The Secret King
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The Secret King, subtitled Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes, published in 2005, documents the life and written works of Karl Maria Wiligut, the leading occultist employed by Heinrich Himmler during the Third Reich.
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[edit] Editors
The editors and translators are Michael Moynihan and Stephen Flowers. Also involved with the editing was Werner von Bülow.
[edit] Synopsis
The pages within this work document the facts about occultism in the Third Reich and seek to reveal the truth about Nazi mysticism and its misrepresentation of Odinism.[1] [2]
In an article entitled "The Wiligut Saga" which features in this book, Adolf Schleipfer points out the differences between Wiligut's beliefs and those generally accepted within Odinism.
There is much speculation about the “occult roots” of National Socialism, yet little concrete documentation has ever been uncovered. This is quite a misleading statement, since sufficient documentation exist in archives and libraries in Germany. And although until the publication of this book almost nothing of these materials has been translated into English, any serious scholar in the field would be expected to learn German anyway, since the relevant research is partly conducted in German too and not translated (see e.g. Wilfried Daim). And if that statement should be hinted at The Occult Roots of Nazism, the editors would simply show that they are not interested in any serious research; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book has been well received by the scientific community.
This book had taken ten years to compile, translate and edit. It contains the collected occult writings of Karl Maria Wiligut, the runic initiate and shadowy “Secret King” of Germany.
His works were originally published in the rare ariosophical journals Hag All All Hag and Hagal. Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS and possibly the most powerful figure in the Third Reich, commissioned Wiligut to write private reports on Runes, secret Germanic traditions, and prehistory. It was through this position of influence that Wiligut came to be known after his death as “Himmler’s Rasputin.”
The Secret King contains:
- A full-length biographical introduction about Wiligut’s turbulent life and exploring his magical worldview
- Translations of all Wiligut’s major writings
- Wiligut’s mysterious invocations, the “Halgarita-Sayings”
- Translations of private documents Wiligut submitted directly to the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler
- Essays on Wiligut’s cosmology and traditions by other ariosophists of the past and present
- Himmler’s own report of an SS name-giving ritual, attended by the inner circle of SS leaders and presided over by Wiligut
- An exclusive interview with Gabriele Winckler-Dechend, Wiligut’s closest colleague from his period of service in the SS.
