On my practice of Thelema and my revival of the ancient Nordic-Germanic Tradition

For the last 22 years I’ve followed the spiritual paths of Thelema and Asatru.  I became interested in these two paths right around the same time after spending about 7 years as a Taoist and a Buddhist.  Certain coincidences and synchronicities in the early 2000’s let me to the work of Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky, which subsequently led to my wife and me initiating ourselves into the Western Esoteric Tradition.  Thus began a very intense and exciting spiritual journey. 

               Being raised Christian, Lutheran specifically, I had wanted to spiritually distance myself from Abrahamism when I left for college.  While in art school I gravitated towards Eastern philosophy, Taoism in particular, but I also took an interest in Buddhism and Hinduism.  I was drawn to Taoism and Buddhism mostly because of its view of the Transcendental.  The East had a much more pantheistic view of the Divine as a sort of abstraction that encompassed all living and invisible things.  It was an essence that moved through everything.  Following this system of thought, I felt a flow to life and a connection to “god” that I never felt being a Christian.  It was as though life was scripted, with coincidental events guiding me along.

               In college I started practicing Tao magick and used the I-Ching frequently.  I found it a good guide to life.  Using the I-Ching in divination, it took me a bit to understand its elliptical nature and the concept of action through “not doing” meaning using mental focus to bring positive results to one’s life.  I had started an irregular practice of meditation at the time.  Meditation was difficult as I was self-taught and did not have the ability to focus for long periods of time.  Eventually I learned to meditate properly.

               As written of in previous essays, I was drawn to Crowley’s work in the early 2,000s and I also began a practice of Asatru.  In 2017-2021, I had periodic communications with the entities Aiwass, Lam, and Babalon (these communications or transmissions comprise “The Holy Books of the Aeon of Zain” available elsewhere on this site.)  These entities, who also communicated with Aleister Crowley, identified also as the European Pagan gods.  Aiwass identified as Wotan and Babalon identified as Freyja.  I’ve written before of the concept of Interpretatio that the Romans had where they would match up the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Nordic-Germanic gods.  The assignations of Aiwass (Ra-Hoor-Khuit/Hadit/Wotan) and Babalon (Nuit/Nott/Freyja) are done in this manner during analysis. 

               Right around the time of becoming a Thelemite in 2004, I bought a bag of runes and books by Edred Thorsson.  I had decided to initiate myself into the Nordic-Germanic Mysteries as well.  I’ve always been an avid listener of “occult” experimental industrial and folk bands such as Current 93, Death In June, Coil, and Nurse With Wound.  One day I was listening to Death In June and had a spiritual realization.  It was that I hadn’t delved deeply enough into the Indo-European Traditions.  This was something that was always missing from my life.  Much of Western Esotericism is based on the Hebrew Kabalah (which really is a copy of the system of the Greek Initiatory Schools) and I realized that being of German and Hungarian descent, I did not know my own Tradition.  I bought “Futhark” by Edred Thorsson and read the Elder and Prose Eddas.  As I learned more about these ancient Traditions, I found that I had an immediate connection to these godforms and especially the runes.

               In 2006 my wife and I returned to Los Angeles.  There I began studying the works of Julius Evola and Rene Guenon.  I had read most philosophy already, and using the works of Aleister Crowley, Evola, and Guenon I began assembling together a philosophy of action and spirituality with a focus on the occult.  My magickal work became a syncretism between the Nordic-Germanic Tradition and Thelema.  I’ve always considered Thelema a form of Neoplatonism and the revival of the Hellenist Greco-Egyptian Hermetic and Gnostic cults.  This is essentially “Southern Paganism.”   With the Asatru Nordic-Germanic Tradition, I began creating an “Asatru Qabalah” utilizing the research of writers like Thorsson and Thomas Karlsson.  At the current moment, I feel like I’ve created a working system of attainment for the Nordic Germanic Tradition.  This is “Northern Paganism.”  The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Traditions also fall under this banner.

               The essence of this attainment is in the rune Kenaz.  This rune means “torch” and is symbolic of the primordial fires of Muspellheim- the fires of creation.  Kenaz brings clarity, wisdom, mental focus and Enlightenment.  It is the generative fire of the spirit in the Nordic-Germanic Tradition.  Kenaz symbolizes hereditary knowledge of the mysteries being passed down from our most ancient, prehistoric ancestors. 

               Kenaz mostly has a masculine connotation, but its shadow side is associated with the lunar flames of Freyja and her yoni.  This rune also corresponds to the Grail of Babalon.  It is indicative of the magickal power in the menses.  The dual nature of this rune is indicative of the solar and lunar paths.  The solar aspect of Kenaz is associated with the male and the initiatory structures of the Godhi, the Right-Hand Path of Wotan.  This is manifested in the traditional Futhark Initiation with Fehu at the beginning of the rune row.  The lunar aspect of Initiation is associated with the female and the Cult of the Seid, the Left-Hand Path of Freyja.  This is manifested in the Uthark Initiation with Fehu at the end of the rune row.

               After completing the Initiations of the Dayside and Nightside of the Tree of Life in the Western Esoteric Tradition that is a syncretism between the Greco-Egyptian Tradition and Abrahamism, I’ve decided to create for the average Westerner a manual of Initiation into the Nordic-Germanic Mysteries.  I find that having a complex esoteric Tradition for our ancient Folk religion will help it compete in complexity with Abrahamism and any esoteric Tradition that has emerged from it.  My work with Thelema and Asatru is to begin the process of removing Abrahamic influence.  My forthcoming books “The Chaos Aeon, Vol 1:  Chaos Magick and Thelema in Theory and Practice for the New Aeon of Ma’at” and “The Chaos Aeon, Vol 2: The Nightside of the Tree of Life and the Return of the Primordial Tradition” are still influenced by the Hermetic Qabalah of the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis which is clearly derived from Abrahamism.   It is my goal to create a system of attainment similar to Qabalah for our Indo-European systems. 

The upcoming journal entries will expand upon these concepts.