The Mysteries of Ar

The Aryan Root *ar- means 'movement' or 'to plough' which suggests a link between the Arya/Aryans and the first agricultural civilisations. We can perhaps see this reflected in the stars through 'The Plough' (Great Bear-Woden's Waen) and 'The Driver of the Plough' (Bootes-Ing). The term 'movement' suggests the turning of the northern stars around the Pole Star, and also the apparent movement of the Sun across the day-skies. The term Arya or Aryan is usually held to mean 'noble' but I would suggest this meaning developed from an original related to the 'Sun-Generator' or 'Light-Generator' and referred to the Shining Ones of various myths and legends, or at least the descendants of this god-like race. 

There is a sequence which we shall now look at -

AR - ER - IR - OR - UR

From this we get the name Ir or Er which features in a Greek god who is the father of Atlas, thus connected to the World Column (holding the world on his shoulders is a symbol for this). But the same prefix is assigned to Irmin or Ermin who is the High God of the Saxon, and as we have shown the High God of the Arya. This name has variants in -

Arman

Irmin

Ermin

Iorman

Earman

It can also be found in the Saxon name for the Milky Way - Iring's Way - which is a title obviously meaning 'Son of Ir'. This name also features in the name Ir(e)land and its older name Er-in, which suggests that an Aryo-Germanic presence was in Ireland, also suggested by one legend of the ancient Milesians referring to the ancient castes of Ireland (which we shall go into another time. 

We have five runes whose names connect in some way to this idea -

Ur

Ar

Yr

Ior

Ear

The first two can be found in the Common Germanic Futhark, and the first three in the Scandinavian rune-rows, but the last two are found only in the English Rune-Row, together with the other three. Likewise the first three can be found in the Armanen Runes of Guido von List. 

The Ear-Rune and the Cweorth-Rune have the shape of the Irminsul - Column of Irmin - as do the Herne Giant (Cerne Abbas Giant) and the Long Man of Wilmington. The name Irminsul can be rendered Yr-Man-Sul and using the Armanen System the Yr-Man formula contains the Unity of Opposites (Female-Male/She-He). This column can also be seen as the Ar-Man-Sul - the 'Column of Ar-Man'. 

The Yr-Rune is associated with the Yew-Tree so it can be no coincidence that just a short distance from the Long Man of Wilmington is an ancient Yew-Tree and that the area next to the hundred in which the Long Man features was known as the Tree of the Helmed Waendal. We can thus see that the Yew-Tree has associations with Waendal, and perhaps also to Irmin  (Yr-Man). Being evergreen and able to completely renew itself this tree is symbolic of resurrection and of immortality. 

Returning to the Yr-Man idea this formula (of Miguel Serrano) is the basis of the Union of Opposites symbolised by the Life-Rune (Man) and the Death-Rune (Yr). The fusion of the two runes creates the Hagal-Rune or Heil-Rune and it is thus strange to relate that a name associated with the Herne Giant in Dorset is Heil - a name which has baffled scholars for many years. (It does not fit with the 'Celtic' image of this hill figure.) The figure is a very ancient representation of the 'Club-God' who is the god associated with the Mannerbunde, and whose image can be found on the coat-of arms of the Wandel Family. 

I have shown before how the figure of the Herne Giant reflects the constellation of Orion the Hunter which is a 'winter constellation' and which thus symbolises the direction of 'death' since this is in the west of England. The Long Man is in the east of England and symbolic of 'new life' and of the spring-summer months (seen in its being symbolic of Cygnus the Swan). In these two hill-figures we can find the idea of Life-Death or Yr-Man and in the Solar-Phallic form of the Herne Giant we can see represented regeneration from apparent 'death'. (This is also apparent in the Long Man which has a 'phallus' above it in the form of a Long-Barrow ending in a Round Barrow, which apparently points to the head of the hill figure and across to the White Horse/White Hind on Hindover Hill to the west of the figure.) That the two hill-figures are connected is seen in the Long Barrow (comet-shaped) which is to the east of the Long Man, named 'Hunter's Burgh' suggesting the Hunter-God (Orion-Woden). 

The idea of Life-Death also suggests a beginning and an end, or the first and the last, and this is suggested by these two hill-figures, one in the East (Beginning-Dawn) and one in the West (End-Dusk). I have shown before how the Black Sun of August 11th 1999 heralded the conception of a new world-age - the Age of Ing - and also the coming of the Last Avatar and Incarnation of Woden (as Wid-Ar) on this Earth. Wid-Ar is the 'first and the last' the beginning and the end' as prophesied in various traditions. I have also suggested that the area around the Long Man of Wilmington is a 'Time-Clock' put there by the ancient Shining Ones which was set to awaken our times through the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet in 1987, which brought to us the Helgi Mysteries. 

