Johannes Hans Balzli (11 February 1864 in

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– 10 September 1939 in

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) was an Austrian/German author, newspaper editor, Theosophist and Armanist, most notable for his biography of

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

, entitled, ''"Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit - 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

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

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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 two of these predictions in ''Prana'' in 1917.

Written works

* ''"Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" ''.

, 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'' by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 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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* 1864 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Austrian people 20th-century German people Austrian male writers Austrian occult writers German Theosophists Occultism in Nazism German male writers {{Nazi-stub

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