Thomas Karlsson
Encyclopedia
Thomas Karlsson is a Swedish occult
ist and an esoteric author. In the summer of 2007, he has held the first Swedish course ever in Western Esotericism.. He is an occultist with many years of experience. Founder and head of magical order of Dragon Rouge, a Left-Hand Path initiatory organization and a Draconian Tradition Order. As a book author he concentrates on occult, philosophy and paranormal
topics. He is also associated with heavy metal
bands, Therion
and Shadowseeds
.
band Therion
, and has written almost all the band's lyrics since 1996. He also provided the whispers on the Therion song "Ljusalfheim" on their Secret of the Runes
album. Nevertheless, Karlsson was never regarded as an official band member.
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...
ist and an esoteric author. In the summer of 2007, he has held the first Swedish course ever in Western Esotericism.. He is an occultist with many years of experience. Founder and head of magical order of Dragon Rouge, a Left-Hand Path initiatory organization and a Draconian Tradition Order. As a book author he concentrates on occult, philosophy and paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
topics. He is also associated with heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
bands, Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
and Shadowseeds
Shadowseeds
Shadowseeds II is a dark wave/esoterical musical project consisting of Thomas Karlsson and Tommie Eriksson, who before 1999 spelled his name Tommy Eriksson.Shadowseeds released their first album The Dream of Lilith in 1995 on Dark Age/Megarock Records...
.
Therion
Karlsson is also the lyricist of symphonic metalSymphonic metal
Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...
band Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
, and has written almost all the band's lyrics since 1996. He also provided the whispers on the Therion song "Ljusalfheim" on their Secret of the Runes
Secret of the Runes (album)
Secret of the Runes is the tenth full-length musical album by symphonic metal band Therion. Cover artwork was made by Thomas Ewerhard. A music video was filmed for the Summer Night City cover.-Track listing:# "Ginnungagap " - 6:10...
album. Nevertheless, Karlsson was never regarded as an official band member.
Books
- Uthark - Nightside of the Runes (ISBN 91-974102-1-7)
- aka Uthark - Im Schattenreich der Runen (GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
title)
- aka Uthark - Im Schattenreich der Runen (German
- Astrala resor ut ur kroppen (ISBN 91-7894-005-2)
- Kabbala, Kliffot och den Goetiska Magin (ISBN 91-974102-2-5)
- aka La Kabbala e la magia goetica (ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
title, ISBN 9788871692135) - aka Kabbalah, Qliphoth und die Goetische Magie (GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
title, ISBN 3-939459-01-1) - aka Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic (EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
title, ISBN 978-0972182010)
- aka La Kabbala e la magia goetica (Italian
- Adulrunan och den Götiska Kabbalan (ISBN 91-974102-3-3)
- aka Le rune e la kabbala (ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
title, ISBN 9788871692074)
- aka Le rune e la kabbala (Italian