Book Review: The Book of Rune Secrets
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2020
- Just a book review on "The Book of Rune Secrets" by Tyriel, because I think this one is actually pretty cool.
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Yes, please keep doing book reviews! I can't speak for everyone else, but I know I'm definitely always looking for more sources of information and inspiration. Your input is much appreciated, thank you for taking the time.
Would appreciate a list of esoteric rune books that you would recommend.
Great as always
Sir, your videos are always enlightening, quite academic, but also etherial and inspired. (Odd combination, but appropriate to your study, I think). Your insight is appreciated!
Love book reviews! Thanks!
Thank you very much Arith, love all your videos!
Thanks you for sharing, I appreciate your review I'll have to check it out.🙏✌
Thank you my friend
As always I've enjoyed this review very much, just as I always enjoy your other works, and I share your views. Time to move on and evolve.
Agreed!
There is also a website for this book runesecrets.com i have been using it along with Arith's videos to help me better understand the runes. Both are great for balance of information. Highly recommend both!
Same, that sight was a god sent when I was new to runes
@@benjaminbruno6812i had no clue there was a book though lol glad i know now!
Thank you for this. I love learning from different perspectives.
Always happy to hear your opinion on books Arith.
Though I do not have the money to order the books that I want, I will always watch your reviews so I know what books to buy when I am ready.
Always love your videos, keep up the good work and I hope you have a very nice day!
“There is no one whom I can agree with 100 percent, and I’m sure you will agree with me.”
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I would definitely like to see more book reviews from you. I value your opinion about them; you are one of the reliable sources on CZcams. :)
Mr Arith, book reviews are very interesting. We get to know your content and so we could choose better what we want to read, I think it's great that you do it I look forward to more videos with this theme! Thanks
Great to get your perspective on books like this, so please do more reviews.
I really enjoy your videos; please keep them coming.
Love your book reviews. Please do more.
Nice stones you have there! Thanks for the rec, I'll add it to my reading list, once I finish my Terry Pratchett books :D
Very good review my friend, although I think at times you went off track, opening it out too much. A tought occurred to me, if you can trace your Scandinavian ancestor (Mr T) can you also trace your Iberian ancestot? i imagine him to be more in agreement with you than Mr T, like that idea of the good spirit on your right shoulder and the bad on your left shoulder (Loonet Tunes style).
Have you done a review on the book “the lost gods of England” by Brain Branston? I’d be interested on your thoughts on it.
Took forever for me to get my hands on this one! A masterpiece!
Can you recommend a booklist?
He once recommended Jan Fries Helrunar: a manual of rune magick,
@@iBlagg8 thankyou!!
czcams.com/video/oGD_59t_zlM/video.html&t have done this one 2 years ago, 10 Books for Scandinavian Studies :D
Arithhhhhhh I’m still waiting for your book with your beautiful illustrations 🤟🏽
Yes, more reviews!
Another very interesting review.
Dear Arith, what about making a video, or a book review (AD Mercer "Runa" for example) about the 18 runes Futhark, you mentioned in the beginning - as far as I know (please correct me if I am wrong) it was not only used by List and his followers, but also by many other, especially German rune practicioners, not all with a folkish/völkisch background... Maybe it would bring clarity. All the very best wishes for you and your work, stay safe, strong and aware.
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Love your insight....
hello Brother love your work never miss a post respect from Tasmania
I still can't get used to you with no hair, lol. My all time favorite rune book is by Freya Aswynn (northern mysteries & magick). I turned to it so often it literally fell a part. Perhaps you might share your thoughts on her book in the future?
Greetings from the Texas Gulf Coast. I enjoy your videos immensely.
I've never been able to figure out Patreon. Is there another outlet to support your work?
Best wishes for a Joyous Yule!
Greetings friend! Thank you.
Well, I only have the one, but I agree the platform can indeed be quite confusing.
Which book you recommended academically speaking about runes?
I am so relieved to see from the explanation that you provided in text during the video that you are NOT into the current right wing racism, mysogyny etc.., points of of view currently being expressed in the U.S. (often violently) by certain leaders and their followers. I learned about the runes many decades ago and have always found them to be quite amazing. I have my runes still but have not used them for years. Perhaps I will take them out and commune with them again. As an artist, I do love all the beautiful art you use in your videos. Thank you so much.
