Nazism: The blond beast Part 1
It is evident why the Nazis regarded Nietzsche
as articulating their own ambitions. To Nietzsche, notions of evil derive mainly
from subjugated peoples envious of their masters. This tradition, which he
calls “slave morality,” he traced to the Judaic tradition, and contrasts it with the wild and life-affirming Aryan
tradition. In The Genealog y of Morals, Nietzsche introduces one of his most
controversial images, the “blond beast,” which he compares to a “beast of
prey,” impelled by a “good,” which is an irresistible instinct for mastery over
others. Nietzsche expressly insists that it is a mistake to hold beasts of prey
to be “evil,” for their actions stem from their inherent strength, rather than
any malicious intent. One should not blame them for their “thirst for enemies
and resistances and triumphs.” In On The Genealog y of Morals, he explains:
In the wilderness they make up for the
tension which a long fencedin confinement within the peace of the community brings about. They go back to the innocent
consciousness of a wild beast of prey, as joyful monsters, who perhaps walk
away from a dreadful sequence of murder, arson, rape, and torture with an
exhilaration and spiritual equilibrium, as if they had merely pulled off a student
prank, convinced that the poets now once again have something to sing about and
praise for a long time to come. At the bottom of all these noble races we
cannot fail to recognize the beast of prey, the blond beast splendidly roaming
around in its lust for loot and victory.
Pleas for mercy are just the desperate cries
of the weak, who refuse to surrender to the supremacy of their superiors.
Rather, it is the duty of the strong to eradicate the weak to purify the Aryan
race, the “blond beast.” In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche declared that the
preservation of the Superman is the
highest good and justifies: “the greatest
evil.” Nietzsche wrote in The Genealog y
of Morals:
The sick are the great danger of man, not the
evil, not the “beasts of prey.” They who are from the outset botched,
oppressed, broken those are they, the weakest are they, who most undermine the
life beneath the feet of man, who instill the most dangerous venom and
skepticism into our trust in life, in man, in ourselves… Here teem the worms of
revenge and vindictiveness; here the air
reeks of things secret and unmentionable; here is ever spun the net of the most
malignant conspiracy—the conspiracy of the sufferers against the sound and the
victorious; here is the sight of the victorious hated.
According to
Nietzsche’s thesis, socialists, democrats and the masses are the products
of the most primitive form of pre- Aryan society. According to Nietzsche, “Who can say whether modern democracy, even more modern anarchism and especially
that inclination for the ‘commune’, for the most primitive form of society,
which is now shared by all the socialists of Europe, does not signify in the
main a tremendous counterattack—and that the conqueror and master race,
the Aryan, is not succumbing
physiologically, too?” Nietzsche
continues: “These carriers of the most
humiliating and vengeance-seeking instincts, the descendants of all European
and non-European slavery, especially of the preAryan people—they
represent mankind’s regression!” And finally
Nietzsche concludes with a hymn of praise to the “blond Germanic beast”:
At heart in these predominant races we cannot
mistake the bird of prey, the blond beast who lusts after booty and victory…
The deep, icy mistrust the German brings
forth when he comes to power, even today, is an echo of the indelible outrage with
which Europe looked on the rage of the
blond Germanic beast for hundreds of years.
Nietzsche’s sister and chief promoter,
Elisabeth, would enthusiastically dub Hitler the “superman” her brother had
predicted.1 In 1932 she received a bouquet of roses from Hitler during a German premier of
Benito Mussolini’s 100 Days, and in
1934 Hitler personally presented her
with a wreath for Nietzsche’s grave carrying
the words “To A Great Fighter.” Also in 1934, Elisabeth gave Hitler her brother’s favorite walking stick,
and Hitler was photographed gazing into
the eyes of a white marble bust of
Nietzsche. Heinrich Hoffmann’s popular biography, Hitler as Nobody Knows
Him, featured the photo with the caption: “The Führer before the bust of the
German philosopher whose ideas have fertilized two great popular movements: the
National Socialist of Germany and the Fascist of Italy.” 2
Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier note in
their classic work, The Morning of the Magicians, Nazism was “’Guénonism’ plustanks.” 3
The Nazis were the gruesome result of the first attempt in modern history to
create a state guided by occult principles. According to Bergier and Pauwels, “The
rise of Nazism was one of those rare
moments in the history of our civilization, when a door was noisily and
ostentatiously opened on to something ‘Other’.” 3 The rise of Hitler and Mussolini were among history’s
darkest hours. What is so appalling is not just the barbarity, but the
fantastic scope of the ambition to so wholly dominate a society and conform it
to a single doctrine. And a doctrine focused on ritual. Derived from fascism, these regimes were founded on the
most pessimistic view of the human potential, as total obedience to imperial
objectives guided by a single man. Still more shocking is the degree to which,
for a time, they were successful.
