The Runes of Northern Europe strike us as both monumental and mysterious and have developed various mystical and magical practices around them. But, what are the origins of modern runic occultism? Johannes Bureus (d. 1652) was both among the founders of the academic study of Runes but also the founder of Esoteric Runology. Following the philosophy of Gothicism, Bureus would argue that the Runes held ancient mystical secrets preserved from the confusion at the Tower of Babel and encoded in "Runic Kabbalah." He detailed this Esoteric Runology in his Adulruna Rediviva or The Rebirth of the Noble Runes, a work still unpublished to this day.

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Håkansson, H. (2012). Alchemy of the Ancient Goths: Johannes Bureus’ Search for the Lost Wisdom of Scandinavia. Early Science and Medicine, 17(5), 500522

The Gothic Kabbalah: Johannes Bureus, Runic Theosophy and Northern Apocalypticism by Susanna Åkerman in The Expulsion Of The Jews – 1492 and after edited by Raymond B. Waddington and Arthur H. Williamson, 1994 Garland publishing, ISBN 081531681X.

Rose Cross Over The Baltic by Susanna Åkerman, 1998 Brill, ISBN 900411035.