The Black Sun Unveiled: Genesis and Development of a Modern National Socialist Mythos

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I have just spent the last two or three weeks reading and studying the recently released The Black Sun Unveiled by James Pontolillo[ 2013]. This is a huge tome consisting of 792 pages and 65 chapters with five appendices! Pontolillo does a splendid job of unearthing the origins of the Schwarze Sonne mythos and in doing so he delves into the fields of mediaeval alchemy, nineteenth and twentieth century literature, including science fiction before he gets to the most interesting [for me] parts of the book. The second part of the book consists of rare ariosophical and armanist works translated into English, many for the first time it would seem along with an exploration of how the symbolism of the Black Sun has penetrated the folkish music scene and contemporary fiction.Examples of important works include the complete Das Mysterium der Zentralsonne by Peryt Shou[1912], an extremely difficult work to understand [in German or English!] and translated excerpts of works by H.P. Blavatsky, Karl Maria Wiligut, Emil Ruediger, Erich Halik, Wilhelm Landig, Rudolf J. Mund, Savitri Devi, Miguel Serrano, Robert Charroux, Jean-Michel Angebert, James Madole, the Tempelhofgesellschaft, Order of the Nine Angles, Norbert Juergen Ratthofer, Ralph Ettl, Gerhard Hess, Jan van Helsing and many others.The book is littered with nicely produced black and white photographs and illustrations. Throughout the various translated works Pontolillo has added copious footnotes. These tend to be rather repetitive if you read the book from cover to cover as I have done but may be very useful if you read just selected chapters of greater interest to you or if you delve into the book piecemeal in which case the repetition is very useful.At the end of each chapter there is a very useful reference page of relevant source books.The opening chapter is 67 pages long and is devoted to discussing the relationship between Heinrich Himmler, the Schwarze Sonne, Schloss Wewelsburg and SS occultism in which the author seeks to dispel many inaccuracies concerning these subjects perpetuated by more sensationalist authors. This is a scholarly work and the only one of its kind so I have no hesitation in recommending this to anyone interested in the subject of the Black Sun, armanism or ariosophy.

Just had no idea what an absolute TOME this would be when it arrived. If you've ever wondered about this intriguing symbol then this book contains almost everything written about it from the past until today.Honestly, if you're on this page and reading reviews just buy the thing immediately so you can own a copy and hold onto it and preserve the knowledge post-purge/collapse.

Is there any detail the other didn't cover? Doubtful. Plenty of red herrings, misinterpretations, and outright lies were finally put to rest with real research citing the sources. For what appears to be a fairly simple topic on the surface, the author dove deep into every tangetal source. The only negative I feel the need to mention is that some obscure, esoteric writings/pamphlets are fully reprinted, when really a few paragraphs being quoted would have sufficed. This made the 3rd quarter of the book feel like a bit of a slog through the mud. Still, there is no way I could give this book less than 5 stars.

Excellent research

An impressive & dense work, full of interesting archives. A must have.

This book does not condemn or support National socialism or its Occult Branches- but rather it is an Academic study, an Amazing one. It would be a good introduction for Miguel Serrano, and it contains many sources and references!!!

Super quick great read! Thank you