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mailing list archive - RE: Glass Bees discussion

-- [ From: Richard Brem * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

>"Adnoten": The concept of "Gruppenseele" seems to have been a >major issue
in occultism in the 20s - at a time, when EJ had a deep >interest in the
occult.
>[Thomas Friese]  How specifically does this interest of his become
>apparent in that period (briefly)?

"Das Abenteuerliche Herz. Erste Fassung" (1929) records EJ's interest in the
occult in some detail. See also his explicit reference on 8 October 1942:  

"Paris ... Abends bei Beres, dort Buecher angesehen. Ich kaufte den alten
'Malleus Maleficarum' von Sprenger, und zwar in der Venetianischen Ausgabe
von 1574 - eine Erwerbung, die mich vor zwanzig Jahren lebhafter ergoetzt
haette, als ich zugleich mit dem Studium der Raeusche mit dem des Zauber-
und Daemonenwesens beschaeftigt war." 

>[Thomas Friese]  Lastly, does no-one really know where Junger's >wrote
"Technology is the metaphysics of the 20th century."? I can't >believe that!
!!?

I don't know the exact source, but "Der Arbeiter" # 46f. comes pretty close.
 

Regards, 
RBR




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