Tanatra
The Tanatra World Lodge is a religious community that campaigns for freedom of sexuality , among other things .
Despite the term lodge , Tanatra has no organizational connection with Freemasonry . In 2005 it had 25 members in Germany and around 50 sympathizers. Tanatra's followers are primarily academics, such as Georg Hoeltje, an emigrant at the time (1939–54 in Brazil).
Tanatra's organ was the monthly Der Freitag , which from 1930 to 1934 had a circulation of several thousand. The stylized " Eye of God " is the emblem of Tanatra and has been worn as a badge by followers of Tanatra since 1925.
history
In 1922/23 the Tanatra World Lodge was founded in Görlitz by the merchant Fedor Mühle as the Tanatra Association of God . The federation was later given the name Gottesbund Loge Tanatra , from 1990 World Lodge Tanatra .
In the 20s and 30s, several thousand people, especially in the Saxon region, committed to Tanatra. In mid-1936 Tanatra formally dissolved itself, as the attacks against some homosexual members of Tanatra increased under the Nazi regime . On July 30, 1936, Tanatra was officially banned by the state. Fedor Mühle, born on May 29, 1895 in Görlitz, died on November 18, 1941 in the Buchenwald concentration camp .
In the mid-1930s, some Tanatra followers emigrated to Brazil . In Brazil and Paraguay, smaller independent Tanatra groups exist to this day (in Paraguay partly under the old covenant name: Alianza de Dios Tanatra). From 1945 to 1952 Tanatra was reorganized, but received no renewed approval from the GDR authorities as a religious community, partly because of Section 175 of the Criminal Code. It has appeared again since 1990 without organizing itself as an official religious community.
Theological background
The basis of Tanatra is a Christianity of its own, which theologically is not limited to the Bible . In the 20s and 30s Tanatra was strongly influenced by the double membership of Tanatra followers in the Protestant churches . New revelations came especially through gay media. Homosexuals were said to have a special closeness to God and the Holy Spirit . The doctrine of reincarnation was taught. Science and art are given positive meaning and interpreted as part of the Holy Spirit.
In the self- image of the Tanatra followers, the Tanatra World Lodge sees itself as the successor to the ancient Egyptian Aton lodges, the Zoroastrian dualism and the Manichaeans , Gnostics , Adamites and Enlightenmentists persecuted by the Pauline Church . Paul and large parts of the Bible are rejected, but some apocryphal Gospels, the writings of Margareta Porete and some parts of the Shinto religion are adopted.
The Enlightenment about the French Revolution , the modern age around 1900 ( Freud , Reich , social liberation, nudism , reform movement, etc.) and the 1968 movement are seen as being sent by the light, in the churches and conservatism partly the work of the dark.
literature
From Tanatra:
- My coming and humanity, trance speech given by the trance medium Fedor Mühle , Vol. I-VII, Görlitz approx. 1925–1928
- The Friday - Rundschau for the fastest reproduction of the revelations in the Tanatra covenant , since 1930 at least two years in monthly publication
- Heinrich Weiberg / Ludwig Mandler: Der Gottesbund Tanatra, The development and the main features of the Spiritual Teaching in the new German Empire . Published by the Gottesbund Tanatra, Görlitz, 1934
About Tanatra:
- Martin Krawielitzki: Gottesbund (Lodge) Tanatra in Ders .: Gottesbund (Lodge) Tanatra. Association of fighters for faith and truth (Horpenites). The angel of Jehovah. Verlag "Harfe", Bad Blankenburg, undated (1931), pp. 3-6
- Paul Scheurlen: The "Gottesbund Tanatra" in Ders .: The sects of the present and newer worldview structures . Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1930, pp. 288-295
- Kurt Hutten : seers, brooders, enthusiasts - the book of sects . Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition, 1950
- Helmut Obst : Gottesbund - Lodge Tanatra in Sigrid and Karl-Wolfgang Tröger (eds.): Kirchenlexikon. An overview of Christian churches, free churches and communities , Union-Verlag, Berlin, 1990, p. 93
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Public Education (RMinAmtsblDtschWiss.) 1936, p. 376
- ^ Book of the Dead of Buchenwald Concentration Camp