Bemerkungen

[Dave Monroe]

Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land
Ukkbar in Klein-Asien 
Johann Valentin Andreä Strassburg, Lazarus Zetzner,
1641. 

A very rare work of which only seven original copies
survive, this fictional travelogue was written by J.V.
Andreä, the purported author of Chymische Hochzeit
Christiani Rosencreuz and "accidental" founder of the
Rosicrucian movement. Author of several works
involving imaginary communities and mystico-Christian
utopias, including the Reipublicae Christianopolitanae
Descriptio, Bemerkungen was an expansion of ideas
first expressed in the Christianopolis, now projected
onto an abstract philosophical country situated within
the borders of present-day Iraq. While certainly of
interest to Borges scholars and modern Rosicrucians,
Bemerkungen is most notorious for its chapter on the
ideal community of Vheissu, the major inspiration
behind the infamous Zweite Fruchtbringende
Gesellschaft. Better known to history as the Commune
of Prague, the ZFG was an isolated group of
philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Lutheran radicals who
attempted to recreate the ideals of Vheissu by
establishing a closed community outside Prague in
1773. Their experiment was a disaster, ending two
years later in a spiral of cannibalism, violent
orgies, and mass suicide. (For further details, see
"Rosiges Glühen, Blutiges Kreuz," by Kristoph Gross,
Der Annalen Metakarus, 1934, pp. 345-78; or "The
Prague Commune and its Influence on DeSade's The 120
Days of Sodom," by Josephine Pinto, Lingua Franca, Vol
10/No. 3, April 2000, pp. 22-25.) 

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/extra/eti.html#vheissu

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_hexagon.html

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