The Ior-Rune shape suggests a 'windmill' and here we may well find a link to Waendal/Mundilfore who is the turner of the World Mill. The rune has been associated with Iormungand (Jormungand) whose name can be rendered Ior-mun-gand which can thus mean 'Wand of Iormun' and even 'Wand of Irmin' perhaps. We could see this as the Cosmic Axis - 'Wand of Irmin' - around which the stars turn, and thus equate Irmin with Waendal-Mundelfore. (For what it is worth the area above the Long Man is named 'Windmill Hill', though no windmill exists there today, though there may have been one in the past.) 

I have also shown before how the Long Man is the April Fool or Divine Fool associated with Parsifal-Hamlet-Lohengrin and thus The Hooded Man. My good friend and comrade Hamasson has suggested a link between the Odal-Rune and The Hooded Man, due to the shape of the rune itself. This is emphasised by the name Od-al since in Kent the Hooden-Horse (pronounced as uooden-horse as in the true pronunciation of uuoden (i.e. 'odin' as the Scandinavians pronounce the name). In ancient symbolism the rounded shape similar to the Odal-Rune was symbolic of Atlas holding the world upon his shoulders - we are back to the Upholder of the World-Pillar. The name 'Atlas' suggests At-al-As which would mean 'Racial Ase', especially if the rune is connected to him via its shape. 

The Yr-Rune when drawn in its ur-glyphic form shows an Ur-glyphic Irminsul within the Ur-Rune (Primal Mountain) and this symbol is also known as the Ang-Rune in this form, symbolic of the Three Royal Lines of Anglia This has a 'trunk' (Waelsingas) and twin 'branches' (Wulfingas-Heodeningas). We can find evidence of this through names on the east side of England, i.e. Ancient Anglia - Wuffingas of Suffolk, Waelsingas (Walsingham) of Norfolk, and the Haddingas (Heodeningas) near Edinburgh, the area now in Scotland once known as 'Saxony'. 

The Aryan Root *ar- is also the root of our word 'year' which itself suggests the movement of time through the seasons, and thus Cyclic Time. The God of Cyclic Time is Waendal-Mundilfore who moves the World Mill, and whose son is Hama-Heimdall who incarnated in order to save the Ancient Wisdom and to recreate the Divine Social Order of the Gods. Hama was thus born of Nine Wave-Maidens ('Music of the Spheres' - sound waves) and is an 'avatar' or 'archetype' that is resurrected at certain times of the Cosmic Cycle in various forms to fulfil a destiny. 

The Germans prior to World War II resurrected the name Ara-Hari as a Solar-God, and the name contains Ar and Hari which are rooted in the same meanings, the latter a name of Vishnu as the 'Blonde God'. This is also connected to Woden since the title Har may be rooted in *haihs which means 'one-eyed' or 'blind'. We use this in Woden's Folk in an Invocation of Woden, based upon the same type of mantra as used by the Hari Krishna, but with a different tune and layout, ours based upon 61 Words of Power, the Number 61 being that of W-O-D-E-N. 

The Root *ar- can be found in so many variations and words that give us insights into its many meanings and many levels of meaning -

Ar - Er - Ir - Or - Ur - Yr - Ear - Ior - Har - Hari - Hara - Heri - Herian - Aryan - Arya - Hera - Heru - Hero - Hor(us) - Herne - .....

In the Eddas we find a strange phrase ar var alda which crops up in one instance in the Helgi Lays, and which is sometimes translated as 'in ancient times' but which could be perhaps better translated as referring to the Ur-Time or First Time. The aim of any form of ritual should be to connect to this Primal Time or First Time. The words seem to be connected to the title Uralten and to the Wr.Alda of the Oera Linda Book. These names would mean roughly - The Primal Old One or The Primal Ancient One. 

The form AR is a reflection of RA which is, of course, the Egyptian name of the Sun-God, and Ara-Hari seems to have been a name used of the Sun-God. We have two examples of this type of 'reflection' in THOR-ROTH and in TIR-RIT both cases being god-names and symbolism connected to that particular god. The word ara contains both AR and RA which may not be a coincidence. 

