So, Greetings from Rune Secrets!

Your friend,

-Tyriel

It is great that you are a German heathen living in Germany. I can just imagine the gods and goddesses communicating with you as you walk through a forest. I really enjoyed walking in German forests when it was snowing.

It is a sad thing in Tibetan history that most Tibetans disowned Bon once Indian Buddhism became their state religion. However, Bon slowly changed Indian Buddhism into the colourful, magical form of Vajrayana Buddhism that now fascinates so many people in the world. The present Dalai Lama sagaciously reinstated Bon as the “fifth way” of Tibetan religion. Bon is quite animist and most of its deities are nature spirits. Lake spirits are held in awe because of their great power.

Nerthus is a lake goddess. You have probably read about the legend of Nerthus taking a bath with her handmaidens in a secluded lake, and how men will drown themselves if they happen to spot her and become inevitably drawn to her great beauty. Scholars have tried to work out which lake that Nerthus goes to, and some say it is up north somewhere in Denmark.

I personally feel most close to Tantric Buddhism, especially in its Tibetan manifestations. But as they have their native ‘religion’ of Bön, I have my native path: Heathenism. However, ultimately I believe in a perennial philosophy as Aldous Huxley has put it. “The name that can be named is not the true Name.” (Lao-Tzu) The Divine Essence has no actual form, but man’s mind gives it a shape (the gods of the different cultures), because s/he needs it. Already some ancient Greek philosophers said that there are no gods in a literal sense, but that there exists a primal mover, Aristotle’s “Unmoved Mover”.

This is a fantastic article and I enjoyed reading it very much the first time, and I will read it again.

Indeed Ernst Jünger was very important to me in my formative years. When I was in Germany I defended him in front of many university students who were at the time too afraid to read him. Things have changed a lot in the past decade as Jünger’s true worth is being acknowledged in the wider section of German society.

About ten years ago I was also deeply involved in the initiation into the mysteries (not OTO, but an Eastern organisation). I left abruptly when I encountered the rigid face of dogma and authority. My girlfriend at the time left me as a result of my sudden “loss of faith”. With the double losses of faith and love, I plunged into the realm of the dead but without dying. A whole new world gradually opened up. Five months ago this world finally made its claim: the great goddess Hel, most beautiful but also fearsome, took a part of me and let me back into Midgard with permanent damages to my mortal shell, so that I will always remember her consul.

Since recently people have started coming to me to seek negotiations between the living and the dead at sacred sites. I never seek them out. They initiate the contact.

I enjoy talking to people of different faiths: Asatru, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Wicca, etc. But I am like a ghost guarding an ancient temple of no name. I do not follow anyone back to their place of worship. If necessary I will visit of my own accord.

At sunset every day the ravens fly in different directions inside my inner realm. Each time they form a different pattern, beckoning at me to be an augur.

I am of many ravens – von den vielen Raben!