Peter Levenda
Peter Levenda is an American author who focuses primarily on occult history. He is best known for his book Unholy Alliance, which is about Esoteric Hitlerism and Nazi occultism.
Biography
Levenda is a native of the Bronx, New York. At the age of seventeen he gate-crashed the funeral for assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and led the procession out of the cathedral.
He has an MA in Religious Studies and Asian Studies from FIU, and speaks a several languages. As an executive with an American telecommunications manufacturer, he lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for more than seven years and was one of the first Americans to do business in China after normalization of relations during the Nixon administration.
Author of the Simon Necronomicon
Occultist Alan Cabal wrote in 2003 that Levenda was the writer with the pseudonym of "Simon", the author of the Simon Necronomicon, a grimoire that derives its title from H. P. Lovecraft's fictional Necronomicon, featured in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories.
The United States Copyright Office registration for Simon's Gates of the Necronomicon lists the author as Peter Levenda, whose pseudonym is Simon. Levenda has publicly stated in interviews that he is not "Simon."
Film and television
Levanda has appeared in numerous television programs for the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and TNT as an expert on Nazi Germany and especially on the extreme religious and esoteric ideas that formed the Nazi worldview.
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Deep Space |
| 2017 | The Nazi Jesus |
| 2015 | Forum Borealis |
| 2012 | The Nazi Gospels |
| 2011 | Decoded |
| 2009 | The Nostradamus Effect |
| 2007 | National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult |
| 2005 | Decoding the Past: Nazi Prophecies |
| 2000 | Faces of Evil |
Books
Peter Levenda is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on history, occultism, and religion.
Partial list of written works
- Simon Necronomicon, 1977
- Unholy Alliance, 1994
- Starry Wisdom, 2019
- Rites of the Mummy, 2021