Love it and love you lol
Always enjoy your videos!
What would you say, in 2020, would be 10 must have books, for someone like me, who wants to learn more about their ancestors, their way of thinking etc., etc., etc...
Have a nice day, take care and stay safe....🍻
Yea
What is your opinion on Thomas Karlssons ”Adulrunan”?
Tyriel is an excellent and highly interactive author. I'd encourage anyone who enjoys his book to reach out to him for a chat about the runes.
thank you
Hey arith have you heard of ad mercer book runa? It's getting a reprint soon from troy books and it focuses on the armanen runes, but it presents then as an occult understanding only and totally rejects the nationalist and racial ideas that were prelevent in the time period by guido von list. It's really cool to me that someone took the time to learn about them as you mentioned in this video, "more secularly" and indeed psychologically while sidestepping the national romanticism... I haven't read it yet, bit have been eagerly awaiting the reprint. the author is a jungian psychologist so it explores the armanen system from a psychological jungian archetype view.... he also does a cool bind rune thing in the book and attaches them to the yggdrasil tree that I'm very keen on reading about too. He flat out states his disgust for the abuse of the armanen system in the synopsis for the book and with this book wants to champion the system on souly an magical underststnding., I applaud the author for taking such a bold step on trying to re introduce these more marginalized systems to anyone who has a desire to learn about them without the nationalist themes attached.... Also, def gonna check out this book as well! It's good to hear some new food books about elder futhark that aren't re-hashed ideas from a thousand other works. Keep the reviews coming!
you make me laugh. some people know to much. perhaps you could forget a few things just to level the field. i've been ruined for far to long. forward. into the future not into the past. one has a chance the other didn't last. harharhar. thank yew arith
So do you think this is better than his book on bondage?
This is the only book I read from this author.
Yes you are definitely getting the hang of it. Enjoying your reviews and no you can never agree with anyone a full 100 percent but isn't that what makes life interesting?
Love your criticism of von List; I frequently get slammed for being critical of him and his extremist nationalistic ideas.
I discovered that book via the online study and community chats on Tyrol's website. So i bought the book - i had been using runes since i was young and frustrated at the 3 word explanations (or worse - the old racist meaning ) i looked forward to this review as i have had this book for at least 5 years now, i had to buy it from the UK (pricy) as i am in Canada - but still found the "ideas' worthwhile - I have another book i look in as well that puts 'stories' to the runes - and lends you to come to your conclusions and feelings from the events in the stories. Like you I didn't like the lack of any 'cultural info' - though; and i really didn't like the back pages - I just simply did not bother to read them - - I have a disagreement with the "order" of the 3 eights as well.
I appreciate all your work and need to watch all your vid regarding the runes. In reading the Havamal towards the end of course there is a good section on the runes which indicates the runes as much more than a writing system. Each rune having power for those who understand and use them...personally they have 'whispered' to me and have effected my world view in a very pleasing and satisfying way... really they have helped me to 'detoxify' from Christianity. As to whether they have more power and deeper meaning than I am presently experiencing...well that's too early to tell. Where does one search for meaning and understnding? Havamal gives an outline of Odin's search and success and recommends the runes. Its perhaps just a matter of faith to be tested to see where that leads.
Runes comes from Etruscian alphabet, not from the Romans. By the way i'm not convinced by the alvao writing. :D
As I said, "(...) brought to Germanic peoples by the Romans, who in turn [the Romans] got it from the Etruscans". The same as you said, just in other words. However, runic symbols are older and from prehistoric times. As an archaeologist the first time I went to see (and work) the Alvão runes on a cave up north in Portugal, context 6000-6500 years ago, I thought my professor was joking with me, but wasn't. My Sewdish professor who tracks runic symbols all over Europe, shown me those. I honestly thought it was a joke, but they are there. I'll eventually return there.
Suddenly my grandson isnt reading like he was, jr high is killing his joy of reading 😟 maybe this book will spark some interest since one of his video games uses "runes"
I miss your comb-over
You needed to show the index, illustrations etc. Also, insisting that all information about a symbol system be based on 'science' seems esoterically lacking, after all, the runes are 'secrets'.
