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Avatars of Bob in the Weimar Republic
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From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 17:25:38 GMT
Message-Id: <1203.9202071725@sun019.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
To: subgenius <@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Avatars of Bob in the Weimar Republic
Weimar germany seems to have been a particularly fruitful period for
messiahs, deities, sects and the like. Every time I read about the
period, I discover a new one. Some of them had their roots back in the
kaisers time, while others sprang from nowhere. Most were suppressed
by the Nazis along with the freemasons but others (Thule Society,
World Ice Theory) seem to have continued to flourish under fascism.
For all I know some of them might be still out there. Has anyone ever
seen a book on this subject? A likely title would be "religious cults
in weimar germany" or some such. (english preferred but I'm still
interested if its in german.) If there's any interest, I could
separately write up what little I've found out about some of these
luminaries for the Subgenius digest. So far I could write about :-
Johannes Itten; Bauhaus teacher and thistle theoretician; organiser
for Mazdaznan a Leipzig based pseudo-oriental cult.
Hans Hoerbiger; Engineer and author of the World Ice Theory - a sort
of glacial cosmology with overtones of Velikovsky leading inexorably
to the natural domination of the nordic races.
Johannes Baader; Oberdada; gave "christ is a sausage" sermon in Berlin
cathedral 1918; clear winner of congress of messiahs, thuringia 1930
Gustav Meyrink; author and fraudulent banker; theosophist,
astral-traveller and disciple Bo Yin Ra (another pseudo-oriental
fraud)
There are others that I know practically nothing about, Bo Yin Ra is one,
another intriguing one is Oskar Ernst Bernhardt who apparently "founded
the Gralsbewegung (grail movement) in the Tyrol, claiming to be the
the new son of god who had come to fulfil the mission unfinished by
christ and to bring gods final word to mankind. The movement continued
despite his death in 1941."
Let me know.
John McMillan
These whipping times and this my day which burns as an oven. Hark!
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