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Dictionary of Occult Sigils
Fred Gettings
“The text of this dictionary has been designed as a reference, guide and source-book for those involved in general occult studies. Towards this end, it presents, under 1500 headings, the meanings of over 9000 sigils which appear in European alchemical, astrological, geomantic and related hermetic sources, along with a unique graphic index by means of which the majority of such sigils may be identified.” (From the introduction.)
The Gods of the Egyptians
E. A. Wallis Budge
As one of the foundational works of modern Egyptology, The Gods of the Egyptians has become an authoritative text on the history of religion in ancient Egypt. The book is profusely illustrated, with many reproductions of tomb and sarcophagus paintings, while several full texts are presented in both hieroglyphic transliteration and translation.
Volume I contains an overview of early religion in ancient Egypt, including conceptions of the netherworld, chthonic deities, hell and the damned, as well as myths of the creation and destruction of mankind, while Volume II features a systematic overview of the deities associated with times and places, including a thorough description of various star gods and their relation to the ancient Egyptian calendar. Particular attention is given to Osiris, Isis and other major gods.
The Path of the German Farmer
Johann von Leers
“After seeing history for so long as the history of dynasties, cultural history, and intellectual history of the various foreign spiritual currents in our country, it is necessary for once to resume the attempt that has already been made less often to present the history of the German peasantry, and its path through the centuries… The history of the German peasantry, however, is at the same time a history of German rebelliousness, a struggle for freedom of the soil and freedom of the race’s own development.” (From the introduction.)
On Blood and Soil
Richard Walther Darré
Presented in this anthology is a selection of speeches, essays, and articles written by Darré over the course of his political career. Covering the period from 1930 to 1939, these writings include material he produced for the journal Odal, essays on the philosophical principles of Blood and Soil nationalism, and speeches delivered in his capacity as Minister of Agriculture. At over 600 pages, this preliminary English translation enables a more complete understanding of Darré’s philosophy and ideology for non-German speakers.
Ariosophic Kabbalism
Herbert Reichstein
Herbert Reichstein (1892 -1944) was an author and publisher of various esoteric and ariosophical writings. He worked closely with Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels from the mid-1920s onwards. The publications of Guido von List are considered to have been an important influence since the beginning of his writing career. In the fall of 1925, he came into contact with various members (and later collaborators) of a Berlin occult group that called itself the “Swastika Circle,” which brought together various esoteric teachings such as chiromancy and astrology, which were also part of the ideological conglomerate that Reichstein was still promoting in October 1925 with his newly founded “German Working Group for Human Knowledge and Human Destiny” and the official organ of the organization. Around this same time, Reichstein began cooperation with Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels for the publication of his work. This is an unfinished advance copy.
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.
The Phenomenology of the Absolute Individual
Julius Evola
“This volume can be regarded as the second part of a total work, which has its first part in the already published Theory of the Absolute Individual and which, as a whole, constitutes the exposition of our doctrine in purely philosophical terms. It must remain firmly established that our ‘philosophy’ does not end in itself – all converging in a kind of postulation of an action – just as it does not begin in itself. In its essential elements, what we expound is not merely the product of the subjective speculation of a modern philosopher, but rather the intellectual transposition of certain traditional, primordial doctrines, not subject – in a certain sense – to becoming.” (From the preface.)
This is 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.
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.
The Runic Year
F. H. Hamkens and Karl Weigel
Karl Weigel was a German historian and symbol researcher. A ranking member of the Ahnenerbe, Weigel headed the Office for Symbol Research, which later merged with the Office for Runic Research under the direction of Wolfgang Krause. In the course of this merger, Weigel became head of the Symbolic Studies department.
F. H. Hamkens was a German historian and author. He was a research assistant in Wilhelm Teudt’s Friends of Germanic Prehistory Association, and later assisted in their archeological work at the Externsteine. In these years until the end of the war, he published books on “symbolic research,” building on the work of Völkisch authors.
This is an unfinished advance copy.
Magical Practice
Karl Spiesberger
A comprehensive magical-mystical training is presented here. Beginning with a metaphysical consideration of the subject, the otherworldly dimensions are presented in detail (astral, mental, atmospheric levels etc.). The theoretical and practical Kabbalah is then explained. The basic symbols with a guide to the interpretation of symbols, telekinetic and telepathic techniques, Reichenbach’s theory of the odic force, the magic of sound, the power of magical thinking, the creation of psychogons, runic cultural practice, the fluid golem, mirror magic practice, splitting magic, etc. The third part deals with the mystical experience. Mysticism and alchemy are explained. Kundalini, the serpent power, a summary of the most important mystical dream symbols is included. Finally, the tarot is described, its origin and meaning, the major arcana as stations of initiation and the most important tarot invocations. This is an unfinished advance copy.
