Ferdinand Maack

Ferdinand Maack (* 1861, † 1930) was a German physician, inventor, and occultist.

Maack is considered the inventor of the space chess. In essays and writings he represented his idiosyncratic positions with numerous neologisms such as " Allomatik ", " Koinismus " or " xenology ". 1923 - the year of the foundation of the Anthroposophical Society with its declared opponents Rudolf Steiner - he founded in Hamburg own Rosicrucian Order, which probably just as short lived as the associated magazine The Theosophist, of which only just appeared a number. In 1926 he delivered a new interpretation of Goethe's witches multiplication as an imperfect ( " Bewitched " ) magic square.

Works

  • The wisdom of the world - power. A dynamo Sophie. With a foreword on the X- rays. Otto Weber, Leipzig 1897
  • Polarchemiatrie. A contribution to the unification of ancient and modern healing arts. Altmann, Leipzig 1905
  • The Golden Chain of Homer. Lorch 1905; Graz 2005
  • Chess room game. ( Three-dimensional chess game. ) A new practically interesting and theoretically important extension of the two-dimensional chess game. A. Stein, Potsdam 1907
  • Twice dead! The story of a Rosicrucian of the eighteenth. Century. According to documentary sources, with literary evidence and a discussion of past and present Rosicrucianism. Wilhelm Heim, Leipzig 1912; Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902640-57-4
  • Rules for chess room. Dust, Berlin 1913
  • Elias Artista redivivus or The Book of Salt and space. Hermann Barsdorf, Berlin 1913; Graz 2008
  • The black lily. Voices from the abyss to criticism and crisis of theosophy and spiritualism. Home, Leipzig 1914; Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902640-56-7
  • Space chess. Introduction to the practice game. Self- Verlag, Hamburg 1919
  • Theses about the origin of life, circa 1920
  • The essence of alchemy. Tree, Pfullingen 1921; Graz 2005
  • The second brain. Reflections on the future tasks of a scientific occultism. Theosophia, Hamburg 1921
  • The Holy Mathesis. Contributions to the magic of space and number. Talis, Leipzig 1924; Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-902640-55-0
  • Talisman Turc. A contribution to the magical square deciphering of Love and disease amulets, the origin and nature of magic squares as well as for scientific Periodologie. Madaus, Radeburg 1926; Bohmeier, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-89094-612-2
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