Otto Rahn was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Recruited by Himmler into the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains. Lucifer’s Court was translated into English by Christopher Jones, who also translated Otto Rahn’s Crusade Against the Grail, published in 2006.

" . . . a definite 'must read' for any serious student of lost wisdom, and certainly for any student of the Cathar tradition. It is well written, personal, and utterly riveting."

• Translator’s Foreword: Prolegomenon Prologue: The Journey Begins Part OneBingen am Rhein Paris Toulouse Pamiers Foix Lavelanet Montségur in the Pyrenees Again, Lavelanet Castle L. in the Toulouse Region Carcassonne Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cahors Ornolac in Fuxean Country Mirepoix Port Vendres, Roussillon Marseille Puigcerda in Catalonia Lourdes Part TwoNight Journey Genoa Milan Rome Verona Meran Bolzano Rose Garden On the Freienbühl above Brixen Brixen Gossensass Geneva On a Southern German Roadside Worms Michelstadt in the OdenwaldAmorsbrünn Amorbach Part ThreeWith Relatives in Hesse Mellnau in the Burgwald Marburg am Lahn Giessen Siegen Runkel am Lahn Cologne Heisterbach Monastery Ruins Bonn Asbach in the Westerwald Goslar Halberstadt Berlin Warnemünde-Gjedser Edinburgh In the Pentland Sea In the North Atlantic Reykjavik Laugarvatn Reykholt Back Home Bibliography

Otto Rahn was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Recruited by Himmler into the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains. Lucifer’s Court was translated into English by Christopher Jones, who also translated Otto Rahn’s Crusade Against the Grail, published in 2006.

" . . . a definite 'must read' for any serious student of lost wisdom, and certainly for any student of the Cathar tradition. It is well written, personal, and utterly riveting."

• Translator’s Foreword: Prolegomenon Prologue: The Journey Begins Part OneBingen am Rhein Paris Toulouse Pamiers Foix Lavelanet Montségur in the Pyrenees Again, Lavelanet Castle L. in the Toulouse Region Carcassonne Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cahors Ornolac in Fuxean Country Mirepoix Port Vendres, Roussillon Marseille Puigcerda in Catalonia Lourdes Part TwoNight Journey Genoa Milan Rome Verona Meran Bolzano Rose Garden On the Freienbühl above Brixen Brixen Gossensass Geneva On a Southern German Roadside Worms Michelstadt in the OdenwaldAmorsbrünn Amorbach Part ThreeWith Relatives in Hesse Mellnau in the Burgwald Marburg am Lahn Giessen Siegen Runkel am Lahn Cologne Heisterbach Monastery Ruins Bonn Asbach in the Westerwald Goslar Halberstadt Berlin Warnemünde-Gjedser Edinburgh In the Pentland Sea In the North Atlantic Reykjavik Laugarvatn Reykholt Back Home Bibliography

Otto Rahn was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Recruited by Himmler into the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains. Lucifer’s Court was translated into English by Christopher Jones, who also translated Otto Rahn’s Crusade Against the Grail, published in 2006.

" . . . a definite 'must read' for any serious student of lost wisdom, and certainly for any student of the Cathar tradition. It is well written, personal, and utterly riveting."

• Translator’s Foreword: Prolegomenon Prologue: The Journey Begins Part OneBingen am Rhein Paris Toulouse Pamiers Foix Lavelanet Montségur in the Pyrenees Again, Lavelanet Castle L. in the Toulouse Region Carcassonne Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cahors Ornolac in Fuxean Country Mirepoix Port Vendres, Roussillon Marseille Puigcerda in Catalonia Lourdes Part TwoNight Journey Genoa Milan Rome Verona Meran Bolzano Rose Garden On the Freienbühl above Brixen Brixen Gossensass Geneva On a Southern German Roadside Worms Michelstadt in the OdenwaldAmorsbrünn Amorbach Part ThreeWith Relatives in Hesse Mellnau in the Burgwald Marburg am Lahn Giessen Siegen Runkel am Lahn Cologne Heisterbach Monastery Ruins Bonn Asbach in the Westerwald Goslar Halberstadt Berlin Warnemünde-Gjedser Edinburgh In the Pentland Sea In the North Atlantic Reykjavik Laugarvatn Reykholt Back Home Bibliography