909. Heindel's work inspired the creation of other groups, including the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.1

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