Автор: Michael Moynihan and Stephen E. Flowers
Название: The Secret King: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism
Издательство: Feral House
Год: 2007
ISBN: 978-1932595253
Язык: English
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 15,4 mb
Страниц: 197

The present volume is a revised and expanded edition of The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler’s Lord of the Runes which was jointly published in 2001 by two small presses. Dominion and Runa-Raven, in both a limited (and now much-sought-after) hardcover edition as well as a trade paperback edition. With no advertising and no publicity to speak of the book sold in the thousands. This is a testament to the ever increasing interest in a topic that has too often been dealt with in the most irresponsible and unscholarly ways.

For all the notoriety of the early twentieth-century German Ariosophy movement as an „occult“ predecessor to National Socialism, only one major literary work from the genre has ever been made widely available to English-speaking readers. This is Guido von List's The Secret of the Runes, which also has been translated and introduced by Dr. Flowers. The dearth of publications is not likely due to conspiracy or oversight, but more so to the fact that the original German textual material is extremely scarce. A further obstacle arises from the typical writing style of the authors themselves—a style which Flowers has described as “devilishly difficult“ due to its arcane idiosyncrasies. This aspect alone would deter most translation attempts by the uninitiated.

A veritable cottage industry exists for lurid books on "Nazi occultism.” Nevertheless, few people have ever had the opportunity to assess real source documents of this nature—and it is clear that most of the authors of the pulp histories certainly made no effort to do so! The present edition offers both scholars and interested general readers a rare chance to expose themselves to the mystical writings of the important ariosophical figure who has been called “Heinrich Himmler's Rasputin.”