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LONG HAVE I WARNED ABOUT ARYOSOPHISM'S SPREADING INFLUENCE. MANY

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DOCUMENTATION FOR MY ASSERTIONS.

 

IF YOU CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING, TOU WILL SEE REFERENCES TO

 

THE THULE SOCIETY, MYSTICAL NORTHERN HOME OF THE ARYANS, GIANTS

LIVING UNDER THE MOUNTAINS, THE 'HOLLOW EARTH THEORY', AND ARYOSOPHIC

CONNECTIONS TO TIBETAN MAGIC

AND UNDER THE EARTH TEACHINGS

 

CONNECTIONS TO ZEN BUDDHISM

 

NAZI RACISTS WHO STUDIED 'SUFISM'.

THE IDEA THAT HITLER CONSIDERED HIMSELF THE REINCARNATION OF A

POWERFUL PERSON WHO BETRAYED EUROPE TO THE MUSLIM INVASION.

THE IDEA THAT HITLER'S OCCULT GURU ECKART CONSIDERED HIMSELF THE

REINCARNATION OF A LEADER WHO BETRAYED CHRISTIAN EUROPE TO THE ARAB

MUSLIMS.

 

NAZI OCCULTS LINKS TO MUSLIMS [sUFISM] IN SICILY.

 

NAZI CONNECTIONS TO SOCIAL DARWINISM AND THE PRE NAZI ANGLO-AMERICAN

EUGENICS AND EUTHANASIA MOVEMENTS.

 

NAZI CONNECTIONS TO THEOSOPHY, ALISTER CROWLEY ETC.

 

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BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF NAZI OCCULTISM.

 

THE THULE NORTHERN HOME OF THE ARYANS IS ONE OF THE DOCTRINES AT THE

CORE OF ARYOSOPHISM. OF COURSE THERE IS A VAST AMOUNT OF OVERT AND

COVERT NAZI PROPAGANDA FLOATING AROUND IN SUPPORT OF VARIOUS VERSIONS

OF THIS IDEA. LIKE THE JESUS TOMB IN KASHMIR HISTORICAL FRAUD, OR

THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY, IT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE RACIAL,

RELIGIOUS AND GEO-POLITICAL AGENDA OF THE ANTI-JEW, ANTI-CATHOLIC,

RACIST ARYANISTS.

 

IF WE WANT TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD, WE

MUST REALIZE THAT ARYOSOPHISM IS NOT DEAD, IT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN

EVER, AND DRIVING THE WHOLE WORLD TO YET ANOTHER WAR.

 

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The Unknown Hitler:

Nazi Roots in the Occult

Author Unknown

 

 

 

On April 6, 1919, in Bavaria, left wing socialists and anarchists

proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet Republic. The brains of the revolution

were a group of writers who had little idea of administration. Life

in munich grew chaotic. The counter-revolutionary forces, the whites,

composed of various groups of decommissioned soldiers known as "Frei

Corps", equipped and financed by the mysterious Thule Society,

defeated the Bavarian Soviet within a matter of weeks.

 

Many other decommissioned soldiers waited out the turbulence in

barracks, pfc Adolph Hitler among them. After the Bavarian Republic

had been defeated by the Whites, in May, Hitler's superiors put him

to work in the post revolution investigating commission. His

indictments injected ruthless efficiency into the kangaroo courts as

he fingered hundreds of noncommissioned officers and enlisted men who

had sympathized with the communist and anarchists. He was

subsequently sent to attend special anticommunist training courses

and seminars at the University which were financed by the Reichswehr

administration and by private donors from the Thule Society. This led

to an assignment in the intelligence division of the postwar German

army, to infiltrate groups that could organize the working classes

while the communists were weak. On a September evening, 1919, Hitler

turned up in the Sternecker Beer Hall where members and friends of

the budding German Workers Party had gathered. He quietly listened to

the presentation by engineer Gottfried Feder, a Thule Society member,

who talked about jewish control over lending capital. When one of the

other group members called for Bavaria to break away from the rest of

Germany, Hitler sprang into action. The astonished audience stood by

while his highly aggressive remarks and compelling oratory swept

through the room. After Hitler had finished his harangue, party

chairman and founder, Anton Drexler, immediately asked him to a

meeting of the party's steering committee held a few days later. He

was asked to join the committee as its seventh member, responsible

for advertising and propaganda.

 

Back in 1912, several German occultists with radical anti-semitic

inclinations decided to form a "magic" lodge, which they named the

Order of Teutons. the main founders were Theodor Fritsch, a publisher

of an anti-semitic journal; Philipp Stauff, pupil of the racist Guido

Von List, and Hermann Pohl, the order's chancellor. (Pohl would drop

out three years later to found his own bizarre lodge, the Walvater

Teutonic Order of the Holy Grail.) The Order of Teutons was organized

along the lines of the Free Masons or the Rosicrucians, having

differing degrees of initiation, only persons who could fully

document that they were of pure "aryan" ancestry were allowed to

join.

 

In 1915, Pohl was joined by Rudolf Blauer, who held a Turkish

passport and practiced sufi meditation. He also dabbled in astrology

and was an admirer of Lanz Von Liebenfels and Guido Von List, both

pathologically anti-semitic. Blauer went by the name of Rudolf

Freiherr Von Seboottendorf. He was very wealthy, although the origin

of his fortune is unknown. He became the Grand Master of the Bavarian

Order and he founded the Thule Society, with Pohl's approval, in

1918.

 

After the Bavarian communist revolution of 1918, the Thule Society

became a center of the counterrevolutionary subculture. An espionage

network and arms caches were organized. The Thule Club rooms became a

nest of resistance to the revolution and the Munich Soviet Republic.

