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Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail: The Amazing Life of the Real Indiana Jones | 
 enlarge | Author: Nigel Graddon
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 380
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1931882827
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781931882828
ASIN: 1931882827
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Who was the amazing Otto Rahn? How come if Rahn was such an amazing man has hardly anyone outside specialist pre-WW2 history circles ever heard of him? But is he really such an unknown? The story lines of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade mirror Rahn’s incredible adventures in the South of France in the early 1930s.
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 Sadly, probably the definitive English biography on Otto Rahn August 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Being very interested in the person of Otto Rahn, and more particularly his ideas and the milieu he was a part I looked forward to reading this book quite a lot. Being a part of the same extended milieu as Rahn, I was already rather well informed about a lot of the topics in the book, even so, it is usually quite interesting to read other peoples take on my circles. The book is divided into four parts, "Life", "After Life" and "Meaning"; including the last part which is a fictionalized account of what Mr. Graddon thinks may have happened to Rahn. Otto Rahn was born in the early 1900's, and allegedly died in the Tyrolean Mountains in 1939 by his own and nature's hand. Rahn is most famous for his two published books "Crusade against the Grail" and more importantly "Lucifer's Court", both recently reviewed by me here on Amazon.
Rahn's famous theory was that Von Eschenbach's "Parsifal" was a thinly veiled "map" for how to obtain the Grail, being allegedly hidden in caves in Southern France, or at least having been located there for some time. Rahn searched all over Europe for this Grail, that was both some kind of stone that had fallen from Lucifer's Crown in the sky down to Earth and a metaphysical principle of supreme transcendence and love. Both Rahn's highly recommendable books detail his search and leave plenty of clues for the readers own spiritual quest.
This being said, this particular biography starts out quite amusingly with a dedication to the Scholl siblings, for their "fight against tyranny". This sets the tone for the entire book, I think Graddon reaches his peak in amusing Semitical Correctness with a statement on page 325 about how "Rahn lived and worked among some of the most evil individuals who ever walked this earth [...]". I mean, does anyone actually write books like this anymore? I thought we had left this type of writing about the Third Reich back in the 80's. I completely fail to see how the actions of Himmler were any more "evil" than for example Stalin, Churchill or the extremely subversive FD Roosevelt, but oh well, to each his own. This goes on and on throughout the book, with words like "Satanic", "evil", "madness" and so on, and it is rather annoying to read. In addition to this, the author has big issues with his own language, writing "anonomous" three times, getting tons of names wrong, "Baldur von Schivach" comes to mind, and so on hundreds of times. It takes something away from his other claims when he doesn't ever bother to check the spelling of names or write properly in what I assume is his native language.
That being so, the book is well written otherwise, and contains a lot of interesting information about SS Officer Otto Rahn. I don't buy his thesis that Rahn was somehow working against the Third Reich for a second; I don't see how anyone that has read "Lucifer's Court" and understood it could. The problem with this type of book that tries to cover all sides of a large number of issues is that in the end it includes huge pieces of nonsense in between the few straight facts. For example, he mentions Hitler a lot, and how Hitler was supposedly very interested in the issues that occupied the minds of for example Rosenberg, Himmler and Rahn, but sadly for Graddon and all his ilk, Hitler wanted nothing to do with neither religion nor metaphysics, Hitler was an out-and-out materialist. The book contains a lot of food for thought though, on both mysticism and further research, so I do recommend you get it, but I cannot emphasize high enough that you read this book in conjecture with for example Godwin's "Arktos", Evola's "Revolt against the Modern World" and Rahn's very own books. Put together, these books should lead you quite far in your own spiritual quest. 4 stars.
 The True Indiana Jones June 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can i say about Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail.
This is the True story of the True Indiana Jones. An Amazing Journey through the Life of Otto Rahn who was a True Initiate of Secret Knowledge and had access to a web of Secret Societies having their origin in Fin De Siecle France. His involvement with the Nazis brought him attention and Money but his true Missions carried on regardless bringing him in contact with other Initiates like Marlene Dietrich. Mr Graddons book details these connections as no other Book has done before and one can branch off between the lines to many areas of research. This book is not a Novel to be read once but to be kept as a Reference for Nazi Occultism and Continental Esoterica of the last 2 Centuries.
I saw about 3 books simultaneously intertwined and i can see new spin offs
for further indepth research.
Tbis is a MUST BUY.
great book June 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is alot of information in this book that you can't get anywhere else. I only wish there was more. It not only gives you some insight into a man the world seems to know little or nothing about, but it gives you some insight into how the Nazis believed they could enforce world domination. It doesn't seem that Otto Rahn was sympathetic to the Nazi cause. And maybe, after reading the book, I am thinking that he did find something in the Pyranees in France. Read the book and see for yourself. You won't be able to put it down.
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