Lucifer's Court by Otto Rahn, Part 1 of 2 (re-broadcast)
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On Thursday April 13th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss the modern English (2004) translation of Otto Rahn's 1937 Lucifer's Court. This was Rahn's travel journal from Southern France to Iceland when he researched his personal quest to solve the mystery of the Holy Grail as described in the Medieval romance Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Rahn believed that the Medieval Cathars -- the Gnostic Heretics who were wiped out by the Roman Catholic Albigensian Crusade in the 1300s -- were the keepers of the Grail and that they were devotees of Lucifer. He was very favorable to Nazi Aryan race theories and was invited to join Himmler's SS. Rahn's veneration of Lucifer as the God of the Medieval French and German heretics may be the main source of what has been called Nazi Satanism. Lucifer was actually another name for Semyaza, the leader of the Fallen Angels in the Book of Enoch. We will try to sort out the errors in Otto Rahn's work and give him credit where credit is due. In spite of his political incorrectness he was an intrepid anthropologist and folklorist and his book is a fascinating read for those interested in the occult history of Europe. So tune in and we will explore the castles and caverns of the lost land of the Troubadours in search of the Holy Grail.
