Arnold Keyserling

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Arnold Keyserling ( Arnold Alexander Herbert Otto Heinrich Constantin Graf Keyserling ; born February 9, 1922 in Friedrichsruh ; † September 7, 2005 in Matrei am Brenner ) was a German - Austrian philosopher and religious scholar .

Life

Arnold Keyserling, in Stadtpark Vienna (March 2005)
Portrait of Arnold Keyserling by Mimi Staneva, Vienna 2002

Arnold Keyserling was the son of the philosopher and writer Hermann Graf Keyserling and a great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck . In the 1920s, well-known thinkers and poets such as Carl Gustav Jung , Richard Wilhelm , Hermann Hesse , Oscar AH Schmitz and Rabindranath Tagore frequented his father's institute, the “School of Wisdom” in Darmstadt . The young Keyserling thus enjoyed a comprehensive humanistic education at an early age. When the National Socialists took power, the family was ostracized as subversive and the “School of Wisdom” was forcibly closed. In 1939, after the annexation of Austria , Arnold Keyserling, who was then studying law at the University of Vienna , was expelled from the university.

After the war, Arnold Keyserling met Wilhelmine von Auersperg (* June 18, 1921, † October 4, 2010) in Alpbach , whom he married after a five-year engagement. Together they went on extensive journeys, sometimes by motorcycle.

Arnold Keyserling's personal teachers were Georges I. Gurdjieff , with whom he spent a year, the twelve-tone musician Josef Matthias Hauer and the Indian yogi Ramana Maharshi . In 1964 Keyserling was given a teaching position at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and in 1974 became professor for the philosophy of religion . He founded the "School of the Wheel", the study group "Kriterion" and published the magazine "Pleroma". He published his books himself, which he called "Verlag der Palme".

Keyserling worked out a form of music that he called "Chakral Music". This is an artificial word he created, composed of the term chakra from the physiological model of Indian Hatha Yoga and an ending of Latin adjectives such as sacr-al-is , from which the German loan word sacral takes its origin. He implemented this music on the one hand with the construction of his "Chakraphon", an electronic organ with a pentatonic tuning and the limitation of the overtones to octaves . On the other hand, he wrote several books on it with Ralph Losey , an American lawyer; the latter also produced two CDs with "Chakra Music".

After Arnold Keyserling's death in 2005, his wife Wilhelmine took over the leadership of the study group, who also worked professionally as a yoga teacher and art therapist ; she died on October 4, 2010.

Works

Many of the cited publications (and other articles) can be found online in the digital library of the “School of the Wheel”.

  • Basic mood of the mind . Verlag der Palme, Innsbruck 1951.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): The Rose Cross . Verlag der Palme, Innsbruck 1956.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): Combinatorics. The Sciences of Reality . Birla Education Trust, Pilani 1958.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): A Synopsys of German Grammar . 1959.
  • The German Intellectual Revolution . 1962.
  • The Viennese way of thinking. Do, Carnap, Wittgenstein . Stiasny ( Stiasny-Bücherei , Volume 1006), Graz / Vienna 1965.
  • The metaphysics of the 'watchmaker' by Gustav Meyrink . Palme, Vienna 1966.
    • New edition by Verlag Bruno Martin, Südergellersen 1988.
  • History of thinking styles . Palme, Vienna 1968.
  • Keyboard of thinking . Palme, Vienna 1971.
  • Consciousness in the wake of evolution . Palme, Vienna 1972.
    • New edition as The body is not the grave of the soul, but the adventure of consciousness . Im Waldgut, Wald 1982.
  • Lucifer's awakening. The discovery of the tenth planet . Palme, Vienna 1972.
  • Critique of Organic Reason . Palme, Vienna 1976.
  • World grammar . Palme, Vienna 1979.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): Criteria of revelation . Palme, Vienna 1982.
    • New edition as Ars Magna. Criteria of revelation . Im Waldgut, Wald 1986.
  • From stubbornness to purpose in life. New ways of holistic education . Im Waldgut, Wald 1982.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): Magic of the Chakras . Palme, Vienna 1983.
  • The earth sanctuary. The primal rites of space and time . In the Waldgut, Wald 1983.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): The nothing in the something. Aquarian mysticism . Palme, Vienna 1984.
  • Alphysics . Palme, Vienna 1985.
  • Wisdom of the wheel. Orphic Gnosis . Palme, Vienna 1985.
  • Through sensuality to meaning. Metaphysics of the senses . Bruno Martin, Südergellersen 1986.
  • Abundance of time. Explanations of the messages of man in space . Palme, Vienna 1986.
  • The great work of the divine hands . Palme, Vienna 1986.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): God · Number · Language · Reality. The basic kabbalistic powers of being . Palme, Vienna 1987.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): Aquarian time. Visions of hope . Palme, Vienna 1988.
  • Science versus esotericism . Discussion with Johann Götschl . Leuschner and Lubenski, Graz 1989.
  • World view of holistic life . Youth and People, Vienna 1990.
  • From the school of wisdom to the wisdom of the wheel . Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1990.
  • The magic wheel of Central Asia. Key of the original religion . Palme, Vienna 1993.
  • The sixth school of wisdom. Education for a global society . Palme, Vienna 1994.
  • Atlas of the wheel. Numerological key of analog thinking . Palme, Vienna 1995.
  • (together with Wilhelmine Keyserling): Voice of All . Palme, Vienna 1995.
  • Primordial religion astrology . Palme, Vienna 1996.
  • The new name of God. The world formula and its analogies in reality . Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99340-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights, Part 2, 3: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, pp.144
  2. Keyserling's representation of the chakraphone (from his essay Chakral Music )
  3. Articles on Keyserling, on "Chakra Music" and on Lutz Berger's CDs
  4. ^ Digital library (of Keyserling's works). School of the Wheel, accessed May 23, 2014 .