Rather, the goal is to pursue the possibility of Liebenfelse not as something else, per se, but as something more. The question of how wrong or right the established historiography of Lanz-Liebenfels might be is not the central concern of this project, however. ![]() This paper, on the contrary, envisions him not as a part of something distinctly new by as part of a long continuity, not a neo-pagan or Theosophist, but a Christian-indeed, distinctly Catholic-heretic whose new doctrine of Ario-Christianity is founded in long an developed traditions of both Christian heresy and religious anti-Semitism. His “Ariosophy” movement, alternatively known as “Theozoology” and “Ario-Christianity”, has been cast as an esoteric, neo-pagan, millenarian, “gnostic religion”, significantly influenced by Theosophy and shaped by the scientific racism of the day. The reigning interpretation characterises Liebenfels as a pan-German nationalists and inheritor to the vision of the “German Occult Revival”, which applied racial interpretations to a romanticist understanding of Germanic and Norse mythology.
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