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Walter Gebhardt

#670 CHARLEMAGNE AND WITUKIND Widukind is translated from the Third Reich original, Karl und Widukind, by Walter Gebhardt, which appeared in the October 1935 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. This brief National Socialist presentation is respectful to both men, although naturally more sympathetic to the Germanic hero Widukind. The original illustrations are included.

Here is an excerpt:

Whoever serves the folk he is born into with unwavering loyalty, administers the legacy of the ancestors in high mission and struggles for the well-being of the grandchildren, deserves to be revered by the following generations of his folk as a historical personality. This yardstick also applies to the examination of the fateful events tied to the names Charlemagne and Witukind. A struggle of world historical importance that began with the battle in the Teutoburg Forest and reached its zenith in the times of the Vandal Geiserich and the Goth Theodorich, finds its end. Germany’s fate is decided for more than a millennium. We must live this turning point today anew with deep consciousness of responsibility.

• Paperback: 41 pages
• Publisher: RJG Enterprises Inc
• Language: English

Wilhem Bergh

#673 GERMANIC CULTURE OF THE BRONZE AGE is translated from the Third Reich original Germanische Kultur der Bronzezeit by Wilhelm Bergh, which appeared in the April 1935 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. This brief work provides a fascinating look at the amazingly high level of culture, and even of technology, of Germanic man long before the ancient Greeks and Romans appeared in history. The several original illustrations are included.

Here is an excerpt: “The Bronze Age is the thousand year golden age of Germanic man. Golden not only because Germanic man possessed much gold back then through his amber trade, which he knew how to work just like bronze into glorious works, rather also because his culture in this period gives the impression of great calm, unity and self-confidence. The first period of blossoming of Germanic culture has remained inwardly determinative for every Germanic later, and one cannot understand it without a penetrating knowledge of the Bronze Age.” (Wolfgang Schulz.) During the Bronze Age, Germanic man developed the glorious forms of his native decorative art, to which all expressly Germanic art is again and again tied in its basic lines. He created a peasant, life-bound religion with rich practices that have in part remained preserved to this day.

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: RJG Enterprises Inc
• Language: English

Bernhard Kummer

#676 GERMANIC LEGACY IN THE MIDDLE AGESis translated from theThird Reich original Germanisches Erbe im Mittelalter Dr. Bernhard Kummer, which appeared in the November 1935 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. The theme is that traces of the native, pre-Christian Germanic culture resurfaced in various forms throughout the Middle Ages despite church and feudal system. The original illustrations are included.

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Seven hundred years of German history lie between Charlemagne and Luther, exactly the same as between Armin the Cherusker and Charlemagne. In the first century A.D., Roman imperialism is defeated by Germanic man. In the eighth century, the King of the Franks becomes the “Roman Emperor” in Germany. At the beginning of the 16th century, a German monk stands before the Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and inwardly separates Germany and the Nordic lands from this empire’s soul, Rome’s church.

The Middle Ages begin and conclude with the struggle for the true faith and for religious freedom. It begins with Widukind’s baptism and ends in Wittenberg at the hour when Luther casts the Pope’s excommunication into the fire. It begins with the devotion of all Christians to the “one, holy Catholic church” and ends with protest against it, with an escape out of all the borders and walls of its sphere with an expansion of our thought and faith into a new world. It begins with Charlemagne’s Latin church law and cloister school and it ends with Luther’s Bible translation and with Hans Sachs in Nuremberg. It begins in the peace of cloister isolation and ends in the age in voyages of discovery and the art of book printing.

The Middle Ages were dominated by a Latin guardianship of German life and faith, of German language and custom, of German art and politics. But it lived from a legacy of Germanic culture and combined with the foreign education or grew in the struggle with it to new value.

German life was stretched between Germanic and anti-Germanic forces. If on the one hand at the beginning of this period an emperor has the heroic songs of Germanic dialect from pagan time destroyed, so on the other hand does a monk write in Lain verses a martial song about Germanic royal offspring, about Walther, Hagen and Hildegund. And still at the end, when Martin Luther already takes his first steps into life, the Archbishop in Mainz bans “Christian books” that “have been written about divine things and about the highest truths of our religion” from being translated from the Latin into German, a language that, as he believes, in its “poverty” never “suffices” as expression of our religion. He declares it a “disgrace for the religion” that such publications already “are in the hands of the common people”. But a Monk, well-read in all these publications, listens to the folk in the markets and alleys in order to write the “Holy Scriptures” anew in German to speak to its heart. And between the monk in St. Gallen, who writes the Walthari Song, and the one in Wittenberg, lies exactly the middle of the great peak of German language, German art, German custom, German piety. From this peak alone, which the folk climbed, can the Middle Ages be surveyed.

