Houston Stewart Chamberlain
ABOUT THIS SITE

 
Why this site?
It's my conviction that everything mankind has produced should be digitally accessible on the internet, and it was a miracle to me why Chamberlain's great works weren't there. I became interested in Chamberlain after reading a newspaper article about Cosima Wagner and the Bayreuther Kreis, and after reading Trevor Ravenscroft's book Spear of Destiny (great fun to read but don't expect historical truth, that book is about other truths...) and a collection of Chamberlain-reviews, bought from a Dutch antiquarian. When I searched for Chamberlain's books on the internet I found none. Intolerable! So I decided to built a site of my own, with all source-texts I could find.

Are you a Nazi, Fascist, etc.?
Heck no. I'm very well capable of distinguishing people from their systems. I value the individual Jew, Mohammedan, Catholic, Communist or whatever according to his character, but I believe that the group of Jews, the group of Mohammedans, Catholics, Communists, i.e. the political and religious systems, have a character too, and not always a pleasant one. Right now the Western world is facing an old arch enemy, the Islam. That religion won't accept a second place in society, and it will continue its murderous job, to “fight the idolaters until Allah's religion reigns supreme“ (Quran, 2:193). The idolaters, that means us. At school I had to learn that “all people are equal and all cultures  equivalent“; if this were true, “high“ cultures have never existed. I'm glad there have been people like H. St. Chamberlain who taught the opposite.

May I copy photos and texts?
Please go ahead. You may copy and publish Chamberlain's texts wherever you want. If you own a site about a related topic, have some space left, and are willing to publish Chamberlain's books, please do so. It will improve the accessibility of his work, and this site won't be here forever.


LINKS
to internet sources that I used for building this site, or that are otherwise interesting.


At this space [.....] there used to be a link to my favourite search engine Google. But not anymore. If Google censors itself because the Chinese communists wants them to, one begins to wonder what other information is kept secret for us to please which government.

Google in China

Update September 1st, 2007
Yahoo in China
Yahoo can't be trusted either. The company provided the Chinese government with information that led to years of jail sentence for "dissidents" Shi Tao and Li Zhi. Thank you, Yahoo! The company reminded me of Jonathan Swift's malicious Yahoos, obsessed with "pretty stones".

Update January 13th, 2010
OK, forget what I've said above. It seems Google doesn't want to be evil anymore.
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon

Alfred Loisy called the Foundations “un système religieux“, and I think he was right. Chamberlain's works abound with people related to the Christian religion: Popes, church fathers, Christian philosophers. Osarsyph, Papias, Loisy and Chamberlain himself: you'll find them all at this site. Huge and gründlich, as you would expect from those Germans.
Cover MarcionAdolf von Harnack's Marcion: Das Evangelium vom fremden Gott

In the preface of his last book, "Mensch und Gott", Chamberlain wrote that church father Marcion was "a noble man, who carried in his heart a noble goal for the welfare of Christianity", and that there are "remarkable similarities" between Marcion's religious convictions and the ideas of Chamberlain himself, as laid down in aforementioned book.

See also:
Tertullian's Adversus Marcionem
Marcion Info

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

I'm jealous of the French people that they have a site like this: a library with some 70.000 900.000 books and texts. Not only French literature, they collect everything, it seems, as long as it is written in French. Gallica has some Chamberlainiana, for instance the Foundations in French, and his essays for the Revue des Deux Mondes. The works of Comte de Gobineau are held here too.

Unglaublichkeiten.com. Bücher bis 1945.

Collection of texts from German authors and scans from German magazines 'till 1945, most of them related to National Socialism. But also other interesting works: von Clausewitz, Ernst Haeckel, Wilhelm II...

The Wagner Library

Richard Wagner's books, essays and libretti, translated into English. For some original texts in German, see Projekt Gutenberg-DE.


World War I in 270 pictures

Russian army surrenders — Tannenberg 1914

Coloured photographs from a collector's album, with comment — seen from a German perspective.

Archivo Wagner - Hemeroteca Wagneriana

Richard Wagner's books, essays and libretti, translated into Spanish. Also at this site the Spanish translation of Chamberlain's Das Drama Richard Wagners: El drama Wagneriano, and some other texts of his hand.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE

Lots of Goetheana and other source texts in German.

Of course you won't find Chamberlain's works here. Everything that even remotely looks like Verbreitung von Nazi-Gedankengut (spreading of Nazi-ideas) is prohibited in today's Germany. In Austria Chamberlain's works were put on a Liste der gesperrten Autoren und Bücher, a list with forbidden books, right after the end of WW2. On this list, Chamberlain is accompanied by von Clausewitz, von Treitschke, Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi officials like Goebbels, and many others. For my American visitors this will be an amusing fact: a list with forbidden books in enlightened Europe, just like the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in the good old days of the Roman Church! In the former DDR Chamberlain was put on a black list too — the Liste der auszusondernden Literatur —, but this time only his war-essays were prohibited — probably because the Soviets had no trouble with anti-Semitism or anti-Catholicism.

For the sake of political correctness the memorial plaquette, attached to Chamberlain's house in the Blümelgasse in Vienna, was removed; streets named after him were rebaptised after the war, for instance the Chamberlainstraße in Berlin (now the Niklasstraße). In Bayreuth Chamberlain is no longer honorary freeman thanks to the zealous Socialist Party there. I wonder what they are going to do about Der Fall Wagner, that notorious anti-Semite...

Sacred Text Archive

In his books Chamberlain often quotes the Bible, but also the Upanishads, the Vedas and other ancient Hindu texts; most of them you will find here.

Eurobuch

I found most of my antique books with the help of Antbo and Abebooks, but this site offers a meta-search engine, that looks in the databases of Abebooks, Antbo, Amazon and many others.

Wer ist wer in Bayreuth

Who is who in Bayreuth? Lots of information on everyone who has had something to do with this city. Has a transcription of a large essay on Chamberlain by professor Geoffrey G. Field (in German), originally published in the Nachrichten aus Bayreuth, 1975. The owner of the site solemnly declares that he dissociates himself from any National Socialist ideas, but that didn't prevent him from copying the photographs of Chamberlain-the-proto-Nazi from my pages. That's ok with me, I like his site, and I recommend it. By the way, I too don't like socialism, whether it be National or International...



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