Friedrich Bernhard Marby

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Friedrich Bernhard Marby, born 10 Wonnemond 1882 in Aurich / Nordfriesland and died on 3 July [[1966], was a German mystisist and Germanic revivalist. He is also most well known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row. He was imprisoned during the Third Reich for not being an authorised occultist. He has written many books.

He was the first to develop and utilize the processes of Runic Gymnastics as a means of channeling Runic power and forms through and around the Self.

Marby spent a total of 99 months in the camps at Flossenberg, Welzheim, and Dachau (from where he was finally liberated on 29 Ostermond 1945).

Marby was a printer and editor by trade.

Author, Alan Baker in the book Invisible Eagle, stated that:

"Interestingly, not all rune scholars subscribed wholeheartedly to the racist, anti-Semitic interpretation of the Eddas. For example, one rune occultist, Friedrich Bernhard Marby (1882- 1966), synthesised rune scholarship with astrology after encountering the writings of Guido von List. In his paper Der eigene Weg (established 1924) and his book series Marhy-Runen-Bucherei (begun in 1931), Marby emphasised the health benefits gained from meditation on the runes. He was denounced as an anti-Nazi by the Third Reich in 1936, and sent first to Welzheim concentration camp, and then to Flossenburg and Dachau, and was only freed when the camps were liberated by the Allies in April 1945. Although he lacked the virulently racist outlook of the other volkisch occultists of the period, Marby subscribed to a similar theory to that espoused by Liebenfels: namely, the essentially electrical nature of the cosmos, inspired (as noted earlier) by the recent discovery of radiation and the new uses to which electricity was being put. In Marby's opinion, the Universe was awash with cosmic rays, which could be both received and transmitted by human beings. In addition, the beneficial influences of these rays could be increased by adopting certain physical postures in imitation of rune-forms (a practice with an obvious similarity to yoga). In 1927, Siegfried Adolf Kummer (b. 1899) founded a rune school called ‘Runa' at Dresden. Runa concentrated on the practice of ritual magic, including the drawing of magic circles containing the names of the Germanic gods and the use of traditional magical tools such as candelabra and censers. During these rituals, the names of runes were called out and rune shapes were traced in the air as an aid to the magical process. Like Marby, Kummer was denounced by Wiligut, who considered their methods disreputable."

[edit] Written works

• An den Quellwurzeln unseres Seins
• Die aufschlußreiche Pendeluntersuchung
• Der germanische Einweihungsweg in Sinnbildern und Symbolen
• Die drei Schwäne
• Der Weg zu den Müttern
• Runenschrift
• Runenwort
• Runengymnastik