Marc Jones left high school early in order to launch himself into a lifelong career as a freelance writer. He started out writing scenarios for the very early movie industry, then found his true vocation in the esoteric, with particular application in astrology. He went back to school, eventually earning his PhD, founded and developed the Sabian Assembly in order to test his approach to the spiritual. He served a Presbyterian congregation as pastor for five years, and worked for a publishing company for seven years, always in parallel with the Sabian project. He traveled back and forth across this country for many years giving talks on astrology and welcoming new students into the Sabian Assembly. At the same time he was producing a series of eleven ground-breaking, classic textbooks in astrology. Here is how he shared the ambiance of his efforts with his students in 1941:
“Will you step into this workshop for a little, and have a visit with the mill of accomplishment here. It is fairly late at night, and I have the windows down to hold in the noise of the typewriter, although it is a hot sultry New York evening in summer. Once in a while I go into the living room, up front in the apartment, and join Priscilla in the glorious breeze off the Hudson River. Out before us are the lights of Palisades Park... Below us is the park and people, with the streaming cars out on the Henry Hudson Parkway... I have been at work, back here in the shop on the court, on the blue letters and white letters that must be ready before our departure for the convention in Cleveland next week. Here are four articles for American Astrology. One has gone to the printer, the second I am correcting for the editorial staff... Here in one pile is the new Aristotle series, twenty-six lessons in first draft, three to be revised