Imagine life as eternal, like a circle which never closes it selve, a ever growing spiral, some times with big and sometimes with small radius.
If you like runes, you might like numbers and sacred geometry.
The all share the same source, they exist out of time it selve, so their meaning can not be revealed just by looking back or forward 🧐
Hi, I have a question for you good sir, in the off chance you do read the comments.
Are there pagan organizations with people like yourself? - All I've seen fall in to 2 categories. Either nazis or Viking LARPers - both of them are just doing a weird Christianized paganism. One of them disgusts me (and the rest of society, and I'm going to spend a lot of this post proving they are NAZIs so if anyone reading this is volkish and offended easily I suggest you don't read)
My problem with the former, is while I AM a nationalist, and I'm of northern European descent, I really DISPISE the racist / antisemetic stuff. (I don't like Abrahamic religions especially Islam, but I never hold it against the people collectivly. And to be fair, I actually LOVE the message of protestant Christianity, but I feel it's not inline with reality, do I think that's fair, anyway)
I've met a lot of the volkish guys and gals, and they usually deny they are NAZIs, but if you question, you find it's politics that motivates them. If you talk to them, they feel like fundamentalist and say goofy things like "odin willing" and such (not very pegan), but I don't think they're misguided, I dont think they're even interested in resurecting actual paganism at all.
What I do think is Heathenry is a means to an end for them. They want a pan european ethno-state and they feel they need a "native" religion. 2000 years and all it's evolution in Europe, and Christianity is still too "Jewish" for them. That should tell you all you need to know, but ill go further with what I found by speaking with them.
They sometimes state explicitly that this is a European religion for European peoples. If it's not explicit, it's certainly implicit. They all kind of have a break with reality when you ask why and throw logic at them.
I say something to the effect of "if the gods are real, then are they not a reality for everyone?. Not just for Europeans.?" They respond by parroting the most convoluted nonsense devised by the only volkish cult leader that had the forsight to think up a response to that flaw in logic. It's something like "only the European subconscious is meant to interpret the Youngian archetypes of heathenry."
If you dig deeper, and ask what being European has to do with subconscious, they say "well the environment, various animals, cultural nuances all build the subconscious" - if you point out that Europe has vastly different cultures, peoples, terrain, weather, animals etc.. Or you point out that most American Heathens haven't even been to Europe, so what about their subconscious? That's when things start to unravel for them. The argument goes something like, "different races have a different subconscious, it's built in genetically"
Oh, then if you mention the Jews. If they denied being nazis, here's where it's unmasked.
Jews are genetically European, and arguably MORE European culturally than anything in Europe today. I'll quickly justify that statement so people don't freak out. Askenazi is a distinct pan-european ethnic group genetically, but fundamentally European with matriarchial DNA going back 20,000 to Ice-Age Europe, and the paternal DNA stemming from around 2000 years ago by an estimated less than 1000 men from the levant. The rest of the population grew from intermarriage with natives. ( Europe is filled with distinct ethnic groups ) This is according to the latest research. To put that in contrast, many southern Europeans have MORE middle eastern DNA and from more recently.
As for the 2nd claim about culture, Jews had communities in Europe pre-roman empire, were respected by the Romans. The communities in Europe existed before Christianity was a thing, before countries were things, before French, Spanish, and Italian were spoken, before noodles arrived in Italy and tomatoes in spain. So the jews were in Europe before everything we think of as key elements of national culture existed.
So you ask the Volkish cults, give them evidence, cite it, then ask the question do European jews have this "genetic subconscious"? They freak out...! They don't have a response or just say no. I digress... I just wanted to point out that their motivations are dubious if you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, they are absolute nazis if you really start to raise questions like I did.
Neither politics race, or ethnicity have a place in spirituality, and you can see how frustrated I get even talking about the Volkish movement because when I come out of the closet with my pagan views, people IMMEDIATELY assume I'm a racist or antisemitic. Yes, volkish people, your thing your doing affects me.
The LARPers on the other hand, I like much more as people, but these guys, I just feel silly doing anything with them.
