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Periodical: Neue Lotusbluten

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Neue Lotusbluten.
Eine zweimonatlich erscheinendes Journal enthaltend Originalartikel und ausgewahlte ubersetzungen aus der orientalischen Literatur in bezug auf die Religionen des Ostens, okkulte Wissenschaft, Mystik und Theosophie / Ein Aufstieg zur Gralsburg. Unabhangige Zeitschrift fur Kulturtheosophie.
1908--1915? Bimonthly
Leipzig and Berlin, Germany.
Language: German.
Editor: Franz Hartmann, and after his death Dr. Paul Harald Arjuna Gravell van Jostenoode (1856-1932) and then (1914) by Bertha Reich-Gutzeit.
Publisher: Jaeger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
Succeeds: Lotusbluthen
1/1, January-February 1908-8, 1914/1915(?)

This continued Lotusbluthen in the sense that Dr. Franz Hartmann (1838-1912) was its driving force and wrote or translated most of the contents until his death. It was principally composed of translations from Indian sources, articles by Hartmann and others on general occultism, and, notably, Hartmann's "Aus meinem Leben" and "Erinnerungen an H.P. Blavatsky." Like its predecessor it was "Theosophical" in the sense of exploring a variety of occult and religious phenomena (Tibetan ritual, Pythagorean Aphorisms, the Rosicrucians, spiritualism, etc.), but not in the sense of adhering to the Theosophical Society then led by Annie Besant (Hartmann had founded his own German Theosophical Society in 1898 after breaking with the society of Katherine Tingley). On the death of Hartmann in August 1912, Dr. Paul Harald Gravell assumed the editorship, but the journal soon ceased. A table of contents for the volumes through 1913 has been prepared by Robert Hutwohl at http: 116.0.17.135/indices/NLOBLUHU.HTM.

Robert Hutwohl's comprehensive index of articles is also available.

Other Sources:ZDB: Freiburg UB; Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Munchen BSB; Erlangen-N UB; Berlin SBB Haus Unter d.Linden; Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str; Mönchengladbach StB; Halle/S UuLB; Leipzig DNB; Dresden SLUB, ZB.
Issues:Neue Lotusbluten V1 1908
Neue Lotusbluten V2 1909
Neue Lotusbluten V3 1910
Neue Lotusbluten V4 1911
Neue Lotusbluten V5 1912
Neue Lotusbluten V6 1913
Claude-Generated Themes:   Neue Lotusblüten is Franz Hartmann's German Theosophical monthly, successor to his Lotusblüten and explicitly devoted, by its own masthead, to translations from Oriental literature bearing on the religions of the East, occult science, mysticism and Theosophy. The vocabulary is thoroughly Blavatskyan — Theosophy, adept, mahatma, karma — and the sampled matter moves from the Johannine Logos to Eastern scripture, capturing Hartmann's signature fusion of Theosophy, Christian mysticism, and comparative Oriental religion. Karma and reincarnation supply the doctrinal spine, and a mediumistic strand appears only within that theosophical frame. It stands as a first-tier organ of German Theosophy rather than a spiritualist paper.

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