The Religion of the Stars

Under its new identity the Church of Light presented its teaching as the Religion of the Stars, a phrase Benjamine used to describe a complete religious and philosophical system built around astrology as a symbolic language for cosmic and psychological order, rather than astrology as an isolated divinatory technique. The Church's curriculum, ultimately comprising 21 courses across the three branches of astrology, alchemy and magic, was published as the Brotherhood of Light lessons and later reissued as the Church of Light series, and it remains in print and in use by the organization today, largely unchanged from Benjamine's original texts written under his Zain pen name between the 1910s and his death in 1951.

The Church's decision to incorporate as a religious body to escape astrology specific regulation makes it a notable case study in how American esoteric organizations have used religious liberty protections to secure legal standing for practices secular law sometimes treated as fraud or public nuisance, a strategy echoed by other astrological and esoteric groups facing similar municipal and state restrictions through the twentieth century. The Church of Light continues to operate today from the Los Angeles area, offering its correspondence courses, a members' journal, and public astrological education, making it one of the longest continuously operating astrological teaching organizations in the United States.