Peryt Shou (legal name Albert Christian Georg örgSchultz) (22 April 1873 - 24 October 1953) was a German mysticist and Germanic pagan revivalist. He is mentioned briefly by Goodrick-Clarke ('' The Occult Roots of Nazism'', 1985: 165) as a writer of novels with occult themes and a significant figure in the post-

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

German occult movement. During

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

, he apparently went without being molested. He was born the son of an innkeeper in Kroslin near Wolgast in

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

. Schultz studied in Berlin and devoted himself to poetry, painting and eventually the secret sciences. During the course of his career he authored some forty books, most of which have been forgotten and lost in obscurity. However, he remains one of the most important esotericists of 20th-century Germany. This is mainly because his works, although obscure, were nevertheless extremely influential on other German occultists and esotericists of the day. His writings are known to have influenced Walter Nauhaus, the co-founder of the

Thule Society The Thule Society (; german: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the ''Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum'' ("Study Group for Germanic Antiquity"), was a German occultist and '' Völkisch'' group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, n ...

(Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 143).

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...

, while in Berlin showing his paintings, wrote in his diary for 11 February 1932: " Krumm-Heller_.html" ;"title="Krumm-Heller.html" ;"title="Krumm-Heller">Krumm-Heller ">Krumm-Heller.html" ;"title="Krumm-Heller">Krumm-Heller here with Peryt Shou".

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*Odinist Library
The Life of Peryt Shou
German occultists Germanic mysticism 1873 births 1953 deaths German modern pagans Adherents of Germanic neopaganism Modern pagan writers {{Germany-reli-bio-stub

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