Asatru Bibliography

 Page 1: The Berlin Pronouncement On December 3 in the evening Wilhelm Teudt spoke in the Technical University in Berlin about the importance of the Externsteine. Afterwards, Prof. Dr. Andree-Münster, as excavation director, gave a report on this year's investigation work at the Externsteine. The following morning, a meeting between the representatives of prehistoric science and the friends of Germanic prehistory, the so-called Teudt Circle, took place in the meeting room of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. Professor Reinerth as convener presented for discussion: The methodology of Teudt; The question of the Externsteine; The 1934 volume of the journal "Germanien" with regard to his scientific and methodological publications. Regarding his working method, Teudt had already expressed himself the evening before in the introduction of his lecture as follows: The well-known idea of a presuppositionless, i.e. prejudice-free, science is quite justified....

Thesis 8 God is a moral idea that we submit to the eternal creative force of Nature that works in the world and in man. The belief in an otherworldly or afterlife god is not of Indo-European but of Semitic origin. Such a belief in God is not at all necessary for genuine religiosity and piety. What is that: an afterlife god? Belief in the afterlife or belief in the extraterrestrial and transcendent (transcendence) of God includes the following three essential ways of looking at God: God is said to have created the world out of nothing. The world is damned, unpleasant, “completely different” and worse than God. This god in the hereafter is to be the judge of our deeds. These three ways of looking at the essence of God do not correspond to the German-Nordic knowledge of the world and of divinity. All Indo-European peoples believe in an eternal and original, not created world. So too the Greek Aristotle. In the Germanic religion, the gods were born in the world and grew out of the world an...