Alois Mailänder - From the perspective of his students

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Alois Mailänder (1843-1905) was a Christian mystic from the Allgäu, Germany region. As a spiritual mentor to Gustav Meyrink and over fifty other important contemporaries, he played a central role in the German Theosophical movement and beyond from 1885 onwards. Karel Weinfurter, who himself was leading student on a Christian spiritual path in the 1930s, reported on the significant things he learnt from his teacher Mailänder. The novelist Gustav Meyrink, who spent a lifetime practising and testing the inspirations of his teacher Mailänder, wrote about the results of his training. The Theosophist Wilhelm HübbeSchleiden, who made a significant contribution to the founding of a Theosophical Society in Germany, spent two whole summers in Mailänder's house and reports in his diary what he experienced there. The doctor and occultist Franz Hartmann introduced Alois Mailänder to the circle of Theosophists. He investigated whether Mailänder's methods could be further developed into a systematic doctrine.

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Erik Dilloo-Heidger: Erik DillooHeidger lives with his wife in southern Germany between the Swabian Alb, Lake Constance and the Black Forest. He studied German philology, mathematics and Catholic theology in Freiburg/Br. and in Salamanca, Spain, specializing in Libera­tion Theology of Latin America. As a teacher, he worked at various schools in the Rottweil area. He was interested in the history of religion, especially the discovery of the idea of yoga in the nineteenth century. The interest in getting to know Alois Mailänder and his world was awakened by Gustav Meyrink, who conveyed the deep impression that Mailänder made on him.

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