Nigel Campbell Pennick, born 1946 in
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in the
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, an author publishing on
OccultThe word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
ism,
MagicMagic, sometimes known as sorcery, is the practice of consciousness manipulation and/or autosuggestion to achieve a desired result, usually by techniques described in various conceptual systems...
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Natural Magic is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian , French, and Dutch printed.Natural Magic was revised and considerably expanded...
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DivinationDivination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency...
, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and celtic art as well as Runosophy.
He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomant, artist and illustrator, stained-glass designer and maker, musician and mummer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape, customs, games and spiritual traditions.
Nigel Campbell Pennick, born 1946 in
GuildfordGuildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region...
,
SurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
, an author publishing on
OccultThe word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
ism,
MagicMagic, sometimes known as sorcery, is the practice of consciousness manipulation and/or autosuggestion to achieve a desired result, usually by techniques described in various conceptual systems...
,
Natural Magic is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian , French, and Dutch printed.Natural Magic was revised and considerably expanded...
,
DivinationDivination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency...
, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and celtic art as well as Runosophy.
He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomant, artist and illustrator, stained-glass designer and maker, musician and mummer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape, customs, games and spiritual traditions. He has written several booklets on the history of urban transport in Cambridge and London . He is best known for his research on geomancy, labyrinths, sacred geometry, the spiritual arts and crafts, esoteric alphabets and Germanic Runic studies.
He has written many books in German and has over fifty published books and hundreds of published papers on a wide range of subjects.
Biography
He lived most of his childhood in post-war
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. He has travelled extensively in
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
and
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, researching, lecturing and conducting 'workshops', creating shrines and
labyrinthIn Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus...
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His Celtic artwork appeared in the book New Visions in Celtic Art. In 2002 his Celtic artwork was on show in Birmingham in the Celtic Art and Design exhibition at the Central Library and, in 2009 in the exhibit Celtic Spirit Worldwide at the Walkers' Gallery in San Marcos, Texas.
He founded the Institute of Geomantic Research and later The Library of the European Tradition, which published new research on geomancy and folklore as well as rare archival material from the 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he organized six geomantic conferences in Cambridge and Royston.
Scientific career
Trained in
biologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
, for 15 years he was a researcher in algal taxonomy for a government institute in
CambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. It is also at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen....
. During this time, he published 29 scientific research papers on utrastructure and taxonomy of marine microorganisms including descriptions of 8 new species of marine
algaeAlgae are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms. The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds. They are photosynthetic, like plants, and "simple" because they lack the many distinct organs found in...
and
protozoaProtozoa or Cornelius protozoans Protozoa or Cornelius protozoans Protozoa or Cornelius protozoans (from Greek πρῶτον proton "first" and ζῷα zoa "animals"; singular protozoon; (the word "protozoan" is originally an adjective, used as a noun) are microorganisms classified as unicellular eukaryotes....
previously unknown to science before moving on to become a writer and illustrator.
Runic Astrology and Geomancy
- Runic Astrology: Starcraft and Timekeeping in the Northern Tradition (1995) ISBN 1898307458
- Beginnings: Geomancy, Builders' Rites and Electional Astrology in the European Tradition
- Sacred Geometry: Symbolism and Purpose in Religious Structures
- The Ancient Science of Geomancy: Living in Harmony with the Earth
- The Sacred Art of Geometry: Temples of the Phoenix
- The Oracle of Geomancy
- The Ancient Science of Geomancy: Man in Harmony with the Earth
Celts
- Ogham and Coelbren: Mystic Signs and Symbols of the Celtic Druids
- Celtic Sacred Landscapes
- The Celtic Cross
- The New Celtic Oracle
- The Celtic Oracle: New Approach to the Magical Acts of the Ancient Druids
- The Celtic Saints: An Illustrated and Authoritative Guide to These Extraordinary Men and Women
- The Sacred World of the Celts: An Illustrated Guide to Celtic Spirituality and Mythology
Runes and Northern Tradition
- The Eldritch World
- Rune Magic (1993) ISBN 1855381052
- Runes: How to Interpret the Ancient System of the Runes (Complete Illustrated Guide S.)
- Secrets of the Runes
- The Pagan Book of Days: A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year
- A History of Pagan Europe
- Crossing the Borderlines: Guising, Masking and Ritual Animal Disguises in the European Tradition
- Secret Signs, Symbols and Sigils
- Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance of Ancient Scripts - Including Runes, Greek, Hebrew and Alchemical Alphabets (1992) ISBN 0877287473
- Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition (1994) ISBN 1870450167
- The Power Within: The Way of the Warrior and the Martial Arts in the European Tradition
- Natural Magic (2001) ISBN 0722540388
- Secrets of East Anglian Magic
- The Goddess Year
- The God Year
- Games of the Gods: The Origin of Board Games in Magic and Divination
- Secret Games of the Gods
- Inner Mysteries of the Goths: Rune-lore and Secret Wisdom of the Northern Tradition
- Magical Alphabets
Other
- Heathen Holy Places
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: A Cultural Overview featured in the TyrTyr: Myth—Culture—Tradition is the name of an American Radical Traditionalist journal, edited by Joshua Buckley, Michael Moynihan, and Collin Cleary....
- The Spiritual Arts and Crafts
- Mazes and Labyrinths
- The Early Tube Railways of London
- Dragons of the West (1997) ISBN 1861630077
- Muses and Fates
- Earth Harmony: Places of Power, Holiness and Healing
- The Subterranean Kingdom: A Survey of Man-made Structures Beneath the Earth
- The Haindl Rune Oracle
- A Book of Beasts
- The Mysteries of King's College Chapel(NP's first book, March 1974)
- King's College Chapel (Churches of Cambridge)
- Lost Lands and Sunken Cities
- Masterworks: The Arts and Crafts of Traditional Buildings in Northern Europe
- The Eldritch World
- The New Celtic Oracle (co-authored with Nigel Jackson)
In German
- Handbuch der angewandten Geomantie
- Einst War Uns Die Erde Heilig
- Heidnisches Europa
- Die heiligen Landschaft der Kelten
- Was ist Geomantie? (contributor)
- Genius Loci (contributor)
See also
- Stephen Flowers
Stephen Edred Flowers is an American Runologist and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism. The Bonham, Texas-born author has over two dozen published books and hundreds of published papers on a disparate range of subjects. He is also known by the pen-name Edred Thorsson...
- Germanic mysticism
Germanic mysticism or Germanic occultism may refer to* Ariosophy* more generally, various schools of Esotericism in Germany and Austria-See also:*Common Germanic deities*Germanic mythology*Germanic paganism*Germanic folklore*Heathenry...
- Runes
- Guido von List
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian/German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important...
- Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
- Mumming
- Mountain Dulcimer
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