The Armanen Futharkh

Some consider the eighteen runes of the Armanen Futharkh to be 'controversial'. This blog is dedicated to Germanic Mysticism, therefore, von List's runes are not controversial here.

Due to a cataract operation, von List - a German occultist, mystic and Germanic revivalist - was blind for eleven months. During this time of dark reflection, twilight contemplation, and black thought, Das Geheimnis der Runen were revealed to him.

Of this experience, von List explained to a friend, "..it would have been impossible to begin to work mentally on my intended unravelling of the secret of the runes", had it not been for this prolonged blindness.

And it was this experience that led to von List becoming the 'father' of Völkisch Runic Mysticism, commonly known as Armanenschaft occultism.

According to von List, the eighteen runes that "showed themselves" while blind, match the eighteen strophes of Havamal's Runetal section. If so, it is the most modern and most outstanding runic insight to be affored rune scholars since Wodan himself "took up the runes, screaming".

Those who off-handedly discount von Lists revelation do so based on the 'authenticity' of the Elder, Younger or Anglo-Saxon futharks, do so at the peril of ignorance. For, who first carved those upon a runestone? Can anyone say with certainty that they were or were not divinely inspired, or brought about due to madness, illness or internal conflict?

Germanic Mysticism is inspired commentary and revived spirituality, therefore it is streaming fluidity. It never commands the old to be forsaken, but for the Zeitgeist's evolution to be acknowledged.