I noticed a lot of them were raised in very fundamentalist christian households and this seems to be their way of rebelling. The way they do Paganism is replacing Sky-Daddy with Odin, and the other gods would be treated like the way Catholics treat saints. Many of them are in their mid to late 20s, early 30s and they seem to be kind of discovering themselves.
I think they watched a lot of Vikings TV shows, they paint their face and stuff. Wear animal bones. I think it's strange and this is a phase, and in 10 years or less they'll all be Christians again.
They're not bad people, and everyone needs to find their path to the divine, but it's really just not for me to paint my face and wear dear antlers and such.
So I can't seem to find people like you Arith. A " rational heathen" as you titled one of your videos
I don't need some organized religion, but to connect with well adjusted, professional, rational, people who share similar beliefs would make me feel less like you and I are the only ones that exist!
If you have any suggestions of an organization to check out, help a brotha out!
Thanks
Is your view clouded by 21st century political correctness?
Don't make a confusion between PC Culture and Basic Human Decency + common sense. Rationality is the key.
@ When people pull the "Racist" card, I'd say they already threw common sense and rationality out the window.
Spent almost the entire video talking about everything except what this book is actually about and what the “refreshing” new perspective on the runes was that this author presented. Interesting history but fails as a book review.
What's wrong with folkish paganism? Back in the days they were all folkish or "racist" by today's standards. A German would worship the Germanic gods, a Roman the Roman gods, etc. You followed the path of your ancestors, you didn't just pick and choose your favourite form of paganism like in a candy store.
Exactly! If these fools don't like what it is/was they can go do like the Mormons and start a cult, just leave our ancestors and history alone and stop trying to re-write our history. But no its all about ...muh racism and Norse pagans were totally fine with homosexuals, which is bullshit. Sure they weren't puritanical like Christians but they had their own values and rules that if you broke you would be cast out or killed. Fucking secular runes, really? Just go get a fucking tarot app for your smart phone . it makes me sick that there are so many people currently trying very hard to once again twist and distort the history and beliefs of my forefathers , its rampant and its coming from both the left and the right. Do a deep dive into Gardener the "Englishmen" who started the wicca movement just post WW2, he and several of his cohorts were actually undercover and there to make paganism look foolish so it would be seen as a joke. And this coordinated attack on Germanic/ Nordic paganism goes both backwards through time and forwards. Just look at how they portray our ancestors in the media/tv/hollywood, video games as of late....drunken brutes who raped women and had were a ok with homosexuals ...oh and they seem to think that some were black...😂😂😂 dark skin people suffer life threatening health problems in northern climates unless they take modern supplements. The only reason that groups like the Sami and Inuit survived so far north was because of their diet , eating seal and whale fat that is very high in victim D and other essentials. There is a reason why people evolved the way they have in the places they have. But these fools have no interest in real history or the truth.
Right, but I think he's really referring to the racist aspect of it. Nothing wrong with following the esoteric beliefs of your ancestors.
@@whispersinthedark88 do you know or have good books on the runes and Nordic culture?
Do you practice runes?
@@chuckfriebe843 but who decides what is racist? Anything is racist nowadays if someone is offended.
Hmm, what is racist and what not? Being part of an ethnicity obviously is not racist. Trying to follow the worship of your (presumed) ancestors is not racist. Claiming other ethnicities are inferior to one`s own in my opinion is. To me the question is: Does a scholar, author or group garner a spiritual theory in which cultural, racial superiority is embedded? If yes, I think that is racist. Are members of other ethnicities being kept out in order to keep the spiritual path and/or culture "pure"? If yes, I think that is racist too. The reality of the world is: Nothing is static, nothing is exclusive, nothing is forever. Movement is what breaks us and movement is what builds us up again. Good luck to all of us!
The progressive pagan?
Yep trying to re-write our history to suit his modern sensibilities . Im so sick of this crap, if you don't like it the way it was then go start a stupid cult and leave my ancestors out of it. But no these types have inject their own totally unrelated crap onto history. Its no different than what the Marxists do when they re-write history to suit their own ends and destroy our roots.
Every other indigenous path for themselves alone and indigenous European paths for everybody. I'm getting physically sick hearing this line of crap from the academics these days. Can we please all be held to the same rules?
Correction, Folkish paganism is *ancestor worship* not "racism", some very dishonest statements in this video.
