Tag: German Occultism

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, and respecting the teachers and school it was being explained from […]

Dominique Johnson July 16, 2021 1 Comment

German Aryanism and the Magical Blood of the Teuton: Gobineau, Chamberlain, Guido von List and Liebenfels

The Aryan racial view that entered Fascism does not derive from the Ariosophy of Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. It is also a concept in fact, not […]

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 […]