Although List was extremely influential, let\u2019s take a look at some other influential authors we’ll be reading from during this course:<\/p>\n
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Peryt Shou<\/h3>\n
It seems that Arnoldo Krumm-Heller was one of many Occultists who were influenced by his writings and apparently even helped publish some of Shou\u2019s works a few years later (immediately following WWI). <\/p>\n In 1920, Shou published The \u2018Edda\u2019 as Key to the Coming Age! [Die “Edda” als Schlussel des kommenden Weltalters! ]<\/em> and this was the first text to give specific exercises associated with the Runes<\/u>. <\/p>\n Some say that the book has a very particular flavor of Volkisch <\/em> Esotericism. In it, Shou tries to highlight some similarities between Christianity and Germanic Mythology (although he seems to look down upon Christianity), explaining that the Germanic approach is basically ‘better’.<\/p>\n In a section of this book entitled ‘Essence of the Edda\u2019s God-Concept [Wesen der eddischen Gottes-Idee] <\/em>‘, he implies that we are an Antenna that can receive messages from the Cosmos<\/strong> and that we, unfortunately, do not ‘hear’ these messages: <\/p>\n \u201cEverything God-like is something that is also telepathically Spiritual. Within us there is an unfolded Antenna -a stretched-out Cross, like the Cross of Christ, where we hang as if dead, because we do not answer the call of the one universal Spiritual-Wavelength. <\/p>\n But whenever we awaken on this Cross, then we come to understand the language of the one spirit! Dead, the Person hangs on this Cross like Christ and Wuotan, but the Ninth Night draws near, in which he shall awaken.<\/p>\n This is the Technique itself which (approaching Divine-Knowledge) conveys the Secret, the Spirit submerged in Nature, which becomes free and breathes upward toward the Universal-Spirit. Lucifer\u2019s Deliverance!<\/p>\n Nature is divine! …Paradise is here and now if we know the Harp of the Power-of-Nature…\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more about Peryt Shou\u2019s Esoteric Principles<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1915, Kurtzahn became interested in the Tarot, but found no substantial German-language literature on it. Five years later, he published a book on the subject called The Tarot, the Kabbalistic Method of Future Research as a Key to Occultism [Der Tarot, die kabbalistische Methode der Zukunftsforschung als Schl\u00fcssel zum Okkultismus ]<\/em> in 1920. It was the first German-language book on the esoteric aspect of the Tarot.<\/p>\n In 1920, he also published another book, entitled The Rosicrucians [Die Rosenkreuzer] <\/em>. A few years later, he published The Runes as Salvation-Signs and for Unbinding-Fate [Die Runen als Heilszeichen und Schicksalslose] <\/em> in 1924. In this book he says: <\/p>\n \u201cIt is really a great Joy to see what wisdom is hidden behind the Runic-Signs which seem so simple in their structure.<\/p>\n We Germans could come to such a fullness of Knowledge (Gnosis) through them that we could quietly refrain more than before from oral Mysticism of any kind, especially since the latter is basically alien to our nature and species. <\/p>\n Then we would have the old much abused Latin saying: <\/p>\n It is also more correctly understood in the way it should actually be understood, namely: From the East of one’s own interior, i.e. from the Heart, comes the Light.<\/p>\n Everything Esoteric always comes from inside, never from outside!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The following year, in 1925, he published The Gnostics or the Invisible Church [Die Gnostiker oder die unsichtbare Kirche] <\/em> where he describes the “gnostic Marriage [gnostischen Ehe] <\/em>” as the practice of White Tantra:<\/p>\n \u201cWith this there can be under no circumstances any ejaculatio seminis <\/em> [seminal ejaculation], rather it is a case of a safe immissio membri virilis in vaginam <\/em> [penetration of the virile member into the vagina], but only in a calm manner and under the complete control of both partners.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although we cannot find any specific Runic practices that he gave, his ideas and concepts of the Runes certainly influenced many other Runic Occultists.<\/p>\n In his magazine, he wrote the following:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026let\u2019s state a preliminary working hypothesis of a third basic energy besides light and weight\/mass (gravity), which are streams of subtle energy\u2026<\/u> <\/p>\n A possibility to explain the Runes could perhaps be in their characteristic as symbols for compounds of streams of subtle energies, not unlike chemical compounds.