The Ar-Rune is named as Ger in the English Rune-Row and Jera in the Common Germanic Futhark. These all refer to 'year' and to 'that which completes a cycle' and thus to cyclic time, which we have already looked at in connection with Waendal-Mundilfore. Both the yearly cycle and the Precession of the Equinoxes have the Sun as the central marker, around which the zodiac revolves - either clockwise (yearly cycle) or anticlockwise (precession). 

Irmin is the Aryaman of the Hindus, the Airyaman of Iran, Eremon of the Irish, and many more such names throughout the areas of the Indo-Europeans. This indicates that ER-IR can be replaced by AR and that this is a valid god-name that can be used, just as the Armanen uses the title Ar-Man which is a form of the Divine Ancestor or 'proto-man'. The name is often used of the Arya or Aryan Man which was a title used of the Twice-Born i.e. the Initiated Ones. The High God of the Arya was thus named Ar, Er or Ir with many variations in sound. 

The name Arya has also been used of the High Goddess of the Arya and we may well have an example of this ancient concept in the Old English charm for a 'Land Remedy' where we find the invocation -

Erce, Erce, Erce, Mother of Earth....

The title Erce fits well with Er or Ermin who could be 'the Almighty, the Lord everlasting' mentioned in the same text. We have thus a male-female pairing of Er-Erce if this is how the text originally worked. This same charm has the following invocation -

Hail to thee, Earth, Mother of Men!
Be fruitful in God's embrace,
Filled with food for the use of men.

The term 'God' has obviously replaced a heathen god-name here, and in the Robin of Sherwood series this was rendered -

Hail to thee Earth, Mother of Men!
Be fruitful in the embrace of the Sky-Father!

The latter is perhaps nearer to the true version and the 'Sky-Father' would be Tiw or Irmin, or even Woden as the chief god of the AEsir. 

It has been said that the name Erce is Greco-Latin rather than Old English, but this emphasises what has been said rather than negating it. If this is so then it is akin to arch- or arche- which refers to 'beginning' from which we get the term archetype which means 'Primal Type' or Ur-Type. We are left with the conclusion that Ir, Er, Irmin, Ar, Ar-Man is a very ancient title of the High God of The Arya, and the Saxon Nation were Aryans since their god was Irmin. 

The Runic Symbolism of The Hooded Man and Wid-Ar the Avenger

This is the Rune of The Hooded Man which goes back to at least 1997 when I was given The Helgi Mysteries and this rune-symbol was specially carved on an Oak Walking Stick dedicated to this Mystical Experience. The drawing was done by Hamasson, and it is through a dream of his that I am now able to disclose further secrets of the Mystery of The Hooded Man that link to the Mystery of Wid-Ar the Crowned and Avenging Son. The above is a bind-rune and is linked to another symbol (which it contains within itself) which was also carved on the same Oak Walking Stick, but which also featured in a very mysterious happening at Wayland's Smithy some years ago.

To save time I have placed two symbols (Hagal-Runes) one on the top of the other, but the symbolism is joined in the original version. It thus makes an Is-Rune and two Hagal-Runes joined in one bind-rune, though (as I am going to show) there are a number of runes hidden in this one symbol. This symbol was also carved onto the Oak Walking Stick (Rune-Staff). Before we go into this we need to start from the basic Odal-Rune.

As Hamasson has noted before the Odal-Rune represents The Hooded Man which we find from the rune-name - 

OD-AL - OD-IN - THE HOODED ONE

In Hamasson's recent dream the Odal-Rune had a 'crown' on the top, in a V-shape, thus making the Ing-Rune. I feel that this is one of the most important revelations to come out of these mysteries, especially at this time. We need to look at this symbolism again -

The Odal-Rune = Rune of Woden = The Hooded Man.

The Ing-Rune = Rune of Wid-Ar = The Crowned & Avenging Son.

This symbolism needs to be studied carefully, and we need to add to this that HelgiH is not only The Hallowed One but also The Hidden One. If we go up to the first drawing of The Hooded Man we find that it has the added Wyn-Runes (back-to-back) making an alternative Ing-Rune - the Wyn-Rune is the 8th rune, thus we have the Mystic Number 8-8 added to the stave. So we can extend the above formula -

The Odal-Rune = Rune of Woden = The Hooded Man.

The Ing-Rune = Rune of Wid-Ar = The Crowned and Avenging Son.

The Wyn-Runes = HelgiH = The Spirit 88.

