On Thursday April 2Oth, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon
will continue to 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. In this instalment we will get into the possible Persian
Manichean origin of Parzival (Aryan of course) and Rhan's fascination
with Hercules and the Argonauts legends (also Aryan) We will also
discuss Nigel Graddon's 2008 Bio on Rahn and his rundown on all of our
favorite Nazi Spook Books influenced by Rahn's quest. So tune in and we
will follow the shadow of the swastika from Southern France to Tibet and
back again.
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