The
Nazi Party was the result of a merging of the German branch of Crowley’s OTO and the
Thule Gesellschaftof Germany. 5
So Afghani’s influence departed
in two directions: the Nazi Party derived from the
influence of Jamal ud Din al Afghani through the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor,
while in Egypt his influence produced the
Salafi movement, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The organization primarily
responsible for the perpetration of most acts of terrorism in the name of Islam
in the twentieth century, the Muslim
Brotherhood, or Ikhwan al Muslimeen, was created in 1928 by Hassan al Banna, a student of Rashid Rida, in
reaction to the 1924 abolition of the caliphate.
As discovered by John Loftus, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence
officer, when he was allowed to
peruse CIA archives, al Banna had been recruited in the 1930s
by Hitler to establish an arm of German
intelligence in Egypt . 6
As a purported modern representative of the Brethren of Sincerity, he influenced the Muslim Brotherhood as the modern derivation of
the ancient Assassins; the Nazis, on the
other hand, were the purported continuation of the Templars, to whom they transmitted their
occult knowledge. In effect, the Brotherhood would form an international financial network, closely tied
to Western intelligence agencies, through
which to finance acts of terrorism falsely characterized as “
Jihad,” perpetrated by agent-provocateurs, to serve as false-flag
operations and to provide pretexts for
expanded colonization of subject
territories. As Robert Dreyfuss explained, the
Muslim Brotherhood was a creation of the Oxford Movement and the Round Table:
The
Muslim Brotherhood could not exist today were it not for the fact that
the more backward elements of Muslim culture were observed, taken note of, and
then carefully cultivated by Orientalists of the British Oxford and Cambridge
universities. The Ikhwanis the result of the patient organizing of London’s
agents in the Islamic world, men such as the famous T. E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”), Wilfred
Scawen Blunt, E. G. Browne, Harry St. J. B. Philby, Arnold Toynbee, and
Bertrand Russell. 7
Though ostensibly founded for the defense
of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood inherited the Salafi tradition of Jamal Afghani through Rashid Rida.
Representing the growing alliance between
Salafism and Saudi
Arabia, which Rida had established,
Banna’s Muslim Brotherhood , or Ikhwan al Muslimeen, were patterned on the
violent Wahhabi henchmen of Ibn Saud, the Ikhwan. Banna’s Brotherhood
was also established with a grant from England’s Suez Canal Company in 1928,
and over the following quarter century would be at the disposal of British
diplomats and MI6 as a tool of British
policy.8 To get the Brotherhood started,
the Suez Canal Company helped Banna build a mosque in Ismaillia, that would
serve as its headquarters and base of operations, according to Richard
Mitchell’s The Society of the Muslim Brothers. The Suez Canal was pivotal to
the British as the route to its prized colony,
India, and in 1928 Ismailia also housed not only the company’s offices but a major British military base built during World War I.
AlBanna defined his movement as “a
Salafiyya message, a Sunni way and a Sufi truth.” 9 Inheriting the esoteric
tradition of Jamal Afghani, the
Muslim Brotherhood therefore secretly represented the occult tradition
of Ismailism.whe Muslim Brotherhood would follow a similar
practice of progressive indoctrination
as devised by the Ismaili leader,
Abdullah ibn Maymun , where he would successfully transform a devout Muslim
through progressive stages towards ultimately accepting occult doctrines, and
rejecting all religion as a sham. Nevertheless, they would hold to the belief
in the need to adhere outwardly to their chosen religion, in order to deceive
others into carrying out their subversive objectives. This is how the Muslim Brotherhood , while at its lower
levels is presumed by its followers to be a truly Islamic organization, at its
higher echelons is in league with the Western powers though a shared devotion
to the ancient occult tradition, which is believed to be the true doctrine of
all exoteric faiths. As Robert Dreyfuss described:
…The real story of the Muslim Brotherhood is more fantastic than the
mere imagination of the authors of espionage novels could create. It functions
as a conspiracy; its members exchange coded greetings and secret passwords;
although no formal membership list exists, its members are organized into
hierarchical cells or “lodges” like the European freemason societies and
orders. The Muslim Brotherhood does not
respect national frontiers; it spans the entire Islamic world. Some of its
members are government officials, diplomats, and military men; others are street gangsters and
fanatics. While the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are at home in
plush-carpeted paneled board Rooms
of top financial
institutions, at the
lower levels the
Muslim Brotherhood is a paramilitary army of thugs and assassins.