 

Journalist Karl Harrer was given the job of founding a

political "worker circle". He realized that the workers would reject

any program that was presented to them by a member of the

conservative "privileged" class. Harrer knew that the mechanic Anton

Drexler, who was working for the railroads, was a well-known anti-

semite, chauvinist and proletarian. With drexler as nominal chairman,

Harrer founded the German Workers Party in January 1919

 

The German Workers Party was only one of many associations founded

and controlled by the Thule Society. The Thule was the "mother" to

the German Socialist Party, led by Julius Streicher, and the right-

wing radical Oberland Free Corps. It published the Munich observer,

which later became the National Observer. Hitler became the most

prominent personality in the party. He caused Harrer to drop out, and

he pushed Drexler, the nominal chairman, to the sidelines. He filled

key positions with his own friends from the Thule Society and the

Army. During the summer of 1920, upon his suggestion, the party was

renamed the National Socialist German Worker Party (NASDAP). The new

name was intended to equally attract nationalists and proletarians.

 

To go along with the new name his mass movement also required a flag

with a powerful symbol. Among many designs under consideration,

Hitler picked the one suggested by Thule member Dr. Krohn: a red

cloth with a white circle in the middle containing a black swastika.

 

Hitler wanted to turn the German Workers Party into a mass-conscious

fighting party, but Harrer and Drexler were hesitant, due in part to

their woeful financial situation. The Thule Society was not yet

supplying very much money and no one seemed to know how to build up a

mass party. Hitler arranged two public meetings in obscure beer

halls, and he drafted leaflets and posters, but there was no real

breakthrough.

 

All of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when Hitler

met Dietrich Eckart. Most biographers have underestimated the

influence that Eckart exerted on Hitler. He was the wealthy publisher

and editor-in-chief of an anti-semitic journal which he called In

Plain German. Eckart was also a committed occultist and a master of

magic. As an initiate, Eckart belonged to the inner circle of the

Thule Society as well as other esoteric orders.

 

Briefly, the creed of the Thule Society inner circle is as follows:

Thule was a legendary island in the far north, similar to Atlantis,

supposedly the center of a lost, high-level civilization. But not all

secrets of that civilization had been completely wiped out. Those

that remained were being guarded by ancient, highly intelligent

beings (similar to the "Masters" of Theosophy or the White

Brotherhood). The truly initiated could establish contact with these

beings by means of magic-mystical rituals. The "Masters"

or "Ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with

supernatural strength and energy. With the help of these energies the

goal of the initiated was to create a race of Supermen of "Aryan"

stock who would exterminate all "inferior" races.

 

There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to Hitler by

other Thulists - trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence,

self projection, persuasive oratory, body language and discursive

sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able to

move the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere

to a mass movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert

orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast audience.

 

One should not underestimate occultism's influence on Hitler. His

subsequent rejection of Free Masons and esoteric movements, of

Theosophy, of Anthrosophy, does not necessarily mean otherwise.

Occult circles have long been known as covers for espionage and

influence peddling. Hitler's spy apparatus under Canaris and Heydrich

were well aware of these conduits, particularly from the direction of

Britain which had within its MI5 intelligence agency a department

known as the Occult Bureau. That these potential sources of trouble

were purged from Nazi life should not be taken to mean that Hitler

and the Nazi secret societies were not influenced by mystical and

occult writers such as Madame Blavatsky, Houston Stewart Chamberlain,

Guido Von List, Lanz Von Liebenfels, Rudolf Steiner, George

Gurdjieff, Karl Haushofer and Theodor Fritsch. Although Hitler later

denounced and ridiculed many of them, he did dedicate his book Mein

Kampf to his teacher Dietrich Eckart.

 

A frequent visitor to Landsberg Prison where Hitler was writing Mein

Kampf with the help of Rudolf Hess, was General Karl Haushofer, a

university professor and director of the Munich Institute of

Geopolitics. Haushofer, Hitler, and Hess had long conversations

together. Hess also kept records of these conversations. Hitler's

demands for German "Living Space" in the east at the expense of the

Slavic nations were based on the geopolitical theories of the learned

professor. Haushofer was also inclined toward the esoteric. as

military attache in Japan, he had studied Zen-Buddhism. He had also

gone through initiations at the hands of Tibetan Lamas. He became

Hitler's second "esoteric mentor", replacing Dietrich Eckart. In

Berlin, Haushofer had founded the Luminous Lodge or the Vril Society.

The lodge's objective was to explore the origins of the Aryan race

and to perform exercises in concentration to awaken the forces

of "Vril". Haushofer was a student of the Russian magician and

metaphysician Gregor Ivanovich Gurdyev (George Gurdjieff). Both

Gurdjeiff and Haushofer maintained that they had contacts with secret

Tibetan Lodges that possessed the secret of the "Superman". The lodge

included Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Himmler, Goring, and Hitler's

subsequent personal physician Dr. Morell. It is also known that

Aleister Crowley and Gurdjieff sought contact with Hitler. Hitler's

unusual powers of suggestion become more understandable if one keeps

in mind that he had access to the "secret" psychological techniques

of the esoteric lodges. Haushofer taught him the techniques of

Gurdjieff which, in turn, were based on the teachings of the Sufis

and the Tibetan Lamas- and familiarized him with the Zen teaching of

the Japanese Society of the Green Dragon.

 

>From "The Unknown Hitler" by Wulf Schwartzwaller, Berkeley Books,

1990

 

 

 

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The Men Behind Hitler - excerpts from the book by Bernard Schreiber

 

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English political economist

and historian who in 1796 published a book called "An Essay on the

Principle of Population" in which he said that poverty, and thereby

vice and misery, are unavoidable because population growth always

exceeds food production. Checks on population growth were wars,

famine, and diseases.

 

Malthus's ideas had great impact, only a few asked on what his claims

were actually based. Yet neither Malthus nor his later disciples ever

managed to put forward any scientific proof for his theory. Many

scientists have disproved Malthus' theory and the ideology resulting

from it.