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more about Dr. Teltscher’s Runic Theories<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After writing a number of articles on the Runes in the late 1920s, F.B. Marby (a Dutchman who immigrated to Germany) began publishing a multi-volume work: Runic-Writing, Runic-Words, Runic-Gymnastics [Runenschrift, Runenwort, Runengymnastik ]<\/em>. This was eventually published (starting in 1931) and detailed some complex theories around the Runes and Runic Exercises.<\/p>\n In the first volume, Marby gives his Runic Philosophy, which is based on: Sacred Writing, Sacred Speech, and Sacred Action [Die heilige Schrift, Die heilige Sprache, und Die heilige Tat <\/em>]<\/strong>. <\/p>\n \u201cSacred Writing arranges Salvation-Conceptualizing [Heil-Denken <\/em>].<\/p>\n Sacred Speech translates the Concepts into (Power or) Force [Kraft <\/em>].<\/p>\n Sacred Action shapes the Force and sends it out through the corresponding Body-Positions in the Rune-Exercise.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 1)\tCosmic Space According to information provided in his own records, Marby began to use the Runes in an esoteric fashion in 1907 (right about the same time Guido von List published his famous article The Mystery\/Secret of the Runes <\/em>).<\/p>\n Marby is often cited as the first to develop and use Runic Body Postures or “Rune-Gymnastics” [Runengymnastik] <\/em> as a means of gathering Runic energy. However, this does not appear to be the case, since Peryt Shou published a single Runic Body Posture in 1920 and also gave similar theories about receiving cosmic messages or energy. <\/p>\n In his writings, Marby emphasized the health benefits gained from meditating on the Runes. He says that the first effect of practicing “Runic-gymnastics” should be the transformation and healing of the individual. If a group of people (or folk) are engaged in the practice of the Runes as a body, then that whole body will be gradually purified and strengthened. <\/p>\n Read more about Marby’s Runic Philosophy<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although he does not give many rune-gymnastics or rune-yoga practices, he does hint at them in his book, where he also says: <\/p>\n \u201cThe Runes have a Life-of-their-Own [Eigenleben <\/em>], they are true Magic-Characters [Zauberzeichen <\/em>], from which we can draw the Spirit to Advise and the Courage to Act.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to Gorsleben\u2019s vision, the peak of the Aryan race\u2019s power was to be remanifested through a combination of eugenics (improving the genetic quality of a human population) and the systematic reawakening of occult powers and abilities (and he saw the runes as the key to this reawakening). <\/p>\n The runes were seen by Gorsleben the same way others saw them: as tools for the reception and transmission of subtle forces in the universe<\/strong>. It is through them that the ‘people of the runes’ and the ultimate powers in the universe may be joined together.<\/p>\n \u201cThe aryan Pictographic-Script [arische Bilderschrift <\/em>] and its mode of use are Kala [Kahla <\/em>] and they are employed for the Purpose of keeping its Communications secret from the Unqualified and from Abuse, a Practice strictly observed in all Mystery-Schools\u2026\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n<\/p>\n![](\"\\images\\peryt-shou.jpg\")
The first modern author to publish Runic Exercises was Albert Christian Georg Schultz (also known as Albert Schultz and J\u00f6rg Schultz). He published his books under the name Peryt Shou (or Schou) and in 1910 came out with one of his first books or booklets (which was 70 pages), called Sexual Mysteries in Religion [Sexual-Mysterien in der Religion] <\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn<\/h3>\n
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E. Tristan Kurtzahn (1879-1939) was a naval architect, teacher, Freemason, author, Kabbalist and Tarot researcher.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Friedrich Teltscher<\/h3>\nDr. Teltscher was a doctor of engineering who taught at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He published a monthly magazine on Runic subjects, named Hag-All=All-Hag<\/em>. <\/p>\n
Friedrich Bernhard Marby<\/h3>\n
He regarded the human being as a receiver and transmitter of cosmic waves & rays that animate the entire universe<\/u>. His theories for how to practice “Rune-Gymnastics” were based on gathering Runic energy from “The Lodge of World-Space [Die Loge der Welt-R\u00e4ume <\/em> ]”, which had 5 parts, levels or aspects:<\/p>\n
\n2)\tPlanetary & Starry Space
\n3)\tThe Atmosphere of the Earth
\n4)\tEarth Itself
\n5)\tInterior of the Earth<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRudolf John Gorsleben<\/h3>\n
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R.J. Gorsleben created a synthesis of many Rune Occultists, Esotericists, and Theosophists of the time (including Von List). His over 700 page book The Peak-Time of Humanity [Die Hoch-Zeit der Menschheit ]<\/em> was published the year of his death (1930) and was apparently something he had been working on for over 20 years. <\/p>\n
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