In a message dated 00-02-16 11:04:31 EST, Roads End writes: << Haushofer was a student of the Russian magician and metaphysician Gregor Ivanovich Gurdyev (George Gurdjieff). <<It is also known that ... Gurdjieff sought contact with Hitler. >> Extremely dubious claims. AFAK, Gurdjieff's students after leaving Russia were almost exclusively French and British nationals, with the exception of a few cosmopolitan Germans (e.g., the Saltzmans and de Hartmanns) who followed him everywhere. (Remember, this was the period when Moscow and Paris were culturally linked, French was the second language of the Czar's court, and exiled White Russian royalists were abundant in France.) James Webb --who did not only G's biography but wrote on the occultist movements of this period-- never mentioned Haushofer among G's students. As for Gurdjieff desiring contact with Hitler, that's completely implausible as well as out of character (for a man who drove Crowley out of his house for his low moral character!). (On the other hand, G had been a roomie of Josef Stalin during their schoolboy years.) And his own political sentiments could be described as idealistically "monarchistic" ...
