The burp of Evolutionary Astrology

Marc Jones in the Foreword to How and Why it works, finally gives a title to one of the two pamphlets that he donated to the Rosicrucian Society in 1916 (page vii):  Evolutionary Astrology. He mentions this donation again in the Foreword to

He says he labored long and hard for this little pamphlet, but that is common, where so much thought is distilled and rebadged into a whole.  Writing is hard work, so they say, because there is so much to take into account and either too much passion, in which case just letting out is like a burp, or too much thought in which case it is stillborn.

For Marc, his work illustrated by George Winslow Plummer for Plummer’s Mercury Publishing Company that he had founded in 1916.  Plummer also launched Mercury, a quarterly, as the official periodical of the Societas Rosicruciana in America. As Marc was  a Rosicrucian as well as a photo-playwright so it is natural that he would join that endeavor.   But in 1920 Plummer quit his secular job and become the full-time executive of the Society, a real schism occured with Marc:  the War was over, his divorce from Mrs. Rogers finalized and his photoplay writing days at end so he was in New York City like a million other veterans to pick up and restart their life: it was a humbling experience.

There was a second “donation” to the Rosicrucians as well.  This one is the outline of the what he called the Key Principles of Astrology, that was slated to appear after the Key Truths of Occult Philosophy ( available on Amazon for about $20.00). This was later re-distributed as Temple Astrology to Sabian students and available to the public for a fee.