Otto Rahn, Grail Hunter
The Secret of the Cathars and the Return of the White Lady

By (author) Richard Stanley

ISBN13: 9798888501559

Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 28/08/2025

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An investigation into the Holy Grail and the Cathar legacy • Traces the journey of Otto Rahn, the occultist and one-time SS member who sought the Holy Grail and traveled widely throughout Europe as a researcher until his mysterious death in 1939 • Explores the modern legacy of the officially heretical Christian sect known as the Cathars • Follows the author’s own investigations into the location of the Grail and Rahn’s legacy, taking readers on a journey through occult Europe Meticulously following controversial 20th-century occultist, historian, and partially Jewish SS member Otto Rahn’s investigations into the Holy Grail and Catharism, author and filmmaker Richard Stanley enters into the occult world of Europe. On his quest, the author encounters esoteric traditions that have survived since the Crusades and the Inquisition, ultimately finding a new spiritual path in his own life. At Rahn’s family home in the Black Forest of Germany, Stanley unearths a cache of maps, photographs, and unpublished manuscripts. His journey in pursuit of Rahn’s legacy then takes him to Montségur, in southern France, a mystical stronghold and one-time home of the Cathars, the esoteric and Gnostic Christian sect that was decimated in the medieval Albigensian Crusade. There he sees the extraordinary summer solstice light phenomenon that reveals the mystical past of the fortress and encounters witnesses who insist Rahn is still alive. Methodically visiting every site on Otto Rahn’s esoteric path, from France to Iceland, the author untangles legend from truth as he looks at the connections between the Cathars, the Rosicrucians, Julius Evola, neo-Cathar and Freemason Déodat Roché, and the mystical bleeding stones known as Lapsit exillis. He also examines the prophecy of the return of Esclarmonde de Foix, the White Lady, medieval priestess of the Cathars who appeared to Rahn during his search for the Grail.
Foreword by Hamilton White INTRODUCTION To Know Is to Die A Note on the Terminology Used in This Book 1 Close Encounters with the Ancient World 2 A History of the Cathars 3 Who Was Otto Rahn? 4 Otto’s Quest for the Grail The Crown of Lucifer 5 A Visit to the Devil’s Lake Summer 1998 6 Into the Labyrinth of the Pyrenees 7 Infiltrating the Order of the Polaires 8 The Methodology of Information and Disinformation Europe Hypnotized 9 Pagan Imperialism Europe 1932–1938 10 Dark Camelot Castle of the SS Order 11 The Fear Germany 1938–1939 and Geneva 1998 12 Summer Solstice at Montségur Midsummer 1998 13 The Stones from the Sky 14 The Face in the Pentagram Autumn 1998 15 Searching the Ends of the Earth Iceland 2005 16 The Death and Transfiguration of Otto Rahn Germany 1938–1939 17 Aftermath 18 The Three Mothers 19 The Coming of the White Lady EPILOGUE Portal into Summer Montségur June 21, 2015 APPENDIX 1 Otto Rahn Life of the Grail Hunter APPENDIX 2 Chronology of the Last Crusade APPENDIX 3 Cathars of Montségur The Martyred and Their Legacy APPENDIX 4 The Holy Grail in the Nottingham Evening Post Bibliography Index
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Height:229
Width:152
Spine:25
Weight:816.00
List Price: £23.99