Prophezeiungen : Alter Aberglaube oder neue Wahrheit? by Max Kemmerich
"Prophezeiungen" by Max Kemmerich is a historical-scientific treatise written in the early 20th century. It argues that temporal clairvoyance and genuine prophecy exist, challenging materialist orthodoxy and urging fact-first skepticism over dogma. Drawing on documented cases from antiquity to modern times and coupling them with probability reasoning, it aims to shift prophecy from belief to demonstrable knowledge for both scholars and general readers. At the start of the treatise, the author states
he is not compiling curiosities but setting out to prove “seeing in time,” describing his own shift from skeptic to advocate and anticipating ridicule. He attacks the habit of declaring phenomena “impossible,” cites famous scientific misjudgments to demand openness, distances himself from church, occultism, and fortune-telling, and outlines a method that pairs rigorously vetted cases with probability to rule out chance. Spurred by imperial anecdotes of foreknowledge, he presents his plan to address objections and notes that a mathematician reviewed his proof. The first chapter then samples antiquity with cautious source criticism: it highlights Hebrew prophecies about Israel’s dispersion and survival (while rejecting late or hagiographic texts), argues some oracles were precise rather than coy, discusses the Pythia’s trance, and reviews Thucydides’ plague oracle. It adds the omens around Caesar’s assassination and shifts to modern corroboration through veridical dreams, citing testimonies from Justinus Kerner, the traveler Wilhelm Joest, a personal dream, and a detailed case relayed by Camille Flammarion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kemmerich, Max, 1876-1932 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 11018488 |
| Title | Prophezeiungen : Alter Aberglaube oder neue Wahrheit? |
| Original Publication | München: Albert Langen, 1911. |
| Credits | Peter Becker, Martin Oswald and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Superstition |
| Subject | Prophecies |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77888 |
| Release Date | Feb 8, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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