canon in combination with cavalry attacks, a strategy that Mexican revolutionaries knew very little about. After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Krumm-Heller worked for the German Naval Intelligence Service. On a mission to Germany, British authorities arrested him at Falmouth as a spy. Because of his Mexican citizenship he could resume his trip to Berlin where the agent spent the rest of the war as the military attaché for the Mexican embassy. While in Mexico he also founded the Society of the Iron Cross, a Germanic-imperialist order, with Carranza as head and himself as secretary. In his published works he presented himself as a "rational nationalist". After he moved to Germany, he became a bishop in the Gnostic Church. He joined several esoteric and fraternal orders, including Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and was a contemporary of Theodor Reuss (founder of the OTO) and of Spencer Lewis (Imperator of AMORC). He knew Aleister Crowley and was greatly influenced by his mystical conceptions. Aleister Crowley, while in Berlin showing his paintings, wrote in his diary for February 11, 1932: "[Krumm-Heller] here with Peryt Shou". "In the issue of his magazine Rosa Cruz, dated April 27, 1933, he spoke of Hitler as a stormy fighter of the working class whose ideas should be adopted by all countries. It was unfortunate, Krumm-Heller opined, that the press compared Hitler with Mussolini, as there was a big difference: Mussolini stripped the Italian King of his power whereas the Germans were rendered powerless by the socialists. Krumm-Heller saw two scapegoats: the Jews and the ideals of the French Revolution. In Krumm-Heller's eyes, The Hitlerianismo should create a new philosophy, that is a new German identity. He believed that the persecution of the Jews was a pure lie ..." He participated in Freemasonry in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Mizraím. In Peru he received the symbolic name of Huiracocha, by which he would be known in esoteric circles. He started the FRA or Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, having become distanced from both the O.T.O. and Spencer Lewis. Krumm-Heller died in Marburg, Germany, in April 1949, aged 73. Published works Mi sistema (1896) No Fornicarás (1908) Conferencias esotéricas (1909) - 1 ed -Casa editora Guerrero Hmnos Humboldt (1910) Trilogia heróica El Zodíaco Azteca en comparación con el de los Incas (1910) Los Tatwas y sus aplicaciones en la