Tag: Theosophical Society in Germany

  • Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom

    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. β€œThere’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…