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i worship no one as i fought my battles by myself
i do not belong to a higher power i belong to myself
i have no savior i fought for myself
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The Offices of Christ
There’s something quietly elegant about the way Scripture gathers Christ’s work into three ancient roles: Prophet, Priest, and King. These were offices already woven into Israel’s life long before the incarnation of Christ. Yet in Jesus they converge. Not partially, not symbolically, but completely. What had once been distributed among many servants is fulfilled in one Person.
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Gustav Nagel – The First Hippie?
gustaf Nagel, 1902
Nagel’s first marriage with Maria Anna Konhäuser
Gustav Nagel as a happy husband. Gustav Nagel and Johanna Raith on their wedding day in front of the Luther Church in Chemnitz (1912)
Gustav and Johanna Nagel with their children
gustaf nagel, (1874 - 19529 was a German nature lover and itinerant preacher. He is associated with the life reform movement and was also a “pioneer of simplified spelling”.
It was the new medium of the postcard by which Nagel made his name, selling photographs of himself in Christ-like poses by the thousand. Many came with inscriptions from the Gospels in his own phonetic, lower-case style (he rendered his own name as “gustaf nagel”).
Nagel offered the public a starry yet approachable variety of spiritual succour at the end of a century whose pace of change had left them bewildered and insecure. In essence his doctrine of elemental Biblical truths, of brotherly love and simplicity strayed little from the core messages of the late 19th century Christian revival. The delivery, however, was utterly new.
“Jerusalem syndrome”, the delusion that one is actually Jesus, or Mary, usually strikes after the victim has been exposed to the spell of the Holy City. Nagel, however, arrived in Jerusalem with the condition, having set out on foot in 1902 (en route he finally met Diefenbach on Capri, an encounter that ended in predictable disappointment). With his profound identification with Christ and habit of going about half-naked and barefoot, even in snow, it should come as no surprise that Nagel’s sanity was a subject for conjecture. His own father tried to have him committed, while Magnus Hirschfeld vouched for his soundness of mind.
Hiking and lecture tours, which Nagel undertook lightly dressed and barefoot, took him as far as the Holy Land at the beginning of the 20th century. Contemporary media reported extensively on the “natural man,” who attracted many followers and curious onlookers, but also faced ridicule and hostility throughout his life. He was temporarily declared legally incompetent; the Nazi authorities took him into so-called protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp and later placed him in the Uchtspringe psychiatric hospital. After the Second World War, he was forcibly committed there again by East German authorities and was never allowed to leave the institution again until his death.