Tres de sus escritos fueron seleccionados y publicados originariamente en alemán con el nombre de: El Ocultismo, y son su MAGNETISMO ANIMAL Y MAGIA, EL DESTINO DEL INDIVIDUO, y su ENSAYO SOBRE LA APARICIÓN DE LOS ESPIRÍTUS Y DE LO QUE CON ELLOS SE RELACIONA verdaderos ensayos sobre temas espirituales realizados por una personalidad del mundo materialista.
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.