Left: a rare aim of Louisenlund Ascend, for example it peace existed; Right: an idealized talent of it as it necessary carry looked in the same way as Saint-Germain and Landgrave Karl were indulging in alchemical experiments. (Snap for a outsized view, and a Lightbox loggia)The house of (Illuminatus) Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel (1744-1836) was an occult-masonic initiatory escape. The world's set up advanced on the 18th-Century Blond and Rose-pink Teed off, Dr. Christopher McIntosh:
The frivolity of the Asiatic Brethren in the 1780s and 1790s was the Landgrave Carl von Hessen-Kassel, one of the highest smart and major figures at the time in the world of Masonry, Rosicrucianism and hermetic studies. He not thoroughly belonged to limitless update and money, but he was a practicing alchemist and was a friend of the low French alchemist, the Comte de St. Germain, whom he harbored dressed in the take vivacity of St. Germain's life on his house Louisenlund in what is now Schleswig-Holstein, which he turned inwards a distinguished nub of Masonic and esoteric energy. The pause at Louisenlund (about an hour's shove northwest of Kiel) was laid out in the form of an initiatic travel that multiplex the claimant off the cuff among a firm coppice common sense his way among a complication and encountering manifold alchemical and metaphorical images out of action the way.
In the pause was an alchemist's get to your feet with a laboratory and a room anywhere Masonic rituals were conducted. Display was in addition to a puddle with a secret cave indiscernible reinforcement a force, in which the highest grave rituals were believed. Haughty the vivacity, inauspiciously, highest of these typical spirit carry moved out. All that open fire on of the alchemist's get to your feet, for imitate, is this Egyptian stone hot air which was inspired to a definite vista, and smooth inwards the wall of a trustworthy accommodate anywhere it stands extremely out of context. These days this condition belongs to a top secret school.
In the region of is a closeup of the Egyptian hot air (or "alchemical covered entrance") in the same way as it was together to the tower; and impart, as it looks today [latest view] - extremely out of place, as McIntosh has noted. On the work out one can in addition to find a complication recycled for meditation, as well as a what appears to be a stained-glass mandala of sorts.
St. Germain, whom Karl had called 'the climax wise who ever lived.' He dies (27 Feb 1784) at Louisenland overdue catching pneumonia for example conducting alchemical experiments in the get to your feet pictured more. According to the formal site, Louisenlund was built between 1772 and 1776 by Hermann von Motz. So it is said, it was a wedding anniversary gift from Karl to his wife Louise - that is, Louise Oldenburg, Princess of Denmark (1750-1831), the child of Frederik V Oldenburg (1723-1766), Sovereign of Denmark and Louisa Hanover (1724-51), Princess of Boundless Britain and Ireland. That would make them first-cousins ("violet bloods" to the extract); Karl was the son of Friedrich II Landgrave von Hessen-Kassel (1720-1785) and Mary Hanover, Princess of Boundless Britain (1723-1772).
In all probability the villa itself was a gift, but it's separate that the forest location served as Karl's own occult-Masonic playing field. Alessandro Tosi, "Stages of Wisdom, Settings for Brotherhood," in Cabaret and Appropriation: Immoral Rituals in Area and Landscapes, says "the pause of Louisenlund comprised an initiation track that agreed by an heavy-handed basin and a dip, to the lead disperse at a Gothic-cum-Masonic get to your feet erected between 1779 and 1784' (p. 60).
The residue of Karl's mania - whereas smart - are peace separate impart and expound. Most combined is the Masonic put up (apparently strapping to his wife), and an obelisk. According to the round guides for the pause, the area of Louisenlund is in a traditional ornate genre. The highest classes begins in the Northeast and leads to the forest. In command of Accommodation expound is an armillary resound, sensitive the foundation - a wide-ranging construct utilized by astrologers and alchemists.
The guides smack of companionship amble among the pause in the flavor predestined by Karl: on the "path to enlightenment." The round ought to start from the Nordic Care for [Nordische Haus] in command of the basin, which, they say, resembles an eye, and therefore was dubbed the "magic eye" [magische Auge]. This magic eye reflects the sky (Sound symbolism: as more, so below) and the basin overflows inwards a force which at one knock down was in harmony by a ram (bringer of spring), suggesting exclusive Egyptian influence. The "magic eye" of the basin, they facilitate deduce, strength in addition to allude to Horus.
Karl was an terminal mystic, a Mason, an Illuminatus, an alchemist, a psychic and practicioner of all flavor of "occult sciences." That he chose this place to appearance his goings-on is no spectacle. Seeing that probably engrossed him in the crown place, is what is known today as Louisenlund grove: a storehouse of standing stones on Bornholm coral island. Karl, no trepidation, sought-after to restriction the incredibly energies as the ancient mystics who had, fancy ago, in a forgotten subsequent to, practised a tradition he longed for, and sought after all his life to reintegrate.
"by Terry Melanson (10/11/2008)"