 

However, with the book, Malthus created an atmosphere which moved his

adherents in 1834 to pass a new law providing for the institution of

work- houses for the poor, in which the sexes were strictly separated

to curb the otherwise inevitable overbreeding. This kind of

philosophy urged the calling forth of drastic measures. The full

title of Charles Darwin's famous book is not so famous: "The Origin

of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of

Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". In it he explains the

development of life-forms as a struggle for existence. The result of

this struggle would be a natural selection of those species and races

who were to triumph over those weaker ones who would perish.

 

Francis Galton (1822-1911) was an english psychologist and a half-

cousin of Darwin. Galton extended Darwin's theory into a concept of

deliberate social intervention, which he said was a logical

application of evolution to the human race. He called his

theory "Eugenics", the principle of which was that by encouraging

better human stock to breed and discouraging the reproduction of less

desirable stock, the whole race could be improved.

 

Modern racism really began with Arthur Count de Gabon (1816-1882) who

published his "Essay on the Inequality of Human Races". He wrote in

of a fair-haired Aryan race that was superior to all the others whose

remnants constituted a tiny racial aristocracy decaying under the

overwhelming weight of inferior races. A revival of his work in

Germany began ten years after his death by the Pan-Germans, an

extremely nationalistic and anti-jewish group.

 

In 1899, Gabon's disciple, Houston Stewart Chaimberlain (1844-1927),

an Englishman, published "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century",

in Germany. He upheld the German race to be the purest and damned the

inferior races, the jews and negroes, as degenerate. From this point

on, Eugenics, Social Darwinism and racial hygiene fused into a single

concept.

 

In 1904 the first chairs in Eugenics were instituted at University

College, London, followed by the establishment of the Galton

Laboratory for National Eugenics in 1907. In 1910 the Eugenic Record

Office was founded in the United States, both institutes used the

research results of the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics to

propose practical applications. Eugenics was used an the "scientific"

basis upon which racism was fused to politics.

 

Eugenicists believed that the child of a mentally-ill person and a

mentally heathy person would be a mentally-ill offspring. This led to

a series of escalating regimens: separation from society, restraint,

separation of the sexes in defective's colonies, and sterilizations.

In Great Britain one of the leaders of the mental hygiene movement

was Miss Evelyn Fox. She had been an active member of the Eugenics

Society before the foundation of the National Council for Mental

Hygiene, of which she was an officer and founder. among the board

members was Sir Cyril Burt, who later founded Mensa, a high i.q.

group which espoused eugenic principles. The mental hygiene movement

drew strongly from the eugenic movements of whatever country they

were in.

 

Shortly after the turn of the century eugenic organizations were set

up throughout the world. While the whole world was being prepared by

propaganda for the sterilization of the insane, the adherents of

mental hygiene and eugenics were preparing their next step,

euthanasia. In the U.S.A.., Dr. Alexis Carrel, a nobel prize winner

who had been on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute since its

inception, published his book "Man the Unknown" in 1935. In it he

suggests the removal of the mentally ill and the criminal by small

euthanasia institutions equipped with suitable gases.

 

In 1933 the Nazi party rapidly consolidated its power. In June of

that year, Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick put in motion the

passage of the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in

Posterity"- the sterilization law. Architect of the law was Ernst

Rudin, professor of psychiatry at the Munich University, director of

the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Genealog, and of the Research

Institute for Psychiatry. A separate legal system was set up

consisting of "Hereditary Health Courts", which could decree

sterilization against a person's will. By 1935 the "Nuremburg Laws"

intended to insure the racial purity of the nation and was aimed

specifically at the Jews.

 

In 1934 the Institute for Heredity, Biology and Racial Research was

founded at Frankfurt University by professor Ernst Rudin's colleague

at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Dr. Otmar Freiherr Von Verscheur.

Von Verscheur's assistant there was Dr. Joseph Mengele.

 

In England, Dr. Charles Killick Millard, president of the Society of

Medical Officers of Health, brought up in 1931 the question of

voluntary euthanasia and proposed a suitable law. Later he became

fellow founder of the Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Society. In

1935 Lord Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons,

founded the Euthanasia Society .

 

Sterilization and euthanasia were not the ideas of the Nazis and

never had been. They were ideas which were supported and promoted

throughout the world by groups with an interest in the development of

mental hygiene. Germany, however, was the only country in which the

political climate allowed materialization of the final goal of

sterilization and euthanasia.

 

There is not a great deal known about "T4" compared to other aspects

of Nazi Germany. T4 was the Fuhrer Chancellery and the initials came

from the full address which was Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin. "Project

T4" was fully integrated into the organizational structure of the

Reich and fell under section 11b. ("mercy-death") of the Chancellery

of the Fuhrer. Four cover organizations safeguarded the project T4:

the Realms Work Committee in charge of collecting information on

candidates for euthanasia from questionnaires sent to hospitals, the

Realms Committee for Scientific Approach to Severe Illness Due to

Heredity set up exclusively to apply euthanasia to children, the

charitable company for the transport of the sick which transported

patients to the killing centers, and the Charitable Foundation for

Institutional Care, in charge of final disposition of the victims'

remains.

 

At the time the questionnaires went out a number of mental hospitals

were being converted for use as killing centers and schools for

murder. Death chambers were built disguised as shower-baths and

crematoriums, which were identical to those later to be established

in the death camps in Poland.

 

Schooling of the personnel at Hadamar Mental Institution produced

perfect murderers who were used to the smell of burnt flesh, had been

taught to trick people being led to their death and to steel

themselves against the crying and pleading of the victims. On

arrival, the victims were stripped, dressed in paper shirts and

forthwith taken to a gas chamber where they were murdered with

hydrocyanic acid gas, and the bodies moved to crematoriums by

conveyer belts, six bodies to a furnace. The psychiatrist in charge

at Hadamar was Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, an active member of the German

Mental Hygiene Movement.

