Because of their power, Runes or Rune-like symbols, have been part of religious systems in the past as well as they are in present times. Therefore Runes cannot be considered to be the "proprietary system" of any specific religious creed, even if they were or are an important part of such a creed. Keep in mind that THE BASIC TECHNOLOGIES OF RUNE MAGIC ARE INDEPENDENT FROM ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEF STRUCTURE. TRUE RUNE MASTERS encourage incorporation of Runic practice in any religious system, provided that its teachings and actions encompass tolerance and love. We know that RUNES ARE FOR EVERY INTELLIGENT BEING IN THE UNIVERSE! The Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are a symbolism that represents universal cosmic structures. They connect with:
* the natural zodiac of creative energies
* the periodic system of chemical elements
* the world crystal, and crystal structures in general
RUNES ARE COSMIC ENERGIES OF CREATION that connect you with the WORLD CRYSTAL. As such, you can see them as the basic elements of A MYSTICAL LANGUAGE THAT GIVES YOU ACCESS TO THE REALMS OF CREATION. Runes guarantee naturally that you can participate in the eternal processes of creating, re-creating, and shaping your destinies and your universes.
EACH RUNE IS A SWITCH, OR TRIGGER, TO A SEED IDEA OF THE REALMS OF CREATION. Such a seed idea helps you to connect the un-speakable realms of creation with your world. This connection gives you the power to create wherever you wish to! Therefore, to combine Runes means to combine seed ideas expressed in the realms of creation and to practice Runes means to creatively act upon your universe!
Runes are Symbols on Many Levels
First, they carry a number that defines their position within the symbolism as a whole. A RUNIC NUMEROLOGY has emerged from this connection. Using this Runic numerology in combination with a RUNIC ASTROLOGY, you can find out which creative energies, or PERSONAL RUNES, exert the most dominant impact upon your present life.
Second, each Rune is a symbol. You can draw or visualize this symbol. Each Runic symbol gives you access to the specific power of the Creative Realm it represents. The graphic symbols of the Runes connect with the WORLD CRYSTAL. They are representatives of the creative energies of the world crystal. The symbol of the world crystal is the hexagon with the three inscribed diameters. If you look at a regular quartz crystal from the top you will see this structure. Each Rune fits neatly into this symbol of the world crystal.
Next, each Rune naturally connects with a MANTRA, OR WORD OF POWER. You can use this mantra to bring the power of the corresponding Rune into manifestation.
HAND AND BODY POSTURES of Runes are another way to draw Rune energies. They are the basis for a powerful Rune Yoga. In connection with a Runic Hermetic Medicine, Rune Yoga is a powerful tool for healing on all levels.
Runes privide you with this extra power and energy
Runes are creative energies. Consequently, they act fast and very powerfully. You can trigger them easily. Many of our students have experienced desired results fast, often overnight. Since they represent creative energies, Runes can help you to overcome negative karma.
Unlike many religious belief systems, RUNES ARE LIFE-AFFIRMATIVE. RUNIC PRACTICE IS APPLIED METAPHYSICS. With Runic practice, YOU UNFOLD YOUR NATURAL ABILITIES that you have had all your life, but of which you may never have been aware. Runes allow you to flex your psychic muscle in the same way others may take advantage of their wealth, prestige, or position on the ladder of social success. If you are enjoying this latter advantage already, Runes can certainly boost your position and help you get still further ahead!
Rune Masters believe that EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO HAPPINESS, health, peace of mind, prosperity, and abundance. There is enough out there to satisfy everyone. Rune Masters see it as their obligation to help others achieve that to which they are entitled. Rune Masters emphasize that a belief system, or religion, which concerns itself in the main with the IF AND WHEN at the expense of the HERE AND NOW is not worth any serious consideration. If you are unable to control your HERE AND NOW, you have no hope for the IF AND WHEN! The BASIC RUNE COURSE will teach you the means of taking care of your present situations, or challenges, be they emotional, material, mental, or spiritual.
Above all, Rune Masters will emphasize practical, hands-on experience. We leave the teaching of lots of dogmas and "secret wisdom lessons", which you are supposed to accept blindly at the expense of direct evidence, to the twisted minds of the temple masters who are presiding the all-too-many "ancient lodges" of our times. Whenever it is necessary to present you with a theory, we follow the principle to keep it simple! Furthermore, we will never demand that you believe us blindly. In the BASIC RUNE COURSE (SEE LINK BELOW) and the other courses, you will find the means of checking for the truth in what you learn.
Runic Practice Will Help You Achieve Rapidly:
General Self Improvement
Spiritual Advancement
Experience of the Creative - Divine
Oneness with the Higher Self
Use of your Healing Powers
Capability to give Rune Readings
Increase of your Psychic Powers
Protection Against Attacks
Understanding of Karma and Past Life Recalls
Changing your Destiny for the Better
Effective Help for Others
Success and Power
Peace of Mind and Emotional Balance
Awakening of your Chakras
Attraction of Love and Friendship
Financial Blessings and Prosperity
And Much More!
Runes Or "Runes"? It Is Exclusively Your Choice!
