What the world is made of

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Helmut Friedrich Krause: Helmut Friedrich Krause (1904-1973) lived as a philosopher and private scholar in Berlin. In 1924, he became acquainted with Giordano Bruno's philosophy and the Buddhist wisdom teachings; both had a great influence on him and became significant for his further development. 1926-1930 Studies of economics and business administration. 1930-1934 Studies of physics. The starting point for his interest in physics is the hope of discovering a force (or similar), by means of which wars could be made impossible. In 1934, H. Krause abandoned Western methodology because he considered it unsuitable. From then on, he consistently took the inward path, the path of meditation. At the beginning of 1937, he had his first satori experience, a flash of intuitive insight into reality, which he now combined with his scientific research up until 1934. He formulated the first version of "The Building Material of the World" in the summer of 1937. A second version was produced; Eugen Diederichs Verlag wanted to publish it, but H. Krause withdrew the manuscript for fear of possible misuse by the National Socialists (primarily in the anti-Einstein arguments). As a philosopher he works in secret, but pursues various professional activities in the bourgeois world. In 1944, he made further "breakthroughs" in his meditative work; H. Krause attained far-reaching transpersonal insights into cosmic dimensions which were not put down on paper until the 1950s. Krause's main work, "On the Rainbow and the Law of Creation", was completed in 1967. In 1970, he published the first part, "Der Baustoff der Welt" (The Building Material of the World), with Ner Tumid Verlag, using the pseudonym Simon Kraus. The book became a kind of cult book for a small circle of people in Germany, but did not achieve a broader impact. H. Krause died in the spring of 1973, Ner Tamid Verlag was dissolved at the beginning of 1981 after the publishing director, Rabbi Shlomo Lewin, fell victim to a neo-Nazi assassination attempt.

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