 

After the state had been relieved of the burden of these

undesireables, the operation, still under the direction of eminent

mental health psychiatrists in T4, was expanded under the code of

14F13. From being limited to mental hospitals and institutions, it

now embraced German and Austrian inmates and Jews in concentration

camps who were sick or invalid. At Dachau at the end of 1941 a

commission composed of 4 psychiatrists under professor Dr. Werner

Heyde, SS Standartenfuhrer and lecturer in neurology and psychiatry

at Wurzburg University, arrived at the camp and selected hundred of

patients incapable of work who were transported to the gas chambers

and disposed of.

 

The extermination camps had followed a separate evolution from the

concentration camps that were opened a few months after the Nazi rise

to power. These death camps had their headquarters, not in Himmler's

SS organization, but in the Fuhrer's Chancellory (T4). Franz Stangl

(Austrian Gestapo) said at the Nuremberg trials that his progression

to builder and commander of the Sobibor Extermination Camp went

through the Hartheim and Bernberg euthanasia centers. The original

staff at Sobibor was taken from Hartheim.

 

During the war eugenics became associated with the Nazis and

afterwards a global whitewashing began. The first step was the

reconstitution of the many National Councils of Mental Hygiene. The

first was the British Association for Mental Health. Lady Prescilla

Norman, wife of Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, had

been working in the mental hygiene movement since the 20's. In 1944

they sponsored a congress held at the Ministry of Health in London

where they established the World Federation of Mental Health-WFMH.

 

The first elected president of the WFMH was Dr. John Rawlings Rees, a

British psychiatrist associated with the Tavistock Institute. In 1948

the WFMH was formally inaugurated at the Third International Congress

of Mental Health. A vice-president of the Congress was Dr. Carl G.

Jung who was described by fellow vice-president Dr. Conti

as "representing German psychiatry under the Nazis". Dr. Jung had

been co-editor of the Journal for Psychotherapy with Dr. M. H.

Goering, the cousin of Marshal Hermann Goering.

 

It may be that the real key to the Third Reich lies buried in the

history of Tibet, for it was here that Karl Haushofer, the initiate

who taught the youthful Hitler, first met in literal fact the

Superman of Nazi legend.

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THE CONTROVERSY OF THE OCCULT REICH By John Roemer

This article is transcribed from an issue of Gnosis Magazine.

 

One hundred years after Adolf Hitler's birth near Linz in Austria on

April 20 1889, and decades after his malign empire metastasized in

Bavaria in Bavaria, the Hitler phenomenon remains to mainstream

historians largely inexplicable, or at least unexplained. The man and

his awful work seem to stand outside history looking in. Perhaps our

human fear of the irrational is so great that we instinctively hold

Hitler at a great remove in order that we need not admit him to our

company.

 

In light of this it isn't very surprising that an extensive

literature exists seeking an occult rationale for the otherwise

baffling catastrophe Hitler represents. As Louis Pauwels and Jacques

Bergier point out in the MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS (1960), the Nazi

era simply defies conventional analysis:

 

 

A self taught madman, surrounded by a handful of

megalomaniacs,rejects Descartes, spurns the whole humanist culture,

tramples on reason, invokes Lucifer, conquers Europe, and nearly

conquers the world... The historian begins to feel anxious and to

wonder whether his art is viable.1

Pauwels and Bergier were among the first postwar proponents of a

black magical explanation for the Third Reich.1a About a quarter of

their book is devoted to a region they call "The Absolute Elsewhere,"

a neverland where Nazi pseudosciences and occult methodology held

official sway. They quote a Hitlerian pronouncement to demonstrate

that the Fuhrer's intellectual development was on a level wholly

different from that understood by the Western tradition: "there is a

Nordic and National Socialist science which is opposed to Jewish-

Liberal science".2 Reality was defined by politics.

 

Nazi "science" has brought hoots of derision from those who hold to

the Cartesian model. In place of psychology there was an occult

frappe composed of the mysticism of Gurdijeff, the theosophy of

Madame Blavatsky and the archetypes of Nordic mythology.3 In place of

Newtonian physics stood the cosmic force called vril, the bizarre

geology known as the hollow earth theory, and the frigid cosmology of

Hans Horbiger's Welteislehre, the doctrine of eternal ice.

 

Nazi thought excluded psychoanalysis, which has in fact been not very

helpful in explaining the etiology of great evil, although Robert

G.L. Waite's effort, quoted above and published in 1977 by Basic

Books, is good on several provocative subjects: Hitler's

sadomasochistic sex life; the possibility he had a Jewish

grandfather; and his Viennese mentors, who are described at greater

length by the authors about to be mentioned.

 

Nazism officially rejected the theory of relativity as "Jewish

science". Not only Freud but EInstein too was forced to flee Hitler's

Europe. He and other physicists eventually were able to ensure that

atomic secrets remained in the hands of the allies until they could

be used spectacularly to climax the Pacific war.

 

Horbiger's physics derived from an intuitive flash he experienced

late in the nineteenth century. "... As a young engineer," he

wrote, "I was watching one day some molten steel poured on wet ground

covered with snow: the ground exploded after some delay and with

great violence."4

 

This conflict of opposites, of fire and ice, is a theme that inspired

Horbiger and resonated for German nationalists because it recurs in

the Icelandic Eddas, the sourcebooks of Teutonic mythology. It all

makes good sense in Iceland, since that island's peculiar geology

feature numerous volcanic rifts in the permafrost; fire and ice are

commonly juxtaposed all over the landscape. As grounds for a

cosmology- the word implies universality- it is at best dubious. It

would be a hard sell in Hawaii.