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: RJG Enterprises Inc
• Language: English

- Jacob Grimm. Translated by Vivian Bird
 

The only available English translation of Jakob Grimm’s compendium of Germanic lore! Covers Gods and Goddesses, heroes, wise women, various mythological beings, herbalism, folklore, and cosmology. Despite the modifications of modern scholarship, this remains a classic source of information

Bernhard Kummer

#671 GERMANIC SOLSTICE AND RUNES is translated from five original Third Reich articles that appeared in various issue of Der Schulungsbrief between 1935 and 1937. Two deal with the solstice, one with the origin of the runes, and one each with the meaning of “leader” [Führer] and “Hail!” ["Heil!"].

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Reflected in a folk’s celebrations and festivals is not solely this folk’s spiritual and religious life, rather also – and indeed very closely connected – the height of its spiritual and cultural existence. All ethnic celebrations in the north have their origin, their inner reason, their meaning in the course of the year, into which they fit rhythmically and organically; for the ancestors felt and knew much more closely and intimately than we present-day “modern” people how to bond to and live in harmony with the great process in nature and the divine laws of life ruling over and working within it. But it simultaneously laid in the nature of things that our ancestors were indeed also far more dependent than we on the cycle of the year and its alternating seasons; an orderly division of the year, a “calendar”, simply had to be a necessity of life for a folk of peasants and seafarers!

If at the time of midsummer, at the “time of the height of life, of the great high-time of the year” (Georg Stammler), in all Germany’s provinces the solstice fires again blaze on the mountains, then this happens out of a new awakening in our folk of what already in the ancestors had been awake and alive: the deep inner need to honor that divine ruling and working in nature through elevating celebration. In their celebrations they hence celebrated out of knowing and pious hearts simultaneously the revelations of that creative power that orders and inspires the universe, which finds its highest embodiment in the sun and its orbit; and so the sun-born fire was to them, as a part of it and its effect at the same time, symbol of that blessings bringing life energy of the sun itself. Not “sacrifice fire”, rather fire of the light-loving affirmation of the great, mighty divine order in the universe, which to recognize and to live according to was for them life’s sacred meaning. “Germanic people were people who were bound to the earth and close to the shy. Even before the re-awakening of the scientific confirmation in the occident, they were good observers of nature and sky, worthy of their descendants, to whom mankind owes the most important part of its astronomical knowledge.” (J. Hogrebe.) By themselves, they achieved the discovery and utilization of the points of the compass, the independent observation and measurement of the stars and their change, their points and times of ascent and descent and the advanced calculation of both, they found their own astronomically amazingly precise time measurement and time division, the calendar.

• Paperback: 44 pages
• Publisher: RJG Enterprises Inc
• Language: English

By James Hjuka Coulter

This work was originally penned in 1998, expanded and annotated for its 1999 printing. Heathen Timekeeping explores Heathen month ordering and naming in this slim but detailed volume. Includes a look into the Icelandic reckoning recorded by Snorri, the Anglo-Saxon reckoning as recorded by Bede, Charlemagne’s adaptation, and more… great for a comparative look into the ordering of Lunar months in pre-Christian Europe!

Dr. Werner Hülle & Dr. Rudolf Stampfuss

# 674 IRON AGE GERMANIA and FIGHT FOR THE RHINE is translated from two Third Reich originals: Germanien zur Eisenzeit by Dr. Werner Hülle and Der Kampf um den Rhein by Dr. Rudolf Stampfuss. Both appeared in the May 1935 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. The first covers the period from roughly 1,000 B.C. to 375 A.D.. The second presents the four century long fight for domination of the Rhine region between Germanic man and Roman Empire. The original illustrations are included.

Here is an excerpt: As the golden age of Germanic man approached its end around 1,000 B.C., two important forces were godfather to the approaching era: the use of a new raw material, iron, and a slow but constant worsening of the climate. Both forces, which do not seem to have any connection to each other, caused fundamental changes in the Germanic world of the Bronze Age. The new raw material, which also gave this age its name, soon transformed the appearance of material culture, especially of weapons, tools and jewelry, even though the gold glistening metal was still made into jewelry. The worsening climate – together with the natural population increase of a healthy peasant folk – caused the settlement land to gradually become too small. The soil no longer provided enough bread for the larger population; a few bad harvests in successive years, given the harvest balance back then, sufficed to put individual tribes in bitter distress. So there remained no other choice: the young men had to leave in the spring in order to conquer new land, in order to found a new household on their own soil. So the golden age of Germanic man was followed by an age of wandering and fighting, an Iron Age. Already around the year 1,000 B.C. did that greater period of time begin, whose latter portion history tends to designate the Germanic folk wandering.

