On Thursday April 13th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon 

will review and discuss the modern English (2004) translation of Otto 

Rahn's 1937 Lucifer's Court. This was Rahn's travel journal from 

Southern France to Iceland when he researched his personal quest to 

solve the mystery of the Holy Grail as described in the Medieval romance 

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Rahn believed that the Medieval 

Cathars -- the Gnostic Heretics who were wiped out by the Roman Catholic 

Albigensian Crusade in the 1300s -- were the keepers of the Grail and 

that they were devotees of Lucifer. He was very favorable to Nazi Aryan 

race theories and was invited to join Himmler's SS. Rahn's veneration of 

Lucifer as the God of the Medieval French and German heretics may be the 

main source of what has been called Nazi Satanism. Lucifer was actually 

another name for Semyaza, the leader of the Fallen Angels in the Book of 

Enoch. We will try to sort out the errors in Otto Rahn's work and give 

him credit where credit is due. In spite of his political incorrectness 

he was an intrepid anthropologist and folklorist and his book is a 

fascinating read for those interested in the occult history of Europe. 

So tune in and we will explore the castles and caverns of the lost land 

of the Troubadours in search of the Holy Grail.