Odin Brotherhood

[tmt]

Interesting article that I happened to stumble across.


The Odin Brotherhood is a secret society for warriors and pagans. From the beginning, the movement--in spite of its name--has included women.

The Brotherhood practices the old warrior religion that is today called Odinism or Asatru. Consecrated to the pagan gods and goddesses of the Norse pantheon, these deities are viewed as "older, better, and truer." Members of the Brotherhood use the Eddaic Verses–also called the Poetic Edda–as a kind of scripture.

Members claim their pagan order was established in 1421 to protect the ancient religion during the Burning Times and they insist it has existed in unbroken lineage to the present. If the claim is accurate, the Odin Brotherhood resembles the Tariquat, the secret brotherhoods in Islam that sustain the traditions underground in times of intense persecution.

Who Established the Odin Brotherhood? Edit
Like the story of Hiram Abif in Freemasonry, the foundation myth of the Brotherhood involves a crime against innocence.

In the legend of the Brotherhood, the story begins when a young pagan widow was caught honoring the gods and goddesses in a remote grotto. For her action, an angry mob burned her on a pyre composed of green wood.

After the murder, the woman’s three children used an ancient and forbidden rite from paganism (a rite called necromancy) and summoned her from beyond the grave.

Answering the summons, the slain woman instructed her children to save the ancient religion by taking the movement underground. They were instructed to form a secret society–a "conspiracy of equals"--dedicated to the old gods. They pledged to "honor the gods with clandestine rites in deserted places," and they promised to "share their knowledge" with "the few" they trusted before they died.

According to the Odin Brotherhood, all of these events occurred somewhere in Eurasia–somewhere north of the Black Sea--in the fifteenth century of the current era.

They also insist that buried artifacts exist which will some day confirm their tale.

How Does One Join the Odin Brotherhood? Edit
Traditionally, the teachings were spread by word of mouth, from person to person.

Today, however, with more written information appearing in manuscript and in published form, solitary practitioners (“lone wolves” who initiate themselves)are becoming more common.

In its current form, membership in the Odin Brotherhood is secret–as in the so-called Illuminati conspiracy. The objectives of the Odin Brotherhood are stated publicly, as in the legendary Rosicrucians.

Secret Societies are still illegal in some countries. As Nick Harding points out in Secret Societies, for example, they are forbidden by the constitution of Poland.


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http://pagan.wikia.com/wiki/Odin_Brotherhood

[tmt]

Ironically, and I use that term loosely, I met a being in the aethyr that introduced himself as Odin and then grasped my hand and kissed my index finger (as well as my ring finger) for no apparent reason. I asked him how he managed to hang upside down for nine days and keep his head because I always heard the blood rushes to your head and it eventually falls off. I don't know of any actual cases as such, but I was curious. He told me cocoons are over-rated, he did it with innovation and was surprisingly successful. I believe he hung from an upside down tree, is the innovation.

[Magnus]

I once kissed someones thumb for no reason. Actually I bit it and I don't know why I did it but he just stood there watching me and didn't flinch. It reminds me of how in medieval times the people would bite their thumb at others as a gesture of contempt. Only I didn't feel contempt for him. It's interesting how we have these memories of gesturing. What do you kissing index finger meant?

I'm interested in the Odin brotherhood. I'd like to meet them.

[Magnus]

btw, I've talked to Druids in my visions. They are funny.

[tmt]

I'm not sure, from reading the material though, the implied meaning is I have been invited to their happy fun camp as a member. I actually don't join groups, other that the mad scientist club, because I have such a love of those kooky guys, especially Nikola Tesla.

I did find the whole event very touching and kind. I introduced him (Odin, which is pronounced something like Ohg-juun) to another kind being and they seem like old friends. Perhaps they are, they act like brothers that haven't seen each other for a while and are reconnecting with love of one another. So nice to see family and enjoy moments that bring us closer (the remember whens), rather than the things that keep us apart.

I once kissed someones thumb for no reason. Actually I bit it and I don't know why I did it but he just stood there watching me and didn't flinch. It reminds me of how in medieval times the people would bite their thumb at others as a gesture of contempt. Only I didn't feel contempt for him. It's interesting how we have these memories of gesturing. What do you kissing index finger meant?

I'm interested in the Odin brotherhood. I'd like to meet them.

[Magnus]

I like Tesla. He wanted to make a robot of himself back in the early 1900's. He was a vegetarian and promoted vegetarianism as a way to increase human energy. If he were to grow up in most normal family environments today, I'm sure they would think he was nuts.

Why is Odin pronounced like that? Wednesday is named after Odin. Odinsday/Wednesday...why the spelling? It makes me wonder why so many names are meant to be pronounced totally different from the way they appear. Wagner, Chopin, Beethoven, Jung, Nietzche, and some other intellectual types have strange spellings.

[Sontlux]

I've come across the concept that it is the worship of God's that give them there power, that forgotten gods all but don't exist. I find it interesting that the pantheons managed to survive to these times... At the same time, I fully believe that the Gods are incarnated here on this planet right now, along with everything else. Interesting...

[Sontlux]

I'd watch out if I were you, tmt. Odin has always been portrayed as a bit of a trickster and a womanizer.

[tmt]

Really? I heard he is a man of honor and a virgin.

I'd watch out if I were you, tmt. Odin has always been portrayed as a bit of a trickster and a womanizer.

[Sontlux]

read Neil Straus's American Gods. IT is both relevant to the idea of god and worship, and one of the main characters is Odin... Since we can't seem to stay focused, maybe just find the wiki?