At its highest level, the Muslim Brotherhood is not Muslim. Nor is it
Christian, Jewish, or part of any religion. In the innermost council are men
who change their religion as easily as other men might change their shirts.
Taken together, the generic Muslim Brotherhood does not belong to Islam, but to the pre-Islamic barbarian cults
of mother-goddess worship that prevailed in ancient Arabia. 10
Though the Wahhabis vehemently oppose it ,
the Muslim Brotherhood embraces Sufism. From early on, al Banna was a member of the Hasafiyya Brothers, a sub-branch of
the Shadhili, founded by Hassanayn al-Hasafi , a scholar of al Azhar. 11 Many of the head lecturers of al Azhar
University in Cairo have also been followers of the Shadhili. Prominent among
them was a friend to René Guénon, Abdel
Halim Mahmoud became an important source
of inspiration for members of the Muslim
Brotherhood , and his articles were published in their magazines.
René
Guénon, in 1930, moved to Egypt permanently, choosing Islam as his outward religion and joined the
Hamidiya Shadhili Sufi order. Guénon had been originally initiated into Sufism in 1910, effected by Swedish
Theosophist and convert to Islam,
Ivan Aguéli, who was interested in
both Sufism and Jewish Kabbalah. Following his conversion, Aguéli took the name of Abdul Hadi. Guénon’s
initiation was performed under the authority of Abdul Qadir al Jazairi’s
friend, Sheikh Illaysh al Kabir, whose
Fatwaprovided the pretext for the Urabi revolt.
It was under the influence of al Kabir that Abdul Qadir’s
emphasis on the teachings of Ibn Arabi
survived among modern Sufi orders descended from the Shadhili, particularly those of the
followers of Guénon’s Traditionalism.
When
Abdul Qadir died in 1883, al Kabir officiated at his funeral, where he was
buried near Ibn Arabi’s tomb. Al Kabir
had introduced Aguéli to Ibn Arabi, whose teachings he came to regard
as the essential doctrine of Islam. Aguéli founded the Al Akbariyya as a secret
Sufi society in Paris in 1911. It
was named after Ibn Arabi’s nickname of
Sheikh al Akbar, meaning “the greatest sheikh.” Its purpose was to promote the
teachings of Ibn Arabi, through the practice of the Shadhili and Malamati Sufi paths, and Guénon was one of its first members.
Guénon later dedicated his book The Symbolism
of the Crossto al Kabir. By “cross,” Guénon meant the occult symbol of the swastika, employed by the Nazis as a symbol
of their “ Aryan” heritage. Guénon
regarded the swastika as “a truly
universal symbol.” The Germans did not use the Sanskrit word swastika, however,
but called it instead Hakenkreuz. But
Guénon insisted that It was in no way related to “the artificial and
even anti-traditional use of the swastika by the German ‘racialists’ who have
given it the title of Hakenkreuz, or ‘hooked cross,’ and quite arbitrarily made
it a symbol of anti-Semitism.” 12 Nevertheless, Guénon apparently spied for the Nazis as well as the English during the 1940s
in Cairo, and had started “to accept increasingly considerable sums for the
services which he rendered to the Third
Reich.” 13
While in Egypt , other than al Kabir,
Guénon had little contact with actual Muslim scholars, with the
exception of Abdel Halim Mahmoud, who
eventually served as Grand Imam of Al Azhar . First educated at Al Azhar , Mahmoud had also received a doctorate from
the Sorbonne in France. Mahmood was
known for his modernizing approach to teaching at Al Azhar , preaching
moderation and embracing modern science as a religious duty. During his tenure
as Grand Imam, Al Azhar witnessed unprecedented reform and revival, including
the introduction of new faculties, teaching methods and management style.
