Carl William Hansen (11 October 1872 – 3 August 1936) was a

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, Luciferian, wandering bishop, and

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. Born in

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and first initiated into

Martinism Martinism is a form of Christian mysticism and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his state of material privation from his divine source, and the process of his return, called 'Reintegration'. As a mystical traditio ...

in 1898 by Alphonse Wallen, Hansen used the pseudonym Ben Kadosh to publish ''Den ny morgens gry: verdensbygmesterens genkomst'' ("The Dawn of a New Morning: The Return of the World's Master Builder") in 1906. Inspired by the French

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movement, and such writers as Carl Kohl, his major interests seems to have been

alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

and

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. Until 1905 he was in communication with Swedish playwright and alchemist

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.Welblund, Aage: Den sidste Guldmager og Kabbalist, Social-demokraten, 19 May 1946 (newspaperarticle), and Pedersen, Bjarne Salling + Madsen, Peder Byberg: Den Hellige Soen, 2006. Some of Hansen's occult ideas inspire the Neo-Luciferian Church today.The Neo-Luciferian Church . Retrieved on 30 October 2006 In September 1921

Theodor Reuss Albert Karl Theodor Reuss (; June 28, 1855 – October 28, 1923) also known by his neo-Gnostic bishop title of Carolus Albertus Theodorus Peregrinus was an Anglo-German tantric occultist, freemason, journalist, singer and head of Ordo T ...

issued fringe masonic charters to Hansen for Gnostic Primas, Memphis & Misraim,

Ordo Templi Orientis Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.; ) is an occult initiatory organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The origins of the O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occultists Carl Kellner, Heinrich Klein, Franz Hartmann and T ...

and the

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.Lomholt, Sigurd: Vinkelfrimureriet : irregulære og bedrageriske Frimurer-Riter samt det danske Vinkelfrimureri's Historie i Nutiden. Copenhagen 1931. In 1923 he engaged in the founding of a Martinist lodge in Denmark, later dissolved and rebuilt as the lodge The Three Columns. This lodge formed part of ''The Danish Grand Orient'', chartered by

Joanny Bricaud Jean (or Joanny) Bricaud (11 February 1881, Neuville-sur-Ain, Ain – 24 February 1934), also known as Tau Jean II, was a French student of the occult and esoteric matters. Bricaud was heavily involved in the French neo-Gnostic movement. He was ...

in Lyon as ''Grand Orient de la vraie et haute Maçonnerie ésoterique et gnostique du Danemark.'' The Danish Grand Orient worked until 1929 where it merged with the ''Grand Orient of Denmark and the North'' and formed ''The Grand Lodge of Denmark'', an irregular Masonic body. Despite his livelihood in

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, Hansen listed himself as a

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for Hartmann's 1927 edition of ''Who's Who in Occultism''. Hansen died from a heart attack at the age of 64. Biographies of Hansen have been written by Peder Byberg Madsen and Bjarne Salling Pedersen and included in the 2006 reissue of ''Den Ny Morgens Gry, Lucifer-Hiram, Verdensbygmesterens Genkomst''.

References

External links

"The Dawn of a New Morning: the Return of the World's Master-builder"
(2010 English translation) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hansen, Carl William Danish male writers People from Copenhagen 1872 births 1936 deaths Danish Luciferians