Correction: Folkish "paganism" is indeed racism, and as we heathens usually say: " Folkism is "spiritual racism" ". It's not Ancestral Worship because the notion of "Ancestral Worship" in Folkism is actually a romanticized notion of an unbreakable blood-line that gives a self-illusion of purity on a racial-identity. The real pagan Ancestral Worship was never the way Folkish "pagans" say it is, at all. Folkish "pagans" love to forget all the ancestors they actually have and prefer to focus on a made up notion of a single people from a single region or belonging to a false sense of "religious and cultural unity". I don't see Folkish "pagans" worshipping their actual ancestors. They often neglect any actual ancestor they have had from ethnicities they don't like or hate. The "Ancestral Worship" in Folkisms is actually a denial of the Ancestors and embracing a fantasy of self-identity. Stick around and you might learn a thing or two about actual Ancestral Worship in future videos I will have in this channel. Folkish "pagans" are the most toxic and the biggest cry-babies of all the New Age religious manifestations when the truth comes to their doorstep.
@ Correction, you're a liar.
Edit: And a cultural marxist.
@@bosschad8273 Forgot that people like you are so ignorant about politics that everything that goes against your beliefs (and even signs of common basic human decency) must be some communist plot. This channel is clearly not for you until you grow up. And there is more to politics than your basic dualistic view. Get better arguments so you can speak among the adults, otherwise you just shame yourself and waste everybody else's time.
@ There is nothing racist about venerating my ancestors, people like you only spread hatred with your lies, keep slandering me if it makes you feel morally *superior* your reaching hard with your tired cultural marxist/communist tropes.
Thank you for proving how dishonest you are, I will no longer regard you as worth my time.
Edit: BTW I have no shame in myself, my ancestors are with me and of that I am proud.
Boss Chad, your place isnt here, go back to you little Nazi friends and only come back when you wake up
Nothing wrong with racism.
Why not do some book reviews on Kabbalah? you should spend your time investigating your own occult heritage, it would be much more productive for you.
Why bother yourself with all those stupid ignorant and "racist" people who thought they were using the sacred legacy left to them by those pesky old ancestors.
Surely the sacred and powerful esoteric nature of the Hebrew letters must stand alone as the sacred alphabet.
Or perhaps you could review some works by Saul Olinsky or some other great sage of cultural Marxism?
I find it funny that some people assume Arith is Jewish or with Jewish ancestry. He has shared his DNA analysis countless times on his social media and there's nothing Jewish about him (there wouldn't be any problem if he was btw). Most people that says suchs things and are anti-semitic are actually people from the US, and that's why I find it funny because the US is actually the country with more Jewish people in the whole world, even more than Isreal which is the 2nd country with more Jewish people. Literally, 8 out of 10 white Americans are either Jewish or have Jewish ancestry, and they are anti-semitic rofl. They shame themselves, and I find it funny.
@@idunnagerth4759 I'm neither anti semitic nor American, I'm not really bothered by anyone's ethnicity or ancestry and my only criticism of Joao Figueiredo (Arith Harger) is that whilst he claims an interest in Norse and Germanic Pagan practice, he peddles Left Hand Path Occult teachings and Satanic 0occult teachings...if that's your interest fine but this is not Norse Paganism and much more closely associated with Kabbalah and Christian mindsets. He then goes on to demonising anyone who feels a connection to an Ancestral Folk Faith as "white supremacist/neo nazi"
Heathen practice is centred on ancestral veneration, to celebrate and honour one's ancestors is to be truly heathen and pagan. To think that ancestry counts for nothing is monotheistic thinking.
I am a practicing Heathen, this is my spiritual path, its intensely personal and I follow no group as such, because my path to spiritual growth and personal development is my own affair.
But to set oneself up as an authority and then denigrate and undermine others with differing opinions or ideas, seems to me to be exactly the behaviour of a subversive, seeking to undermine and subvert an ideology or faith that they actually wish to destroy.
Letf-hand-path? Just because Arith made a couple of videos concerning the LHP doesn't mean that's his own path. In fact he always makes a clear separation between history and archaeology from esotericism and the occult. In real life Arith is actually an animist and he rarely speaks about it, e rarely speaks about himself and his own spiritual path actually.