[Seelenbräute und Vampirismus] [Two articles combined as one.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] [Begin: Seelenbräute und Vampirismus. Franz Hartmann, M.D. Lotusblüten 6, no. 38 (November 1895), 785-796] A vampire is a spirit which possesses a person and saps the life force of the person whom it possesses, draining their nerves […]
[Über die “Geheimlehre” von H. P. Blavatsky und ihre Quelle] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, in two volumes of over 700 and 800 pages respectively, may rightly be called the greatest work that has appeared since the beginning of the Christian era, and it is […]
[Einige praktische Winke über Konzentration und Meditation] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] “If a man dies with his whole mind firmly fixed on a being whom he loves from his heart, then when he separates from the body he merges into the nature of that loved one. Whoever worships me […]
[Die Vorausbestimmung des Geschlechts bei der Erzeugung Vom Standpunkte der occulten Wissenschaft aus betrachtet.] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] Contemporary stupidity always finds far more admirers than a truth which the masses are not mature enough to understand. The desire to procure male or female offspring at will has brought the […]
[Prometheus und Arjuna] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] Two masterpieces, which must be counted among the greatest of world literature because their content and form reflect the deepest spirit of a cultural epoch, have just been published by Eugen Diederichs in Jena. It is the Prometheus of Aeschylus in a German […]
[Radscha Yoga, Hatha Yoga und Tantrika oder, Weisse und schwarze Magie und Hexerei.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] Before we engage in a discussion of the laws which are capable of producing magical effects, we must first of all determine what is to be understood by the term “magic.” Magic […]
[Reinkarnation und Atavismus] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[1] A great deal has already been written about “reincarnation,” re-embodiment or “incarnation” of the elements which make up the human organism, and yet the most erroneous views still prevail in general; because in this matter, as in all teachings that deal with such […]
[Der wissenschaftliche Beweis der Unsterblichkeit und die occulte Philosophie] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] The most important riddle, the solution of which has occupied thinking humankind from primeval times, is the question of immortality, or, to put it more correctly, the question of the persistence of individual self-consciousness after the death […]
[Die geheime Bedeutung des Kreuzes] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] There is no real mystic, and certainly no educated “cleric” who does not know that behind the commonly assumed external meaning of the symbols of Christianity there is a deeper meaning, which the great multitude of people may not know, and […]
JACOB BOEHME, “the god-taught philosopher” and greatest German mystic of the sixteenth century, was a poor and uneducated shoemaker: nevertheless he wrote a great many books, and his writings have furnished the foundations upon which most of the greatest German philosophers have built the systems of their philosophies, a fact that can be […]