Leopold Engel

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Leopold Engel ( born April 19, 1858 in Saint Petersburg, † November 8, 1931 ) was an actor, occultist, Theosophist and founders of the Illuminati.

Life

Karl Dietrich Engel (1824-1913), the father of Leopold Engel, a native of the Oldenburg family of musicians violinist was from 1846, concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Russian State Theatre. After his retirement, the family moved to Germany. In several stages, the family lived in Berlin, Bremen, Oldenburg, to finally find a new home in Dresden.

Leopold Engel had already been made ​​as a boy of eleven years, known by his father with the activity Jakob Lorber, also met in Dresden the first major publisher of Lorberschriften, John Bush, know -volatile. Engel was indeed religiously inclined, but differed in no way from other boys. He received a good education in Dresden, where he showed special interest in the natural sciences.

With 22 years of Leopold Engel went to the stage. Stages of his acting career were: Koblenz, Oldenburg, Stuttgart, St. Pölten and Ljubljana. He won as an actor not insignificant successes and worked as Faustbibliograph a name, then looked but after any other activity that caused no continual change of place, but so had little luck. It was not until 1898 he could turn his back on the stage permanently.

Engels wrote under the pseudonym L. Eckhard dime novels for the Loreley and the Rhine Gold series.

Work as a spiritual healer

1881 Angel is out in the furrier than in Dresden resident " naturopath " and " Magnetopath ". When a professor in Leipzig, he was a long time as a " natural healer" active. Through his ability to empathize, it should be him sometimes intuitively managed to make a diagnosis. As a spiritual healer, he occasionally hypnotized his patients to have given him in the somnambulistic state treatment indications, including the order not to extend the somnambulistic sleep than twenty minutes because it otherwise easily able to put the soul back in the body foot.

Re-establishment of the Illuminati

Probably 1888 Leopold Engel met Theodor Reuss. Reuss met in his own words angels for the first time in 1895, when he renewed the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt in Berlin. Angel had joined this order on 9 November 1896, however, would have been a year later founded his own Order in Dresden.

After Angel View Weishaupt had the ideals of the Order - the perfection of man - too high. The Order should no longer be the temple where the perfection would one day take up residence, but only guide that can lead to the temple. , By information given on the paths leading to it The last highest ideal should be left to the individual entirely, since perfection is not a fixed achievable goal, but a divine property by which mortals should aspire, but which, if it were to reach all, bring in the law of development to a halt would.

Leopold Engel has by his own admission does not attempt to build such a new institution on the ruins of the old building on his own initiative, but had been suggested by Theodor Reuss to who claimed, in him yet focused the old remains of the Order and befänden to a significant number of worthy men under his care. Angels could be the leader of these men, if he wanted to. However, the expected help did not materialize and proved to be false pretense, for nothing was more than what could give booksellers. The "worthy men " existed only on paper, but were not present in reality. Because now but friends of angels had joined and were awaiting the fulfillment of his promises from him, he resolved to attempt a start-up but because " hardly one would have believed him that he himself became a victim to rapid trust, especially as paid entrance fees been had. " Curriculum and organization were created by angels; Reuss was not significantly involved in the founding of the Order.

Engel was a member of the Theosophical Society in America and was elected on 30 August 1896 Treasurer of the newly formed Theosophical Society in Europe ( Germany ) (TGE ), headed by Franz Hartmann.

1902 tried angel with Reuss a German branch of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia ( SRIA ) to set up. Shortly before the beginning of the Nazi regime inherited Julius Meyer, the great library Engels and became his successor as Grand Master of the Illuminati Federal, but for only about a year, after which the in Berlin in 1928 instituted World Federation of the Illuminati was disbanded without any follow-up by the Gestapo.

On Angel Illuminati, the American writer Robert Anton Wilson cites not only in his co-authored with Robert Shea The Illuminatus! Trilogy, but also in other parodies of the Secret Society mischief.