Having also been a disciple of the Shadhili, and a devotee of Ibn Arabi, he is remembered for reviving
Sufism through his prolific writings and lectures on the
subject. He is referred to by an
honorific title of “ al-Ghazali, in 14th
Century AH,” accorded to him because of
his purported attempt, mirroring the teachings of Guénon, to
integrate the exoteric and esoteric dimensions of Islam. 14 The
Nazi party evolved from the Thule
group, originally known as the Germanenorden Walvaterof the Holy
Grail, whose chief architect was Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf. In 1901, Sebottendorf travelled to Turkey where he
lived for several years, eventually becoming an Ottoman citizen. There, he joined the Freemasons who were active in the Young Turk movement. According to Nicholas
Goodrick-Clarke, Sebottendorf was
initiated by a family of Jewish
Freemasons in Salonika, the heartland
of the Dönmeh sect, into a lodge believed to have been
affiliated to the French Rite of
Memphis.15 Initially interested in
Theosophy and Freemasonry, he
also became interested in Kabbalah and studied
Sufism with Bektashi Sufis who were also Freemasons. 16
In 1910,
Sebottendorf formed a secret society that combined esoteric Sufism and
Freemasonry. 17 French writer Jean Robin, like fellow French author Rene
Alleau, shows that Sebottendorf’s
central idea was to form a militant sect of devotees comparable with the Ismaili Fedayeen( Assassins ) guided by their
spiritual leader, the Old Man of the Mountain. 18 Sebottendorf believed the
Islamic and Germanic mystical systems shared a common Aryan origin.
Sebottendorf’s theories formed the basis of his connections with
the Young Turks, as they were related to
Pan-Turkism, the Turkish version of Nazi
race theories. Of the possible connections between Pan-Turkism and Nazism, David Luhrssen explained in Hammer
of the Gods:
Sebottendorf alludes only casually in his
writings to the Young Turks. But his
membership in a Young Turk front
organization, and his return to the
Ottoman Empire once they seized power, opens an intriguing avenue for
speculation. Parallels between volkischPan-Germanism and the most radical
Pan-Turanism advocated by elements of the
CUP are striking. Some authors have gone so far as to suspect links
between the Young Turks and Nazism.19
Like the
Nazis, the Pan-Turkists aspired to return to the true pagan heritage of
their nation. Through the influence
of the beliefs of the Bektashi Sufis , Pan-Turkism aspired at reviving shamanism as the true religion of the Turkish
heritage. According to historian Marc David Baer, the Young Turks “whole heartedly embraced
theories of race, although they rearranged the hierarchies to place Turks on
top. By 1906, Turkish nationalism based on the pseudoscientific race theories of Europe had become the guiding
ideology of the CUP.” 20 Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Young Turks expanded on the ambitions of Pan-Turkism and tried to replace the lost
legacy with a new Turkish commonwealth. The legend of Agartha was therefore promulgated by Ataturk, who sought to create a sense of
nationalism to replace the religion of
Islam as the primary identity of the new Turkish secular regime. 21
The legend of
Agartha connects Pan-Turksim to
the Nazi’s Thule. Inspired by Greco-Roman geographers
who located the mythical land “ Thule” in the furthest north, Nazi mystics identified it as the capital of ancient Hyperborea, as a lost ancient landmass
supposedly near Greenland or Iceland.
Thule, along with Hyperborea, was
one of several legendary lands referred to by the Greeks and Romans, where
classical authors like Pliny, Pindar
and Herodotus, as well as Virgil and
Cicero, reported that people lived to the age of one thousand and enjoyed lives
of complete happiness. According to Jean-Claude Frére, author of Nazisme et
Sociétiés Secretès, the people of Hyperborea,
after migrating to the Gobi Desert over 6000 years ago, founded a new center
which they named Agartha.22 Agartha is frequently associated or confused
with Shambhala. These ideas also derived
from Ignatius L. Donnelly’s earlier speculation of a lost
landmass that had once existed in the Atlantic that was the home of the Aryan
race, represented by the distribution of swastika motifs. It was Louis Jacolliot,
in The Sons of God, who linked Vril with the subterranean people of Thule,
who he thought would harness the power of Vril to become supermen and rule the
world.