All of these concepts are contained in The Hooded Man Rune which, as I said, goes back to March 1997 which is exactly 18 years ago!  The original symbolism on the Oak Rune-Staff was a glyph of the Caduceus with Twin-Coiled Serpents, and the 'knob' at the top had 'wings' representing the Hale-Bopp Comet, which was the root of these mysteries. 

In the original Twin Hagal-Rune glyph the ends of the upright staff were slightly extended (done unconsciously) and here is the strangest thing, because this was 'corrected' by one of the strangest happenings at the Wayland's Smithy some years ago. This is the gist of what happened -

Both Thornna and my ex-wife had dreams concerning the date of November 10th that year, both within a few days of the Folk-Moot we held on that date. Thornna's dream was that an 'Aragorn-type figure' would be present at the moot, and my ex-wife's was that a long-haired man with a black dog would attend the moot. Indeed, this turned out to be the same figure, that of a young chap with long hair and beard who claimed to be a 'druid'. It was not until we were sitting around the fire at night that I realised the significance of this young man - he was sitting with his Black Dog which jarred the memory of the dream! 

This 'druid' stated that he had been on a tour around Britain and had come across four strange symbols -

A Black Dragon in Scotland.

A Red Dragon in Wales.

A Green Dragon in East Anglia.

A White Dragon at the Wayland's Smithy.

If this alone was not strange enough he then asked me about some runes he had had visions of whilst walking through the trees nearby - they turned out to be Anglo-Saxon Runes. The runes were three main ones - Haegl (reversed), the Twin Hagal-Runes Symbol, and the Daeg-Rune. For some inexplicable reason he also pointed out to me that the upright stave on the Twin Hagal-Runes was level with the ends of the Xs on the stave. The other two runes were that of the Eolhs-Rune and Beorc-Rune.

The meaning of this has now come to light, many years after this experience at the Wayland's Smithy. I am now going to bring this to light -

The reversed Haegl-Rune is the 'Hail-Rune' - a rune of disruption and drastic change, which I see now as the drastic changes made by Woden's Folk after the (minor) disruption of the spring of 2014. It was through this disruptive input that these changes would come about. The central bind-rune of Twin Hagal-Runes represents Wid-Ar, the Crowned and Avenging Son, and also represents the coming Haeldom that he will usher in. The Daeg-Rune is the New Dawn which will come with the Folk-Awakening and the coming of Wid-Ar the Avenger. The two 'minor' runes represent the 'Resurrection of the Folk' (Beorc) and the Flame of Life renewed (Eohls) within the Folk. 

It would seem that we have here a clear message of the coming appearance of the Last Avatar - Wid-Ar the Crowned and Avenging Son. This may be that of The Hooded Man but in both the 'Robin of Sherwood' series and the Legends of HelgiH there are three incarnations of each -

Ailric of Loxley - Robin of Loxley - Robert of Huntingdon

Helgi Hjorvarsson - Helgi Hundingsbane - Helgi Haddinga

It is also clear to me that this appearance has been restated for a clear purpose at this time, and that things are quickening in this era. 

I would like now to look at the symbolism of The Hooded Man Rune in regard to it as a bind-rune of other runes. Here we have an array of runes all bound into this same symbol -

Isa-Rune 

Ken-Rune

Eohls-Rune

Calc-Rune

Ing-Rune (three variants)

Odal-Rune

Gyfu-Rune

Hagal-Rune

Rad-Rune

Sig-Rune

Ger-Rune

Nyd-Rune

Eh-Rune (Younger Futhark/Armanen)

Wyn-Rune

Thorn-Rune

Feoh-Rune

Aesc-Rune

Ior-Rune

Eoh-Rune

Tir-Rune

The Twin Hagal-Rune Symbol - This contains the basic runes of an Is-Rune and two Hagal-Runes both of which suggest cold (Is = Ice & Hagal is Hail {Snowflake}). They both suggest the element if Ice. Yet when the two Hagal-Rune are joined we get the Ing-Rune which is the Rune of the Inga-Fire (Agni-Fire), and when we take this as an Odal-Rune and Ken-Rune added to the top of it, we again get the element of Fire. Indeed the Ken-Rune is the 'King-Rune' and thus the 'Crown' added to it (Hamasson's Dream). This is the Rune of the Kon(ungr). What we have in all is the balance of Ice and Fire (balance of Darkness and Light) in the same symbol.

