Johannes Hans Balzli, more commonly known as Johannes Balzli, was an Austrian/German author, newspaper editor, Theosophist and Armanist, most notable for his biography of Guido von List

Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian/German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important...

, entitled, "Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit

Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit

"Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" is a book written by Johannes Balzli in 1917 on the Armanic occultist Guido von List.The English translation of the title is "Guido v...

 - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" . ("Guido v. List - The Rediscoverer of Ancient Aryan Wisdom - His Life and His Work.")

Biography

The biography on List was published while Theosophists acknowledged List's nationalist popularization of their doctrines , that was published in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 by the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft in 1917, and republished later in the 20th century by Adolf Schleipfer.

This biography of List was the only book length biography of List that exists and indeed that has ever been written.

Balzli was the secretary of the Leipzig

Leipzig

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 Theosophical Society

Theosophical Society

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 and editor of occult magazine Prana (occult magazine) (1909–19) of which was initially edited by astrologer

Astrologer

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 Karl Brandler-Pracht.

During 1916 and 1917 List wrote several articles on the approaching national millennium

Millennium

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, which was supposed to be realized once the Allies

Allies

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 had been defeated, Balzli published 2 of these predictions in Prana in 1917.

Written works

• "Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit
  Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit
  "Guido v. List: Der Wiederentdecker Uralter Arischer Weisheit - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" is a book written by Johannes Balzli in 1917 on the Armanic occultist Guido von List.The English translation of the title is "Guido v...
  
   - Sein Leben und sein Schaffen" . Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  , Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft, 1917. ("Guido v. List - The Rediscoverer of Ancient Aryan Wisdom - His Life and His Work.")

• Magisch okkulte Unterrichtsbriefe: zehn Lehrbriefe zur Entwicklung der Willenskraft und der okkulten Fähigkeiten / bearb. http://www.buchpreis24.de/autor/Johannes%20Balzli, republised in 2002 by Schikowski

• Okkultistische Unterrichtsbriefe: 10 Lehrbriefe zur Entwickelung d. Willenskraft u. d. okkulten Fähigkeiten

• Das Problem des Cölibats vom Standpunkte des Okkultismus : T. 1. [2]

• Eurhythmie

External links

• Works by and about Johannes Balzli in the German National Library
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• More works by and about Johannes Balzli in the German National Library
  German National Library
  The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany...
  
  catalogue