Carl Kellner (mystic)

Karl Kellner (actually Carl August waiter; born September 1, 1851 in Vienna, † June 7, 1905 ) was an Austrian chemist, industrialist, inventor, Freemason and occultist.

According to him, the Knight Waiter method is named for cellulose production. He owned more than eighty patents ( approximately for incandescent or color photography). About one studies degree is not known. He was an avid mountain climber and good fencers.

Life and work

While working in a Viennese private laboratory waiter made ​​at the age of 22 years on those crucial observations, which were made after his 1876 entry into the factory of Julius Hector Knight Baron Záhony ( 1816-1878 ) in Podgora at Gorizia in after him and Knight named and before long of numerous paper mills put into use sulfite cellulose method (patents in 1884 ) culminated. His work on wood pulp production and bleaching of cellulose led him subsequently to electrochemistry, an area which he also the development of the most valuable technical procedures owes ( Electrochemical bleaching process, waiters cal mercury process for chlor-alkali electrolysis, and others). When the Baron Knights Zahony'schen factories passed into other hands ( waiter even managed to sell ), he turned to establishing their own enterprises. The paper with the English industrialist Edward Partington (1836-1925) founded in 1889 and operates according to the patents waiter The waiter - Partington Paper Pulp Co. Ltd.. built factories in various countries, including at the beginning of the 1890s a factory in Hallein near Salzburg. A second, with Hamilton Castner Kellner (1858-1899) founded company, The Castner - Kellner Alkali Co., built in England at that time the world's largest plant for chlor-alkali electrolysis. Launched by Dr. Kellner Kellner syndicate established in Jajce (Bosnia ) an electrochemical factory that produced by his method of chloride of lime and caustic soda. Kellner also dealt with technical inventions in various other fields, such as extraction of fibrous textile materials, lighting, photography, artificial gems and Others

On June 29, 1873 Karl Kellner ( a so-called " Grenzloge " for the Viennese members) was in the lodge " Humanitas " in Neudorfl ad Leitha was added as a Freemason and transported on 23 November 1873 journeymen, however, already on May 13, 1875 " " excluded for non-compliance of the Masonic obligations back out of the box. On extended trips through Europe, America and Asia Minor he wants his own account after contact with three Adepts ( a Sufi, Soliman ben Aifa, and two Hindu Tantrics, Bhima Sena Pratapa from Lahore and Sri Mahatma Agamya Paramahamsa ) and an organization called the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light have come into contact. However, these encounters are without documents. 1885 met waiter Franz Hartmann, a learned Theosophists and Rosicrucians.

1895 Kellner began his idea of ​​establishing a " Academia Masonica " with Theodor Reuss under the name Oriental Templars to discuss. An inner circle, the real OTO should be placed in its construction to the highest degree of the Masonic Memphis and Mizraim Rites. There, the teachings of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, and Kellner own ideas for Masonic symbolism should be taught.

After Peter -Robert King, he was said to be the source of ideas of the OTO phenomenon under the religious name " Renatus ". His appointment on 27 December 1903 " Honorary Grand Master General in the UK and Germany, 33 °, 90 °, 96 ° " is no definite evidence; Sigrid Plutzar, the great-granddaughter waiter is, the other side dar. ( in March 1999) as not proved

Karl Kellner was married to Marie Delorme since 1885 and had four children with her.

In his last year waiter had survived a severe blood poisoning. Shortly after a trip to Egypt, he passed away on June 7, 1905 in his ( now defunct ) Villa [note 1] Hohewarte 29, Vienna - Dobling of cardiac arrest. Karl Kellner, honorary citizen of the town of Hallein, was buried in the cemetery of the market town Oberalm, Hallein district to rest on June 10, 1905.