To The Hooded Man Symbol (Odal-Rune) we have added the 'crown' (of Wid-Ar) which transmutes this figure into the Crowned and Avenging Son (Ing). This suggests to me that The Hooded Man (in one of his aspects or incarnations) appears before the coming of the Avatar, and that he does so in order to prepare the way for His Coming. This may also be true of Helgi Hundingsbane who comes before the coming of Helgi the Haddinga. We have here the theme of an aspect of the god Woden appearing in order to prepare the way for He Who Returns as the Prophet of Wid-Ar. 

We have seen here how the drastic changes we have been forced into making are necessary and guided by the Will of Woden. Our Divine Mission is to create a new Folk-Religion and these changes have been made in order to do that, and to extend this beyond the boundaries of England. 

The Odal-Rune is itself made up of a Gyfu-Rune ('gift') and an Ing-Rune (Ing), thus 'Gift of Ing'. This is important because it is Ingwi who is the driving-force behind these mysteries and it is the Spear of Woden (Gungnir = 'Gift of Ing') that is the weapon wielded by Parsifal (The Hooded Man - Pure Fool). This links the Odal-Rune to the Gar-Rune. 

The central rune of the symbol is the Ger-Rune which is the Cyclic Rune and refers to the balance of the two opposing forces (Light & Dark - Fire and Ice). The balance is held in -

The Hooded Man 

The Sword Albion - England

Albion is England, which is the Seventh Sword of Wayland made up of the Six Tribes of the Inga-Folk (East Saxons, West Saxons, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Wolsungas - all of whom came here to Albion to unite under the White Dragon Banner under the Folk-Nation of England. 

Hael Wid-Ar! Hael the Crowned & Avenging Son!

"When the Ice of the Darkest of Night melts away under the Fire of the Black Sun of the Inner Earth, the Poisoned Apple shall fall away, and the Sleeping-Goddess shall awaken, throw off her White Wolf-Skin and arise renewed by the Golden Apples of the Immortals. When the Moon is under her feet and she is clothed in the Golden Sun, she shall bring forth the Divine Child of Light who will lead the English Folk in their Divine Mission against the Servants of Darkness." 

Prophecy 88 - November 9th 2014.

The Solar Eclipse of March 20th - the Spring Evennight - was due to a 'Super-Moon' we are led to believe. The August 11th 1999 Solar Eclipse was the Divine Wedding of the Sun and the Moon in the House of the White Dragon, the time of the conception of the Age of Ing. The Spring Evennight is symbolic of the New Dawn and the balance of Light and Darkness (The Hooded Man). 

Hagal - Hag-All - Krist-al

The system devised by Guido von List, known as the Armanen Runes, is made up of 18 runes that fit the eighteen charms in the Havamal. It is also based around the Hagal-Rune and what is known as the Hag-All or All-Hag. This means simply 'six' since it is the same as hex as in hexagon. The Hagal-Rune with the points joined up makes the hexagon, and this figure is the basic form from which the 18 runes come from. 

The Hagal-Rune is made up of the Life-Rune and Death-Rune, and represents the balance of opposites into the whole - i.e. hale, whole, wholesome and the force known as Heil. It is also the snowflake or 'hailstone' and it can be sounded 'hail' or 'heil'. 

It should be noted that when looked at in one way this Hag-All is a cube which is a six-sided figure that represents stability. The cube, opened up, can be made into the type of cross that the Christians use. All of the Armanen Runes can be found in this simple shape, which is why it has been called The Mother Rune. 

It is interesting to note that the Hagal-Rune/Hag-All Symbol is the basis of what is known as the Seed of Life and the Flower of Life, both of which come out of this rune/symbol when it is extended from itself, as can be seen below -

                                    Seed of Life                                                     Flower of Life

The Flower of Life can be found at the Osirian Temple in Egypt, at the Golden Temple of the Sikhs in Amritsa, India, in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, in wood-carvings from Austria, and in a temple of King Herod, as well as many more places too numerous to mention. The first thing that we notice is that the central area (Sacred Centre) is the Hagal-Rune and the Hag-All. The Hag-All is also cleverly enclosed into a circle, and this allows this shape to be an extension of the Seed of Life (shown below).

