Oskar Ernst Bernhardt

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Oskar Ernst Bernhardt , also called Abdruschin or Abd-ru-shin , (born April 18, 1875 in Bischofswerda ; † December 6, 1941 in Kipsdorf ) was the author of the Grail Message: In the light of the truth on which the Grail Movement is based. He was a self-proclaimed messiah .

Life

Oskar Ernst Bernhardt completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked in Dresden , Zurich and Bern. In 1897 he married Martha Oeser and they had two children together. Her son was killed in the First World War at the age of 18 . In 1900/02 Bernhardt traveled to the Middle East. On his return he worked with an architecture office in Zurich from 1903 to 1905. In 1906, O. E. Bernhardt worked in Bern for a year and came to the decision to only work as a writer: his first book "Aus fernen Landen" was published in Bern in 1908. But he had already been under contract as a playwright at the theater in Mainz since 1907, as he did later in Kassel and elsewhere in Germany. From 1910, Bernhardt performed Kürschner's German Literature Calendar “as a novelist and playwright”. In 1912 Bernhardt traveled to New York and from there in 1913 to London. There he was interned as a prisoner of war on the Isle of Man with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Vomperberg, Abd-ru-shin's tomb

After the war ended he was able to return to Dresden in 1919 to work as a writer again. In the mid-1920s, after divorcing his first wife, he married his landlady at Meißner Strasse 250 in Kötzschenbroda , the widow Maria Freyer, who brought three children into the marriage. The family moved to Tutzing , where Bernhardt wrote lectures under the pseudonym Abd-ru-shin, which he published in the "Grail Blades". From then on he called himself Abdruschin or, in another spelling, Abd-ru-shin . He traced this name back to an earlier incarnation in Persia , meaning "servant of light". Then a community gathered around him, with whom he moved to the Vomperberg ( Tyrol ) in 1928 . The Grail Settlement is still located there today .

Bernhardt's main work is the three-volume work In the Light of Truth - Grail Message and consists of 168 lectures. The main points of his monotheistic doctrine are, among other things, three automatically acting laws of creation , the law of interaction, the law of attraction of uniformity and law of gravity, which are intended to determine and trigger the fate of man according to the decisions made by him. Due to the complete personal responsibility, a vicarious assumption of sins - for example through Christ's death on the cross - is not possible. Furthermore, Bernhardt's work also contains the idea of ​​reincarnation.

After the so-called annexation of Austria to the German Reich, Bernhardt was arrested in 1938 and taken to Innsbruck. In September he was able to go with his family to Görlitz in Silesia under constant Gestapo surveillance, and later to Kipsdorf in the Ore Mountains. He died there at the age of 66 on December 6, 1941 and was buried on December 11 in Bischofswerda . In 1949 the coffin was exhumed in Bischofswerda and transferred to Vomperberg, where it was buried in a pyramid-shaped tomb.

Fonts

Main work
  • In the Light of Truth - New Grail Message. Tutzing 1926.
  • In the light of truth, Grail Message. Der Ruf publishing house, Munich 1931.
  • Echoes of the Grail Message. Verlag Der Ruf, Munich 1934.
  • 3 volumes or anthologies changed in the order of the presentations. 25th edition. Publishing house of the Grail Message Foundation, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-87860-203-0 (for the anthology).
More fonts
  • The 10 commandments of God and the Lord's Prayer - interpreted by Abd-ru-shin. 9th edition. Publishing house of the Grail Message Foundation, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-87860-063-1 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Abd-ru-shin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bryan R. Wilson: The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and Its Contemporary Survival . University of California Press, 1975, ISBN 0-520-02815-5 , pp. 114 ( google.com ): "... but their prominence and relative success when compared with such figures as Louwrens van Voorthuizen (Lou) in Holland, Georges Roux in France, and Oskar Ernst Bernhardt in Germany and Austria, all of whom claimed to be the messiah — is striking. "
  2. ^ Massimo Introvigne : Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements . Ed .: Peter Clarke. Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-134-49970-1 , pp. 244 ( google.com ): “A complicated esoteric work, which includes a history of the universe partially derived from the Theosophical Society (see Theosophy), and hinting at Berhnardt's own messianic role, it found interested readers within the esoteric milieu (see Esoteric Movements). "
  3. ↑ Zdenek Vojtisek: Millennial Expectations in the Grail Movement . In: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions . tape 9 , no. 3 , February 1, 2006, ISSN  1092-6690 , p. 61–79 , doi : 10.1525 / no.2006.9.3.061 ( ucpress.edu [accessed on November 8, 2016]).
  4. ^ László Kürti: Psychic Phenomena, Neoshamanism, and the Cultic Milieu in Hungary . In: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions . tape 4 , no. 2 , April 1, 2001, ISSN  1092-6690 , p. 322-350 , doi : 10.1525 / no.2001.4.2.322 ( ucpress.edu [accessed November 8, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Bernhardt, Oskar Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abd-ru-shin; Abdruschin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the Grail Movement
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofswerda , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1941
Place of death Kipsdorf , Ore Mountains