Neue Metaphysische Rundschau.
Eine unabhängige Monatsschrift fur philosophische, psychologische und okkulte Forschungen / Monatsschrift zum Studium d. prakt. Metaphysik, Psychologie, oriental. Philosophie u. d. gesamten Okkultismus / Monatschrift fur philosophische, okkulte und psychologische Forschungen in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Religion.
Non sit alterius, qui suus esse potest-Paracelsus
1897-1917 Monthly, bimonthly
Gross-Lichterfeide / Zehlendorf bei Berlin, Germany. Language: German. Publisher: Paul Zillmann Verlag und Antiquariat. Editor: Paul Zillmann.
Succeeds: Metaphysiche Rundschau
1/1, August 1897-1917. 36- 56 pp. (varies widely), 6 x 9. 12 Marks a year. N.S. began 1902, with volume number changing from vol. 5 to vol. 9; the series changed again with vol. 18/22. Most volumes carry as a frontispiece a high-quality picture or photograph of a notable spiritualist, swami, or scholar. The journal included as supplements Archiv fur Biomagnetismus, Metaphysische Bucherei, Theosophisches Forum; Rundschau fur Astrologie, Phrenologische Rundschau, and Im Lotusheim (addressed to children and edited by Zillman's wife, Helene). The journal featured long submissions, really small books, broken up and run serially, such as Franz Hartmann's Adventure among the Rosicrucians, and reprints of classics like the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer. The issue for June-July 1898 notably reprinted a long discussion from the Contemporary Review of a cactus attracting attention in Mexico-Anhalonium Lewinii (peyote)-with its psychotropic effects. There are articles by Swami Vivekananda, Sri Mahatma Agamya Guru Paramahansa, and Rama Prasad, and by various Westerners on "yoga" and also articles or excerpts from Zillman, H.P. Blavatsky, Ferdinand Maack, Papus (Gerard Encausse), "Peryt Schou" (Albert Schultz), Max Sebaldt, Karl Haase, Sven Hedin, Meister Eckhart, Alan Leo, Willis F. Whitehead, Charles Johnston, E.T. Hargrove, W.Q. Judge, Annie Besant, J.D. Buck, Vivekananda, Paul Carus, Florence Farr, C.H.A. Bjerregaard, and others. It also carried contributions by by "Ariosophists" such as Lanz von Liebenfels (Jorg Lanz-Liebenfels) and Guido von List-whose books Zilllmann published. The journal was a who's who of German metaphysics and mysticism and of contemporary New Thought. It had very close relationships with the English-speaking world, especially with the Metaphysical Magazine, and published, in addition to the authors mentioned above, contribution by and advertisements for Kate Boehme, Hiram Erastus Butler, P. Braun, W.J. Colville, J.H. Dewey, Ursula Gesterfeld, Eleanor Kirk, Paul Tyner, and other New Thought figures. Zillmann (1872-1940) was a leading German Theosophist and published Freeman B. Dowd's Der Doppel Mensch, Will Garver's Bruder des dritten Grades (both translated by his wife, Helene) and J.D. Buck's Mystic Masonry. He reviewed his friend K.S.L. Guthrie's books and carried advertising for his Brotherhood of the Eternal Covenant but was wary of providing the details of his sexual practice: "We should not publish a critical discussion of [Guthrie's] book from the occult standpoint because we would have to touch upon much of what is most unknown and it would be misleading for many. The sex relations of men touch the greatest mysteries of the universe and their abuse leads to destruction. Misunderstanding is almost the same thing as abuse."