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Periodical: Mitteilungen der Rozenkreuzer Gemeinschaft

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Mitteilungen der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft.
1947--1980? monthly, bimonthly (varies)
Dusseldorf then after World War II in Darmstadt, Germany.
Language: German.
Editor: Georg Vollmer.
Publisher: Selbstverlag der Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft.
1/1, August 1947-1980 (?)
16-18 pp.

This was the official journal for Max Heindel's Rosicrucian Society in German-speaking countries, initially for Germany and then for Switzerland and Austria, as well. It was published under a shifting variety of titles: Das Rosenkreuz; Mitteilung der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft; Mitteilungsblatt fur den Mitarbeiter- und Freundeskreis der Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft in Deutschland und der Schweiz. The society had its headquarters in Düsseldorf from 1927 until 1936 (when it was banned) under the leadership of Adolf Brinkmeyer and is said to have had a journal which has not survived. It was as restarted in Darmstadt by Georg Vollmer (d. 1971) in 1945, with the first number of the reborn journal appearing in August 1947. It contained articles by Heindel and his widow, news of the organization's activities, and offerings of general occult interest.

Other Sources:ZDB: Tubingen UB; Munchen UB; Erlangen-N UB; Darmstadt ULB; Giessen UB; Frankfurt/M Inst. SozialFo; Marburg UB; Mainz UB; Leipzig DNB; Innsbruck Univ; Wien Univ.
Issues:Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Aug 1949
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Sep 1949
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Nov 1949
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Jan 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Feb 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Mar 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft May 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Jul 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Sep 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Nov 1950
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Jan 1951
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Mar 1951
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft May 1951
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Jul 1951
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Sep 1951
Mitteilungen Der Rosenkreuzer Gemeinschaft Npv 1951
Mitteilungsblatt Rosenkreuzer-gemeinschaft Mar 1957
Mitteilungsblatt Rosenkreuzer-gemeinschaft May 1957
Mitteilungsblatt Rosenkreuzer-gemeinschaft Sep 1957
Mitteilungsblatt Rosenkreuzer-gemeinschaft Ephemera
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Mitteilungen der Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft is the German bulletin of the Rosicrucian Fellowship founded by Max Heindel, and unlike much of the corpus its 'Rosicrucian' identity is the real esoteric-Christian article rather than a Masonic degree title. Its teaching is the familiar Heindelian synthesis: a spiritual astrology that runs through nearly everything, a cosmology of reincarnation and karma, an Atlantean root-race history of humanity, and a mystical Christianity concerned with overcoming fear and living rightly. Faint kabbalistic and theosophical traces mark the movement's descent from the broader occult revival without unseating its Rosicrucian core. It should be read as rosicrucianism proper — the Christian-Rosenkreutz current in its early-twentieth-century Fellowship form — with esoteric astrology and rebirth doctrine as its strongest adjacents.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Rosicrucianism