The Secret King
The Secret King, subtitled Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes, is a 2005 published book documenting the actual written works of Karl Maria Wiligut, the official leading occultist employed by Heinrich Himmler during the Third Reich, rather than the speculation.
Editors
The editors are Michael Moynihan and Stephen Flowers whom also translated the works from German to English. Also involved with the editing was Werner von Bülow.
Synopsis
The pages within this work document the facts about occultism in the Third Reich rather than the fiction which generally taints the truth about Odinism. Stephen A. McNallen and the book 'The Secret King' by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., and Michael Moynihan have turned the tables of belief relating to [...] mysticism and its misrepresentation of Odinism.1 2
In an article entitled "The Wiligut Saga" which features in this book, Adolf Schleipfer points out the differences between Wiligut's beliefs and those generally accepted within Odinism.
It is said that there is much speculation about the “occult roots” of National Socialism, yet little concrete documentation has ever been uncovered. This is quite a misleading statement, since sufficient documentation exist in archives and libraries in Germany. And although until the publication of this book almost nothing of these materials has been translated into English, any serious scholar in the field would be expected to learn German anyway, since the relevant research is partly conducted in German too and not translated (see e.g. Wilfried Daim). And if that statement should be hinted at The Occult Roots of Nazism, the editors would simply show that they are not interested in any serious research; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book has been well received by the scientific community.
This book had taken ten years to compile, translate and edit. It contains the collected occult writings of Karl Maria Wiligut, the runic initiate and shadowy “Secret King” of Germany.
His works were originally published in the rare ariosophical journals Hag All All Hag and Hagal. Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS and possibly the most powerful figure in the Third Reich, commissioned Wiligut to write private reports on Runes, secret Germanic traditions, and prehistory. It was through this position of influence that Wiligut came to be known after his death as “Himmler’s Rasputin.”
These writings allow a glimpse into the strange magical world that enchanted high-ranking officials of [...] Germany. For anyone fascinated about the role occultism played in the Third Reich, this book offers the evidence. Never before have source documents of this nature been made available to the English-speaking world!
The Secret King contains:
- A full-length biographical introduction about Wiligut’s turbulent life and exploring his magical worldview
- Translations of all Wiligut’s major writings
- Wiligut’s mysterious invocations, the “Halgarita-Sayings”
- Translations of private documents Wiligut submitted directly to the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler
- Essays on Wiligut’s cosmology and traditions by other ariosophists of the past and present
- Himmler’s own report of an SS name-giving ritual, attended by the inner circle of SS leaders and presided over by Wiligut
- An exclusive interview with Gabriele Winckler-Dechend, Wiligut’s closest colleague from his period of service in the SS.