• Paperback: 43 pages
• Publisher: RJG Enterprises Inc
• Language: English

Battle, Victory & Death in the World of Tradition

Julius Evola

This is the second, revised edition of Metaphysics of War: Battle, Victory & Death in the World of Tradition. In this book Evola considers the spiritual aspects of war in different spiritual traditions, including the Vedic, Iranian, Islamic and Catholic. In so doing he concludes that war can, in certain circumstances, have a ‘sacred character’ through which man may achieve self-realisation. In the second edition we have added a large number of new footnotes and a comprehensive index.

By Alain De Benoist

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In this small masterpiece, the great French thinker Alain de Benoist claims that only the pagan deities of ancient Europe offer a spiritual recourse to the present religious malaise. The guilt, the fear, the narrow petty-bourgeois obsession with well-being, and the self-loathing love of the Other that has left Western man defenseless before the destructive behaviors of our nihilist age derive from the alien belief system that Christianity introduced to the West. They are not part of the pagan spirit that lives still in the Rig Veda, the Iliad, or the Edda. Benoist helps us rediscover these ancient wellsprings and the fonts from which future greatnesses may again flow. But let the reader be warned, his On Being a Pagan proposes no folkloric or New Age “return to the past,” but rather a Nietzschean recurrence in which the future bears all the promise of our distant origins—and thus of another great beginning.—Michael O’Meara, author of New Culture, New Right (First Books, 2004)

About the Author
Alain de Benoist was born on 11 December 1943. He is married and has two children. He has studied law, philosophy, sociology, and the history of religions in Paris, France. A journalist and a writer, he is the editor of two journals: Nouvelle Ecole (since 1968) and Krisis (since 1988). His main fields of interest include the history of ideas, political philosophy, classical philosophy, and archaeology. He has published more than 50 books and 3000 articles. He is also a regular contributor to many French and European publications, journals, and papers (including Valeurs actuelles, Le Spectacle du monde, Magazine-Hebdo, Le Figaro-Magazine in France, Telos in the United States, and Junge Freiheit in Germany). In 1978 he received the Grand Prix de l’Essai from the Académie Française for his book Vu de droite: Anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (Copernic, 1977). He has also been a regular contributor to the radio program France-Culture and has appeared in numerous television debates.

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• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Ultra (January 1, 2005)
• ISBN-10: 0972029222
• ISBN-13: 978-0972029223
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling

About Pagan Christmas:
An examination of the sacred botany and the pagan origins and rituals of Christmas

• Analyzes the symbolism of the many plants associated with Christmas

• Reveals the shamanic rituals that are at the heart of the Christmas celebration

The day on which many commemorate the birth of Christ has its origins in pagan rituals that center on tree worship, agriculture, magic, and social exchange. But Christmas is no ordinary folk observance. It is an evolving feast that over the centuries has absorbed elements from cultures all over the world–practices that give plants and plant spirits pride of place. In fact, the symbolic use of plants at Christmas effectively transforms the modern-day living room into a place of shamanic ritual.

Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling show how the ancient meaning of the botanical elements of Christmas provides a unique view of the religion that existed in Europe before the introduction of Christianity. The fir tree was originally revered as the sacred World Tree in northern Europe. When the church was unable to drive the tree cult out of people’s consciousness, it incorporated the fir tree by dedicating it to the Christ child. Father Christmas in his red-and-white suit, who flies through the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, has his mythological roots in the shamanic reindeer-herding tribes of arctic Europe and Siberia. These northern shamans used the hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom, which is red and white, to make their soul flights to the other world. Apples, which figure heavily in Christmas baking, are symbols of the sun god Apollo, so they find a natural place at winter solstice celebrations of the return of the sun. In fact, the authors contend that the emphasis of Christmas on green plants and the promise of the return of life in the dead of winter is just an adaptation of the pagan winter solstice celebration.

About the Author(s) of Pagan Christmas:
Christian Rätsch, Ph.D., is a world-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist who specializes in the shamanic uses of plants. Currently serving as the president of the German Society for Ethnomedicine, he is the author of The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants and Marijuana Medicine and coauthor of Plants of the Gods.

Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Ph.D., is an art historian and anthropologist and coauthor, with Christian Rätsch, of Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas and Witchcraft Medicine. Both authors live in Hamburg, Germany.

Praise for Pagan Christmas:
“The authors and the translators richly deserve congratulations on what is without doubt one of the finest books about Pagan Christmas written in recent times.” Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com, Dec 2006

“The illustrations and photographs are excellent. The text is concise, and accurate. Pagan Christmas is a fine reading experience!” Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com, Dec 18, 2006

• Paperback: High Quality/Glossy pages!
• Page Count: 224; 8.00 (width) x 10.00 (height), 156 color and 40 b&w illustrations
• Publisher: Inner Tditions
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-092-0
  ISBN: 1-59477-092-1
• Language: English