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Alraune is now available as an e-book!

Alraune e-book

http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/alraune/8152941

Important Notice

This ebook edition of Alraune is intended as a low cost alternative for those wishing to explore the literature of Hanns Heinz Ewers for the first time. Other Hanns Heinz Ewers titles can be found at:
http://stores.lulu.com/anarchistbanjo

In March, 2010, in time for the World Horror Convention, Side Real Press will be coming out with a special high quality signed and numbered limited edition. This will be limited to 350 copies of the book and will include the Mahlon Blaine illustrations and other interesting material. This special edition is expected to sell out quickly.

I am taking copies as payment and would appreciate anyone interested in purchasing one of these beautiful books to consider buying it from me. I will sign and personalize all copies that I personally sell. Email me at:

anarchistbanjo@live.com

Email me for more information. Otherwise this book may be purchased directly from Side Real Press.

http://www.siderealpress.co.uk/

Sometime in 2011 a 1911-2011 Centennial Edition will come out as a regular hardcover with lots of additional information and research. Anyone wanting to be put on a mailing list to be kept informed of new materials should email me at:

anarchistbanjo@live.com

Or simply visit my website!

Anarchistworld.com

Well I should be working on some translations and instead I’ve been goofing off surfing the internet. In particular I was contrasting various metaphysical/magickal organizations and reviewing some of my own OAK books. Earlier in life I always wanted to join these groups and even today feel some of the temptation. I was a member of the Roscrucian Order AMORC for twenty two years and completed their degree studies.

The truth is that the OAK material presented in both Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism is vastly superior to anything else out there and not so ridiculously archaic. In truth it is a breath of fresh air in a very moldy closet!

The formation of a local healing/prosperity circle has become one of the most important things in my life right now and we are soon to have our third meeting. 3rd Degree work is group work and this is my first chance to work with new eon energy at a group level on a substantial and recurring level. It is exciting to put these theories into practice and experience first hand the validity of the system and the reality of both spiritual light and black earth energy as duel power sources.

The healing/prosperity circle is an energy linking circle and when the energy snaps into place it is like “a searchlight being turned on”. I would have never believed something so powerful could be achieved so easily and consistently. The last meeting was held outdoors on a windy day and inside the circle there was no wind even though you could hear it outside the circle!

The development of this circle is the first formal OAK working group. I’ve done scattered 1st degree initiations including a well received one at Pagannation’s Real Witches Balls a few years ago. Each group member must be initiated into the 1st OAK degree to harmonize with the circle working. Fortunately, such initiation is equally as simple and requires no special preparation or ritual. The new person is simply initiated and the circle continues in a normal fashion.

The OAK system is now active and functioning within the world to the extent that it includes and draws members! This process has been years in coming. It’s been twenty years since I first tapped into the energy of the new eon as a spiritual power source and helped anchor it into the earth.

This is a formal announcement that I won’t bother repeating. The OAK egregore now supercedes both the OTO and A:.A:. egregores established by Crowley.  OAK is not kabalistic and kabalistic models will not function in the manner they have in the past. OAK is more akin to Shamanism or Voodoo than any other known system and operates at both a higher and a lower level than any other existing system so it circumvents their own circuitry and makes them manifest somewhat differently.

It exists in group form now after twenty years of astral conflicts by right of conquest. There no longer is any conflict between OAK and any other magickal/mystical system. The balance has been restored and the harmony locked in.The new age is officially here!

Its guiding spirits and teachers include Marie Laveau and Hanns Heinz Ewers. It calls upon the guiding intelligences of the human race, both male and female, as God and Goddess.It uses as power sources the photon itself and the pure black energy at the core of the earth and integrates all paths into one path, the ancient path of the life force itself.

There is nothing to know other than that development of the soul and its powers now only comes through individual effort and is not dependent on any path or teaching. Affiliation and familiarity with the OAK material can substantially speed the process of soul development but is not required. There is nothing to do unless one feels inclined to change the circumstances of their own lives.

Group work can magnify the effect. That is what makes the formation of an OAK circle such a profound thing.

Fall Equinox

Well the fall equinox is only weeks away! What kind of harvest are you getting? The way the lunar and solar cycles combine this month is the full moon coming before the equinox, actually tomorrow the 4th of September. The full moon is the time of maximum compression so we should all coast into the equinox as the pressure lets up somewhat.

Remember the equinox marks the end of working in the astral for the coming years events. From that point on they are pretty much locked in stone unless they are destroyed by counter forces.