End of life

At the age Leopold Engel received only a small pension, got into Berlin after the First World War in great distress and was sick. In "The Word ," the former organ of Lorberbewegung, was asked repeatedly for him and his family for donations. Engel sold images of Christ, the right of reproduction had transferred him in 1924 died painter Hermann Schmiechen. He died in 1931 and left behind a wife and five children.

Volume 11 of the Great Gospel of John

1891-93 carried the transcript of the 11 band of the Great Gospel of John ( GGJ ) for " inner word dictation ". It is the only work of Engels, whom he will have to get dictated according to Jakob Lorber of Jesus Christ.

According to his own statements heard Leopold Engel long time before writing by the inner voice of the question: "Are you for me, your Master Jesus, work If so, then this contract by the hour is valid at all- bad it is you never! go! " The voice was so loud as if someone was talking to him. Angel answered nothing, because the objection was unexpected. This was repeated in the next few days, a second and third time. Engel was not particularly built with this order, because he had other plans and did not feel worthy to become like Jesus Jakob Lorber tool, then agreed but one.

The Transmission of the 11th band came in loud, clear language, word for word. Since angels was assessed very critically, he checked everything carefully. Go check he tried consciously, words to write differently than was the Transmission, but it was not possible for him despite all the effort. In the same way also Jakob Lorber likely to have received his Revelation. This type of mediation differed to the later spiritual manifestations Engels, where remained in turn the possibility of influence. Leopold Engel received daily only a brief stint and was defeated during the writing and the irresistible urge to put morning at 9 clock on the desk. Also this urge he tried to resist, but also in vain.

Content and style of the final eleventh volume mimics the ten volumes Lorber; the representation of the action, however, is kept much shorter and sober. A critical examination also allows variations in the details visible. In the Lorberbewegung this additional band is accepted or at least tolerated, but sharply rejected by fundamentalists because of differences and because Angel transcript of Lucifer confessions ( as a medium of Lucifer ).

Particularly questionable appears the fact that Leopold Engel wants to have acted only as a prophet on time, because after the eleventh volume of the Great Gospel of John, he wrote only productions, serving the occult and spiritualist movements of the early twentieth century, without divine claim.

Publications

  • The valley of the lucky or the path to truth. 2nd edition. Bitterfeld 1888 ( Report on an untouched from rationalism people in Central Africa, here is an in Lorberwerk only briefly mentioned the topic listed in detail )
  • John, the great gospel. Vol 11, 1891-1893; Lorber -Verlag, Bietigheim, ISBN 3-87495-130-8
  • Catechism of the German theosophy. Dresden 1893
  • Light beams. A theosophical belief of the Germanic tribe. Bitterfeld 1897
  • History of the Order of Illuminati. A contribution to the history of Bavaria. Bermühler, Berlin 1906; Reprints: Association for Religious and Ideological Issues, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-921513-35-9; Facsimile -Verlag, Bremen 1985
  • Course of self and knowledge of human nature. 1910 ( according to its own statement after more than ten years of preparation; quintessence by Möller / Howe: Beware of the Gods: Venus, Bacchus and Mars)
  • Mallona. The last time a submerged planet. 1911; Tower -Verlag, Bietigheim 1998, ISBN 3-7999-0044-6 ( by a young female medium, based on a ring channeled history of zerschollenen in the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter planet Mallona; performs in Lorberwerk only briefly mentioned formation of the asteroid belt detail from )
  • In the afterlife. Guides a soul. Proclamation of a world beyond. 1922; Lorber -Verlag, Bietigheim, ISBN 3-87495-002-6 ( hereafter History of the father of Leopold Engel; builds on the Lorberwerken about the afterlife on: Bishop Martin, Robert Blum and the spiritual sun )
  • Lucifer's confessions. An epic in 8 songs. Renatus -Verlag, Lorch 1928; International Association for Religious and Ideological Issues, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-921513-73-1 ( Leopold Engel was convinced that Lucifer Confessions of Satan himself that it has been dictated; Satan return as repentant " prodigal son " again back to God, one of Angels probably independent in-depth presentation of this topic can be found in the works of Anita Wolf. )
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