[tmt]

I read the book, its extremely cool. Especially the spider, I have a special place in my heart for those shadowy spiders I'm just saying whatever is contrary, I don't have a freakin' clue if the dude ever had sex or ever stopped having sex. I didn't ask him and frankly, I wouldn't think it to be my business. I mean, we all know how rumors go and such. All I know is what he did say, he hung from an upside down tree and coincidentally, I know a tree that was formerly upside down. Go ask your buddy kitten where he found his pocket knife, its the same tree . By pocket knife, I mean bad ass sword thing.

read Neil Straus's American Gods. IT is both relevant to the idea of god and worship, and one of the main characters is Odin... Since we can't seem to stay focused, maybe just find the wiki?

[Magnus]

I thought he gave birth to his kids all at once and they sprung out of his arm pits.

[Magnus]

Is that a metaphor for creating? Sweat= hard work hmm...Ymir gave birth from his armpits, not Odin.

http://www.vrilology.org/in_the_beginning.htm

[AmentiHall]

I find the worship of the old gods as interesting.

Some of the old gods were representations of other things that we could not put into proper context at the time, but their names carried meaning.

I have observed, like the names of angels and demons (which are numerical, and often mathematical constructs), Gods are often mathematical or geometrical "beings" who have certain designated power or influence in our personal reality. Some of these beings actually existed as physical incarnations in different ways, and some of the old gods (not roman or greek) were often ET's and angels masquerading as such. It can all get confusing, but I find it better to interpret it symbolically, because in the language of symbols is the power that is the source of the entire "beast."

peace

[Seth Gazpacho]

A triangle of words: a phrase, if you will? Chaos Magic Theory.

Odin's a cool guy: a great wisdom, a crooked smile, a scarred face, and a good, though reserved, heart. He does get pretty strange when you ask him about those three days he hanged himself on Yggdrasil. He told me, "If war is death, then so am I!" when I asked him about it during an invocation.
You must remember, the Old Gods are very concerned with war and sex: death and birth, if you will: the base chakra (no matter how many you choose to toss in, this one always sinks to the bottom) of our primal instincts, of lust and 'the killer instinct' (definition from the Rush album, Grace Under Pressure.)

These are, however, merely mental dualities which distinguish a desire for destructive/constructive ecstasy; ecstasy defined here--by moi :P-- as, "The ultima of a necromantic phrase, through which one may resurrect, create, or destroy existing life."

I hope that makes sense.

--addition--

Oh! and absorb, you can't forget absorbing life.

[tmt]

Odin or your friend kitten incarnate?

I thought he gave birth to his kids all at once and they sprung out of his arm pits.

[Seth Gazpacho]

"Odin or your--

No. He gave me a stigmatic inscription on the underside of my right forearm:
a spear. an axe. two pairs of wings. an X below, I figure the signature for two wolves...

No, I describe him in such away only to let you know
That I know him. Odin is my Heart-Pound.
King, Warrior, Sage--

So, please, don't insult me, and don't insult him through me.
It hurts."

NEVERMIND! I sprung much too swiftly to the fray!

[tmt]

I call it unlimited possibilities. Odin was not scarred that I saw, on his face or otherwise. And he has a beard, short brown curly hair and he was wearing some sort of skin. Akin to what a caveman might wear. Rough looking fur, but very soft and looked super fresh, like he just yanked it off a bear. (only enough for his suit, why be cruel and take more?) Not that the bear minded, I am assured of that. These bears with white feet, three claws and dark brown fur are very accomodating.

A triangle of words: a phrase, if you will? Chaos Magic Theory.

Odin's a cool guy: a great wisdom, a crooked smile, a scarred face, and a good, though reserved, heart. He does get pretty strange when you ask him about those three days he hanged himself on Yggdrasil. He told me, "If war is death, then so am I!" when I asked him about it during an invocation.
You must remember, the Old Gods are very concerned with war and sex: death and birth, if you will: the base chakra (no matter how many you choose to toss in, this one always sinks to the bottom) of our primal instincts, of lust and 'the killer instinct' (definition from the Rush album, Grace Under Pressure.)

These are, however, merely mental dualities which distinguish a desire for destructive/constructive ecstasy; ecstasy defined here--by moi :P-- as, "The ultima of a necromantic phrase, through which one may resurrect, create, or destroy existing life."

I hope that makes sense.

--addition--

Oh! and absorb, you can't forget absorbing life.

[tmt]

Which one gave you the faedes?

"Odin or your--

No. He gave me a stigmatic inscription on the underside of my right forearm:
a spear. an axe. two pairs of wings. an X below, I figure the signature for two wolves...

No, I describe him in such away only to let you know
That I know him. Odin is my Heart-Pound.
King, Warrior, Sage--

So, please, don't insult me, and don't insult him through me.
It hurts."

NEVERMIND! I sprung much too swiftly to the fray!

[Seth Gazpacho]

Good question. Neither. It was done only with his eye. I had just invoked him,
and chose to let him stay as I slept that night.

I had a dream, but it was very vague. I remember one image in the dream, it was
very lucid: an eye. It's iris was grey, as mine became that night when I gazed into a mirror during the invocation.
Grey is an eye color not uncommon in Northern Europe, I discovered later.

I awoke with just a single scratch, but after my morning ritual it had flowered into a full-fledged symbolic image.
Stigmata isn't very uncommon with me though, s'why I usually steer clear of ritual magic:
It is just too powerful for regular use.

It's like using a chainsaw to slice bread sometimes.