Fall s my favorite time of year and we see two things happening, first the harvest as the crops ripen and then the withdrawl of spirit back into the seed in preparation for the coming year. The growing season is done. Now we survive through the winter.

In my life there are the major harvests, my life at home is much better, the book Lakes Area Pagan, and the formation of a local healing circle. This is powerful stuff and I’ve been wanting it for years.

My translation of Alraune is carrying over into the new year and I’m currently working on chapter nine. I hope to have my part of the book done by Christmas. There is still a lot to do.

It is official, John Smith of Sidereal press will be publishing my translation of Alraune with his own added material and the original Mahlon Blaine illustrations! It is due out this spring. Hopefully in time for the world horror convention. It will be my fault if it doesn’t make it. Translation is such slow work! This will be a limited edition of only 350 copies. Six months later I will follow up with normal editions. I will let you know more as it happens.

-joe

Lakes Area Pagan Book of Shadows

Lakes Area Pagan Book of Shadows

Joe Bandel’s Book Store

I’m taking the next leap into private book publishing! Anarchistworld.com will continue as my main webpage with the addition of Hanns Heinz Ewers blogs, Library Thing and Scribd.

My plan is to translate and publish the entire works of Hanns Heinz Ewers and publish them. They will be available only here at my bookstore so keep this link!

By doing this I will be able to publish and sell hardcover books for around $25 each and quality paperbacks for around $16 each. To do this I must totaly eliminate the middleman and make these books available only online and only through me.

Edgar Allan Poe is now available in a collectable hardcover with added material.Check it out at the book store.

I’m currently planning to have the new translation of Alraune complete and on the market by next spring. John Smith of Side Real press is hoping to pubish a limited edition with the original Blaine artwork and have it available for the world horror convention next march! That would really be something!

I continue to translate some poems and fables that are going into their own blogs and can also be read at scribd.

Notice the new links on the main Anarchist World web page and check them out. There is some interesting stuff.

I’m trying to focus all discussions of Hanns Heinz Ewers at either Library Thing or Scribd.

Here’s an update on current projects that I’m working on. I’ve just posted Alraune Chapter 4 on my webpage and look forward to chapter 5. This is very symbolic since chapter 4 was so very long and took a long time to translate because I had to leave it for awhile. The good news is that I’m commiting myself to having Alraune completely translated by Christmas and plan to have it available as an ebook by that time at least. I’m working with two other people on print versions though and don’t know a time frame for those yet.

Lakes Area Pagan: A Book OF Shadows will be out this month and will complete my commitment to Lakes Area Pagan Magazine. I will be turning the project over to others. Originally this book of shadows was to collect the first four volumes of Lakes Area Pagan into one book. What I’ve decided to do instead is to collect the first four volumes of Lakes Area Pagan and add enough material so it will be a complete book of shadows that represents the OAK 3rd degree materials.

Lakes Area Pagan: Art & Poems

Some of the art work and poetry submitted to Lakes Area Pagan has been so good that it requires a book of its own in full color. The cost of printing full color books makes it imperative that it contain only art and poetry to limit page count.

My books on amazon.com

Lulu, my publisher has just pioneered a deal with amazon to list some of their books. An unforeseen consequence of this is the listing of my books on amazon.com at the lower prices of aprox $16.50 per book. Normally to have them listed on amazon.com would require the price to list at over $21.00 so both Lulu and Amazon get their cut. The bottom line is more exposure for my books than ever before. I’ve also added three of my books on Kindle.

Scribd.com now lists my books as well and has all four of them for sale as ebooks. I’m experimenting with various options to see which seem to get the best results. The main focus is still on getting new readers so everything I’ve published so far is still available for free somewhere on the web if you know how to find it. In the meantime print books and kindle editions increase the options readers have. While I still offer things online for free it is important to note that I feel a fair price for any of my books is a $5.00 royalty and all prices reflect that. I accept donations as well.

If you have read and enjoyed Anarchist Knight:Apprentice, Magister Templi, Modern Survivalism, Hanns Heinz Ewers Volume I or the upcoming Lakes Area Pagan Book of Shadows as a free edition and wish to square karmic accounts there is a donation button for $5 on the Anarchist World website. Feel free to use it.

These books remain the best information available in the world as far as I’m concerned and contain lifetimes worth of information. You simply can not find this information anywhere else. I know because I’ve tried.

-joe

Well it’s memorial day weekend and I get to work on Alraune a bit. My goal is to complete one chapter every month at the least and I’m falling behind. This is mainly because my everyday job has picked up and I’m working five 10 hour days plus weekend work and daily security runs where I live.  In this economy having too much work is a blessing so I can’t complain.

