Lanz justified his neognostic racial ideology by attempting to give it a biblical foundation according to him, Eve, which he described as initially being divine, involved herself with a demon and gave birth to the 'lower races' in the process. In 1904, he published his book ' Theozoologie' (' theozoology') in which he advocated sterilization of the sick and the 'lower races' as well as forced labour for 'castrated chandals', and glorified the 'aryan race' as ' Gottmenschen' ('god men'). He left the monastery in 1899 although Lanz claimed that this was due to 'growing nervousness', the official documents recorded 'carnal love' as the reason, something that may have contributed to his later anti- feminism. In 1894, he claimed to have been ' enlightened' after finding the tombstone of a knight templar, and began developing his theories of 'blue-blond aryanism' and ' lower races'. Lanz became a monk in the cistercian order in 1893, assuming the name Georg and living in the Heiligenkreuz monastery. He also claimed to possess a doctorate degree, which wasn't true either. As an adult, Lanz claimed to have been born on at Messina, Sicily as the son of Baron Johann Lancz de Liebenfels and his wife Katharina, née Skala.

His parents were middle class, and his fathers ancestors had been burghers in Vienna since the early 18th century. He was borm on Jin the Penzing district of Vienna in what was then Austria-Hungary, as the son of schoolmaster Johann Lanz and his wife Katharina, née Hoffenreich. Adolf Josef Lanz (aka Jörg Lanz), who called himself Lanz von Liebenfels ( JApril 22, 1954) was a former monk and the founder of the right-wing magazine Ostara, in which he published anti-semitic and racist theories.

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