Carl William Hansen

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Carl William Hansen (October 11, 1872 – August 3, 1936) was a Danish author, Luciferian, Wandering Bishop and Occultist.

Hansen was born in Copenhagen and first initiated into Martinism in 1898 by Alphonse Wallen. Hansen published Den Ny Morgens Gry, Lucifer-Hiram, Verdensbygmesterens Genkomst (The Dawn of a New Morning, Lucifer-Hiram, The Return of the World's Master Builder), in 1906 under the pseudonym Ben Kadosh.

Inspired by the French Gnostic movement, and such writers as Carl Kohl, his major interests seems to have been alchemy and astrology. Until 1905 he was in communication with Swedish playwriter and alchemist August Strindberg [1]. Some of Hansen's occult ideas inspire the Neo-Luciferian Church today. [2].

In September 1921 Theodor Reuss issued pseudo-Masonic charters to Hansen for Gnostic Primas, Memphis & Misraim, Ordo Templi Orientis and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light [3]. In 1923 he engaged in the founding of a Martinist lodge in Denmark, later dissolved and rebuilt as the lodge The Three Columns. This lodge formed part of The Danish Grand Orient, chartered by Joanny Bricaud in Lyon as Grand Orient de la vraie et haute Maçonnerie ésoterique et gnostique du Danemark. The Danish Grand Orient worked until 1929 where it merged with the Grand Orient of Denmark and the North and formed The Grand Lodge of Denmark, an irregular Masonic body.[4]. By profession Carl W. Hansen was a dealer in dairy products, though he lists himself as a chemist in Hartmann’s Who’s Who, second edition 1927. Biographies of Hansen have been written by Peder Byberg Madsen and Bjarne Salling Pedersen and included in the reissue of Den Ny Morgens Gry, Lucifer-Hiram, Verdensbygmesterens Genkomst in 2006 (ISBN-13: 978-87-91698-00-2)

Hansen died from a heart attack at the age of 64.

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  1. ^ Welblund, Aage: Den sidste Guldmager og Kabbalist, Social-demokraten, 19th May 1946 (newspaperarticle), and Pedersen, Bjarne Salling + Madsen, Peder Byberg: Den Hellige Soen, 2006.
  2. ^ The Neo-Luciferian Church [[1]]. Retrieved on October 30th, 2006
  3. ^ Lomholt, Sigurd: Vinkelfrimureriet : irregulære og bedrageriske Frimurer-Riter samt det danske Vinkelfrimureri's Historie i Nutiden. Copenhagen 1931.
  4. ^ The Regular Masonic Grand Lodge in Denmark is Den Danske Frimurerorden