title: Fire & Ice: Magical Teachings of Germany's Greatest Secret Occult Order (Llewellyn's Teutonic Magick Series)
author: S. Edred Flowers
description: Since 1972, Edred Thorsson has been dedicated to the esoteric and esoteric study of the Indo-European, Celtic and Teutonic traditions. He studied Old Irish, Middle Welsh and Indo-European religion and culture at major universities in Germany and in the United States.
zlib_text: The Mysteries of Germany's 
  Most Secret Occult Order 
  The hidden teachings and practices of German 
  occultism have long held a strong fascination for the 
  poet as well as the historian. The largest German 
  secret lodge—the Fraternitas Saturni—revealed nei-
  ther its membership, its inner teachings, nor its rites. 
  Still the most active and important magical society in 
  Germany today, the FS has been the object of specu-
  lation, suspicion, and suppression. It is only through 
  a chance occurrence that the inner documents of this 
  order were published in Germany. The book you now 
  hold is the first comprehensive interpretive study of 
  these documents and of the inner workings of the FS 
  which they reveal. 
  Within these pages you will discover the fasci-
  nating stories of this order's founders and leaders. 
  You will witness the development of its magical doc-
  trines and practices, its banishment by the Nazis, and 
  its postwar dissentions and conflicts. The Saturnian 
  degree system of initia