Franz Hartmann's Biography(Books)(Photos)

Franz Hartmann (1838-1912) - was a German physician,
theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, author of

Hartmann accompanied her to Europe and then returned to his
hometown in Bavaria. There he claimed to have encountered a

esoteric and occultism works. Franz Hartmann wrote esoteric
studies and a biography of Jakob Bohme and of Paracelsus. He

sect of secret Rosicrucians from whom he acquired many
mystical insights. He was president of the Theosophical

translated the Bhagavad Gita into German and was the editor
of the journal Lotusbluten. He was at one time a co-worker

Society in Germany for a brief period, but eventually
resigned to found independent societies. During his later

of Helena Blavatsky at Adyar. In 1896 he founded a German
Theosophical Society. He also supported the

years he spent much time in the Untersberg Mountains near
Salzburg, Austria, where he believed he encountered gnomes,

Guido-von-List-Society (Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft). He
cofounded the Ordo Templi Orientis with Carl Kellner and

water nymphs, and other nature spirits and also wrote his
more memorable books. He died at Kempten, Bavaria, August 7,

Theodor Reuss.

1912.

Hartmann was born November 22, 1838, in Bavaria, Germany,
though he claimed descent on his mother's side from the old

Irish kings of Ulster. He became a physician and immigrated
to the United States in 1865, traveling as a doctor to

* Magick: White and Black
* The Life of Jehoshua, the prophet of Nazareth

various cities and also visiting Indian tribes and studying
their religious beliefs. He became interested in

* The Principles of Astrological Geomancy
* Correlation of Spiritual Forces

Spiritualism and later corresponded with leading
Theosophists after the founding of the Theosophical Society

* With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians
* Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus

in 1875.

Bombast of Hohenheim Known as Paracelsus
* In The Pronaos Of The Temple Of Wisdom Containing The

Hartmann was invited to the society's headquarters at Adyar,
India, where he lived during the furor over Helena Petrovna

History Of The True And The False Rosicrucians
* Alchemy And Astrology

Blavatsky 's alleged miracle working. He published his own
Report of Observations During a Nine Months' Stay at the

* Metafisica Medicina y Sanacion
* Philosophy and Theosophy

Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar (Madras),
India (1884).

* The Four Pillars of Occult Medicine
* An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians: A Student of

When Richard Hodgson of the Society for Psychical Research,

Occultism
* Among the Adepts: The Brotherhood of the Golden and

London, published his devastating exposure of claimed
trickery and fraudulent phenomena by Blavatsky in 1885,

Rosy Cross and Their Occult and Mysterious Powers
* To Will, to Dare and to Be Silent in Magic