The Ur Group
Massimo Scaligero
Massimo Scaligero was an author, esotericist and connoisseur of oriental philosophy. A protégé of Giovanni Colazza during their time in the Ur Group, his work combined esotericism and anthroposophy with Fascist ideology in a system of "integral racism" which sought to unify Germany and Italy as it did the spiritual and the material realms.
His philosophical and spiritual development was significantly influenced by Julius Evola, whose traditionalist and esoteric ideas played a crucial role in the formation and direction of the UR Group. Scaligero adopted and further developed many of Evola's esoteric teachings, particularly those related to spiritual transformation and initiation.
The present collection of Scaligero's work includes his metaphysical treatise on Initiation and Tradition, the extensive practical work on meditation Techniques of Inner Concentration, and a comparison of Eastern and Western paradigms in Zen and Logos. This is part two of a three-part series.
The Myth of the Black Sun
Rudolf J. Mund
This short work represents a necessary and important attempt to clear up misconceptions about the occult figure known as the Black Sun by an author who was instrumental in making it known to the public, Rudolf Mund. A member of the Landig Circle whose studies on the esoteric runology of Karl Maria Wiligut revealed the central importance of the Black Sun in the occult tradition of Armanism, Mund is perhaps the final authority on this often misunderstood subject. In the present book, he discusses the historical and scientific evidence of the Black Sun, contrasting the interpretations of Wiligut and von Buelow with later speculation by Charroux, et al. to arrive at a more complete and accurate understanding of this enigmatic figure.
Runic Number Mysticism
Sigurd Agrell
"The author's aim is to set forth the mystical system of numbers found in the runes, and to show their connection with the alphabetical magic of the late Greeks and Romans. The series of the 24 runes was composed at the end of the second century by Germanic soldiers serving in the Roman army. Their teachers in the art of alphabetical magic were the worshippers of Mithras… It is shown how, by means of the author's reconstruction of the "uthark" series, the mystical ancient runic inscriptions can be calculated according to the principles of gematria." (From the Summary.)
Baldur and Bible
Friedrich Doellinger
For two millennia, the Jews have been described as the Chosen People of God, from which Christianity and its exalted founder emerged. However, recent discoveries have shed light on the origins of Judaism and the Bible which prove these descriptions to be a historical falsehood. In Baldur and Bible, Friedrich Doellinger presents a thorough historical and archaeological examination of the evidence to uncover the true identity of Jesus and the ultimate nature of Christianity.
The Oera Linda Chronicle
Herman Wirth
The Oera Linda Chronicle is a controversial historical manuscript that traces the history of the Frisian people from the deep past to the Middle Ages. Presented as a translation from ancient Frisian, the Chronicle describes various elements of ancient European culture, religion, and historical events, blending mythology with historical accounts. Of particular interest is the sinking of "Atland" into the North Sea.
Due to its controversial nature, the publication of this document by Ahnenerbe society co-founder Herman Wirth provoked a hostile reaction from the academic establishment that led to his removal from the Ahnenerbe. Wirth's critical examination of the document in the afterword to this book remains an invaluable source of evidence regarding the authenticity of its origins.
The War Diaries
Houston Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-born scientist and philosopher whose political work is considered a major influence on the development of European nationalism. In response to Britain's declaration of war in 1914, Chamberlain published this series of essays contrasting Germany's struggle for cultural ascendancy with the ongoing decline of British culture, which he considered a source of the present conflict. His works would later have a marked effect upon German nationalist movements, including National Socialism.
Knight, Death and Devil
Hans F. K. Günther
Hans F. K. Günther's major work Knight, Death and Devil: The Heroic Idea resurrected the nationalist spirit of the Völkisch movement in the chaotic interwar period as a vitalist "biological nationalism" that greatly influenced the development of National Socialist ideology. Building on this ideological foundation, Günther's later academic research helped to define our current understanding of racial ethnography, human biodiversity, and eugenics. This is an unfinished advance copy.
