Johannes Hans Balzli, more commonly known as Johannes Balzli, was an Austrian/German author, newspaper editor,

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and Armanist, most notable for his biography of

Guido von List Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List (5 October 1848 – 17 May 1919), was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was ...

, entitled, ''"Guido v. List:

Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit ''Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen'' is a book written by Johannes Balzli in 1917 on the Armanic occultist Guido von List. The English translation of the title is ''Guido v. List - The R ...

- Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" ''. ("Guido v. List - The Rediscoverer of Ancient Aryan Wisdom - His Life and His Work.")

Biography

The biography on List was published while Theosophists acknowledged List's nationalist popularization of their doctrines, that was published in

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by the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft in 1917, and republished later in the 20th century by Adolf Schleipfer. This biography of List was the only book length biography of List that exists and indeed that has ever been written. Balzli was the secretary of the

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and editor of occult magazine ''Prana (occult magazine)'' (1909–19) of which was initially edited by astrologer Karl Brandler-Pracht. During 1916 and 1917 List wrote several articles on the approaching national

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, which was supposed to be realized once the Allies had been defeated, Balzli published 2 of these predictions in ''Prana'' in 1917.

Written works

* ''"Guido v. List:

- Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" ''.

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, Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft, 1917. ("Guido v. List - The Rediscoverer of Ancient Aryan Wisdom - His Life and His Work.") * ''Magisch okkulte Unterrichtsbriefe'': zehn Lehrbriefe zur Entwicklung der Willenskraft und der okkulten Fähigkeiten / bearb. republished in 2002 by Schikowski * ''Okkultistische Unterrichtsbriefe'': 10 Lehrbriefe zur Entwickelung d. Willenskraft u. d. okkulten Fähigkeiten * ''Das Problem des Cölibats vom Standpunkte des Okkultismus : T. 1. ' * ''Eurhythmie''

References

The Occult Roots of Nazism ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935'' is a book about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria betwe ...

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, pp. 27, 45 and 47. *Flowers' introduction to The Secret of the Runes translated by Dr. Stephen E. Flowers Ph.D.

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