Alexander Rud Mills
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Alexander Rud Mills (1885-1964) was a prominent Australian Odinist, and one of the earliest proponents of the rebirth of Germanic Neopaganism in the 20th Century. He was a published author, lecturer and Barrister. He founded the the First Anglecyn Church of Odin in Melbourne in 1936. He was also known by the pen-name Tasman Forth.
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[edit] Life
Mills was born in Port Sorell, Tasmania in 1885. Around 1910 he moved to Victoria to enroll at the Melbourne University Law School at the University of Melbourne. Mills was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1917.
[edit] Odinism
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[edit] Detainment
Mills was involved with the nationalist Australia-First Movement. He was detained without trial for suspicion of sympathies to the Axis, and for offering his legal services to other members on March 10,1942. He was interred for the duration of the war, but no charges were ever brought against him. Mills was cleared of any wrongdoing by a judicial panel, but received no compensation for his imprisonment.
[edit] Influence on Germanic neopaganism
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[edit] Partial bibliography
- (1957) The Call of Our Ancient Nordic Religion. Coventry, England: Northern World Pub.
- (1957) The Call of Our Nordic Religion – Reflections on the Theological Content of the Sagas. Calcutta: Northern World Pub.
- (1947) Law for the Ordinary Man. Melbourne: A.R. Johnson.
- (1939) The Odinist Religion: Overcoming Judeo Christianity. Melbourne: Ruskin Press.
- (1937) Ritual Book of the Moots of the Anglecyn Body.
- (1936) The First Guide Book to the Anglecyn Church of Odin. Sydney: Foreward Press.
- (1934) Hael, Odin!. Melbourne: Village Belle Press.
- (1933) And Fear Shall Be In The Way. London: Watson & Co.
[edit] References
- Asbjǿrn Jǿn, A. (May 1999). "Alexander Rud Mills and the Ásatrǘ faith in the New Age". Australian Religion Studies Review 12 (1).
- Gardell, Matthias (2003). “4”, Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Duke University Press, 269-283. ISBN 0-8223-3071-7.
- Henderson, Peter (Sept 2006). "National Socialism in Australasia". Alexander Rud Mills - Esoteric Nazi, Univ of Queensland - Pacific & Asian History: NSA Conference.
- Henderson, Peter (Nov 2005). "Frank Browne and the Neo-Nazis". Labour History 89: 73-86.
- Kaplan, Jeffrey (Jan 1997). Radical Religion in America. Syracuse Univ. Press. ISBN 0815603967.
- Kidd, Colin. The Forging of Races. Univ of Glasgow, 225. ISBN 9780521797290.
- Muirden, Bruce (1968). The Puzzled Patriots, The Story of the Australia First Movement. Melbourne University Press.
- Oliver, Professor Revilo P. (August 1989). "Chrétian Malgré Lui – A. Rudd Mills". Liberty Bell.
- Slauson, Irv, Asatru Free Church Committee (1978). The Religion of Odin. Red Wing.
- Winter, Barbara (2005). The Australia-First Movement. Glass House Press. ISBN 18768191X.
