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Frederic Mellinger PhD AKA Frater  "Merlinus" AKA 'Arte Unionem Manifestabo Gnosticam';

Germany    1890 - 1970

Comments: '''Thelemite''' ; Theater; Astrology; [[Rosicrucian]]; 


Teachers: Karl-Heinz Martin, theater; Eugen Felber; Madame [[Blavatsky]] ; [[Rudolf Steiner]]; Hanussen, clairvoyant ;  [[Wilfred Smith]] AKA Frater 132;  [[Karl Germer]];  met [[Aleister Crowley]] in 1947; [[Heinrich Tränker]];  [[Theodor Reuss]]; [[Carl Kellner]]; [[Franz Hartmann]] ; [[Hargrave Jennings]]; 

Students:  H.C. Petersen;  Herbert Fritsche; Ernst Klett; Charles Waldemar AKA  Gerhard Zacharias;  Frau Beate Mattern; 

Friend: actress Eva Sinding, wife;  Friedrich Lekve;  Herr [[Metzger]] AKA Fra. Paragranus;  Anita Borgert;  [[Eugen Grosche]]; Genja Jantzen; [[Oscar Schlag]]; 

Enemies:  [[Kenneth Grant]]


Organizations: co-founder of and actor in 'The Tribune', the first left-wing agitprop avant-garde theatre in Berlin, 1919; founded the 'Schaubühne' ('The Stage') in Munich, 1921;  'German Society for Scientific Occultism'; in LA, USA started unsuccessful theater group  'DIE TRIBÜNE';  German Jewish Club of 1933, Inc;  [[OTO]] AKA Ordo Templi Orientis; [[Freemason]]ry;   'Adyar' Theosophical Society in Germany;

Author:  "Zeichen und Wunder: Ein Führer durch die Welt der Magie" ("Signs and Wonders: A Guide to the World of Magic"), 1933; film-script "The Emperor of the Sahara"; "Satanische Symphonie", 1948; 



Resources: http://www.parareligion.ch/melling.htm; http://www.parareligion.ch/dplanet/mell/mell.htm