Nigel Campbell Pennick, born 1946 in Guildford

Guildford

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, Surrey

Surrey

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, England

England

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, an author publishing on occult

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...

ism, magic

Magic (paranormal)

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, natural magic

Natural magic

Natural magic in the context of Renaissance magic is that part of the occult which deals with natural forces directly, as opposed to ceremonial magic, in particular goety and theurgy, which deals with the summoning of spirits...

, divination

Divination

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, 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 London

London

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. He has travelled extensively in Europe and North America, researching, lecturing and conducting 'workshops', creating shrines and labyrinth

Labyrinth

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s.

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

San Marcos, Texas

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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 biology

Biology

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, for 15 years he was a researcher in algal taxonomy for a government institute in Cambridge

Cambridge

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. During this time, he published 29 scientific research papers on ultrastructure and taxonomy of marine

Marine (ocean)

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 microorganisms including descriptions of 8 new species of marine algae

Algae

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 and protozoa

Protozoa

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 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 the northern European 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
  Holy places
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   in Northern Europe
  Northern Europe
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  : A Cultural Overview featured in the Tyr
  Tyr (journal)
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• 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)
• Hitler's Secret Sciences

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 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
  Germanic mysticism or Germanic occultism may refer to* Ariosophy* more generally, various schools of Esotericism in Germany and Austria* various modern systems of runic magic...
  
  
• Runes
• Guido von List
  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
  Occult
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• Mumming
• Mountain Dulcimer

External links

• Nigel Pennick's personal website