Rune Practice
Karl Spiesberger
The companion volume to Spiesberger's encyclopedic work on the Armanist tradition “Rune Magic,” this book is oriented towards achieving health and success through the power of runes. Here, the modern master of rune magic, Karl Spiesberger, outlines explicit practical instructions, exercises, and rituals from the fields of rune yoga, rune gymnastics, and rune magic. This book serves as a guide for practitioners to harness the occult power of runes with the intent of achieving physical wellness and spiritual enlightenment. It was written for anyone who wants to experience the beneficial, successful influence of these ancient Aryan symbols of healing.
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.
Overcoming Judaism
Rudolf John Gorsleben
Rudolf John Gorsleben was a central figure of the Völkisch movement in Germany during the interwar period. Best known for his authoritative study on Armanist esotericism The Zenith of Humanity, Gorsleben had previously written ideological works for the Thule Society, of which this book is perhaps the most important example. In Overcoming Judaism, he provides a summary of the Jewish question from an esoteric perspective, citing historical and contemporary sources to explain the threat posed by Jewish subversion.
The Berserker
Vincent Samson
The berserkers are among the most fascinating figures in medieval Scandinavian literature. These elite warriors, “like bears or wolves,” reveal their “second nature” in terrifying fits of savagery. Highly prized by the rulers of the ancient North, the berserkers were considered companions of Odin, a furious deity who mastered the art of metamorphosis. Going beyond an analysis of legendary stereotypes, this book seeks to demonstrate the historicity of a tradition associated with the sacred aspects of the royal function. The berserkers embody a model of military companionship attested in various forms in ancient Germanic societies. This is the first comprehensive study published in France on the subject. The author subjects all medieval sources (poems, sagas, chronicles, epigraphic, onomastic, and archaeological documentation) to rigorous critical examination, as well as interpretations proposed over the past two centuries by Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon specialists. The approach taken is resolutely interdisciplinary, combining philology and the study of iconographic evidence, comparative mythology, and the history of societies and institutions. This book is not only intended for specialists in Viking civilization—linguists, historians, and archaeologists—but also for readers interested in the martial practices and religious beliefs of pre-Christian Europe.
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 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.
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 Secret Language of German Folktales
Werner von Bülow
Werner von Bülow was a distinguished military officer and Armanist who served as chancellor of the Edda Society after the untimely death of its founder Rudolf Gorsleben. His major work The Secret Language of German Folktales reveals the hidden meaning of popular legends by investigating their Eddic sources from the perspective of Ariosophy. The occult relationship of names and symbols in each folktale is interpreted through the lens of von Bülow's esoteric system, which is heavily influenced by the work of his predecessors von List and Gorsleben.
Vril – The Coming Germany
Johannes Täufer
In 1930, a certain Johannes Täufer from Vienna invited the public to a special lecture entitled Vril - The Cosmic Primal Force, Its Rediscovery and Utilization; The Reawakening of Atlantis. The same year, Täufer's newly founded Reich Working Group "The Coming Germany" published the two booklets included in this volume, World Dynamism and Vril: The Cosmic Elemental Force. These booklets provide the basic outline for an advanced esoteric-technical system of occult knowledge that was revealed in full only to members of the Working Group's inner circle - the mysterious Vril Society.
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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.
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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