In Germany, at the turn of the century during the founding chaos of
Theosophy, Heinrich Traenker played a major role as publisher. He did
not establish contact with Theodor Reuss until 1919 although he had
been told about Reuss many years earlier by Franz Hartmann (another key
figure in the development of Theosophy and once friend of Carl Kellner). Although they never met in flesh,
Traenker became the X° for Germany through Reuss (10 May 1921 - C.S.
Jones was also made a X° on the same day). Reuss also wrote two other
charters for Germans in 1921: to Arnoldo Krumm-Heller
who eventually erected his Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, the
A\A\ and the Gnostic Catholic
Church in South America (while still having his "Sumo Supremo
Santuario" in Berlin-Heiligensee), and to Henri
Birven who soon would be influential in the development of the
Thelemic movement in Germany.
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