Year: 1948/2025Publisher: Star Regulus PressOriginal title: Himmlerin salaseuraAvailable in: English, Finnish and possibly other languages During the summer of 1935, a young Finnish student of the Sorbonne in Paris decides to travel from France to Finland by foot. He ends … Continue reading Grönhagen, Yrjö von: HIMMLER’S SECRET SOCIETY
Year: 2025Publisher: Abraxas PublishingOriginal title: Against the Light – A Nightside NarrativeAvailable in: English, Finnish and possibly other languages Kenneth Grant (1924-2011) might be the most influential occultist since Aleister Crowley. Grant also represented a significant link in the chain … Continue reading Grant, Kenneth: VALOA VASTEN – YÖPUOLEN KERTOMUS
Year: 2024Publisher: SalakirjatAvailable in: Finnish Esotericism has risen to become a surprisingly hot topic in Finnish literature during the last few years. This year alone, there’s been at least three other books on esoteric topics by non-esoteric publishers (we covered … Continue reading Larvanto, Rikhard: VARJOTAIVAL
Year: 2024Publisher: Arcana EuropaAvailable in: English, Finnish This review is an addendum to the review of the original Finnish version of this book from 2021, which you can find here. At the time, an English version had been hinted at, … Continue reading Cederberg, Aki: HOLY EUROPE
Something a bit different in our series of gems from the archives – but no less deserving of an entry: the first book attempting to give an overview of the phenomenon called black metal. The book by Michael Moynihan (of … Continue reading From the Vaults #14: Lords of Chaos
Year: 2024Publisher: Basam BooksOriginal title: High Magick – A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death RowAvailable in: multiple languages The name of Damien Echols might be familiar to you not only if you have an … Continue reading Echols, Damien: KORKEA MAGIA
Guénon, René: MODERNIN MAAILMAN KRIISI Release year: 2024Publisher: Kiuas KustannusAvailable in: multiple languages If I were to recommend one book for anyone with an interest in traditionalism, it would surely be French philosopher and metaphysician René Guénon’s (1886-1951) La Crise … Continue reading Of modern crises
Nefastos, Johannes: SAATANA – MAAILMAN PELASTAJA Release year: 2023Publisher: Aeth PressAvailable in: Finnish I’m guessing that most readers of this site have some kind of perception of or relationship to satanism, but their spectrum is greatly varied. And certainly, there … Continue reading A catechism for the devil
Norja, Sara: ALKEMIAN HISTORIA Release year: 2023Publisher: SKS KirjatAvailable in: Finnish Everyone knows about alchemy, right? It was that old superstitious belief that you could make gold from stone, or from other metals, and the ludicrous practice of trying to … Continue reading A history of The Great Work
Heikkilä, Timo: IHMEINEN – Tietäjän ihmiskäsitys ja mielen arkeologia Release year: 2022Publisher: Viides AskelAvailable in: Finnish I think it was in Protector of the Sacred Flame, an essay anthology on the life and thought of Julius Evola, that one of … Continue reading Archaeology of the Finnish mind
Only Death Is Real 