 

Nevertheless, Nazi science was influential out of all proportion to

its objective validity. Hoerbiger was immensely influential in the

Third Reich. His followers numbered in the tens of thousands. There

were scores of Horbigerian books, hundreds of Welteislehre pamphlets,

and a monthly magazine called THE KEY TO WORLD EVENTS. As one tract

put it,

 

 

Our Nordic ancestors grew strong amidst the ice and snow, and this is

why a belief in a world of ice is the natural heritage of Nordic men.

It was Austrian, Hitler, who drove out the Jewish politicians, and

another Austrian, Horbiger, (who) will drive out the Jewish

scientists. By his own example Hitler has shown that an amateur to

give us a thorough understanding of the Universe.

Hitler's fatal confidence in the success of his troops on the Russian

front during the 1941 - 2 winter is generally believed to have been a

result of his misplaced faith in Horbiger's weather forecasts.

Despite such setbacks, the Welteislehre managed to thrive even after

the war. The popular speculations of Immanuel Velikovsky derive in

part from Horbiger. In 1953 a survey conducted by Martin Gardner

showed that more than a million people in Germany, England, and the

U.S. believed that Horbiger was right6.

 

The Horbigerian cosmology posited an early epoch, some fifteen

million years ago, during which a hugh moon moved across the sky very

near the earth. Its gravitational attraction gave rise to a race of

our ancestors, the giants. These giants, which appear in the ancient

Norse and Icelandic sagas, sleep, yet they are alive. To the Nazis,

they were Supermen. In one set of myths, contained in the

Nibelungenlied, they lived beneath Teutonic mountains. In another

they were prototype Aryans from the East, inhabiting vast Tibetan

caverns.

 

Three other books that investigate hidden influences on Gerald

Suster's HITLER: THE OCCULT MESSIAH; Jean-Michel Angebert's THE

OCCULT AND THE THIRD REICH; and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's THE OCCULT

ROOTS OF NAZISM.

 

Suster's book largely rehashes Pauwels and Bergier. Angebert

(actually a pen name for two French writers) interestingly links

Hitler to an ancient dualist tradition he traces from Manichaenism in

Persia through the Essenes, Jesus's Palestinian forebears, to the

Cathars in the south of France in the Middle Ages. It's philosophy in

which, in its Nazi incarnation, solar forces of light represented by

blond, fair-skinned Aryans strive against the evil forces of

darkness, who are of course dark skinned Semites.

 

Both books, but especially Suster's are written in prose that stops

just this side of tabloid journalese. This is too bad for two

reasons. One, the authors diminish some important material by this

kind of presentation. Two, the lessons we have to learn about mass

psychopathology and about the history of fascism are too important to

be trivalized in this way.

 

Goodrick-Clark's is a serious and compelling historical look at

ariosophy, a dangerous amalgam of Aryan racism, pan-German

nationalism, and occultism that flourished in Austria and Germany

from around 1890 well into the era when Himmler's Death's Head SS was

organized. Himmler is said by Pauwels and Bergier to have taken the

Jesuits for his model, and to have installed a regular hierarchy

ranging from lay brothers to father superior, and to have used this

Black Order in horrific rites.8

 

THE OCCULT ROOTS OF NAZISM identifies wide circle of proto-Nazi

philosophers, previously almost unknown, who saw in the chaos that

beset Germany after the Treaty of Versailles the working out of

ancient Aryan prophecies. Among them was Rudolf John Gorsleben, who

interesting career Goodrick-Clarke sums up in a sentence: "on the

basis of the runes, occultism, and the Edda, Gorsleben created an

original racist mystery-religion which illuminated the priceless

magical heritage of the Aryans and justified their spiritual and

political world-supremacy."9

 

Gorsleben was active in right-wing politics in Bavaria in the years

Hitler was forming his political convictions there, and he lectured

to the Thule Society, a Munich club thought to have greatly

influenced Nazism in its infancy (see below). He also edited a weekly

newspaper called German Freedom; in 1927 he changed the name to Aryan

Freedom.

 

He derived the word 'race' from rata, an Old Norse term

meaning 'root', in order to conclude that God and race were

identical.... He maintained that racial mixing was always detrimental

for the racially superior partner, since his purity was debased in

the progeny, and he repeated the common volkisch [folkish] conviction

that woman could be 'impregnated' by intercourse, even when no

conception occurred, so that her subsequent offspring bore the

characteristics of her first lover. Given these overwhelming

pressures towards the increasing bastardization of the German

descendants of the Aryan race, only the strict practice of

segregation and eugenics could guarantee the reversal of racial

contamination in the world.10

 

Another book which hold that Hitler learned many of his occult lesson

from avatars in Vienna and Munich may well be the best known black

magical explanation of Nazism to have been put forth so far. Trevor

Ravenscroft's THE SPEAR OF DESTINY was published by that famous

British house of occultism, the aptly named Neville Spearman Ltd,.in

1972, and has since gone through many edition.11

 

Ravenscroft is intriguing because instead of reporting historical

influences on Hitler, he presents secret history in a narrative form

that purports to be factual and that-if true maybe even if only

poetically "true"-goes a long way toward finding a convincing occult

explanation for the Nazi phenomenon.

 

Two challenges to Ravenscroft's facts, discussed below, have led some

readers to conclude his book is more nearly a novel than strict

history. Nonetheless, its provocative premise and fluent synthesis of

black magical thematics will keep it on occult booklists until a

better effort at explaining Hitler comes along.

 

Ravenscroft, a British journalist, historian, and World War II

commando officer, spent four years in Nazi prison camps after he was

captured attempting to assassinate General Erwin Rommel in North

Africa in 1941. His personal perspective on the Hitler era is based

on material he says he got in a state of transcendent consciousness

while imprisoned. He introduces his methodology by speaking of:

 

 

my own experience of higher levels of consciousness whilst in a Nazi

Concentration Camp during the war, and how the nature of this

transcendent experience had guided me to a study of the Spear of

Longinus and the legend of world destiny which had grown up around

it.12

Later, in London, his intuitive suspicions about certain grail relics

and their importance in occult Hitlerian history were confirmed by a

Viennese exile called Dr. Walter Johannes Stein who died in 1957.

