A Modern Row Still in Use

The system did not end with its author or with the regime that borrowed parts of it. In the decades after the Second World War, German language occultists continued to work with the eighteen character row, and at least one prominent writer set out to detach it from the racial doctrine it had been built to carry, reworking it into a pansophical system of exercises and correspondences. Whether that separation is possible is disputed, and the dispute is part of the row's history.

Today the row is used in several distinct settings that have little to do with each other: esoteric practice with no political content, reconstructionist heathen groups that mostly reject it in favour of the historical rows, and a far right milieu in which the emblems taken from it retain their earlier meaning entirely. The same eighteen characters serve all of them. The atlas catalogues the row because it exists and is used, and covering modern religious constructions on the same terms as ancient ones is a standing commitment here. Cataloguing includes stating what the row is, when and by whom it was made, and what it has been used for, which is the only honest way to present something whose reception is this divided.