Visitors to Anarchist World remain steady. On scribd.com my books Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism draw many more readers than the fiction stories.

There is more OAK material but it is about group energy and as long as there is no group there can be no material. OAK is a movement that will either catch on or die. I’ve made the information as freely available as possible. Time will tell.

I’ve thought quite a bit about the general public and what makes things popular. The final conclusion is that self-evident truth will appeal to everyone.

Regarding the Hanns Heinz Ewers projects I’ve realized that I would rather spend my spare time doing quality translations of this fascinating writer than any other writer and I seem to have a knack for it.

I continue to pick up source material at every opportunity and currently have years worth of translation material that I want to read and translate. In competition with this is the growing need and desire to try my hand at screenplays. I fully intend to make a screen play of Alraune after I finish translating the book.

The Alraune blog is currently active and every few days I’m putting more on it. For those wanting to keep up with the latest that is where to find me.

I will have the entire Frank Braun trilogy translated within the next four years as well as some other stories. I can translate at least twice as fast as I can write my own material and I need to get more books out. Alraune will be my sixth book believe it or not. Lakes Area Pagan Book of Shadows will collect the first four volumes of Lakes Area Pagan into a full color hard cover book that will be out this summer or next fall.

till next time,

-joe

Beltaine

Well I made it through my birthday and Beltaine is coming up. How about Anarchist World?  Some interesting things going on. First I posted lots of my stuff on scribd.com and after two weeks have 800 views and 95 downloads, most of the downloads are for Modern Survivalism and Magister Templi is not doing bad either. The counter for Anarchist World has over 13,000 since last September. That means steady readers coming every day. Bottom line is that there is good content on my site and people are valuing even if they are not buying it.

This  increased demand for Modern Survivalism and Magister Templi has prompted me to lower my asking price for the paperbacks to $16 and some odd cents. Hopefully the new prices will be reflected this weekend if I can get to it. In the meantime if you try to buy one of these books it will give the proper price. The only reason I went with the higher price was because I was going to market them through amazon.com and they required $12 per book for their cut. Now I believe I can do better on my own.

I finished Hanns Heinz Ewers Volume I and it is now available as well. Lakes Area Pagan needs to be finished soon. So there is lots to do. I will be working seriously on finishing Alraune by Christmas and hope to see it published sometime in Spring.

Basically when I look at everything I’ve done I realize that I have created an interesting site that draws many people and will draw many more in the future. That has been my primary object. I do have one other project that is starting however.

Hanns Heinz Ewers Private Study Group

I translate Hanns Heinz Ewers out of love and interest. Most of the stories or novels I have never read before and I get to read them for the first time with everyone else. It is frustrating for me to spend hours translating Alraune when I could be translating something else that I have never read before. Still, the most pressing need is a new uncensored edition of Alraune and I’m up for it.

I’m trying very hard to introduce Ewers to new readers. By now everyone should realize my translations do stand apart from what you might have read before and that is my particular skill and passion. Hanns Heinz Ewers needs to reach a modern audience with modern translations. I seem to be the only one doing it.

I wish that there were more hours in the day available to me for translation work. I truly love to translate more than any other hobby I’ve ever had. Here’s the bottom line. I’d like to create a Hanns Heinz Ewers Private Study Group. This is how it would work:

I would create several private blogs available only to the study group:

Horst Wessel
Rider in the German Night
Fundvogel
The Cabaret
The Girl Wonder of Berlin
Ghost Seer
India and I
Travels Through the Latin World
Short Stories of Hanns Heinz Ewers

I have all but these two, Rider in the German Night and Travels Through the Latin World. I have all the rest and am itching to discover what is inside them but don’t have the time. I will be ordering these last two books within the next few months. I would not be publishing these but offering them for private study and discussion.

Each week I would post about six pages of never before translated text into one of these blogs. It would be a grab bag with no rhyme or reason. I would email everyone which blog I posted in. But each blog will be continuous. Horst Wessel will start with the first six pages and each time I post in that blog it will carry on from where it left off. If I started a thirty page short story that story would be completed before I started another story in that blog but it might be weeks before I once more posted six pages to that blog.

This might seem crazy but after six months or a year there would be significant material in all of these blogs that no one else in the world has ever read in English before. Progress would be slow but it is a study group and hopefully conversations and friendships can develop. Some people buy limited editions because they want to be the first ones to read the material or in some cases the only ones that can afford to read the material.

