The Armanen Concept of the Supreme God

The idea that monotheism was a Judeo-Christian imposition on the Germanic peoples is wrong. In fact, the concept of monotheism does indeed exist in the ancient pre-Christian Germanic sources. We also see the presence of monotheism in other very ancient Indo-European groups such as that of the Vedic Aryans, Greeks and Romans. The Rig-Veda contains poems to the unknown Supreme god "Ka" and the Greco-Roman religion recognized Zeus-Jupiter as supreme. A supreme deity can further be found in most other Aryan traditions. The Zoroastrian/Hyperborean concept of monotheism was then borrowed into Judaism in a distorted form.

The modern heathen bias, which must by its nature be a rebellion against our Christian host culture, brings with it a conscious or unconscious desire to demonize and reject anything which may appear to be Christian or have any commonality or connection with Christianity. As such, the worldview of many heathens has been solidly established without the concept of a Germanic heathen supreme god. Therefore it is easy to understand how indications of monotheism in the Eddas are either ignored, interpreted as something else, or written off as Christian influence. While evidence for the belief in a supreme god does exist in the ancient Germanic tradition, the evidence for it is not overt. Unfortunately many heathens follow the scholars who mistakenly believe that if evidence did not survive for something, then that thing does not exist.

Most modern Germanic heathens, whether they accept the idea of a supreme god or not, identify Wuotan as supreme and make no distinction between Wuotan and the Allfather. The Armanen masters, however, did not share this perspective, but rather interpreted Wuotan and the Allfather in the Eddas differently. The idea of Wuotan as the only and ultimate expression of the Allfather is a Wuotanist perspective (see "Armanism vs. Wuotanism"). Armanism, on the other hand, distinguishes the Allfather from Wuotan while simultaneously acknowledging the connection between them (von List, Religion of the Aryo-Germanic Volk). Most "modern heathery" is Wuotanist as Guido von List defines it.

The All-Father... which in the Nordic language of the Edda means the begetter of the Universe, is not Wuotan according to the usual concept and according to other testimonial in the Edda. Most of the time Wuotan is there as a father of the gods with all his weaknesses and strengths... therefore, there must be another All-Father, an All-Begetter... the gods sacrificed to higher powers... about this All-Father they told in the Gylfaginning that he was with the "ice giants," the Jotuns "before there was heaven and earth..." With the ice-giants, the elements are meant, the Ur/primeval-matter... (Gorsleben).

In Gylfaginning, Snorri stated that the highest and most ancient of all the gods is the Allfather, who has 12 names, who lives throughout all ages, governs all things, created mankind with an eternal soul, and lives in Gimlé, which is the fairest and brightest heaven and the only heaven which is not destroyed at Ragnarök (the only eternal heaven). Here, the Germanic concept of a supreme god is made quite clear.

The Armanen description of the Germanic supreme god is given by Guido von List as Surtur (from Ur back to Ur). Surtur= Santur, the Black-Sun. Or more precisely put, the Black-Sun Santur is a manifestation of Surtur. Von List also called him the Dark One and the Great Spirit. "Allfather, who is also called Surtur (the Dark One, not the Black One), as his name indicates, is the All-Creator and Wuotan is his reflection in human form, and as such, Wuotan is also rightfully called the 'All-Father' -- he is 'one with his Father in Heaven'" (von List, Religion of the Aryo-Germanic Volk).

Surtur/All-Father is the First-Logos, the first revealed form of "the inconceivable and ineffable Great-Spirit" (von List, Religion of the Aryo-Germanic Volk). He is Ur itself, primeval matter, which evolved itself into the entire Kosmos. He is 1) Space: as Ginnungagap he created his own space. 2) Time: as Wuotan, Donar and Loki (that which was, is and becomes). 3) the five elements: 1. Ether- All-Father 2. Fire- Wuotan 3. Air- Donar 4. Water- Loki 5. Earth- Gerda (von List, Religion of the Arya-Germanic Volk).

Armanistic cosmogony realized fire as the Ur-element (Urfyr, Surtur, Muspelheim, etc.) from which all the other three elements segregated themselves... The world, our Earth, was created by this temporary reduction of fire (Urfyr), this then condensed to Ether, then to Air, which later compressed into Water and then Earth took form until the Fire awakens and everything dissolves back into Fire. Even then it will not be at rest, not come to stability, because once again air, water and earth will segregate and a new Kosmos, a new World, a young Earth will rise again, to sink again in the Fire, in the eternal cycle of arising, being and passing away to new creation (von List, The Rita of the Ariogermanen).

As seen above, von List and the Armanists distinguished between the Allfather and Wuotan. The same distinction and similarity between the Allfather and Wuotan is found in Zoroastrianism between Ahu, the supreme unknowable god, and the creator Ahura-Mazda. In early Vedic literature the two appear as the unknown god Ka and Prajapati. In the Puranic literature of India the two are found as Maha Vishnu and Brahma. In Christianity the two are found as the Father and the Son. This explanation further became the foundation for the Black-Sun mythos, which exactly reflects the ancient Aryan and Germanic concept of a supreme god which originated in the Hyperborean religion of the Thulean Zarathustra.

The Aryan, Armanen understanding of the Allfather is not the exoteric idea of an external god, but rather the esoteric idea of God found within. Nevertheless, this point cannot be overemphasized because it not only distinguishes and defines the Armanen perspective on divinity, but represents a triumph of the truth of divinity over the lie of divinity with which most people have been indoctrinated by corrupt Judaic-Roman Christianity and other exoteric religions. "But religion means 're-connection (with God),' which indicates a condition in which the original 'inwardness of God' is obscured. This inwardness is already seen as something which has been lost, while the concept of Wihinei (the inward sanctification) presupposes the full possession of the inwardness of God and thus indicates a higher ethical concept" (von List, Religion of the Aryo-Germanic Volk).