Alois Mailänder - From the perspective of his students

Alois Mailänder (1843-1905) was a Christian mystic from the Allgäu Germany region.As a spiritual mentor to Gustav Meyrink and over fifty other important contemporaries he played a central role in the German Theosophical movement and beyond from 1885 onwards.- Karel Weinfurter who himself was leading student on a Christian spiritual path in the 1930s reported on the significant things he learnt from his teacher Mailänder.- The novelist Gustav Meyrink who spent a lifetime practising and testing the inspirations of his teacher Mailänder wrote about the results of his training.- The Theosophist Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden who made a significant contribution to the founding of a Theosophical Society in Germany spent two whole summers in Mailänder's house and reports in his diary what he experienced there.- The doctor and occultist Franz Hartmann introduced Alois Mailänder to the circle of Theosophists. He investigated whether Mailänder's methods could be further developed into a systematic doctrine.