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===Armanen-Orden===
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[[Image:Armanenrunor i cirkel med siffror vector.svg|thumb|left|190px|Circular arrangement of the [[Armanen runes|Armanen Futharkh]]]]
The Guido von List Society was re-established in the late 1960s through contacts between the German/Austrian occultist Adolf Schleipfer (1947–) and the still-living last president of the Society, [[Hanns Bierbach]].<ref>According to {{harvnb|List|1988|p= 36}}, Schleipfer renewed the GvLS in 1969. According to {{harvnb|Schnurbein|1995|p=24}}, he became its president in 1967.</ref> Schleipfer had discovered some of List's works in an antique bookstore in the mid-1960s, and was inspired to found the runic and Armanist magazine ''[[Irminsul]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/LNG=DU/LRSET=16/SET=16/SID=09a1e3c8-62/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8500&SRT=YOP&TRM=Irminsul|title= Irminsul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515200457/http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB%3D4.1/LNG%3DDU/LRSET%3D16/SET%3D16/SID%3D09a1e3c8-62/TTL%3D1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8500&SRT=YOP&TRM=Irminsul |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }} in the [[German National Library]].</ref> in hopes of attracting suitable people for a revived Listian order. He was appointed the new president and continued to publish ''Irminsul'' as the ''"Voice of the Guido von List Society."''

Schleipfer also attended meetings of a related organisation, the ''Gode-Orden'' ([[Gothi]]-Order), which propagated a similar mixture of occult ''völkisch'' thinking. There he met his wife ''Sigrun Schleipfer'', née Hammerbacher (1940–2009),<ref>{{cite book|title=Handbuch Deutscher Rechtsextremismus|year=1996|language=de}}{{full citation needed|date=July 2020}}</ref> daughter of the ''völkisch'' writer and former NSDAP district leader, Dr. ''Hans Wilhelm Hammerbacher''.<ref name="Schnurbein1995:27ff">{{harvnb|Schnurbein |1995|p= 27ff}}</ref> In 1976 the Schleipfers founded the ''Armanen-Orden'' (Armanen Order) as the reorganised Guido von List Society.<ref name="Schnurbein1995:25">{{harvnb|Schnurbein|1995|p= 25}}</ref> Since then, Adolf and Sigrun have served as the Grandmasters of the Order, although they have divorced and Sigrun now refers to herself as "Sigrun von Schlichting" or "Sigrun Freifrau von Schlichting". They also revived the High Armanen Order (HAO) and brought it to "an unprecedented level of activity".<ref name="Flowers1988:36">{{harvnb|List|1988| p= 36}}</ref>

The Armanen-Orden is a [[neopagan]] [[esoteric]] society and religious order reviving the occult teachings of Guido von List. Its internal structure is organized in nine grades, inspired by [[Freemasonry]]. The order is modelled on, but not limited to, the precepts of List, and its principles as formulated in its brochures are as follows:

{{blockquote | The Armanen Order embodies the entire Germanic and Celtic peoples in their mental, spiritual and physical uniqueness.

The Armanen Order embodies the true realisation of the divine world order based on Germanic and Celtic wisdom, whose religious and cultic aspect is formed by the native myths of the gods.

The Awakening of the Armanen Order is a rebirth of life based on its natural foundations of the Germanic and Celtic people.}}

The Armanen-Orden celebrates seasonal festivities in a similar fashion as [[Odinist]] groups do and invites interested people to these events. The highlights are three 'Things' at Ostara (Easter), Midsummer and Fall (Wotan's sacrificial death), which are mostly celebrated at castles close to sacred places, such as the [[Externsteine]]. The author [[Stefanie von Schnurbein]] attended a Fall Thing in 1990 and gives the following report in ''[[Religion als Kulturkritik]]'' (''Religion and Cultural Criticism''):

{{blockquote | …the participants meet in a room decorated with hand-woven wall hangings and pictures of Germanic gods, Odin and Frigga in this case… At one end of the room is a table covered with black cloth. On this a 4 ft. high wooden [[Irminsul]], a spear, a sword, a replica of a sun disc chariot, a leather-bound copy of The [[Edda]] as well as ritual bowls and candles are placed. The participants are seated in a semi-circle in front of the table, the front row being occupied by Order members clothed in their ritual garb (black shirts <!-- or "shifts"? --> for the men and long white dresses for the women; both have the AO emblem sewn on them)… after several invocations the 'spirit flame', symbolising Odin in the spirit world, is lit in a bowl filled with lamp oil. The purpose of this cultic celebration is the portrayal of Odin's concentration from spirit into matter. After a recital of the first part of Odin's rune poem () from The Edda, the "blood sacrifice" commences, in which a bowl with animal blood is raised to the beat of a gong and an invocation of sacrifice. Then Odin is called into the realm by the participants who assume the Odal rune stance, whisper 'W-O-D-A-N' nine times and finally sing an ode to Odin with the following words: 'Odin-Wodan come to us, od-uod, uod'. Wodan's sacrifice to himself is symbolised by extinguishing the flame.}}

In 1977 Sigrun Schleipfer founded the ''Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung der Burgen'' (Society for the Conservation of Castles), which proclaims castles to be among the "last paradises of the romantic era" in this cold modern age and had as its primary aim the purchase and restoration of a castle for the Order. In <!-- Yule? or July? --> 1995, the society finally acquired the castle of Rothenhorn in [[Szlichtyngowa]] ([[Poland]]), a run-down structure dating back to the 12th century, though most of the complex dates from the 16th century.

Over many years, Adolf and Sigrun have republished all of List's works (and many others relating to the Armanen runes) in their original German. Adolf Schleipfer has also contributed an article to ''The Secret King'', a study of Karl Maria Wiligut by Stephen Flowers and [[Michael Moynihan (journalist)|Michael Moynihan]], in which he points out the differences between Wiligut's beliefs and those that are accepted within Odinism or Armanism.<ref name="S2007">{{harvnb|Schleipfer|2007}}</ref>