I have used this symbol as taken from Runic Inscriptions in Great Britain by Paul Johnson (1999) and Helrunar By Jan Fries (1993 & 1997), but who originated this symbol as it is I do not know. The twigs have been placed in the same position as in the books, but since we have no idea what the Nine Glory-Twigs really were, nor how they would be placed if this was the way that is meant in the Old English Charm, we can only make a guess. If we move the upright staves so that they are the same distance apart as the angled staves, thus crossing these staves at the joints, then the basis of the Nine Glory-Twigs is also the Hagal-Rune/Hag-All. This forms the central point, and from this we can extend the staves further; when we use nine upright staves, nine angled one way and nine angled the other way we end up with -

• A figure with the Hag-All at the centre, and a Hag-All as the whole shape; when the staves are extended it forms a six-pointed star. 
• This figure has 64 triangles which would be equilateral triangles, which itself is the basic form of this shape as in the Hag-All. 
• Looking at the 'Mother Rune' thus, with the eyes slightly out of focus, we find a cube of 4 units - thus 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 units. 

We can thus deduce that the Hag-All is the Seed of Life and when it is extended it becomes the Flower of Life. Thus, in regard to the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag system this is not in itself a 'new' system, but is a continuation of the Armanen Runes, but which is specifically aimed at the new English-Current rather than that of Germany as the Armanen system had been. Put another way the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag system grows out of the basic 'Mother Rune' of the Armanen, just as the Nine Glory Twigs does. 

It is thus relevant to use the 18-rune Armanen System within the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag, though the 33-rune system is needed in order for the English Mysteries to be revealed, since certain key runes are not in the Armanen System that are in the English Rune-Row - e.g. the Ing-Rune and the Graal-Runes (which includes the Cweorth-Rune which is needed to cover the mysteries of the Long Man of Wilmington and the Herne Giant). It would be far better to use the Armanen System to cover the 18 Havamal Charms than to try to fit the 24 runes of the CGF into this as some have tried to do. 

The LIfe-Rune/Death-Rune is the basis of MIguel Serrano's HE/SHE since it is the male-female polarity and thus a wholeness ('heil') when joined as the Hagal-Rune. But this can also be done with the Old English version of the Haegl-Rune which is made up of an upright/upwards stave and upright/downwards stave - male & female joined in one symbol. The Haegl-Rune is also a bind-rune of UR and its reflection RU - UR-RU. We can create some interesting ideas from this, but what we must not do is to mix the two systems, since this would not work  - they have to be used in their own right. 

Just as the sword ('Battle-Flame') passed from the 'Fatherland' (Germany) to the 'Land of the Son' (England) so has the runic mysteries; from out of the Armanen 'Mother Rune' has come the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag which is a new English Runic System. 

****On a note here it would be wise to try to clarify the way this rune is sounded, since it does not have one distinct sound but at least three.

Hail - the AS hagal/hagol means 'hail' and the spelling is as the Hagal-Rune. 

Heil - the AS hael/hal is pronounced 'heil', and this we can deduce from the Middle English heil into which this developed. 

Heal - the now unused ae dipthong is also pronounced like Caesar, as in 'heal', so we can also deduce that the sound 'heal' can be used. 

All of the rune-poems suggest that corn is the meaning of the rune, which suggests the 'seed' ('Seed of Life' as suggested earlier). It is also the Primal Egg which existed at the beginning, and which is part of the theme of Miguel Serrano's HE/SHE. 

As Hail it is a change-rune, where destructive forces operate to create change, which is inherent in the rune-poems where the snowflake (Ice) is turned to movement (Water). For this aspect the sound 'hail' would be used.

As Heil this means creating a 'wholeness' or 'unity' once more - the Haeldom. This is an invocation used for this, together with the Heil Salute. This is also a salutation of the Sun and the Solar Power. This sound developed later into the word 'hale' which confuses it with 'hail'. 

As Heal the rune can be used as a healing-rune, and this sound would thus be used for such a purpose. 

Going back to the original Nine Glory-Twigs which is the way this has been used, here the 'Sacred Centre' can be seen as either the Hagal-Rune or the Gar-Rune, the latter thus giving us the Gift of Ing which has to be an important point. Gar is also the Spear of Woden and thus the Sacred Centre. We can use either method since both are relevant to our runic system. 

The Norwegian Rune-Poem states under the Hagal-Rune that 'Krist shaped the world in ancient times' which is rather a strange statement which would appear to be referring to something else than the 'Jesus Christ' of the Christian Bible. We know that Krishna pre-dates 'Jesus' and the name is so similar as to be the same archetype. But this appears to be where the German Rune-Magicians got the idea of the Krist-Al(l) which also suggests the 'crystal' which is the Hag-All. 

