Heinrich Arnold Krumm-Heller (15 April 1876 – 19 April 1949) was a German

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, and founder of

Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua The Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA) is a Rosicrucian Order originally established by German occultist Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller, and acts in Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries. In Brazil, it was established in 1932 and has had its headqua ...

(FRA), a Hermetic order in

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. He also was a German naval intelligence agent during the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution () was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It saw the destruction of the Federal Army, its ...

and

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. A prolific writer, he published more than 30 esoteric books, novellas, history books, biographies, as well as countless articles in his magazine ''Rosa Cruz'' and similar publications.

Biography

Arnold Krumm-Heller was born in Salchendorf, Germany in April 1876. He left Germany "with permission of the military authority" at age eighteen and worked in Chile, Peru, and Mexico mostly as a scientist. In Mexico he began to methodically study occultism,

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, becoming familiar with the works of

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, Papus and

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. Between 1907 and 1909 he studied medicine in Paris and returned to Mexico in 1910.Heribert von Feilitzsch, ''Felix A. Sommerfeld: Spymaster in Mexico, 1908 to 1914'', Henselstone Verlag LLC., Amissville, VA, 2012, p. 285 Krumm-Heller became the private doctor of the future Mexican president

Francisco Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and Public figure, statesman, who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in Ten Tragic ...

in the beginning of 1911. According to the American Military Intelligence Division MID, Krumm-Heller worked for

Felix A. Sommerfeld Felix A. Sommerfeld (May 28, 1879 – ?) was a German secret service agent in Mexico and the United States between 1908 and 1919. He was chief of the Mexican secret service under President Francisco I. Madero, worked as a diplomat and arms buy ...

in the Mexican Secret Service in January 1912. In 1913, again reporting to the German naval intelligence agent Sommerfeld, Krumm-Heller became a secret agent for

Venustiano Carranza José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920), known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920, during the Mexican Re ...

who sent him on diplomatic missions to Texas. Then-Governor

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, with the prodding from the German secret service agent, was the first U.S. state executive to formally recognize the

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as the legitimate government of Mexico. Carranza also dispatched Krumm-Heller on diplomatic missions to Argentina and Chile. In June 1913 the government of

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arrested Krumm-Heller, ostensibly for hosting a "meeting of socialists and anarchists."Heribert von Feilitzsch, ''Felix A. Sommerfeld: Spymaster in Mexico, 1908 to 1914'', Henselstone Verlag LLC., Amissville, VA, 2012, p. 286 Germany intervened on his behalf and effected his release. Documents in the German National Archives show that the German government thought Krumm-Heller to be weird at best, maybe even mentally deranged, but loyal and fanatically committed to the Fatherland. Appearing in El Paso in the summer of 1913, the trained doctor met up again with Carranza and served as a colonel in the Constitutionalist army. He became General

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's chief of artillery, an occupation many German and American mercenaries such as

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, and

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pursued. Artillery required precision, thorough knowledge of mathematics, and most artillery pieces used at the time were either German or French-made canon. In the German army, training focused on the effective use of canon in combination with cavalry attacks, a strategy that Mexican revolutionaries knew very little about. After the outbreak of

in August 1914, Krumm-Heller worked for the German Naval Intelligence Service. On a mission to Germany, British authorities arrested him at Falmouth as a spy. Because of his Mexican citizenship he could resume his trip to Berlin where the agent spent the rest of the war as the military attaché for the Mexican embassy. While in Mexico he also founded the

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, a Germanic-imperialist order, with Carranza as head and himself as secretary. In his published works he presented himself as a "rational nationalist". After he moved to Germany, he became a bishop in the Gnostic Church. He joined several esoteric and fraternal orders, including

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(OTO), and was a contemporary of

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(founder of the OTO) and of

Spencer Lewis Harvey Spencer Lewis (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939) was an American Rosicrucian writer, mystic and the founder of AMORC. He led AMORC as its first leader (imperator) from its creation in 1915 until his death. Early life Lewis was born ...

(Imperator of

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). He knew

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and was greatly influenced by his mystical conceptions. Aleister Crowley, while in Berlin showing his paintings, wrote in his diary for February 11, 1932: " rumm-Hellerhere with

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". "In the issue of his magazine ''Rosa Cruz'', dated April 27, 1933, he spoke of Hitler as a stormy fighter of the working class whose ideas should be adopted by all countries. It was unfortunate, Krumm-Heller opined, that the press compared Hitler with Mussolini, as there was a big difference: Mussolini stripped the Italian King of his power whereas the Germans were rendered powerless by the socialists. Krumm-Heller saw two scapegoats: the Jews and the ideals of the French Revolution. In Krumm-Heller's eyes, The Hitlerianismo should create a new philosophy, that is a new German identity. He participated in

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in the

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and the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Mizraím. In

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he received the symbolic name of Huiracocha, by which he would be known in esoteric circles. He started the FRA or Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, having become distanced from both the O.T.O. and Spencer Lewis. Krumm-Heller died in

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, in April 1949, aged 73.

Published works

* ''Mi sistema'' (1896) * ''No Fornicarás'' (1908) * Conferencias esotéricas (1909) - 1 ed -Casa editora Guerrero Hmnos * ''Humboldt'' (1910) * Trilogia heróica * ''El Zodíaco Azteca en comparación con el de los Incas'' (1910) * ''Los Tatwas y sus aplicaciones en la vida diaria'' (1911) * ''La Ley de Karma'' (1912) * ''Für Freihert und Recht'' (1916) * ''Alfredo'' (1917) * ''Hertha das Strassenmädchen'' (1917) * ''Der Rosencreuzer aus Mexico'' (1918) * ''Mexico mein Vaterland'' (1918) * ''Rosa Cruz, novela de ocultismo iniciático'' (1926) * ''Tratado de Quirología Médica'' (1927) * ''El Tatwámetro o las vibraciones del éter'' (1927) * ''El Secreto de la Suerte'' (1928) * ''Logos, Mantran, Magia'' (1930) * ''Biorritmo'' (1930) * ''Rosa Esotérica'' (1930) * ''Die Gnostische Kirche / La Iglesia Gnostica'' (1931) * ''Plantas Sagradas'' (1934) * ''Del Incienso a la Osmoterapia'' (1ed - Biblioteca del espiritu - vol -4 - ed cultura - chile 1936) * ''Arisches Weistum'' (1935) * ''Akademie für die Rechte der Völker'' (1939) * ''Osmologische Heilkunde'' (1955) * Curso de taumaturgia * El mágico poder del mantran * Las enseñanzas de la antigua fraternidad rosacruz * Curso runico

References

External links

The Invisible Basilica: Dr. Arnoldo Krumm-Heller
- a more complete biography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krumm-Heller German occult writers Rosicrucians People of the Mexican Revolution Military history of Mexico Civil wars involving the states and peoples of North America 1876 births 1949 deaths German male non-fiction writers German Freemasons