Lucifer's Court

A Heretic's Journey in Search of the Light Bringers

Otto Rahn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-1-59477-197-2 (ISBN)

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Rahn’s personal diary from his travels as occult investigator for the Third Reich.

Otto Rahn’s lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled throughout Europe--from Spain to Iceland--in the mid 1930s pursuing leads to the Grail and other mysteries. Lucifer’s Courtis the travel diary he kept while searching for “the ghosts of the pagans and heretics who were [his] ancestors.” It was during this time that Rahn grasped the positive role Lucifer plays in these forbidden religions as the bearer of true illumination, similar to Apollo and other sun gods in pagan worship. This journey was also one of self-discovery for Rahn. He found such a faithful echo of his own innermost beliefs in the lives of the heretics of the past that he eventually called himself a Cathar and nurtured ambitions of restoring that faith, which had been cruelly destroyed in the fires of the Inquisition. His journeys on assignment for the Reich--including researching an alleged entrance to Hollow Earth in Iceland and searching for the true mission of Lucifer in the caves of southern France that served as refuge for the Cathars during the Inquisition--also led to his disenchantment with his employers and his mysterious death in the mountains after his break with the Nazis.

Otto Rahn was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Recruited by Himmler into the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains. Lucifer’s Court was translated into English by Christopher Jones, who also translated Otto Rahn’s Crusade Against the Grail, published in 2006.

Translator’s Foreword: Prolegomenon

Prologue: The Journey Begins

Part One

Bingen am Rhein
Paris
Toulouse
Pamiers
Foix
Lavelanet
Montségur in the Pyrenees
Again, Lavelanet
Castle L. in the Toulouse Region
Carcassonne
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Cahors
Ornolac in Fuxean Country
Mirepoix
Port Vendres, Roussillon
Marseille
Puigcerda in Catalonia
Lourdes

Part Two

Night Journey
Genoa
Milan
Rome
Verona
Meran
Bolzano Rose Garden
On the Freienbühl above Brixen
Brixen
Gossensass
Geneva
On a Southern German Roadside
Worms
Michelstadt in the Odenwald
Amorsbrünn
Amorbach

Part Three

With Relatives in Hesse
Mellnau in the Burgwald
Marburg am Lahn
Giessen
Siegen
Runkel am Lahn
Cologne
Heisterbach Monastery Ruins
Bonn
Asbach in the Westerwald
Goslar
Halberstadt
Berlin
Warnemünde-Gjedser
Edinburgh
In the Pentland Sea
In the North Atlantic
Reykjavik
Laugarvatn
Reykholt
Back Home

Bibliography

Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-59477-197-9 / 1594771979
ISBN-13	978-1-59477-197-2 / 9781594771972
Zustand	Neuware