This is a way for people to get advance knowledge of material that might be years away from publication. If you love Hanns Heinz Ewers this would be perfect. It would cost $5/mo, the price of a cup of coffee and a donut. There would be a membership subscription set up through paypal.

The first three entries will be to Horst Wessel, Ghost Seer and India and I. I hope to have these set up this coming week to get a jump start on things. If you are interested in joining this private study group please email me at anarchistbanjo@live.com and have private study group in the heading. I will need at least ten people interested before I will do it. In the meantime I will be doing these scattered six pages anyway to take a little break from Alraune once in awhile. Let me know if you are interested and then I will set things up.

Email me and let’s talk. Please realize that these studies will be slow going at only six pages per week but it is also material that will have never been in English before and that might be worth something to some of you. I know it is to me. I translate simply because I want to know how it reads.

-joe

I once read somewhere that if what you are doing doesn’t work, then try something else. Something else I read was about alchemical gold and turning lead into gold. The way to create alchemical gold is to take the gold you have and multiply it! First you need to have some!

So you take what works, even if it is not a huge success and multiply that. It seems simple enough but the reality is more challenging.

I recently made my books, Anarchist Knight-Apprentice, Magister Tempi, Modern Survivalism and my translated stories available on Scribd.com. I did this after careful consideration of stats and on sudden impulse as well.

This is all based on my thought that readership is much more important than making any money on my writing. How to boost readership has been a question that baffles lots of people on the internet. I am pleased to see a steady growth and don’t really have any complaints. I’m just impatient.

Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism are the study material for the 1st and 2nd degrees of the OAK magickal system. What about study material for the 3rd degree? It can’t exist yet!

The 3rd degree material is about group energy and group dynamics. It is about the power of collective purpose and collective agreement. It is about joint effort and beleif in a common system of values. Until there is a group there can be no 3rd degree. This is true for any magickal system, political system, religious system, educational system of any structure involving a number of people.

In these two books I’ve put down the morals and values that I believe will guide humanities future. It is a belief in hard work and individual competence. Today’s world has become so fragmented that people are following individual paths and not collective paths. They are opting for individual goals and not collective goals. There is nothing wrong with this. It is where people are in their development. All that I’m saying is there will be no progress until people once more learn to work together in collective agreement.

Forcing individual compliance through force backed laws, fear based coercion and rules will not work.

From a personal note Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism say everything that I feel I need to say. There is no more I can do until people gather together in common purpose. I was a member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC for twenty two years and studied weekly monographs. The power that bound Rosicrucians together was a common education, a common conceptual understanding. The fact that everyone studied the same monographs in the same order and progressed through the material in the same manner was a very powerful and empowering thing for a person to do. I know that my Rosicrucian studies shaped my life and my very soul. No matter who I might become later in life I will always remain a Rosicrucian because of the way they have shaped me.

Hanns Heinz Ewers believed in a Nation of Culture that was destroyed by the two world wars. In his writing we can track the development of his soul as he first pursues spiritual and philosophical things, then confronts his own shadow and personal demons and finally late in life pours his heart and soul into the group.

He spent the first part of his life in selfish and solitary pursuits and only later became an ardent nationalist. Unfortunately his nation was Hitler’s Germany. Still, is there much difference in saying that one should be proud of their country, proud of thier roots, proud of their culture, proud of their own people?

As long as it is America that we are proud of it’s alright, or even any other country in the world except Nazi Germany. Ewers was a strong supporter of the Jewish cause and helped many aquire the visas they needed to leave Germany before World War II. The question is not about hate or race or superiority. It is about love of home and country taken to an extreme degree. It is about the belief in a nation of culture.

As I translate Hanns Heinz Ewers I realize that I share a passionate belief  in human potentials, rugged individualism, high ideals, personal freedom, and a longing to belong to a group of  like minded people. I feel frustrated at a society that feels it no longer needs collective agreement but can use blind force to attain compliance to its whims. I feel frustrated at a society that rewards weakness and dependency and punishes competency and skill.

The nation of culture that Hanns Heinz Ewers knew and loved was the mystery tradition of the west, namely Free Masonry, Rosicrucianism , Kabalistic groups and the sciences. One could even make the claim with some degree of accuracy that Masonry ruled the world. That is not true today. To  be a mason is to invite persecution once more.

Aleister Crowley dreamed that his organization, the OTO, could reinvent Freemasonry on a higher level and bring back the nation of culture but it never caught on. Without members even the most worthy ideals and goals will fail.

