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Dear redgolum,

"Partially because of some of the stuff coming out of Prussia at the time."

If you don't mind, and have the time, could you expand on that please?

Thanks,

sitetest

205 posted on 09/12/2006 7:06:02 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)

209 posted on 09/12/2006 7:37:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

Fredrick the Great of Prussia was the king during much of the 1700's. He was very into the occult, and kept many alchemists and magicians in his court.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Frederick+the+Great+Prussia+occult
Listing of some sites about it.

That set Prussia and a very different course from what she was during the Teutonic knights, or even as an early kingdom. Some of the later kings were very much out there, to the point that they were in conflict with the local church leaders alot (Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed). Which ended in the Prussian Union

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Union_(Evangelical_Christian_Church)

Which is part of the reason my great grandfathers decided to come to the Midwest.

240 posted on 09/12/2006 10:04:08 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)

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