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Occult Science in Medicine is a book by the German doctor and theosophist Franz Hartmann (1838–1912), published in 1893. The aim of the book was to raise awareness amongst doctors and medical students about valuable medical knowledge from the past that has been ignored and catalogued as occult.
Franz Hartmann (22 November 1838, Donauwörth – 7 August 1912, Kempten im Allgäu) was a German medical doctor, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author. Biography [ edit ]
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described Hartmann's book as a "philosophy of unconscious irony", in his On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, one of the essays included in Untimely Meditations (1876). In Nietzsche's words: "Take a balance and put Hartmann's 'Unconscious' in one of the scales, and his 'World-process' in the other.
The Society was founded officially on 2 March 1908. Its members included völkisch authors as well as occultists (for example Franz Hartmann and the complete membership of the Vienna Theosophical Society). Some inner members of the List Society participated in the activities of the Hoher Armanen-Orden (High Armanen-Order). [24]
Numerous essays from the two magazines were published later in book form. So e.g.: Franz Hartmann as author. Das Wesen der Alchemie, eine Abhandlung über die Chemie seelischer und geistiger Kräfte im Menschen und im Kosmos. Ullrich, Calw 1994; ISBN 3-928722-31-X; Die Erkenntnislehre der Bhagavad-gita, im Lichte der Geheimlehre betrachtet.
When Leo Tolstoy was working on his book The Thoughts of Wise People for Every Day, [15] he used a magazine of the Theosophical Society of Germany Theosophischer Wegweiser.He extracted eight aphorisms of the Indian sage Ramakrishna, eight from The Voice of the Silence [16] by Blavatsky, and one of fellow Theosophist Franz Hartmann, from the issues of 1902 and 1903, and translated them into ...
The Occult Review was a British illustrated monthly magazine published between 1905 and 1951 containing articles and correspondence by many notable occultists and authors of the day, including Aleister Crowley, Meredith Starr, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, Arthur Edward Waite, Franz Hartmann, Florence Farr, Phyllis Campbell, and Paul Brunton.
The origins of O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occultists Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Heinrich Klein, and Franz Hartmann. In its first incarnation, O.T.O. was intended to be modelled after and associated with European Freemasonry [1] and as such in its early years only Freemasons could seek admittance.