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
Man and Technics
Oswald Spengler
“It is my conviction that the destiny of Man can only be understood by dealing with all the provinces of his activity simultaneously and comparatively… Nevertheless, in this book I venture to put forward some of the questions. They are a few among many. But they are interconnected, and for that reason may serve, for the time being, to help the reader to a provisional glimpse into the great secret of Man’s destiny.” (from the preface).
The History of the Concept of Time
Martin Heidegger
This book embarks upon a provisional description of what Heidegger calls ‘Dasein,’ the field in which both being and time become manifest. Heidegger analyzes Dasein in its everydayness in a deepening sequence of terms: being-in-the-world, worldhood, and care as the being of Dasein. The course ends by sketching the themes of death and conscience and their relevance to an ontology that makes the phenomenon of time central.
Archaic Roman Religion
Zalmoxis: The Vanishing God
Seven Years in Tibet
Cybele and Attis
Sparta
Ukrainian Folktales
The Metaphysics of German Idealism
Nature and State
Invisible Radiations of Organisms
Nietzsche’s Last Notebooks
Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy
The Revolt Against Civilization
Collected Writings
The Path of Cinnabar
The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries
Meditations on the Peaks
Eastern Studies
The Revolt of the Masses
German Legal History and Thought
The Problem of Loki
Jan de Vries
The conclusions arrived at by the author of this extensive dissertation on the problem of Loki are in great part of a negative character. Here, de Vries refutes the identification of Loki with Prometheus based on etymological evidence pointing to Loki as god of malice and destruction.
Letters
Terra Mater
From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Hungarizmus
Hyperborea
Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
Hungarian Self-Defence
The Book of Formulas
Articles
The Mythos of the 20th Century
Time and Eternity
Heroes of Asgard
Treatise on Astronomy
Ramon Lull
Ramon Lull (circa 1232-1316), a key figure in medieval literature, was a multifaceted personality who pursued literature, philosophy, theology, and the natural sciences with passion and skill. His Treatise on Astronomy interprets the art of astrology as an abstract logic wherein delineation is at least partly reduced to a calculus of manipulating and combining letters. By this approach, Lull achieves surprisingly elegant derivations of planetary combinations, and planet/sign combinations, with a specific focus on the nature and order of the elemental triplicities. This is a facsimile edition.
Tihuanaco: Cradle of American Man
Arthur Posnansky
Arthur Posnansky (1873–1946) was a Viennese adventurer and scholar who wrote prolifically about the civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica. In this, his final and most important book, Posnansky argues that Tihuanaco was constructed approximately 17,000 years ago by American peoples, although not by the ancestors of those then living in the area. This is a bilingual English-Spanish edition.
Germania
Ahnenerbe Society
Germania was the official magazine of the Ahnenerbe Society. Intended for a popular audience, it featured articles on European cultural history, news of archeological discoveries, and essays on comparative religion, to name but a few examples of its incredibly diverse and profoundly enlightening material. This two-volume set contains all twenty-four issues from the years 1933 and 1938.
The Runic Library
Friedrich Marby
Available for the first time in English, this complete set of works by the renowned Armanist scholar Friedrich Bernhard Marby describes a theory of energetic correspondence based on the esoteric principles of Armanism, and its practical application through a system of physical and spiritual exercises.
The Ascent of Man
Herman Wirth
Archaeological work has enabled Europeans to plunge into their past, going back a long way in time to the hypothetical beginnings of history. Yet in the eyes of classical archaeologists, much of the incredibly complex iconography from Nordic prehistory was no more than “playful doodles”. Wirth rejects the interpretation of these signs as purely symbolic in origin, and only much later becoming phonetic signs, proposing instead that such iconographic systems represent a complete written language. Following the linguistic evolution of this alphabet, Wirth traces the origins and development of the Nordic people, their culture, and beliefs. A complete explanation of Wirth’s system is included in the preface to this edition. This book is a work in progress.