 

Dr. Stein spent much of the war as a British secret agent, but before

that time he was a scholar who employed white magical means to

clairvoyantly investigate historical events. It was his book on the

grail mythos published in Stuttgart in 1928 and titled THE NINTH

CENTURY: WORLD HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF THE HOLY GRAIL13 that

attracted Ravenscroft to him.

 

THE SPEAR OF DESTINY focuses first on Hitler's lost years in Vienna

from 1909 to 1913. During that time, Ravenscroft writes, Dr. Stein

was pursuing his occult researches as a student at the University of

Vienna and getting to know Hitler, then a dropout living in a

flophouse.

 

Vienna was during Hitler's years there a vortex of modern thinking.

Freud was in practice at Berggasse 19; Ludwig Wittgenstein was in

residence pondering avant garde philosophy and metaphysics; Gustav

Mahler had returned home to die and to name his protege, Arnold

Schonberg. In contrast there persisted the deep anti-Semitic currents

that had caused Mahler to convert to Catholicism, that forced Freud

eventually to flee to London and that informed the ancient pan-German

folkoric nostalgia espoused by Guido von List.

 

This old black magician, whose occult lodge Ravenscroft says

substituted the swastika for the cross in perversion and the practice

of medireview thaumaturgy, looked like a wizard in floppy cap and

long white beard. His link to Hitler was allegedly through an occult

bookseller, Ernst Pretzche, in whose shop the future Fuhrer found a

second home.

 

In the shop Dr. Stein found a copy of Wolfram von Eschenbach's

PARZIVAL, the medireview grail romance that Dr. Stein was himself

researching for his work on the ninth century. In the book's margins

were handwritten annotations; looking them over Dr.Stein was

fascinated and repelled:

 

 

This was no ordinary commentary but the work of somebody who had

achieved more than a working knowledge of the black arts! The unknown

commentator had found the key to unveiling many of the deepest

secrets of the Grail, yet obviously spurned the Christian ideals of

the Knights and delighted in the devious machinations of the Anti-

Christ. It suddenly dawned on him that he was reading the footnotes

of Satan!14

The footnotes, of course, proved to have been Hitler's. Soon

afterward, Dr.Stein and Hitler saw the Reich's lance together in the

Imperial Museum at the Hofburg. Dr. Stein had been there before and

had never failed to be moved by the sight of the old relic, supposed

to have been moved by the original spear with which the Roman

centurion, Longinus, pierced the side of Christ during the

crucifixation. Longinus was a German, and his "spear of destiny" was

fated to play a magical role in the careers of German leaders like

Charlemagne, Otto the Great, and Frederick Barbarossa. Dr. Stein said

the spear inspired in him the emotion expressed in the motto of the

knights of the holy grail: Durch Mitleid wissen, "through compassion

to self knowledge."

 

Then he glanced at Hitler:

 

Walter Stein found he was not the only one moved by the sight of this

historic spearhead. Adolf Hitler stood beside him, like a man in a

trance, a man over whom some dreadful magic spell had been cast...

The very space around him seemed enlivened with some subtle

irradiation, a kind of ghostly ectoplasmic light. His whole

physiognomy and stance appeared transformed as if some might Spirit

now inhabited his very soul, creating within and around him a kind of

evil transfiguration of its own nature and power.15

 

Latter Hitler took Dr. Stein up the Danube to visit his mystic

teacher, a rustic woodcutter and herbalist named Hans Lodz "who

retained in his peasant's blood the last traces of the atavistic

clairvoyance of the ancient Germanic tribes" and who "resembled a

mischievous yet malevolent dwarf from the pages of Grimm's Fairy

Tales or an illustration from a book on ancient Germanic folklore".16

The men took a swim in the river at which Dr. Stein noticed that

Hitler had only one testicle.

 

It was Lodz, Dr.Stein learned, who had prepared for Hitler a peyote

concoction that afforded him psychedelic insight into his past lives.

The peyote itself had come from Pretzche, who had lived for a time in

the German colony in Mexico. Hitler had hoped that his former

existences, viewed in his drug trance, would include an early

incarnation as a powerful Teutonic ruler, but it was not to be.

 

Instead his psychedelic perception revealed non Eschenbach's Parzival

to have been prophetic of events that would take place a thousand

years after it was written, i.e. in the present. And it showed Hitler

to have been the historical personage behind the evil sorcerer

Klingsor, the very spirit of the anti-Christ and the villain of

Parzival.

 

According to Dr. Stein's work Klingsor was in fact Landulf II of

Capua, the traitorous confidant of the Holy Roman Emperor who

betrayed Christianity to the Moslem invaders of Italy and Spain.

 

Armed with the knowledge of his black spiritual ancestry, Ravenscroft

writes, Hitler moved to Germany, joined the Bavarian Army, survived

the hellish trench warfare on the western front, won the Iron Cross,

second class, and got discharged in Munich where he encountered the

men who were to invent National Socialism.

 

Virtually every study of Hitler's time in Munich mentions the Thule

Society as superficially a kind of Elk's Club of German mythology

which met often and openly at a fancy metropolitan hotel and for a

time counted Hitler as a member. Behind the scenes, however the

society seems to have been considerably more sinister.

 

Robert Payne whose excellent Hitler biography contains no occult

explanations, describes the Thule Society as the center of the right

wing opposition to the brief Bavarian postwar socialist coup under

the Jewish intellectual Kurt Eisner.

