Rudolf von Sebottendorf

Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer also known as Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or Sebottendorf; 9 November 1875 - 8 May 1945) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason,^[1] a Sufi^[2] of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam^[3] - and a practitioner of meditation, astrology, numerology, and alchemy.^[4] He also used the alias Erwin Torre.

^ Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 138 and see Howard 1989: 124 ("In 1901 von Sebottendorf was initiated into a Masonic lodge which, like many in the Middle East, had connections with the French Grand Orient"). Furthermore: "the masonic lodge, which Glauer had joined at Bursa in 1901, may have been a local cadre of the pre-revolutionary Secret Society of Union and Progress, founded on the model of Freemasonry by Salonican Turks to generate liberal consciousness during the repressive reign of the Sultan." (Goodrick-Clarke, op. cit., 139).
^ Sebottendorf, Rudolf, Freiherr von (2013). Secret practices of the Sufi Freemasons : the Islamic teachings at the heart of alchemy. Stephen E. Flowers. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions. ISBN 978-1-59477-468-3. OCLC 777663008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World, Oxford University Press (2004), p. 66
^ Ellic Howe, Urania's Children