It was probably through Martinist channels that the Polish explorer
Ferdynand Ossendowski learned of the
legend of Agartha. Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and
Gods, in which he tells a story he claims was imparted to him of a subterranean
kingdom which exists inside the earth. This kingdom was known to the Buddhists as
Agharti, which is associated with Shambhala. Ossendowski was told of the
miraculous powers of the Tibetan monks, and the Dalai Lama in particular,
powers, he said, that foreigners could barely comprehend, and continued: “But
there also exists a still more powerful and more holy man… The King of the World in Agharti.”23 Ossendowsky was also told:
The kingdom is called Agharti. It extends throughout all the
subterranean passages of the whole world… These subterranean peoples and spaces
are governed by rulers owing allegiance to the ‘ King of the World’… You know
that in the two greatest oceans of the east and the west there were formerly
two continents. They disappeared under the water but their people went into the
subterranean kingdom. In underground caves there exists a peculiar light which
affords growth to the grains and vegetables and long life without disease to
the people. 24
Ossendowski’s
King of the World was therefore related to Blavatsky’s Sanat Kumara, whom she identified
with Lucifer and the Fallen Angels. Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when her
follower Charles W. Leadbeater wrote
that Sanat Kumara was the “King”
or Lord of the World, and the head of
the Great White Brotherhood of Mahatmas who had revealed the principles of
theosophy. Leadbeater and later
Theosophists like Alice A. Bailey
believed that Sanat Kumara came to Earth
18,500,000 years ago from the etheric plane of the planet Venus, accompanied by 30 “Lords of the
Flame.” Sanat Kumara is regarded as the
great guru, savior of Earth. He is an “advanced being” of the Ninth Initiation
(the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth) who is regarded as the Lord
or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of
Earth who dwells in Shambhala, a city said
to be a fl oating city on the etheric plane above the
Gobi Desert. He is equated with Skanda/Kartikkeya of Hinduism, and Brahma-Sanam Kumar of Buddhism,
and Ahura Mazda of Zoroastrianism. Another common appellation of Sanat Kumara is the “ Ancient of Days.” It is
also considered that Sanat Kumara is al
Khidr.
The subterranean synarchist realm of Agartha and its hidden ruler was the subject
of Guénon’s The Ruler of the World.
According to Guénon, Agartha represents
“a spiritual center existing in the terrestrial world,” housing “an organization
responsible for preserving integrally the repository of sacred tradition which
is of ‘non-human’ origin… and through which primordial wisdom communicates
across the ages to those capable of receiving it.”25 Developing his ideas
from Saint-Yves, Guénon concluded that Agartha had inherited the authority of the
universal lawgiver Manu, a “cosmic intelligence that reflects pure spiritual light and formulates the law (“Dharma”) appropriate to the
conditions of our world and our cycle of existence,” as Guénon put it.However, the Lord of the World is not “Manu,” but rather a
deputy who mediates “Dharma” into the affairs of mankind. His title, Guénon informs us, is Brahmatma, “sustainer
of souls in the spirit of God.”
The
swastika itself, Guénon maintained, “…this centre constitutes the fixed point known symbologically to all
traditions as the ‘pole’ or axis around which the world rotates. This
combination is normally depicted as a wheel in Celtic, Chaldean, and Hindu
traditions.” Such, claims Guénon, is the true
significance of the swastika, seen world-wide, from the Far East
to the Far West, which is intrinsically the “sign of the Pole.” 26 It was supposed
to defeat and replace the cross, just as
neo-paganism would defeat and replace
Christianity .
Guénon’s interpretation is one commonly attributed
to the cross in esoteric tradition, where it is thought to have symbolized the
intersection of the earthly and celestial equators, or Ezekiel’s “wheel inside a wheel.” To Guénon, the Lord of the World is the same as
the ancient dying-god worshipped by the Hellenistic
mysteries, identified with the
celestial pole, like
the lion-headed version of Mithras or
the Primordial Man of the Kabbalah and the Sufis . According to Guénon, he is also known as Chakravarti, which in
Hindi signifies “He who makes the wheel turn.” 27 According to Guénon, he is the same as the mysterious Bible figure known as “
Melchizedek.”28 The same figure is
revered among the Sufis as a great mystic teacher known as al Khidr, or “the Green One.” The Asiatic Brethren were also known as Melchizedek Lodges.