The OAK materials contained in Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism synthesize a life time of personal study and experience. Most importantly they have been simplified down to the point where they represent self-evident truths. They represent things common to everyone and experiences common to everyone. They represent a starting point of a new nation of culture if they can draw enough support from enough people. They stand upon the solid ground of the past and look with self-evident eyes into the future exposing the frauds and illusions of political correctness.

Let’s face it. Some things will never be popular and truth is one of them! As Hanns Heinz Ewers says, beautiful lies always destroy ugly truth!

Happy Holidays!

I think back on the past year and how much has changed for me. I have moved into a new stage of my life and leaving the old one has been kind of strange.

I put so much time and energy into my personal writing projects and trying to get them out and now it seems as if they are just lying there while I obsessively translate Hanns Heinz Ewers. What is going on!

Simply put, I thought about writing another metaphysical book, then realized that in Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism I had successfully said what I wanted to say. There was no real need for anything else. All that remained was to finish the Anarchist Knight trilogy and that still remains.

Ewers books Alraune, Vampire and Fundvogel are important to me because I wish to learn how to write that way. I am largely translating them to gain the writing skills needed to write my next two books.

Anarchist Knight Journeyman is a darker story and will need those things that I am now learning. It will be worth the wait. I am learning how to connect with my own dark nature in a positive and creative way. Each thing I translate stirs up emotions that I never knew existed. That is what is important because once they are stirred up I can capture them in words.

I am planning to publish Hanns Heinz EwersVolume I this spring. It will include many short stories and the first two chapters of Vampire, the first three chapters of Alraune.

It will only include material published by Ewers before 1923 so I can’t include chapters from Fundvogel or some of the short stories I have already translated. It will be 300-350 pages so look for it!

The Ewers estate apparently has no interest in talking with me about my translations. Both emails and letters go unanswered. Other than continuing the Fundvogel translation I will limit myself to only translating works that are in the public domain here in the United States. Things that are not in the public domain will remain on my website until I am asked personally by the estate to take them down. I will not attempt to make any money off them but offer them freely for fans to read.

Most of Hanns Heinz Ewers material was published before 1923 so I have a large assortment of material to work with including the novels The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Ghost Seer.

You can expect to see new translations of some short stories that have already been translated. The language in most of them sounds stilted and I’m itching to give it a try to see if I can do any better! The Spider will be the first of these that I will be translating fresh.

My translation skills are improving with each new page and I’m learning a lot. In a hard world taking a few hours each day to work on these is one of my greatest joys. I do it for love and because I want to find out what happens next.

 

bright blessings

-joe

I’ve finished Chapter one of Vampire and it will soon be posted on the main webpage, finished “My Mother the Witch”, started chapter three of Alraune, in the middle of chapter two of Fundvogel.

I will do one more short story before starting “The Spider”. I am curious if there will be any significant differences in my translation. I will only post things I have personally translated so it needs to be done. The Spider is probably HHE’s most famous short story. I should have it on my web page.

The translation work is taking form and so is the influence of Hanns Heinz Ewers in my own life. He represents my dark aspect just as my other books represent my spiritual/light side. On the pages of Anarchist World there are two polarities, one light and one dark. Both are related to each other in some mysterious way.

There is no doubt in my mind that this polarity will draw readers. It will draw members of the nation of culture! Hanns Heinz Ewers believed in the nation of culture, thought it was destroyed during world war I, thought that the third Reich might be able to bring it back. Vienna had been the cultural capital of the world.

Post World War I Germany gave the world many things including Psychology with Freud, Jung, Reich and others. It gave us Einstein, nuclear physics, rockets, the space program. It gave us German philosophers such as Kant and Neitzche.

This is just scratching the surface. Many of the medical miracles of today such as organ transplants have come out of the horrendous human experimentation done during world war II by the Nazis.

Was Nazi Germany a nation of culture? The frightening answer is that I don’t really know! I do know that something went horribly wrong. Hanns Heinz Ewers was banned in Nazi Germany, was on the death list but escaped to die in poverty, persona non grata. The nation that he believed in did not in the end believe in him. Hanns Heinz Ewers was a Jewish sympathiser as well as Hitler’s favorite author! What an explosive position to be in!

In today’s world, I wonder about a nation of culture. Is it possible? Is it too dangerous to consider? Would such a nation be corrupted to evil?  These are all questions that I would like the answer to.

All I know is that I long for people of culture! I tire of the petty lives of those that talk only of deer hunting, favorite restaurants and television shows. Sometimes I long so deeply for a decent conversation that I just need to be alone, there is no one there. That’s when I write on Anarchist World.

There is a nation of culture and Anarchist World is part of it!

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