- Summary
- Otto Rahn?s lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled throughout Europe--from Spain to Iceland--in the mid 1930s pursuing leads to the Grail and other mysteries. Lucifer?s Court is the travel diary he kept while searching for ?the ghosts of the pagans and heretics who were [his] ancestors.? It was during this time that Rahn grasped the positive role Lucifer plays in these forbidden religions as the bearer of true illumination, similar to Apollo and other sun gods in pagan worship. This journey was also one of self-discovery for Rahn. He found such a faithful echo of his own innermost beliefs in the lives of the heretics of the past that he eventually called himself a Cathar and nurtured ambitions of restoring that faith, which had been cruelly destroyed in the fires of the Inquisition. His journeys on assignment for the Reich--including researching an alleged entrance to Hollow Earth in Iceland and searching for the true mission of Lucifer in the caves of southern France that served as refuge for the Cathars during the Inquisition--also led to his disenchantment with his employers and his mysterious death in the mountains after his break with the Nazis.
- Uniform Title
- Luzifers Hofgesind. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Rahn, Otto, 1904-1939.
- Published
- Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, [2008]
©2008
- Contents
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Bingen am Rhein
Paris
Toulouse
Pamiers
Foix
Lavelanet
Montsegur in the Pyrenees
Again, Lavelanet
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Cahors
Ornolac in Fuxean country
Mirepoix
Port Vendres, Roussillon
Marseille
Puigcerda in Catalonia
Lourdes
Night journey
Genoa
Milan
Rome
Verona
Meran
Bolzano rose garden
On the Freienbuhl above Brixen
Brixen
Gossensass
Geneva
On a southern German roadside
Worms
Michelstadt in the Odenwald
Amorsbrunn
Amorsbach
With relatives in Hesse
Mellnau in the Burgwald
Marburg am Lahn
Giessen
Siegen
Runkel am Lahn
Cologne
Heisterbach monastery ruins
Bonn
Asbach in the Westerwald
Goslar
Halberstadt
Berlin
Warnemunde-gjedser
Edinburgh
In the Pentland sea
In the North Atlantic
Reykjavik
Laugarvatn
Reykholt
Back home.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-242).
Bingen am Rhein -- Paris -- Toulouse -- Pamiers -- Foix -- Lavelanet -- Montsegur in the Pyrenees -- Again, Lavelanet -- Saint-Germain-en-Laye -- Cahors -- Ornolac in Fuxean country -- Mirepoix -- Port Vendres, Roussillon -- Marseille -- Puigcerda in Catalonia -- Lourdes -- Night journey -- Genoa -- Milan -- Rome -- Verona -- Meran -- Bolzano rose garden -- On the Freienbuhl above Brixen -- Brixen -- Gossensass -- Geneva -- On a southern German roadside -- Worms -- Michelstadt in the Odenwald -- Amorsbrunn -- Amorsbach -- With relatives in Hesse -- Mellnau in the Burgwald -- Marburg am Lahn -- Giessen -- Siegen -- Runkel am Lahn -- Cologne -- Heisterbach monastery ruins -- Bonn -- Asbach in the Westerwald -- Goslar -- Halberstadt -- Berlin -- Warnemunde-gjedser -- Edinburgh -- In the Pentland sea -- In the North Atlantic -- Reykjavik -- Laugarvatn -- Reykholt -- Back home.
