Empire - Terra Umbra - Empire of Shadows

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The Icelandic people place more credence in the existence of the ‘otherworld’ of trolls, elves and faeries than folk in the warmer more clement countries to the south but here in the veritable back of beyond it is easy to see how such whimsical notions might retain their hold on the popular unconscious. Enigmatic carvings, Iceland, 2006 One of Otto’s Nazi peers in Heinrich Himmler’s Black Order once remarked in an internal memo that he “...half suspected Rahn of being in league with the little people...” But, if anything, it is the odd pragmatism of Otto’s quest that has kept me on the trail all these years. Otto himself admitted that he hoped to find if not the crown of Lucifer, then at least the stone that fell from it. I have two of those extraterrestrial artefacts in my possession now, souvenirs of Otto’s earlier excavations at Fontanet but I still fail to understand how he intended to join the dots in his third book – ‘The Testament of Promethius - a Journey to Hell and Beyond’, a final magnum opus whose opening pages were apparently written here on the North Cape of Iceland. The manuscript of ‘The Testament of Promethius’ is in all likelihood lost to us now although the Allied army doctor Colonel Howard Buechner references it as a secondary source in his selfpublished tome ‘Emerald Cup - Ark of Gold’ (1991). This odd little book is, to my knowledge, the first account of the Rahn affair to have surfaced in the English language although Buechner seems to have embellished the myth in the telling, adding a few curlicues of his own concerning the SS expedition discovering a mysterious cavern beyond the warm water lakes whose floor gave way to a bottomless abyss spanned by an emerald ice bridge on the far side of which could be seen the mouths of a number of tunnels from which emanated ‘strange whispering sounds resembling human voices’.
According to Buechner the ‘Pyrenean Grail’ was sealed within a specially constructed basalt obelisk and deposited in the mysterious ice cave to mark the entry point to the lost kingdom of Agharta and the world within. While I find this fantastical conceit entertaining enough I can’t help but suspect that the truth lies a lot closer to home. If the meteoric chalice really exists then it probably never left Europe, its continued presence an open secret, known only to a select few. A few years ago I would have found this notion almost as ridiculous as the notion of Agharta or the hollow earth but I had seen too much to be able to readily dismiss the rumours. They say you can’t get blood from a stone, just the same as you can’t fly or breathe underwater. But it’s not true. Clambering back into the car I turn up the volume on the stereo, the keening, boreal wind buffeting the vehicle as I head south once more, into a waiting darkness that seems to stretch away and away to the uttermost ends of the earth.
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SHADOW OF THE GRAIL Magic and Myste
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Trail of the Grail.................
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About the Author Richard Stanley wi
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Darkness Visible From the travel jo
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The trees crowded in around the nar
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Electric Montsegur (photo by Scarle
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I rubbed my eyes, realizing that th
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Who the hell was Otto? Madame Couqu
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The Cathars Once upon a time, more
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De Mirepoix was nicknamed the ‘pe
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The memorial on the ‘Camp de Crem
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Chretien de Troyes, who first recor
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Portrait of Otto Rahn by Frau Hartn
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The Grotto of Ornolac The long, dry
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Return to Montsegur In a distant la
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Ussat-Les-Bains, spring 1998 “My
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Apparently a ray of light falls on
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This graffiti reads: “Je me cach
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Family Memories THE BLACK FOREST -
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Otto and Rudolph Bereaved at an ear
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St. Jesse, Amorsbrunn Germany Besid
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A United Europe GENEVA - WINTER 199
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had already written books... ‘Le
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in South Africa and other places so
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Pagan Imperialism In 1932 Otto Rahn
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Chimeras Professor Paul A. Ladame,
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Then he looks away, turning his pal
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“Perhaps dying was the only way h
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proof that it could be true is that
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The Polaires Portrait of Otto Rahn
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him. The memory of World War I was
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Polaires? And what is Mr. Rams doin
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Knightsbridge - summer 1999 There i
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Accomani set about dowsing the summ
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movement by the article in La Depec
Page 72 and 73: of teenagers appear out of the gath
Page 74 and 75: Richard Stanley and Immo Horn, Wewe
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Page 80 and 81: When Martin Bormann’s wife (Frau
Page 82 and 83: ottling plant in Dachau they were a
Page 84 and 85: The shooting of ‘The Secret Glory
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Page 88 and 89: Grotte de Lombrives circa 1932 Amon
Page 90 and 91: Bethlehem Grotto, the face of Beatr
Page 92 and 93: J.B. and myself exchange an uneasy
Page 94 and 95: The Devil’s lake lies half way be
Page 96 and 97: Esclarmonde According to popular tr
Page 98 and 99: Empire clock will soon strike seven
Page 100 and 101: The Power to Heal Antonin Gadal, Ot
Page 102 and 103: The cavern’s curious history is i
Page 104 and 105: Stones from Heaven It was all too e
Page 106 and 107: Ereshkigal, ‘Queen of the Great E
Page 108 and 109: The Pope bows to La Moreneta, Monts
Page 110 and 111: The Black Madonna Spain - 2001 My m
Page 112 and 113: Opus Dei Headquarters - Torreciudad
Page 114 and 115: The Black Mother - Montsegur The bl
Page 116 and 117: At Montserrat the Goddess never tur
Page 118 and 119: I couldn’t help but be a little u
Page 120 and 121: Ends of the Earth Very far north, i
Page 124 and 125: The S.S. I can heartily recommend t
Page 126 and 127: Westphalia - winter 1998 “Of cour
Page 128 and 129: Karl Maria Wiligut-Weisthor Wiligut
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Page 134 and 135: asked to submit his ‘Ahnenpass’
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Page 138 and 139: VIDEO 4 Extract from THE SECRET GLO
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Page 142 and 143: The Coming of the White Lady MONTSE
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Page 158 and 159: The Keep, 6.15 am The yearly light
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Page 169 and 170: Postscript The difference of opinio
Page 171: Acknowledgements Special thanks to
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