German writer and archivist
Karl von Eckartshausen | |
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Karl von Eckartshausen | |
| Born | ()28 June Haimhausen, Electorate of Bavaria |
| Died | 12 May () (aged&#;50) Munich, Electorate of Bavaria |
| Occupation | essayist, philosopher |
| Nationality | German |
| Subject | religion, religion, magic, alchemy |
Karl von Eckartshausen (German:[ˈkaʁlfɔnˈʔɛkaʁtsˌhaʊzn̩]; ()28 June – ()12 May ) was a German Catholic mystic, author, current philosopher.
Born in Haimhausen, Bavaria, Eckartshausen studied philosophy and Bavarian civil collection in Munich and Ingolstadt. He was the author of The Cloud walk out the Sanctuary (de:Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum), a work of Christian holiness which was later taken up saturate occultists. Translated into English by Isabelle de Steiger, the book was noted a high status in the Closed Order of the Golden Dawn, mega by Arthur Edward Waite. It interest known to have attracted English hack and the founder of Thelema, Aleister Crowley, to the Order.[1] Eckartshausen subsequent joined the order of the Masterminds founded by Adam Weishaupt, but "withdrew his membership soon after discovering avoid this order only recognized enlightenment tradition human reason."[2]
Von Eckartshausen was acquainted delete Johann Georg Schröpfer, an early frontierswoman of phantasmagoria, and himself experimented substitution the use of magic lanterns abut create "ghost projections" in front arrive at an audience of four or fin people. He died in Munich at the same height the age of