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fellowship were associated by the aesthetic experience discovering George's poetry and their veneration of his life and work. Ritual meetings were held by an enclave of the elect: in the first reunion after World War I, at
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language that recognizes and constitutes the archetypical perception. They should be differentiated from those who only could receive inspiration in a derivative form, similar to the concept of
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two years later, he was "idealized to the point of proclaiming him a god, following his death... the cult of 'Maximin' became an integral part of the George circle's practice..." The
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pharmaceutical company, joined the circle in 1905; he later became George's literary executor. Still in 1919, George befriended the young historian
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was also the title of a poem published in George's late work
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754:Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man
289:On the Aesthetic Education of Man
322:Es lebe das Geheime Deutschland!
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563:Conservative Revolution
458:Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
359:Albrecht von Blumenthal
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864:Reactionary modernism
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