Heraclitus
Oswald Spengler
Spengler's essay, which appeared in 1904 as a dissertation for his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Halle, had a remarkable impact at the beginning of our century because of the originality of its interpretation of the Heraclitean doctrine. It outlined some of the essential features of Spengler's own thought, who, like Lassalle sixty years earlier, had found in the Heraclitean doctrine, or rather in his own interpretation of it, a path of orientation and formation for his personal philosophical construction.
In the author's words: "Heraclitus's world of thought, viewed as a whole, appears as a grandly conceived poem, a tragedy of the cosmos, equal to the tragedies of Aeschylus in their powerful sublimity. Among the Greek philosophers, with the possible exception of Plato, he is the most important poet. The idea of an eternal and never-ending struggle that forms the content of life in the cosmos, in which an imperious law reigns and a harmonious regularity is maintained, is a high creation of Greek art, to which this thinker was far closer than to natural science proper."
The Metaphysics of Hierarchy
Julius Evola and René Guénon
The intellectual relationship between these two leaders of the Traditionalist School is documented in this volume featuring their anonymously published collaboration Hierarchy and Democracy together with supplementary correspondence regarding the problem of initiatory metaphysics, in which their distinct perspectives on the nature and purpose of Tradition are outlined with brilliant clarity.
Unpublished Writings
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
The important documents published here, all unpublished in English, constitute part of René Schwaller de Lubicz's confidential teaching of a hermetic-alchemical nature to his closest disciples. They are mostly lectures, but also letters and notes of various kinds, ranging from 1926 (the first two lectures given at Suhalia published in La Doctrine) to a series of texts drafted in different places (Delphi, Luxor, etc.) from about 1939 to 1953, and then circulated for years in different forms. An anthology of them is presented here, mainly excluding those that were later taken up and developed in the edited books.
In the texts (which can be roughly subdivided into Pythagorean-alchemical and symbolic-philosophical, and which enable us to penetrate his thought in depth) there are quite a few valuable keys to understanding Hermeticism in general and his masterpiece, The Temple of Man, in particular. Topics such as the purpose of life, the problem of knowledge, the general principles of traditional doctrine, the unique origin of everything, the Seed, form, miracle, and the value of Pi, to name but a few, are addressed. In the appendix, readers will also find a curiosity: the Tarot cards created by Schwaller de Lubicz; elements of a "role-playing game" of which pictures and instructions in his own hand are attached.
Essays on Mythology
Friedrich Fischbach
Friedrich Fischbach was a German artist, scholar and author of books on Germanic mythology. A member of the Guido von List Society, his literary output is among the most significant examples of völkisch scholarship, and his Essays on Mythology helped to define the ariosophic view of history. From the preface: "In recent years, there has been a great deal of further evidence that the home of the Edda lies between the Sieg and the Wupper and that this is also the land of origin of the oldest Greek myths. Thus an addition to the book "Asgart and Mittgart" was all the more necessary to counter superficial doubts with stronger evidence… If the oldest Aryan myths originated there, then those spread by emigrants, despite many transformations, are also related to the Edda region. It is obvious that, if the hitherto missing point of the original homeland is found, the whole system of Aryan mythology must revolve around it." This is an unfinished advance copy.
Essays
Julius Evola
This collection of essays and articles represents a comprehensive overview of Evola's short-form writing. The selection includes a wide variety of previously untranslated material showcasing the breadth and depth of Evola's insight on subjects as diverse as mythology, esotericism, politics, and history. This is an unfinished advance copy.
Heritage is an imprint of Tradition that publishes facsimile editions, non-English works, and rough translations at a greatly reduced price.
The Magic Songs of the Finns
The Narrative Edda
Rudolf John Gorsleben
This translation of the Prose Edda by Rudolf John Gorsleben was first published in 1920 as a supplement to his translation of the Poetic Edda. Gorsleben translated the Eddas from Old Norse into German and provided an extensive commentary. His translation remains one of the most important German translations of the Edda to this day.
The Sun Gate of Tihuanaco