Ferdinand Maack

Ferdinand Maack (* 1861 ; † 1930 ) was a German doctor , inventor and occultist .

Maack is considered the inventor of the game of room chess . In essays and writings, he represented his idiosyncratic positions with numerous new words such as “allomatic”, “koinism” or “ xenology ”. In 1923 - the year the Anthroposophical Society was re-established by his avowed opponent Rudolf Steiner - he founded his own Rosicrucian order in Hamburg , which probably lived just as short as the associated magazine Der Theosoph , of which only one number was just published. In 1926 he gave a new interpretation of Goethe's Hexeneinmaleins as an imperfect ("bewitched") magical square .

Works

• The wisdom of the world power. A dynamosophy . With a foreword about the X-rays. Otto Weber, Leipzig 1897
• Polar chemiatry. A contribution to the unification of old and new healing arts . Altmann, Leipzig 1905
• Homer's golden chain . Lorch 1905; Graz 2005
• The chess room game. (Three-dimensional chess game.) A new, practically interesting and theoretically important extension of the two-dimensional chess board game . A. Stein, Potsdam 1908
• Died twice! The story of a Rosicrucian from the 18th century Century . According to documented sources, with literary evidence and a treatise on past and present Rosicrucianism. Wilhelm Heims, Leipzig 1912; Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902640-57-4
• Rules of the game for room chess . Staub, Berlin 1913
• Elias Artista redivivus or The Book of Salt and Space . Hermann Barsdorf, Berlin 1913; Graz 2008
• The black lily. Voices from the abyss to criticism and crisis of theosophy and spiritism . Heims, Leipzig 1914; Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902640-56-7
• Room chess. Introduction to game practice . Self-published, Hamburg 1919
• Theses on the origin of life , around 1920
• The essence of alchemy . Baum, Pfullingen 1921; Graz 2005
• The second brain. Reflections on the future tasks of a scientific occult . Theosophia, Hamburg 1921
• Holy Mathesis. Contributions to the magic of space and number . Talis, Leipzig 1924; Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-902640-55-0
• Talisman Turc. A contribution to the magical square deciphering of love and disease amulets, to the origin and essence of magic squares as well as to scientific periodology . Madaus , Radeburg 1926; Bohmeier, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-89094-612-2

literature

• Harald Lamprecht : New Rosicrucians. A manual . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 187–191, ISBN 3-525-56549-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Maack in the catalog of the German National Library