Re: Rune Magic, by Siegfried Adolf Kummer
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:13 am
Editor's Notes
(1) Heilige Runenmacht remains untranslated. Originally published by the Uranus Verlag in Hamburg, 1932.
(2) Based on the "Havamal" stanza 165.
(3) This is a magical formula in the heraldic language of Guido von List. Its meaning is: "All victory for those conscious of the Divine Secret."
(4) See the "Havamal" stanzas 138-165 in the Poetic Edda.
(5) Here the Nietzschean formula ewige Wiederkehr is used.
(6) The significance of the formula of Arising-Being-Passing away to new arising [Entstehen-Sein- Vergehen-zum neuen Enstehen] is an important one developed by G. v. List.
(7) From the tale of Frau Holle in the collection by the Brothers Grimm.
(8) Kala is a Sanskrit word borrowed by Guido von List to indicate the secret of the systematic permutations of esoteric meanings of words.
(9) Here the first person pronoun, ich, "I," is used as a noun -- which is how Sigmund Freud referred to the Ego in German terminology: das ich, "the 'I.'" The concept of the "ego" for the Armanen is a more comprehensive one involving the entire Self.
(10) Here and in the following section Kummer betrays the Neoplatonic basis for many of his underlying ideas.
(11) The practice of kala involves certain permutations of the meanings of words which conceal their meanings from the uninitiated. See note 8 above.
(12) This is an obvious reference to the quasi-mystical eugenic dreams common among contemporary Ariosophists.
(13) Giboraltar identified by Guido von List as the rock of Gibraltar.
(14) The texts of these prayers and Rune banishing are given on pages 34 and 35.
(15) The Tarnkappe plays a part in the German national epic, the Nibelungenlied, where it is part of the Nibelungen treasure won by the hero Siegfried by killing the serpent, Fafnir.
(16) Heil und Sieg -- of course, these words were combined into the National Socialist chant, which they had borrowed from the "mantra" of the Germanen Orden.
(17) Through this whole discussion of the consonant-vowel combinations with Ja-, etc., it should be remembered that the German /j/ is pronounced as the English /y/.
(18) Tacitus Germania chapter 10.
(19) Tacitus Germania chapter 3.
(20) These vowels have the sound values in English of ah, eh, ee, oh, oo respectively.
(21) This is folk-etymologically incorrect: Hugh is derived from the Germanic word [iv] hug-: 'mind; shining'.
(22) Here Kummer expresses a kind of thinking common in Germany in 1932 -- in the time just before the assumption of power by the Nazis in that country.
(23) For English speakers this sound is best described as a deeper version of the /a/ in the word "call."
(24) Here we have another example of the particular occult ideology common among German rune magicians of the early 20th century. The Blutsverfassung, composition of the blood, is an obvious reference to the "purity of the blood" as measured by contemporary racial standards.
(25) See Sebottendorf's Sufi exercises in his book Die geheimen Ubungen der turkischen Freimauer for reports of similar phenomena.
(26) This "inherited memory" [Erberinnerung] is something which one inherits from one's ancestors along meta-genetic lines.
(27) Notable for its absence is the Yr-Rune sign. Which apparently Kummer thought of as being too negative to be practiced.
(28) The runes are deactivated by burning them.
(29) See G. v. List's The Secret of the Runes, pp. 89-90.
(30) This seems to be a reference to the Nazi regime just coming to power as Kummer wrote this work.
(31) "Aryan figures" is used here as the translation of the original Ariergestalten. The word Gestalt, meaning basically "shape" or "form" was used at this time by Ariosophical ideologues to mean "an ideal type."
(32) Arehisosur is a formula made up of the Armanic names of the runic vowels: Ar-eh-is-os-ur = A-E-I-O-U.
(33) These "Consecrations" were written by Kummer to act as morning and evening devotional prayers for his Runers to use in their daily meditational work.
(34) Garma is a special Ariosophical form of the Sanskrit word karma.
(35) Rassenschuld implies the concept of miscegenation.