On the Primordial Mind of Human Beings
Herman Wirth
In his Primordial Mind, Herman Wirth defends the legitimacy of the Oera Linda book by performing comparative etymological and iconographic analyses of prehistoric European cultures to support his claim that not only is it an authentic document, but that its origin can be traced back to the earliest religions – and possibly further. In doing so, he refutes the accusation of his political opponents that such a claim is antithetical to the spirit of the Ahnenerbe program. This book is a work in progress.
The Armanenship of the Ario-Germans
Guido von List
This rare work outlines von List’s exhaustive reconstruction of Germanic paganism in the context of perennialist philosophy and comparative religion. Here, von List provides a compelling analysis of prehistoric European religion as an example of “Ur-monotheism” – the primordial tradition shared by all pre-Abrahamic faiths. Among several essays included in the appendix is a unique interpretation of the relationship between Christianity, Buddhism, and the Armanist school of Germanic polytheism.
The Sacred Proto-Writing of Mankind
Herman Wirth
Decades before mainstream science rediscovered his ideas, co-founder of the Ahnenerbe society Herman Wirth proposed that all Indo-European religions share a common basis in the astronomical calendar. This groundbreaking work of comparative mythology postulates that the ancient Nordic calendar represented the same principles of cosmic order on which all other pagan religions were based, and which may thus be understood as a “pre-scientific technical language” of metaphysical spirituality.
The Theory of the Absolute Individual
Julius Evola
This volume contains a new English translation of Evola’s “Theory of the Absolute Individual” and his explanatory “Essays on Magical Idealism,” in which he summarizes that work and its companion volume The Phenomenology of the Absolute Individual (see below). This is an unfinished advance copy.
A History of Roman Religion
Franz Altheim
“A History of Roman Religion” is a comprehensive overview of the degeneracy of Aryan Rome into semitized catholicism. Written in 1938 it traces this decline and fall from the origin of Rome to its demise.
Franz Altheim (6 October 1898 – 17 October 1976) was a German classical philologist and historian who specialized in the history of classical antiquity. During the 1930s and 1940s, Altheim served as a member of Ahnenerbe, a think tank controlled by the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary wing of the NSDAP, and as a spy for the SS.
The Swastika: Earliest Known Symbol
Letters to Lucilius
On Benefits
Seneca
On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca’s close friend Aebutius Liberalis. It is the longest of Seneca’s works dealing with a single topic – specifically, the giving and receiving of gifts and how to express gratitude appropriately.
Diamond Thunderbolt
Miguel Serrano
A compilation of short articles by Miguel Serrano, with additional interviews and excerpts from various sources never before published in English. The selected works cover a wide range of subjects, providing an introductory overview of Serrano’s esoteric philosophy. This is a facsimile edition.
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli’s treatise on the nature of rulers has been regarded as a classic of political philosophy for almost 500 years, due to his all-encompassing understanding of men in power, and the common traits, motives and struggles which characterize them.
Pagan Imperialism
Julius Evola
First published in 1928, Evola’s Pagan Imperialism is the product of his early radicalization and disillusionment with liberal “progress.” In addition to some novel arguments against the liberal worldview, it contains insightful analyses and critiques of modern Christianity, nationalism, democracy, and other aspects of Western civilization.
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Parzival
On the Shortness of Life
The Mythology of the Aryan Nations
Sir George Cox
First published in 1870, this book was immediately established as one of the definitive works on comparative mythology. From the Introduction: “The purpose of this work is to exhibit clearly and with sufficient fullness the general characteristics of Aryan mythology.” This is a facsimile edition.
Folklore and Legends of Scandinavia
Gentile Folly: The Rothschilds
Fragments
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesos (c. 500 BC) was an early pre-Socratic philosopher who believed that life was characterized by strife and change. The surviving fragments of his work suggest that he understood change as synonymous with life, and stressed the importance of waking to the actual meaning of one’s life.
The Enneads
The Religion of the Northmen
The Reform of Education
Giovanni Gentile
Through his work at the Critica journal, Gentile sought to re-establish the tradition of philosophical studies in Italy. The present work outlines his view on the danger of naturalism in popular thought and the significance of idealistic philosophy as a necessary response. This is a facsimile edition.
Early Greek Philosophy
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s personal notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the work and mind of a great thinker. Compiled from these notebooks, The Will to Power is arguably one of the most influential books of the past hundred years.
The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, this is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.
The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
Giovanni Gentile
In this important philosophical work, Gentile speculates about the relationship of phenomena and human consciousness. He proposes that our world is ultimately a structure of consciousness, and exists only through consciousness rather than independent of it. This is a facsimile edition.
Nietzsche and the Dance of Shiva