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# Guido von List

(1848–1919)   Poet   Austrian Empire

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Guido von List was a poet from the Austrian Empire, best known for *Freemasonry and the Germanic Tradition*.

## Quick Facts About Guido von List

Born October 5, 1848

Died May 17, 1919

Nationality Austrian Empire

Profession Poet

Notable works Freemasonry and the Germanic Tradition

## About Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism.

##  Quotes by Guido von List

> [A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guido-von-list/a-star-is-extinguished-another-will-begin-to-shine-thus-it-is-written/)

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> [One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guido-von-list/one-must-flee-those-places-where-life-throbs-and-seek-out-lonely/)

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> [Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guido-von-list/now-because-men-of-our-contemporary-age-are-caught-up-in-the-ascetic/)

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> [Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guido-von-list/dark-times-have-come-but-in-spite-of-this-we-have-not-yet-reached-a/)

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