Download e-book for iPad: Lucifer's Court: A Heretic's Journey in Search of the Light by Otto Rahn

Rahn’s own diary from his travels as occult investigator for the 3rd Reich

• First English translation of the author’s trips looking for a Nordic corresponding to Mt. Sinai

• Explains why Lucifer the sunshine Bringer, god of the heretics, is a good determine

Otto Rahn’s lifelong look for the Grail introduced him to the eye of the SS chief Himmler, who shared his esoteric pursuits. caused by means of Himmler to develop into the executive investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled all through Europe--from Spain to Iceland--in the mid Thirties pursuing ends up in the Grail and different mysteries. Lucifer’s Court is the shuttle diary he stored whereas trying to find “the ghosts of the pagans and heretics who have been [his] ancestors.” It was once in this time that Rahn grasped the confident function Lucifer performs in those forbidden religions because the bearer of actual illumination, just like Apollo and different solar gods in pagan worship.

This trip used to be additionally considered one of self-discovery for Rahn. He came across this kind of devoted echo of his personal innermost ideals within the lives of the heretics of the prior that he ultimately referred to as himself a Cathar and nurtured objectives of restoring that religion, which were cruelly destroyed within the fires of the Inquisition. His trips on task for the Reich--including getting to know an alleged front to hole Earth in Iceland and looking for the real undertaking of Lucifer within the caves of southern France that served as safe haven for the Cathars through the Inquisition--also resulted in his disenchantment together with his employers and his mysterious demise within the mountains after his holiday with the Nazis.