Editing Ariosophy (section)

===Guido von List Society and High Armanen Order===
Already in 1893 Guido List{{refn|Guido List started to use the aristocratic ''von'' in his name between 1903 and 1907.|group=Note}} together with Fanny Wschiansky, had founded the ''[[Literarische Donaugesellschaft]]'', a [[literary society]].<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|p=39}}</ref>

In 1908 the [[Guido von List Society]] (''Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft'') was founded primarily by the Wannieck family ([[Friedrich Wannieck]] and his son [[Friedrich Wannieck#Family|Friedrich Oskar Wannieck]] being prominent and enthusiastic Armanists) as an [[occult]] ''[[völkisch]]'' organisation, with the purpose of financing and publishing List's research.<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|p=42}}</ref> The List Society was supported by many leading figures in Austrian and German politics, publishing, and occultism.{{refn|A list of the signatories in support of the ''Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft'' is printed in ''GLB'' 3 (1908), p. 197f. Membership lists of the ''Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft'' are printed in ''GLB'' 2 (1908), pp. 71–4 and ''GLB'' 5 (1910), pp. 384–9. The articles of the List Society are printed in ''GLB'' 1, second edition (1912), pp. 68–78.{{full citation needed|date=July 2020}}|group=Note}} Although one might suspect a ''völkisch'' organisation to be antisemitic, the society included at least two Jews among its members: Moritz Altschüler, a rabbinical scholar,<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|p=99}}</ref> and [[Ernst Wachler (author)|Ernst Wachler]].<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|pp=43, 162}} affirms Wachler's membership in the List Society.</ref> The List Society published List's works under the series ''Guido-List-Bücherei'' (''GLB'').<ref>{{harvnb|Goodrick-Clarke|1985|p=44}}</ref>{{refn|Two other later works of List were published by ''Adolf Burdeke''{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} in [[Zürich]]. For a complete list of List's books, see the bibliography in Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 274.|group=Note}}

List had established exoteric and esoteric circles in his organisation. The High Armanen Order (''Hoher Armanen Orden'') was the inner circle of the Guido von List Society. Founded in midsummer 1911, it was set up as a magical order or lodge to support List's deeper and more practical work. The HAO conducted pilgrimages to what its members considered "holy Armanic sites", [[Stephansdom]] in [[Vienna]], [[Carnuntum]] etc. They also had occasional meetings between 1911 and 1918, but the exact nature of these remains unknown. In his introduction to List's ''The Secret of the Runes'', [[Stephen E. Flowers]] notes: "The HAO never really crystallized in List's lifetime – although it seems possible that he developed a theoretical body of unpublished documents and rituals relevant to the HAO that have only been put into full practice in more recent years".<ref>{{harvnb|List|1988|p=11}}</ref>