(36) Based on the stanza 111 in the "Havamal" found in the Poetic Edda.
(1) Heilige Runenmacht remains untranslated. Originally published by the Uranus Verlag in Hamburg, 1932.
(2) Based on the "Havamal" stanza 165.
(3) This is a magical formula in the heraldic language of Guido von List. Its meaning is: "All victory for those conscious of the Divine Secret."
(4) See the "Havamal" stanzas 138-165 in the Poetic Edda.
(5) Here the Nietzschean formula ewige Wiederkehr is used.
(6) The significance of the formula of Arising-Being-Passing away to new arising [Entstehen-Sein- Vergehen-zum neuen Enstehen] is an important one developed by G. v. List.
(7) From the tale of Frau Holle in the collection by the Brothers Grimm.
(8) Kala is a Sanskrit word borrowed by Guido von List to indicate the secret of the systematic permutations of esoteric meanings of words.
(9) Here the first person pronoun, ich, "I," is used as a noun -- which is how Sigmund Freud referred to the Ego in German terminology: das ich, "the 'I.'" The concept of the "ego" for the Armanen is a more comprehensive one involving the entire Self.
(10) Here and in the following section Kummer betrays the Neoplatonic basis for many of his underlying ideas.
(11) The practice of kala involves certain permutations of the meanings of words which conceal their meanings from the uninitiated. See note 8 above.
(12) This is an obvious reference to the quasi-mystical eugenic dreams common among contemporary Ariosophists.
(13) Giboraltar identified by Guido von List as the rock of Gibraltar.
(14) The texts of these prayers and Rune banishing are given on pages 34 and 35.
(15) The Tarnkappe plays a part in the German national epic, the Nibelungenlied, where it is part of the Nibelungen treasure won by the hero Siegfried by killing the serpent, Fafnir.
(16) Heil und Sieg -- of course, these words were combined into the National Socialist chant, which they had borrowed from the "mantra" of the Germanen Orden.
(17) Through this whole discussion of the consonant-vowel combinations with Ja-, etc., it should be remembered that the German /j/ is pronounced as the English /y/.
(18) Tacitus Germania chapter 10.
(19) Tacitus Germania chapter 3.
(20) These vowels have the sound values in English of ah, eh, ee, oh, oo respectively.
(21) This is folk-etymologically incorrect: Hugh is derived from the Germanic word [iv] hug-: 'mind; shining'.
(22) Here Kummer expresses a kind of thinking common in Germany in 1932 -- in the time just before the assumption of power by the Nazis in that country.
(23) For English speakers this sound is best described as a deeper version of the /a/ in the word "call."
(24) Here we have another example of the particular occult ideology common among German rune magicians of the early 20th century. The Blutsverfassung, composition of the blood, is an obvious reference to the "purity of the blood" as measured by contemporary racial standards.
(25) See Sebottendorf's Sufi exercises in his book Die geheimen Ubungen der turkischen Freimauer for reports of similar phenomena.
(26) This "inherited memory" [Erberinnerung] is something which one inherits from one's ancestors along meta-genetic lines.
(27) Notable for its absence is the Yr-Rune sign. Which apparently Kummer thought of as being too negative to be practiced.
(28) The runes are deactivated by burning them.
(29) See G. v. List's The Secret of the Runes, pp. 89-90.
(30) This seems to be a reference to the Nazi regime just coming to power as Kummer wrote this work.
(31) "Aryan figures" is used here as the translation of the original Ariergestalten. The word Gestalt, meaning basically "shape" or "form" was used at this time by Ariosophical ideologues to mean "an ideal type."
(32) Arehisosur is a formula made up of the Armanic names of the runic vowels: Ar-eh-is-os-ur = A-E-I-O-U.
(33) These "Consecrations" were written by Kummer to act as morning and evening devotional prayers for his Runers to use in their daily meditational work.
(34) Garma is a special Ariosophical form of the Sanskrit word karma.
(35) Rassenschuld implies the concept of miscegenation.
(36) Based on the stanza 111 in the "Havamal" found in the Poetic Edda.