Armanen-Orden
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The Armanen-Orden (or Armanen Order) (founded 1976) is an esoteric Neopagan society and religious order reviving the occult teachings of Guido von List. It is modelled on, but not limited to, Guido von List's principles.
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[edit] Reorganisation
The Armanen-Orden (the re-organised and revived Guido-von-List-Society (originally founded 1908)) was renewed as the Guido-von-List-Society through contacts, in 1967, between Adolf Schleipfer and the still living last president of the society, Hanns Bierbach.
He founded the Armanen Orden in 1976 with his then wife, Sigrun Schleipfer (nee Hammerbacher), now referring to herself as "Sigrun Freifrau von Schlichting" or "Sigrun von Schlichting") (daughter of Völkisch writer Dr. Hans Wilhelm Hammerbacher).
Since 1976 Adolf and Sigrun have served as the "Grandmasters" of the order.
Adolf also revived the High Armanen Order (HAO).
They have also been, for many years, reprinting List's works.
[edit] Principles
Although it is modelled on, but not limited to, Guido von List's principles, their principles as formulated in it's brochures are as follows:
- "The Armanen Order embodies the entire Germanic and Celtic peoples in their mental, spiritual and physical uniqueness.
- The Armnanen Order embodies the true realisatin of the divine world order based on Germanic and Celtic wisdom, whose religious and cultic aspect is formed by the native myths of the gods.
- The Awakening of the Armanen Order is a rebirth of life based on its natural foundations of the Germanic and Celtic people."
[edit] Celebrations
The Armanen Orden celebrates season festivities in a similar fashion as Odinist groups do and invites interested peopole to these events.
The highlights are three 'Things' at Otara (Easter), Midsummer and Fall (Wotan's sacrificial death), which are mostly celebrated at castles close to sacred places, such as the Externsteine.
The author Stefanie von Schnurbein attended a Fall Thing in 1990 and gives the following report in Religion als Kulturkritik (Religion and Cultural Criticism):
"... the participants meet in a room decorated with hand-woven wall hangings and pictures of Germanic gods, Odin and Frigga in this case... At one end of the room is a tablecovered with black cloth. On this a 4 ft. high wooden Irminsul, a spear, a sword, a replica of a sun disc chariot (Black Sun), a leather-bound copy of The Edda as well as ritual bowls and candles are placed. The participants are seated in a semi-circle in front of the table, the front row being occupied by Order members clothed in their ritual garb (black shits for the men and long white dresses for the women; both have the AO emblem sewn on them)." ... "...after several invocations the 'spirit flame,' symbolising Odin in the spirit world, is lit in a bowl filled with lamp oil. The purpose of this cultic celebration is the portrayel of Odin's concentration from spirit into matter. After a recital of the first part of Odin's rune poem () from The Edda, the "blood sacrifice" commences, in which a bowl with animal blood is raised to the beat of a gong and an invocation of sacrifice. Then Odin is calle dinto the realm by the participants who assume the Odal rune stance, whisper 'W-O-D-A-N' nine times and finally sing an ode to Odin with the following words: 'Odin-Wodan come to us, od-uod, uod.' Wodan's sacrifice to himself is symbolised by extinguishing the flame."
The internal structure of the order is organized in nine grades, inspired by Freemasonry.
[edit] References
- Sünner,Rüdiger (1997). Schwarze Sonne: Entfesselung und Missbrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik.
- Balzli, Johannes - ‘Guido v. List - Der Wiederentdecker uralter arischer Weisheit (Leipzig and Vienna, 1917)’
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. Gardners Books. ISBN 1-86064-973-4.; originally published as Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (1992). The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3060-4.
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3155-4.
- Flowers Ph.D., Stephen (aka Edred Thorsson) (1988). The Secret of the Runes. Destiny Books. ISBN 0-89281-207-9.
