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The tantric initiation involves a number of secret rituals, which no one would dare – or be able – to reveal to you. Nights at Serampore is a story of some clandestine mystic rites and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger is a tale of a mysterious collection of books and manuscripts.
Honigberger had spent more than half of his long life in the Orient. At one time, he became the Court physician, pharmacist, head of the Armory, and admiral for Maharajah Ranjit-Singh of Lahore. Many times he gathered considerable fortunes and then lost them. A big-time adventurer, Honigberger had never been a crook, though.
Two works of speculative fiction, Ouspensky’s Strange Life of Ivan Osokin and Eliade’s “The Secret of Dr. Honigberger” address Nietzsche’s dilemma (Osokin alludes to it) in terms of ...
Einem gelang es - er hob den Schleier Goettin zu Sais Novalis I One morning in the autumn of 1934, a messenger brought me a rather strange letter, adding he was waiting for an answer right then and there The letter was from a lady, Mrs Zerlendi, whose name I had never heard before, inviting me to visit her that very afternoon It was a very correct letter, excessively polite, as it was ...
In Eliade’s novella ‘The Secret of Dr Honigberger’, mystery and its interpretation play major roles in the work. The narrator of the story, a young Indologist, is invited to discuss India with a Mrs Zerlendi, who asks the young man if he is familiar with the life and writings of Dr Johann Honigberger, a Transylvanian German doctor from Brashov, court physician, pharmacist and adventurer.
Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story." Both Nights of Serampore and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger evoke the mythical geography and time of India. Mythology, fantasy, and autobiography are skillfully combined in Eliade's tales.