It is also very strange to relate how I asked a fellow Wodenic Initiate to do a meditation on a crystal for a specific purpose. He unknowingly related this to the Guido von List 'crystal' (out of which come the 18 rune-staves), but when doing so received a vision of a Germanic Ing-Rune out of which came 33 new rune-staves which are unknown as symbols, though some of the names are known. These runes have as yet not been revealed, but remain part of the ongoing work of the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag. But this also implies that these 33 runes come out of Ing (England) as a continuation of the 'Krist-Al' and of Guido von List. 

I have studied these runes over the past three years and they do have some form of meaning which can be logically followed; they are made up of mainly 'direction' and of a 'centre' (Ing-Rune), but also of 'direction' not found in the other rune-rows. They also contain a rune for Baldaeg and Heimdall not found in other rows. It is also interesting to note that the Haegl-Rune has been incorporated into the Sig-Rune as Sighael, which has some kind of significance as yet not recognised. 

Only through the use of this Mother-Rune can the 33-runes of the Diamond-Crystal Rune-Row be revealed. This enfolds out of the Fylfot-Swastika or the Black Sun at the central point. Rather than the hexagon this unfolds out of the octagon - the Star of Freya. It is thus based upon the Number 8 rather than the Number 6 as with the other systems. The central point can be seen as the Eight-spoked wheel rather than the Hagal-Rune. This system has mysteries as yet to be revealed to us - mysteries that will follow on from the work already done. 

Guido von List's revelation came through a mystical experience whilst he was 'blinded' after a cataract operation on his eyes - his ideas are verified by the Seed of Life and Flower of Life symbols used many centuries prior to this. The Hag-All is in fact the Wheel of Wr.Alda of the Oera Linda Book (whether von List knew of this I have no idea) but with the runes in the FUTHARK order (rather than the Roman order of the 'Running Script'), and with the staves straight rather than curved (the runes have always been straight). Rather than the wheel the runes of the Armanen are within the crystal. In the Oera Linda Book the 'Running Script' is on the Roman Alphabet order, and since the Frisian Rune-Row is the 33 Rune-Row this alone casts a doubt upon this script - the Oera Linda Book should not be taken as historical fact anyway. (There may be some truths in this book, especially about the sunken lands called Atland, but much of it must be taken with a 'pinch of salt'.) 

The secret of ALU

It is usual to relate the term alu to 'ale' and thus 'intoxication', which is perhaps a major part of the meaning of this concept. We have the following root-words from various different tongues that aid us in finding what this really means -

alua - Greek, meaning 'I am beside myself'.

aluot - Latin, meaning 'to wander aimlessly'.

alwanza - Hittite, meaning 'bewitched'.

IE Root *alw - 'to put under a magical spell'.

Here we seem to have the meaning of being 'bewitched' or 'under a spell', though this may not be quite what it seems at first sight. I doubt if such a formula would be put on medals or bracteates if it just meant 'I am under a spell'. The Greek meaning 'I am beside myself' may be nearer to the point, in which case it would be related to *woda - 'divine madness' and back to 'intoxication'. We need to analyse the runes to find out more -

AS/ANSUZ - This is the 'god-force' and also the 'ancestral-force' which we have situated in the forehead as the Woda-Roarer (Odroerir). This is the area that represents Spirit and is around the Third Eye. This area must also be associated with the Od-al Rune (Od-roerir) too, in this case linked to the idea of 'noble', and to odr or woda. This is the area of 'Divine Excitement' and 'Divine Inspiration'. 

LAGUZ- This area is related to 'movement' and to 'motion', and since it can be related to the Heart Centre this is the area where the Blood is pumped around the body - this is thus the flow of Blood and not simply 'water' as the rune suggests. It is also related to the Solar Plexus Centre and the Sun (i.e. Son, as the cauldron is called) and thus the Sowilo-Rune. 

URUZ - This is the base centre that is found at the Hara Centre and in the area of the genitals. The base area is associated with the element Earth as the name of the cauldron - Bodn - suggests. Ur is the origin or source from which the force emanates. 

We have the runic formula ALU-GOD which can thus be used for the descent of the Spirit into Matter, the formula that creates the 'God-Man' of Nietzsche and Serrano. I have said 'descent' because the formula ALU moves downwards, once more spiritualising matter and mankind. This force must first be moved upwards from the base, using the alternative mirror-runes ULA. 

