Eugen Grosche and his influence on Nu-Isis

[oek]

For a long time I have been intrigued by Eugen Grosche's/Gregor A. Gregorius' influence on Grant's view on the new planetary influence from Nu-Isis. Are Grosche's texts dealing with this subject known? Certainly Karl Germer seemed to recognise Grant's source or inspiration for the idea.

Personally I am not familiar with the teachings of Fraternitas Saturni, and at the moment I am not able to check any context from the Trilogies or from Servants of the Star and the Snake.

[stephen]

There is a key passage in Michael Staley's essay "Foundations of the Typhonian Trilogies" on page 209 of SSS: 

"Although Grant says little about the inspiration for New Isis, there was something in Grosche's pamphlets which suggested to him that there was a source of powerful occult influences, connected in some manner with a transplutonic planet. Unfortunately there are no further details in Grant's surviving papers. However, there was a reference to Grosche in the Manifesto of New Isis Lodge, as we shall see below, where his Lodge of Saturn-Gnosis was described as a "Sister-Lodge"."

This appears to be the first reference to Eugen Grosche in the essay. Michael quotes correspondence between Grant and Germer discussing the Planet Isis and its implications on pages 214-215 of SSS. "Grosche's pamphlets" remain rather mysterious. The Fraternitas Saturni published a great many periodicals and pamphlets, all of them in German of course, probably highly collectable and now very hard to come by. You could have a trawl through Peter Koenig's parareligion website.

THE FRATERNITAS SATURNI by Stephen Flowers, Inner Traditions 2018, a fourth revised and expanded edition, is an excellent introduction to the Order.