i won't be able to post the rest of what i wanted to post because i'm going out with my family for the end of the year party in the countryside, but here's what i wanted to say before i go and this thread gets archived: one of the pioneers of norse neopaganism and especially the entire "rune magic" fad was this 17th century swedish mysticist named johannes bureus. bureus, who was literally inspired by rosicrucianism (proto-masonry) and the kabbalah. this rune magic system later inspired blavatsky's theosophical movement (which started the idea of "ancient aryans from hyperborea"), the thule society and other vlkisch groups that created nazism, and would influence all modern neopagans. this is not the only connection that german national socialists have with kabbalah as i posted here:                   > atlantis also became an obsession for the swedish physician and scholar olav rudbeck, rector of uppsala university. in 1679, he published a work called atlantica, with which he seriously intended to prove that sweden was the cradle of history. the books title page shows an arrogant rudbeck dissecting the map of europe and revealing, beneath the surface of sweden, the island of the gods  ancient atlantis and, at the same time, the land of the hyperboreans of greek mythology  to the astonishment of ancient scholars, philosophers and historians, including plato himself. naturally, he located the lost metropolis precisely in uppsala > however, this was not the only motivation behind the dreams about atlantis. at the height of the age of reason, the astronomer jean-sylvain bailly, who in 1789 also became the first mayor of revolutionary paris, attempted to deduce the place of origin of civilization in a way that seemed logical and scientific to him
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