The *root alw can also mean 'growth' which itself has a part in the transition from man to god-man; growth also relates to the idea of expansion and thus the fiery element that expands. There are 3 runes in the term ALU and they number (using the Futhark) - 4 + 21 + 2 = 27. Here we have 27 which is 3 x 3 x 3 or 3 times the Holy Nine. 27 is the number associated with Fire and with Kingship (Ken-Rune). 

There is another formula that contains ALU and that is SALUS - ALU which can mean roughly 'health, let grow'. SAL is the basis of the Listian Sal und Sieg - 'Salvation and Victory'. The word sal is also associated with sol - the Sun - so this invocation doubles the Solar-Power through the words. 

The object of the use of this formula is to create The Awakened Man who is symbolised by the Mann-Rune - which is clear from this being Manu which is the title of The Awakened Man. Buddhism calls this a boddhi-satva which means 'Enlightened One', though we could just as well us the term Elf which refers to 'light' and to the 'Shining One'. 

I have shown before how in the initiated work The Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean there is a formula using these three, or at least that is how I interpret the piece. This was used prior to death in order to retain the Blood Memory. This is perhaps the right view since the area around the centre of the brain where the Pineal Gland is found also has a section called the Hippocampus which means 'Sea-Horse' and which is the processing unit that stores memories. This area is also known as Ammon's Horn or Amun's Horn named after The Hidden God of the Egyptians. This begs the question as to whether the mantra OM - which has various variations - is connected to this centre, and looking up the Ajna Centre I see that its 'seed-sound' is indeed OM. 

OM/AUM - India

Amun - Egypt

Amen - Judaeo-Christian

The mantra AMN uses an open-mouthed 'A' sound', then the mouth is closed to form the 'M' sound; if we add the 'N' sound the tongue is pushed against the upper palate just behind the upper teeth. When doing this the 'M' sound puts pressure on the nose, whilst the final 'N' sound forces further pressure upwards to the bridge of the nose - which hints that this is the aim of the mantra, since this goes up to the centre of the forehead. 

The Yr-Rune can be linked to the Primal Giant Ymir whose root ym- would be sounded 'uum' as in the French 'lune', and thus itself related to Om/Aum etc. We can see in the English Rune-Row how the two similar runes Os & Aesc (A & O) have the same A-O sound change, and this also goes for the Norse Rune-Row which has Os rather than As or Ansuz.It is coincidental that the rune-stave usually used for Yr is a bind-rune of the A-Rune, Lagu-Rune and Ur-Rune with variant runes inside the main one.

Amun is depicted as a Ram with curved horns, and since we find that Odroerir is the 'cauldron' found at this level, and that the 'cauldron' could be interchangeable with the 'horn' then this fits well with this centre. It should be noted that the Giallarhorn was said to be in Mimir's Well - the Well of Memory. This is the Horn of Hama. (Note that Hama - Heimdall is definitely associated with the Ram. It should be noted that Woden's Eye was placed in the Well of Memory and this is the same area of the brain mentioned here. This is also the Eye of Horus and thus the Hero's Eye. The function of this work is the Resurrection of the Hero. 

From what has been said in the first part alu would be linked to the Odroerir - 'Woda-Roarer' - which 'excites' and gives the 'ecstatic trance' state. It is the 'Exciter of Inspiration' that also produces the 'Mead of Inspiration'. In such a sense then perhaps the alu-ale idea is indeed the key to the secret, since it is a formula that links totally with the Three Vats of Mead that Woden won from Gunnlod through a Tantric Ritual in which he transmuted from a Serpent into an Eagle. 

The idea of being 'bewitched', 'under a spell', or 'beside oneself' could also be linked to the concept of Woden as the fetterer of his Initiates, who are 'under his spell' as he works his Will through them on Middle-Earth. For myself, after I have done certain pieces of work, and later gone back to them I cannot even remember doing them, let alone the content, which I see as coming through me from a higher source. Very often I do not recognise them as my own work! 

* Of course, the runic formula can be slightly altered to As-La-Ur if necessary or the mirror-runes Ur-La-As when the direction is changed. 

** The translation of Midgard or Middangeard to 'Middle-Earth' may not quite give the true sense of the terms, since 'gard' or 'geard' means 'enclosure' as much as 'earth'. That is not to say these terms are not equated with 'Earth' since the name Gerda is given to the Earth in Norse Mythology, but some would have it that 'Middle-Earth' does not mean the whole of the world, just a section of it that concerns the Aryan Origins.

I am indebted to Mike in Vinland whose ideas gave impetus to this post and made certain things clearer.