Franz Hartmann


Franz Hartmann was a German medical doctor, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author.

Biography

Hartmann was an associate of Helena Blavatsky and was Chairman of the Board of Control of the Theosophical Society Adyar. He collaborated with the mystic Carl Kellner. He published the journals Lotusblüthen and Neue Lotusblüten. He wrote articles on yoga and popularized the subject within Germany.
He has been described as "one of the most important theosophical writers of his time". His works include several books on esoteric studies and biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into German and was the editor of the journal Lotusblüten. He was at one time a co-worker of Helena Blavatsky at Adyar. In 1896 he founded a German Theosophical Society. He also joined and supported the far-right esotericist Guido-von-List-Society which was a modern Pagan new religious movement which promoted Wotanism, a proposed revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of openly racist Ariosophical teachings that Guido-Von-List termed Armanism.
According to Theodor Reuss he was one of the original founders of the magical order that would later be known as Ordo Templi Orientis, along with Reuss, Carl Kellner and others.

Works

  • Magic: White and Black
  • Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known as Paracelsus
  • Geomancy
  • The Talking Image of Urur
  • The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme
  • Occult Science in Medicine, United Kingdom: Theosophical Publishing Society
  • , London: T. Fisher Unwin
  • The Life of Jehoshua, the Prophet of Nazareth
  • The Principles of Astrological Geomancy
  • Correlation of Spiritual Forces
  • With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians
  • In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom Containing the History of the True and the False Rosicrucians
  • Alchemy and Astrology
  • Metafisica Medicina y Sanacion
  • Philosophy and Theosophy
  • The Four Pillars of Occult Medicine
  • An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians: A Student of Occultism
  • Among the Adepts: The Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross and Their Occult and Mysterious Powers
  • ''To Will, to Dare and to Be Silent in Magic''