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28. “Volker,” The World Conquest, Our New Atlantic Religion of Steel, London: Nova Atlantis, nd., p. 19. Gutkind’s use of the term “electric” is reminiscent of H. P. Blavatsky who represented electricity as “the life of the universe.” (H. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, Los Angeles, 1949, p. 139). His reference to “the secret but real rulers of the world” also resembles Blavatsky’s thesis that there exists a fraternity of High Initiates or Masters of Wisdom who intervene at crucial stages in the history of the world.

29. F. van Eeden, World-Senate, Unite in Heroic Love! Testament to the Kingly of Spirit, London: Nova Atlantis, nd., p. 5.

30. Ibid., pp. 9-10.

31. The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair, London: W. H. Allen, 1963, p. 196.

32. Idem

33. Ibid, pp. 197-8. Rathenau helped found the German Democratic Party (DDP) after the war and advocated his Die Neue Wirtschaft “The New Economy: a combination of employee participation and state control of industry. He was murdered by right wing extremists in 1922 after the Treaty of Rapallo.

34. Quoted in H. Borel, ec., Brieven van Frederick van Eeden aan Henri Borel, Den Haag: Brussel, 1933, p. 133.

35. Letter of yan Eeden, undated. Copy in New Atlantis Archives.

36. Letter from Gutkind to Mitrinovi¢, July 30 1914 (in New Atlantis archives).

Chapter 3

1. Palavestra (1977), op. cit., p. 4. Much of the information in this chapter is based on a private translation of the final chapter of Palavestra’s book. Translated by D. Shillan and Dr. E. B. Goy, in the archives of the New Atlantis Foundation. The references use the pagination of this translation.

2. “Who should possess Trieste?,” The Outlook, September 26, 1914.

3. Palavestra, op. cit., pp. 4-5.

4. S. P. Tucié, ed., The Slav Nations, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916, p. 181.

5S. Ibid., p. 183.

6. Yorkshire Post, October 6, 1915.

7. Quoted in Paul Selver, Orage and the New Age Circle, London: Allen and Unwin, 1957, p. 59.

8. Paul Selver, “Partial truth about the Slavs,” The New Age, January 28, 1915, pp. 350-1.

9. Selver (1957), op. cit., pp. 57-9.

10. New Atlantis Foundation archives.

11. This was obviously a misunderstanding on van Eeden’s part. See Chapter two above.

12. H. Borel, op. cit., p. 134.

13. Ibid., p. 133.