Evola made reference to Meyrinks works in several places and puportedly
recommended reading them.
In "The Path of Cinnaber" Evola writes about his examination of Magic in the
modern world (pp 127 f):
"Part of my analysis was based on the crucial teachings of [...] Gustav Meyrink.
The latter is the author of novels which reflect esoteric knowledge in an
exceptionally pure fashion (for this reason, I was later to translate three of
Meyrinks novels: Walpurgis Night, The White Dominican and the Angel of the West
Window - which I published for Bocca uder a psedonym.)" This pseudonym was
Gattopardo.
Excerpts of Meyrinks writings are also to be found in the Introduction into
Magic ("The Path of Awakening According to Gustav Meyrink"). Even in The
Doctrine of Awakening Meyrink is cited.
Meyrink was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler. If his mother, the
actress Maria Meyer was really jewish is uncertain and was denied by him.
However, he repeatedly refers to jewish myths, e.g. the Golem and the Eternal
Jew (in The Green Face).
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> Evola presented in Italy two works of Meyrink (true name Meyer, the family
name of his Jewish mother): 'Der weisse Domenikaner', and 'Der Engel vom
weislicher Fenster', both published by the now shot down Edizioni del Gattopardo
here. It is interesting to note that in all the successive Italian editions
those prefaces disappeared...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: (Dhr.) G. van der Heide
> To:
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:32 PM
> Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) Prophesied Gulf
Apocalypse
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> Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) Prophesied Gulf Apocalypse
>
> by Gerhard Wisnewski
>
> (Translated by "Idiot Savant," from a German website "Kopp Online",
http://www.kopp-online.com/hintergruende/enthuellungen/oelkatastrophe-schon-vor-\
ueber-1-jahren-vorhergesagt.html;jsessionid=F0791634B63C5BD9AC8BFF0E53415FD3)
>
> (for Henrymakow.com)
>
> In 1903, Austrian banker, writer and occultist Gustav Meyrink (left,
1868-1932) wrote a novella, "Petroleum, Petroleum", part of a collection of
short stories, which featured this Preface:
>
> "To assure priority of this prophecy, I state that the following novella has
been written in 1903. Gustav Meyrink".
>
> The novella tells the story of Dr. Jessegrim who has made a fortune in the
mescaline business.
>
> He decides to go into oil.
>
> All of Mexico was standing on caves which were partly at least filled with
petroleum, and connected with each other. Jessegrim resolves to blast away the
separations between the caves. After the last detonation, the oil was to flow
from the underground deposit in Mexico into the ocean and form a glass surface,
which continues to grow, taken by the gulf stream, soon covering the entire
Atlantic surface. The coasts were barren and the population retreated into the
interior of the land.
>
> Instead of being arrested, in Meyrink's story, Jessegrim is hired as a
consultant. He says: "If the oil continues to spill as it does, it will have
covered the oceans of the world in 27 to 29 weeks and there will be no more
rains, ever, as water can not evaporate anymore. At best, it will rain
petroleum."
>
> First widely criticized, this prophecy (of Dr. Jessegrim) becomes increasingly
plausible as the hidden flow does not stop, and when it increases dramatically,
panic grips humanity.
>
> Cable from USA to EU: "Oil leaks increase constantly. Situation extremely
dangerous. Advise immediately whether stink there is also unbearable".
>
> In Meyrink's occult circles, they were fantasizing about oil reserves gushing
into the ocean, from the Gulf of Mexico, covering the oceans.
>
> They postulated that an oil reservoir released into the oceans would be an
apocalypse and possibly destroy the entire earth. It would start with a huge
explosion. The culprit (a Dr. No figure, "Dr. Jessegrim") is motivated by blind
hate of humanity. He destroys humanity via a "wrath of god" - the oil
catastrophe.
>
> Unlike dystopian stories like "1984" by George Orwell or "Brave New World" by
Aldous Huxley, who made no such claims, Meyrink called his story a "Prophecy".
At the beginning of the story, he states quasi in notary fashion:
>
> "To assure priority of this prophecy, I state that the following novella has
been written in 1903. Gustav Meyrink".
>
> With the discovery of his prophecy concerning the oil catastrophe in the
Mexican Gulf, Meyrink could become posthumously famous in 2010. The best-known
story of Meyrink is "The Golem" (1915), one of the Cabalistic treatments of
the golem-saga where rabbis breathe life into a clay monster who vanquishes
their enemies.
>
> Meyrink ran a banking house between 1889 and 1902 and circulated his entire
life in the occult world of Christian and Jewish mysticism, theosophy and
alchemy.
>
> He was a member of the very influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a
British secret society active at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th
century. Its members included the Satanist, occultist, Cabalist, magician
Aleister Crowley, a Freemason of the Old and Accepted Order of the Scottish
Rite. He called himself "The Great Beast 666". It means that Meyrink was
frequenting circles which welcomed the Apocalypse, which is exactly what he
describes in "Petroleum, Petroleum": An apocalypse. And a planned apocalypse.
>
> Around 1900, the "magician and mystic" Aleister Crowley, in reality a
drug-addicted megalomaniac, traveled to Mexico. It has always been known that,
due to the lack of real magic, one had always to help things along, which is why
the only real background of magic is illusion - the representation of magic.
>
> Until now, every magician was really an illusionist, who interprets a natural
event as magical. Or, an illusion as a natural event (see the attacks of 9-11).
And while some developed an honest and entertaining art form out of this, others
insisted on selling their illusions as real magic or natural phenomena.
>
> Meyrink was frequenting such circles. Not only the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, but also the "Germania" lodge, the first lodge of the Theosophist
Society. It was founded by (widely regarded con-woman) Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky, who also founded the magazine "Lucifer".
>
> Meyrink eventually realized that the so-called "séances" for contacting ghosts
from the other side were "almost entirely relying on tricks or self-deception".
>
> One needs to point out that back then, people apparently fantasized about oil
reserves spilling into the oceans, and doing so in the Gulf of Mexico.
>
> Additionally, they believed this would become an apocalypse and could destroy
the entire earth.
>
> In Meyrink's story, the perpetrator is motivated by blind hatred of humanity:
The destruction of the "crowd" was seen by Meyrink/Jessegrim as possible only
through a "god-given scourge" - meaning, the oil apocalypse.
>