In 1889, Wiligut joined the Schlaraffia, a quasi-masonic lodge. When he left the lodge in 1909, he held the rank of knight and the office of chancellor. His first book, "Seyfrieds Runen", was a collection of poems about the Rabenstein at Znaim on the Austrian-Moravian border; it was published in 1903 under his full real, name and an added moniker, "Lobesam." His next book, "Neun Gebote Gots," followed in 1908, in which Wiligut first claimed to be the heir to the ancient tradition of Irminism. Both List and Wiligut were influenced by Friedrich Fischbach's 1900 "Die Buchstaben Gutenbergs".