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FIRE & ICE: MAGICAL TEACHINGS OF GERMANY'S GREATEST SECRET OCCULT ORDER |
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The Mysteries of Germany's Most Secret Occult Order
The hidden teachings and practices of German occultism have long held a strong fascination for the poet as well as the historian. The largest German secret lodge—the Fraternitas Saturni—revealed neither its membership, its inner teachings, nor its rites. Still the most active and important magical society in Germany today, the FS has been the object of speculation, suspicion, and suppression. It is only through a chance occurrence that the inner documents of this order were published in Germany. The book you now hold is the first comprehensive interpretive study of these documents and of the inner workings of the FS which they reveal.
Within these pages you will discover the fascinating stories of this order's founders and leaders. You will witness the development of its magical doctrines and practices, its banishment by the Nazis, and its postwar dissentions and conflicts. The Saturnian degree system of initiation will be revealed in full detail, as will some of the order's unique cosmological and sex-magical teachings. A selection of some of the most powerful and unusual rites historically practiced by the FS are also offered.
Fire and Ice throws a unique light on one of the world's darkest and most mysterious philosophical corners. It is a book of accomplished scholarship and a compendium of fascinating anecdote. This text will be found to be indispensable for anyone interested in the history of western occultism of the 20th century.
About the Author
Stephen Edred Flowers has been a student of magick and the occult for almost 20 years. He holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in Germanic Studies with a dissertation entitled Runes and Magic. At present he teaches German and Humanities at Austin Community College and holds occasional seminars in Teutonic Spirituality at the Jung Society. He lives in Austin with his wife, Nancy, a Norwegian Elkhound, Yrsa, a Rottweiler, Morgan, and Sofia, the black cat.
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Llewellyn's Teutonic Magick Series
Teutonic Magick is as vast as the northern sky and as deep as the shrouded northern mists.
Many of the most powerful forms of magick in the West were developed to an early perfection by Teutonic magicians—Albertus Magnus, Agrippa, Paracelsus— some were even elevated to the level of legend, such as Faustus.
Teutonic Magick is multifaceted—it has its own innate traditions—those of the ancient Germanic peoples (Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians) and in addition it has those of the general Western Tradition which they received from southern Europe in the Middle Ages—and proceeded to develop with characteristic scientific zeal.
The world of Teutonic Magick is full of truly secret, some sinister, corners as well. Many of these—like so much else that we believe to be sinister—are thus characterized simply because they are unknown and perhaps also misunderstood. There are whole realms of Teutonic Magick that have largely been kept truly secret until the latter part of this century.
Llewellyn's Teutonic Magick Series is the first to explore this world in a systematic and authoritative way. It will reveal the secrets of German rune magic, the obscure mysteries of Gothic Kabbalah, the magic of Faustus, and the deepest mysteries of the German occult orders such as the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, the Fraternitas Saturni, and the dreaded FOGC-Lodge.
The path of Teutonic Magick is focused on the expansion of consciousness through a will to power and knowledge—the way opened for the Teutonic magician by Woden on an archetypal level and followed by Faustus and most modern magicians.
Other Books by the Author
Runes and Magic: Magical Formulaic Elements in the Older Runic Tradition, Peter Lang, 1986
The Secret of the Runes (by Guido von List); translated, edited, and introduced by the author, Inner Traditions, 1988
The Galdrabok: An Icelandic Grimoire; edited, translated and introduced by the author, Samuel Weiser, 1989
Rune Might, Llewellyn Publications, 1989
A Book of Troth, Llewellyn Publications, 1989
Forthcoming
Aurora Borealis: A History of the Spiritual Heritage of the North
The Lords of the Left-Hand Path
Theozoology (by Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels), edited and introduced by the author
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