 

 

The reaction set in swiftly, as the extreme right gathered its

forces. The headquarters of the reaction was the Hotel

Vierjahreszeiten, where several floors were given over to the Thule

Society, ostensibly a literary club devoted to the study of Nordic

culture but in fact a secret political organization devoted to

violent anti-Semitism and rule by an aristocratic elite. The name of

the organization derived from ultima Thule, the unknown northern land

believed to be the original home of the German race... The symbol of

the Thule Society was a swastika with a dagger enclosed in laurel

leaves.17

Most of the occult historians of the era believe the Thule Society

operated on a deeper level still, a level headed by a mysterious

figure called Dietrich Eckart. Goodrick-Clarke calls Eckart Hitler's

mentor in the early days of the Nazi Party, along with Rudolf Hess

and Alfred Rosenberg.18

 

According to Ravenscroft, Eckart, like Hitler, first achieved

transcendence through psychedelic drugs. Research on peyote by the

German pharmacologist Ludwig Lewin had been published in 1886,

leading to widespread popular experimentation. Later a heroin

 

addict, in earlier days Eckart used peyote in the practice on neo-

pagan magic in Berlin. He came to believe that he, too was the

reincarnation of ninth century character. In his case it was Bernard

of Barcelona, a notorious betrayer of Christianity to the Arabs and a

black magician who used thaumaturgy to hold off Carolingian armies in

Spain.

 

Eckart assertedly organized Kurt EIsner's assassination and

personally chose Hitler-by then a battle-scarred veteran of the

horrors of trench warfare and a fervent critic of the armistice-to

lead the Aryan race back to supremacy.

 

Ravenscroft writes that Hitler had been prepared for satanic

initiation by his experiences in Vienna with peyote and with the

spear and by his mustard gassing in 1918, which left him blind and in

a state of enforced trance for several days.

 

He also says that the techniques Dietrich Eckart used were in part

derived from the sexual magic of Aleister Crowley. In 1912 this famed

British magician was named IX British head of a secret Berlin lodge

called Ordo Templi Orientis which practiced various forms of sexual

magic.19

 

Ravenscroft writes "there can be little doubt" that both Crowley and

Eckart conducted deep studies of the Arabian astrological magic

performed by Klingsor's real life counterpart, Landulf II. It was to

Sicily-then a Moslem stronghold-that Landulf fled after his

traitorous links to Islam were disclosed. And it was in a dark tower

in the mountains of the southwest corner of that island that his evil

soul festered with additional bitterness over his castration by the

relatives of a noblewoman he had raped. There he practiced sadistic

satanism of a nature that foreshadowed the horrors of Nazi

concentration camps.

 

 

If the legends that have come down from these dark centuries of

European history are true, these rituals carried out at Kalot Enbolot

included terrible tortures such as the slitting open of the stomach

of sacrificial victims and the slow drawing open of the stomach of

sacrificial victims and the slow drawing of their entrails, the

driving of stakes through the orifices of their bodies before

disembowelling them, and the invoking of Spirits of Darkness (incubi)

to rape young virgins kidnapped from their families.20

It was from his studies of the power available to practitioners of

such perversities that Eckart devised the rituals he used when

he "opened the centers of Adolf Hitler to give him a vision of and a

means of communication with the Powers." Ravenscroft concludes,

though he declines to furnish the full details: "Suffice it to say

that they were indescribably sadistic and ghastly." 21

 

Having done his worst, Eckart soon died, proudly advising those

around him:

 

 

Follow Hitler! he will dance, but it is I who have called the tune!

I have initiated him into the "Secret Doctrine", opened his centers

of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers. Do

not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more than any other

German.22

 

Not unnaturally the question rises whether any of THE SPEAR OF

DESTINY is true. It's certainly a great story, one which Ravenscroft

elaborates with a lengthy investigation of Hitler's sex life, in

which he makes a case for associating the reports of the Fuehrer's

missing testis to the perversities resulting from Landulf's

castration.

 

The problem lies with Ravenscroft's primary source, Dr. Walter

Johannes Stein. And the problem with Dr.Stein is really two problems:

one his method of historical research: and two, the fact that he is

dead and unable to speak for himself.

 

Given his method, of course, this second problem should not be

insurmountable. Had we the technique, Dr. Stein could presumably

verify each of Ravenscroft's assertion for us from beyond the grave.

For Dr. Stein is alleged to have studied history not in the libraries

and archives that are the usual haunt of the historian but in an

arena called the Cosmic Chronicle where, according to Ravenscroft,

past present and future were united in a higher dimension of time.

 

What's more Ravenscroft reveals in his introduction, Dr.Stein taught

the same techniques to him.

 

It is, however, undeniably difficult, if not unprecedented, to

footnote clairvoyance. We have to take on faith that the SPEAR OF

DESTINY is what Dr.Stein told Ravenscroft. This is not to say that

all of his information came from the Cosmic Chronicle; Dr. Stein as

we have seen is purported to have been present in Vienna during

Hitler's lost years there. Nor did their close association end in

Austria. Ravenscroft says Dr. Stein "watched at close quarters" the

founding of the Nazi party and Hitler's association with Eckart and

other sinister mentors.

 

 

When Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler ordered Dr.Stein's arrest in

Stuttgart in 1933 in order to press him into service with the SS

Occult Bureau, he escaped from Germany and brought with him to

Britain the most authoritative knowledge of the occultism of the Nazi

Party.23

Nowhere does Ravenscroft made it clear whether he's talking about

eyewitness knowledge on Dr.Stein's part or about the sort of

information to be gleaned from the Cosmic Chronicle. But two critics

of the SPEAR OF DESTINY do cast doubt on several of the factual

assertions upon the factual assertions upon which Ravenscroft's

argument is built.

