Editing Ariosophy (section)

==Edda Society==
[[Image:Rudolf John Gorsleben.jpg|thumb|250px|Rudolf John Gorsleben]]
[[Rudolf John Gorsleben]] was associated with the Thule Society during the [[Bavarian Soviet Republic]] of 1919 and, along with Dietrich Eckart, he was taken prisoner by the Communists, narrowly escaping execution. He threw himself into the ferment of Bavaria's ''völkisch'' politics and formed a close working relationship with the local Germanenorden before devoting himself to literary pursuits.<ref name="Goodrick-Clarke1985:156">{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|p= 156}}</ref>

On 29 November 1925, Gorsleben founded the Edda Society (''Edda-Gesellschaft''), a mystic study group, at [[Dinkelsbühl]] in [[Franconia]]. He himself was Chancellor of the Society and published its periodical ''Deutsche Freiheit'' (''German Freedom''), later renamed ''Arische Freiheit'' (''Aryan Freedom''). Assisted by learned contributors to his study-group, Gorsleben developed an original and eclectic [[mystery religion]] founded in part upon the Armanism of List, whom he quoted with approval.<ref name="Goodrick-Clarke1985:156–9">{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|pp= 156–59}}</ref>

Grand Master of the Society was Werner von Bülow (1870–1947). The treasurer was [[Friedrich Schaefer]] from [[Mühlhausen]], whose wife, Käthe, kept open house for another occult-''völkisch'' circle (the 'Free Sons of the North and Baltic Seas') that gathered around Karl Maria Wiligut in the early 1930s.<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|pp= 159, 183}}</ref> [[Mathilde von Kemnitz]], a prolific ''völkisch'' writer who married General [[Erich Ludendorff]] in 1926, was an active member of the Edda Society.{{refn|According to 'Lexicon of Ariosophy' by Frater Georg Nikolaus of the ONT, an undated manuscript preserved in the Rudolf Mund Archive (Vienna) and cited in Goodrick-Clarke (1985), pp. 159, 254.|group=Note}}

When Rudolf John Gorsleben died from heart disease in August 1930, the Edda Society was taken over by Bülow who had designed a 'world-rune-clock' that illustrated the correspondences between the runes, the gods and the [[zodiac]], as well as colours and numbers. Bülow also took over the running of Gorsleben's periodical and changed its name from ''Arische Freiheit'' to ''Hag All All Hag'', and then ''[[Hagal (Armanen rune)|Hagal]]''.