If you have followed more recent metaphysical trends, you know that there are many schools of Runic thought. Most of these schools have adopted various runic systems that contain 24 symbols and even more. I have no problem with the 24 Runes and I am quite happy that some of the runic groups in existence that follow obsolete doctrines are using the weaker systems.
For the serious student of the matter, however, I would like to set a few facts straight. Since Ralph Blum has published his "Book of Runes," the metaphysically inclined public became increasingly interested in Runes. Blum's book was a big success, because it offered a washed down version of Runic practice that was custom tailored to the typical simple-mindedness of the run off the mill New-Ager. Blum certainly deserves a lot of credit for awakening the awareness of Runes ("Rune Stones") in many people who otherwise would have never known of this fine system.
The success of Ralph Blum's book led to the usual consequences. Publishers hurried to throw on the market book after book. To fill an increasing interest of the public some publishers went even one step further. They contracted professional writers who had nothing but surface knowledge about Runes and whose main skill was concentrated on ripping off the ideas of others. Most of these publications have one common flaw: the self appointed "expert" writers had, like the successful Ralph Blum, no idea of the deeper side of Runic mysteries, let alone true experience or legitimate initiation. All too often students who believed the slogans of publishers became rapidly disappointed and frustrated, since most of the half baked fakers whose "systems" they studied could not deliver.
One American author, Don Tyson and his publisher, Llewellyn, even boasted to be the first on the planet to ever have published Rune cards. Those good folks apparently were not aware that Karl Spiesberger's book included a deck of Rune cards. Spiesberger's book, with Rune cards, appeared on the German market some 35 years before Llewellyn's "first deck" creation and ludicrous claim. Spiesberger's book is a classic that even the typical mediocre "expert" of Runes should have known!
Rune Symbolism
Until quite recently, the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes were the main system of Runic practice in Germany. Then several excellent scholars began to search for Runic alphabets that may have predated the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes historically and they were developing a system of Rune magic from at leat one of them. This was an interesting venture indeed, especially since the origin of the Armanen Runes is based on insights of one single person, Guido con List. However, what's of an older age is not necessarily more useful, or more powerful.
To fully understand the scope of what nonsense some these researchers conjured up, compare this venture with the general progress in technology throughout the ages. In our days, nobody in his or her right mind would use stone axes and live in caves, being convinced that such things are superior to the achievements of modern technology in dealing with the many challenges of modern life, just because such primitive technology is "elder."
True, most Runic arrays, even Blum's cooked-up system, are o.k. for divination, religious practice, and even for some simple magic. What they cannot do is bring you in touch with the deeper sides of Runic wisdom, and even less with the creative realms of the universe. This is so because not one of these arrays is a true symbolism. The most important characteristic of a true symbolism is that the position of each symbol in relation to every other symbol is of crucial importance. Consequently, once you know the esoteric structure of a symbolism and the meaning of one of its symbols, you are naturally capable to precisely establish the meanings of all other symbols. Another important characteristic of a true symbolism is that the energy of the symbolism as a whole is qualitatively and quantitatively superior to the sum total of its individual symbols. Systems that lack these characteristics are, often worthless, arrays of incoherent symbols and not true symbolisms.
The symbolism of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes has more than just one esoteric structure as its basis:
The Hexagon
The Hexagon with the three inscribed diameters: This figure is often referred to as "the world crystal." In this figure, you can easily find every one of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes. Crystal practices with the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are very powerful! Of course, you will look in vain for a structural connection between a crystal and any one of the arrays of 24, 25, or even more "runes."
The two Runic zodiacs: The natural zodiac of 16 + 2 basic energies as found in many traditions such as the Wiccan tradition. The other zodiac is the ancient subdivision of the year in 18 sectors of 20 days each.
The periodic system of chemical elements. This, too, connects with the number of the Sacred Futhork, 18. The first period has two elements, hydrogen and helium. The second period has eight elements, and the third period has eight elements. The total of the first three periods is 18. The fourth and fifth periods have 18 elements each! The implications of this cosmic relation are enormous. Again, there is no hope for a Runic alchemy, a Runic homeopathy, and other practices that connect with the vibrations of chemical elements for arrays of 24, 25, or more "runes."
From the above follows that the symbolism of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes with its wide ranging correlations is esoterically much more meaningful and naturally more powerful than any of the arrays of Runic alphabets that the many modern day "experts" and Rune gurus describe so exhaustively. Those persons limit themselves stubbornly to the use of Runes for readings and for a few practices of "religious magic" that usually connects with some nostalgia of ancient religion. Usually they see their Runes as symbols that stand for some worldly and spiritual meanings. Others see in the Runes an expression of some ancient gods. True perhaps, but the fact that Runes reach way beyond the realm of the gods and that they give access to the realms of creation (realms where you can actually create your gods) escapes them all together, and so does the tremendous power that is contained in this ancient true symbolism. We know that the ancient Norse religion was the last religious system that included some Runic practice in its belief structures. We know also that Runes cannot be limited to be part of any one religious belief system.
Because of their universal esoteric basis (some of which I have shown above) the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are the basis for an esoteric and spiritual technology that can be of use for every intelligent being in the universe. Because of the superior power of this technology, many professional healers, psychics, occultists, and other persons who are in leading positions, are naturally drawn to the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes which they consider to be a most valuable asset.
