Ariosophy

Armanism and Ariosophy are the names of ideological systems of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric" title="Esoteric" class="mw-redirect" >esoteric</a> nature, pioneered by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_von_List" title="Guido von List" >Guido von List</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Lanz_von_Liebenfels" title="Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels" >Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels</a>respectively, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria" >Austria</a> between 1890 and 1930. The term 'Ariosophy', meaning wisdom concerning the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan" title="Aryan" >Aryans</a>, was first coined by Lanz von Liebenfels in 1915 and became the label for his doctrine in the 1920s. In research on the topic, such as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Occult_Roots_of_Nazism" title="The Occult Roots of Nazism" >The Occult Roots of Nazism</a>, the term 'Ariosophy' is used generically to describe the Aryan-esoteric theories of a subset of the 'Völkische Bewegung'.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariosophy#cite_note-1" >[1]</a> This broader use of the word is retrospective and was not generally current among the esotericists themselves." List actually called his doctrine 'Armanism', while Lanz used the terms 'Theozoology' and 'Ario-Christianity' before the First World War.

The ideas of Von List and Lanz von Liebenfels were part of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esotericism_in_Germany_and_Austria" title="Esotericism in Germany and Austria" >general occult revival in Austria and Germany</a> of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inspired by historical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism" >Germanic paganism</a> and holistic philosophy as well as esoteric concepts influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire" >German</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism" >romanticism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy" >Theosophy</a>. The connection of this Germanic mysticism with historical Germanic culture is evident in the mystics' fascination with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes" title="Runes" >runes</a>, in the form of Guido von List's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armanen_runes" title="Armanen runes" >Armanen runes</a>. Ariosophy in its narrow sense was a Liturgic-free newthought-influenced movement without clearly delineated dogmatics, centered around the publications of Herbert Reichstein Verlag.

Ariosophy

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