 

One is Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, whose book on the occult roots of

Nazism is quoted above. In an appendix called "THE MODERN MYTHOLOGY

OF NAZI OCCULTISM", Goodrick-Clarke takes Ravenscroft to task for the

story about Hitler's relations with the occult

 

bookseller in Vienna and for his claim that Guido Von List was forced

to flee from outraged Viennese Catholics in 1909 after the sexual

rites of his blood brotherhood were exposed. he writes flatly,

 

 

There is not a shred of evidence for such rituals. List was never

obliged to leave Vienna and he enjoyed the patronage of prominent

Vienna figures...The fictional nature of the whole episode

surrounding the annotated copy of copy of Parzival is suggested by

the similarity of Pretzsche's obscure bookshop to the one described

by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in ZANONI (1842), which probably served

Ravenscroft as a literary model.24

Goodrick-Clarke also criticizes Jean Michael Angebert's book, THE

OCCULT AND THE THIRD REICH, cited above. He brands as imaginary

Angebert's account of the young Hitler's association with Lanz von

Lebenfels.

 

As noted earlier, Goodrick-Clarke's book is an important and serious

piece of research on Guido von List and Lanz von Lievenfels. But the

author seems a little over-sensitive toward other writers who invoke

his two subjects. Nevertheless, his critique of Angebert and

Ravenscroft, though brief, does offer a glimpse of the misgivings

that professional historians feel regarding such material.

 

More extensive criticisms have been offered by Christoph Lindenberg

in his review of THE SPEAR OF DESTINY in the German journal Die Drie.

Lindenberg has done some effective digging at the Vienna Records

office. Ravenscroft has Hitler sitting high up in the cheap seats of

the Vienna Opera House in the winter of 1910 - 1 watching Wagner's

Parzifal and sympathizing with Klingsor. This proves to have been

impossible, because Lindenberg learned that the first performance of

Wagner's opera took place three years later, on January 14,1914.

 

Ravenscroft's second mistake was to name the Viennese bookseller who

introduced Hitler to drugs. "No better name occurred to him than

Pretsche, popular among English writers of fiction for German

malefactors," Lindenberg writes scornfully before revealing that

extensive checks of Vienna city and business directories and police

records for the years 1892 through 1920 were negative for the name in

question.25

 

Next, Lindenberg takes issue with Ravenscroft's description of the

Danube trip Hitler and Dr. Stein took in May 1913, to visit the

mystic woodcutter, Hands Lodz:

 

We can overlook Ravenscroft's mistake of speaking of "Wachau" as a

place and not of the region which really it is. But the details do

not fit: the snow melting in May, the steamer running in spite of the

floods, bathing in the river- it makes no sense. Certainly wrong is

the statement that Hitler had only one testicle... all this has been

completely refuted by [Werner] Maser.26

 

Ravenscroft's account of Hitler's circumstances in Vienna also come

in for some heavy criticism. Dr. Stein reportedly sat in a window

seat in Demel's Cafe, reading the anonymous marginalia in the copy of

Parzival he'd found and concluding they were "the footnotes of Satan"

when he looked through the glass and beheld "the most arrogant face

and demonical eyes he had ever seen". This was of course the future

Fuehrer in his legendary guise as an impoverished pavement artist,

selling homemade postcards, dressed in a big black "sleazy" coat, his

toes visible through the cracks in his shoes. When in August, 1912,

he sought Hitler out at the "flophouse" he lived in , in

Meldemannstrasse, he was told Hitler was away at Spittal-an-der-Drau

collecting a legacy left him by an aunt. Thereafter, Hitler dressed

well.27

 

Hitler did receive a legacy from his aunt, Johanna Poelzl, Lindenberg

reports. But this happens in March, 1911, and the aunt lived in

Spital-with-one-t, not on the Drau but in southern Austria.

Furthermore,

 

 

At no time of life did Hitler live in impoverished conditions, rather

he had always sufficient money. In the Meldenmannstrasse, a kind of

large hotel, Hitler paid a rent of 15 Kronen a month. So he could

afford a fairly expensive room and had no need to sell his pictures,

which in any case were no postcards. So this scene too, that

impoverished Hitler dressed in an oversized black coat selling water

colors in front of the Cafe Dehmel does not agree with the facts

either (cf. the two works by Werner Maser who with incredible care

collected all ascertained facts of Hitler's youth).28

In his discussion of the holy lance's power to evoke transcendent

experience, Ravenscroft has a scene in which the chief of the German

general staff, Helmut von Moltke, visited the relic in the company of

Conrad von Hoetzendorf, an Austrian general, shortly before the

outbreak of World War I. The spear's presence led von Moltke to have

a trance vision of himself incarnated as Pope Nicolas I, a ninth

century pontiff concerned, like von Moltke, with the balance of

geopolitical power between east and west.29

 

Untrue protests Lindenberg. "For Moltke visited Vienna neither in

1913 nor in 1914. Conrad and Moltke met on May 12, 1914 at Karlsbad,

from September 7 - 10, 1913, in Silesia, and at Leipzig on October 18

at the Centenary of the Battle of Leipzig. They had no other

meeting."30

 

Lindenberg has several other criticisms to make, such as the

assertion that "A number of people who intimately knew Walter

Johannes Stein in the last years of his life state that Stein never

met Hitler." Unfortunately Ravenscroft's aversion to footnotes has

also afflicted his critic, and Lindenberg nowhere names these people

nor does he document his other assertions.

 

Lindenberg doesn't like Ravenscroft's book; he calls it " a pollution

of our spiritual environment." And it is manifestly difficult for him

or anyone to rebut research done on the cosmic level.

 

What, in the end, was Hitler all about? Perhaps no better explanation

can be found than W.H. Auden's suggestions, made in his

poem "September 1,1939" and printed as an epigram to Robert G.L.

Waite's book. The date is the beginning of Hitler's Blitzkrieg

against Poland:

 

 

Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until

now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What

huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all

schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.