Otto Rahn, Grail Hunter The Secret of the Cathars and the Return of the White Lady

      

By Richard Stanley

An Investigation into the Holy Grail and the Cathar Legacy Meticulously following controversial 20th-century occultist, historian, and partially Jewish SS member Otto Rahn’s investigations into the Holy Grail and Catharism, author and filmmaker Richard Stanley enters into the occult world of Europe. On his quest, the author encounters esoteric traditions that have survived since the Crusades and the Inquisition and ultimately finds a new spiritual path in his own life. At Rahn’s family home in the Black Forest of Germany, Stanley unearths a cache of maps, photographs, and unpublished manuscripts. His journey in pursuit of Rahn’s legacy then takes him to Montségur, in southern France, a mystical stronghold and one-time home of the Cathars, the esoteric and Gnostic Christian sect that was decimated in the medieval Albigensian Crusade. There he sees the extraordinary summer solstice light phenomenon that reveals the fortress’s mystical past and encounters witnesses who insist Rahn is still alive. Methodically visiting every site on Otto Rahn’s esoteric path, from France to Iceland, the author untangles conspiracy from truth as he looks at the connections between the Cathars, the Rosicrucians, Julius Evola, neo-Cathar and Freemason Déodat Roché, and the mystical bleeding stones known as Lapsit exillis. He also examines the prophecy of the return of the Cathars’ medieval priestess Esclarmonde de Foix, the White Lady, who appeared to Rahn during his search for the Grail. Author Bio: Richard Stanley is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose films include Dust Devil, Hardware, and Color Out of Space. As a journalist and documentarian, he has covered events in Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Haiti. A frequent contributor to publications including Fortean Times and the Sauniére Society Journal, he lives in Occitanie, France. https://theofficialrichardstanley.com