Overcoming polarity: Franz Spunda’s Devachan and the birth of the “new race”

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف: Domínguez Márquez, Guadalupe Antonia
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2024
الوصف:The Austrian writer Franz Spunda published a series of occult novels during the decade of the twenties, which have received very little academic attention. Through the application of methodological tools from the field of Western Esotericism Studies, this paper presents a critical analysis of his first novel, Devachan, in whose thematic contents, an alignment with, but also a deviation from modern Theosophy’s doctrinal axis, becomes noticeable. The Spundian desire to overcome all polarity and the justification of transgressive means to achieve this end, constitutes the breaking point with Theosophy and  the embracing of an extreme form of alchemy.
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/57933
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/57933
كلمة مفتاحية:Franz Spunda
polaridad
teosofía
alquimia
polarity
Theosophy
alchemy