Tag: Aryanism
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Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race
SUMMARY Most importantly, without recognizing the Theosophy of 19th century as a system and as it was being explained, thereby respecting the teachers and school it was being explained from versus modified, simplified or distorted systems derived from it, rather than the defenses of so-called orthodox ‘Blavatskyian Theosophists’, demarcating the difference between Theosophy and Fascism,…
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Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom
The National Socialists tried to subvert German Theosophists to support the Reich. “There’s a general trend toward a post-traditional spiritualism or transcendentalism in France and Britain (and there are many good books that look at those movements in parallel to Germany). The difference I think is that it was more privatized and apolitical. The kind…
The American Minervan 