Asatru Bibliography

  Thesis 4 The German religion knows no dogmas, because it is a religion. What are dogmas?      Dogmas are statements of faith or religious doctrines in which assertions are made about God and divine things that are contrary to truth and reason and, precisely because reason calls them contrary to reason, can and should only be believed on faith.      The value of such alleged truths of faith for the religious and moral consciousness of man was greater in earlier times, when man believed more easily in miraculous and supernatural processes, than it is today. The responsible man urges in all his actions the unconditional and honest knowledge of truth, and makes all his decisions dependent on the insight into what is and what he has recognized as true. This must also be the guiding principle of the religion which stands in the center of his soul life; otherwise he has a dead religion and one which has not grown alive in his heart. And having a dead rel...

  Thesis 3 The Germanic people of today need a healthy and natural religion which makes us brave, pious and strong in the struggle for nation and fatherland.  Asatru is that religion. What is healthy and natural religion?     It is a religion without manifestations of disease and degeneration. Christianity does not belong to this category, for it is rather a type of an unhealthy and unnatural end-time religion. For it arose 2000 years ago in the heart of a sick, spent and despairing humanity that had lost faith in life, despised the world, and waited for the return of christ and the end of the world.      Such a religion of weariness and surrender, of suffering, of flight from the world and the desire for redemption, in which the collapse of the ancient Mediterranean culture is reflected, can no longer be the religion of the still healthy and strong Germanic-Teutonic people, creators of culture, which faces the world and life like all peoples of predo...

  Thesis 2 Asatru is the contemporary form of faith that we Germans would have today if we had been granted the opportunity to continue to develop our ancestral religion undisturbed. What is a contemporary form of faith? It is a form of faith that corresponds to the level of knowledge and world experience of modern man. A religion that is not contemporary or alien to the times is to be rejected just as much as a religion that is alien to the species. For the Germans of today the cult of Wotan, with whose allegedly threatening reintroduction the scorners of the German religious movement frighten children and teens, is out of time, even if it is not alien to the species. It is true that the noble and heroic Odin religion is the highest among the old Indo-Germanic religions and, moreover, the closest to our hearts, because it contains mythical elements which have the only symbolic value for the thinking German of today. Whoever wanted to reintroduce the cult of Wotan in today's German...

  Thesis 1     Germanic people have their own religion, which springs vividly from their racially-bound observations, feelings and thoughts. We call it the German-ethnic religion and understand it as our native and racially-correct Native Germanic Faith (ed: henceforth, Asatru).   What is a correct religion? A religion is correct and true to its kind if it has grown out of the blood and soil and ancestral heritage of a people without foreign ingredients and influences and consequently reflects the soul style of this people in a pure and unadulterated way. A non-genuine or foreign religion is a foreign doctrine imposed on a people during a certain period of its development, in the creation of which this people did not participate and the characteristics of which are not inwardly adapted to it and can never be completely adapted to it. Such a foreign religion for the Germans is Christianity, which was introduced into Germania 1200 years ago by the Saxon butcher Ch...