Karl Spiesberger

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Karl Spiesberger (born October 29, 1904 in Baden near Vienna, † January 24, 1992 in Berlin ) was a well-known writer in esoteric circles who dealt with magic and regarded it as a magician.

Life

Karl Spiesberger was born the son of a gardener. At a young age, during his training as an actor, he was engaged in occult experiments, such as hypnosis. After he moved to Berlin in May 1932, he dealt with runes for the first time, but rejected them again because of their abuse by the Nazi regime. It was only shortly before the end of the war that forbidden literature was leaked to him and he began to deal intensively with the runic theme, which accompanied him into old age.

In his first year in Berlin he got to know the occultist Gregor A. Gregorius , whom he valued for a lifetime despite later differences.

After the turmoil and reprisals of the Second World War, Spiesberger led an esoteric study group, where he also met his future wife Christa. As a member of the Fraternitas Saturni lodge founded by Gregorius, he received the title of Frater in Riesa as early as 1948 under his lodge name Eratus . With great dedication he wrote articles for the lodge newspaper Blätter for applied occult art of living as well as 42 booklets as a special edition with the title Einweihung . These specimens with a focus on practical work are considered to be the forerunners of his later works. Friedrich Bernhard Marby , Siegfried Adolf Kummer , Rudolf John Gorsleben and other runologists were often quoted.

Gregorius awarded Eratus the Gradus Soli (master's degree) on March 18, 1957, at whose initiation the lodge and the demiurge Saturn were sworn eternal loyalty.

Even when conflicts arose in the Fraternitas Saturni in the early 1960s, Spiesberger continued to research and work. Because of his knowledge and zeal for work, he expected to be able to take over the management of the lodge after Gregorius' death; the married Gregorius, however, appointed his long-term lover, Sorella Roxane, for the office of Grand Master. Not least because of divergent views on spiritual issues, Spiesberger left the lodge, but continued to devote himself to lectures and his literary work. In the 1980s, he revised some of his works again, which made itself felt in new editions and new publications.

Works

  • Sensing and Research (1950)
  • The dream in depth psychological and occult meaning (1950)
  • The problem of the animal soul (1950)
  • In the footsteps of the seer (with Erich Sopp, 1953)
  • The art of laying cards (1954)
  • The Successful Pendulum Practitioner (1955)
  • Runic Magic (1955)
  • Runic Exercises for Everyone (1958)
  • Invisible Helpers (1959)
  • Elemental Spirits - Nature Spirits (1961)
  • The aura of man (1963)
  • Hermetic ABC Vol. 1, Esoteric Formation of Life in Theory and Practice (1964)
  • Hermetic ABC Vol. 2, Magical-mystical training in theory and practice (1964)
  • Practical Telepathy (1966)
  • Magnets of Luck (1971)
  • The mantra book (1977)
  • Nature spirits How seers see them, how magicians call them | Extended 2nd edition "Elementary Spirits - Nature Spirits (1978)
  • The masks of the dream (1986)
  • Animal Phenomenon (1986)
  • Levitation (1988)
  • On the Dark Path to Light (1989)
  • Magical novels (published posthumously in 1999 by the widow)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magical Novels. ISBN 978-3-87702-088-3 . P. 1.
  2. ↑ ISBN 978-3877020647 On the dark path to the light
  3. ↑ ISBN 978-3-932928-40-6 Gregor A. Gregorius - Mystic of the dark light
  4. ↑ ISBN 978-3-932928-40-6 Gregor A. Gregorius - Mystic of the Dark Light, p. 114
personal data
SURNAME Spiesberger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and magician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1992
Place of death Berlin