The
Thule Society also adopted the Hakenkreuz as part of its emblem, placing
it in a circle with a vertical German dagger superimposed on it. The Thule were
influenced in their adoption of the symbol by the Neo-Pagan movement of
Guido von List. In the late nineteenth century,
Guido von List, an important early ideologue of German Ariosophy, adopted the swastika as an emblem for the Neo-Pagan
movement in Germany. Guido von List was strongly influenced by the Theosophical thought of Madame Blavatsky, which he blended with his own
racial religious beliefs, founded upon Germanic paganism. List began the List
Society, part of a then-developing “völkish” movement extolling the virtues of
Norse heritage, which he believed could be traced by reading the Edda. List achieved growing influence and began to attract distinctive members, such as Franz Hartmann,
who became associated with John Yarker,
and was also at one time a co-worker of Helena
Blavatsky at Adyar, India, as
well as one of the founding members of the
OTO, along with Kellner and Reuss.
In addition to Guido von List, the Thule society was also based in part on the
theosophical writings of Lanz von
Liebenfels (1874–1954).
Liebenfels was the founder of the Ostaramagazine, in which he published
anti-Semitic and völkisch theories. Lanz was also the founder of the Order of
New Templar s ( Ordo Novi Templi, or
ONT) , an offshoot of the OTO, which
practiced tantric sex rituals. 29Lanz, who had been a monk in the Cistercian
order, claimed in 1894 to have been “enlightened”
after finding the tombstone of a Knight
Templar, and began developing his theories of “blue-blond Aryanism” and “lower
races.” Lanz was finally expelled from the monastery in 1899
for acts of “carnal love.”
The völkish theorists believed in continuing
contact with the Supermen, whom they equated with the ascended masters of Theosophy. It was believed that as soon as the Germans
had purified the planet of the corruption
of the inferior races, these Supermen from Thule would make themselves known, and the
link which had been lost between Man and God would be renewed. According to
von Liebenfels, the solution to the
problem of the physical and spiritual degeneration of the Aryan race was in the creation of a new
priesthood of the Holy Grail, a new Knights Templar of the German Blood, which the Grail
represented. As for the inferior races, they were to be deported, or
incinerated as a sacrifice to God, or simply used as slave labor. 30
List’s
Ariosophy and his prophecy that a “German Messiah” would save Germany after World War I became popular among members of
the Thule Society, which sponsored the
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), “German Workers Party,” which was later
reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
(NSDAP or Nazi Party). Apologists for the occult are embarrassed by the sordid
consequences of these ideas that Hitler represented, and therefore have
attempted to dismiss his association with the occult. Speculations about Nazism
and occultism became widely acknowledged since at least 1959. Aside from several
popular documentaries, there are numerous books on the topic, most notably The
Morning of the Magicians (1960) and The Spear of Destiny(1973). The only recognized
scholarly assessment of the subject, however, has been Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s
The Occult Roots of Nazism. But
Goodrick-Clarke is constrained by the
limits that confine most academic studies, which is to strictly avoid all discussion
that hints of credence in the “supernatural.” He therefore denounces what he
considers the more fanciful studies, concluding: “There is a persistent idea,
widely canvassed in a sensational genre of literature, that the Nazis were principally
inspired and directed by occult agencies from 1920 to 1945.” 31
However, the members of Hitler’s inner circle were all strongly
devoted to the occult: the correspondence of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, reveals a devotion to
astrology. Nazi Commissioner for Philosophy and Education; Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologue of the Nazi
cult and early publicist of the
Protocols of Zion, who established their status at the core of the Nazi philosophy; and Joseph Goebbels, whose diary records his use of
astrological forecasts in planning the war against the Reich. Hitler himself,
as his friend Josef Greiner recalled in his memoirs, was obsessed as a young
man with astrology, religion, occultism, magic and yoga. In 1915, while in the
trenches during World War I, Hitler wrote a poem, one which “sings the praises
of Wotan, the Teutonic Father God, and of runic letters, magic spells, and
magic formulas.”32 According to the New Occult Encyclopedia, “The reports of
several people who knew Hitler in the early 1930s make it clear, though, that
his occult interests were not simply a feature of his early years.” 33 These included
Otto Wagener, chief of staff of the SA, and Hermann Rauschning, a former Nazi
who broker with the Third Reich before
publishing several books denouncing Hitler. Hitler was an avid reader of
Ostara, and once visited Lanz von
Liebenfels himself to fill out his collection of back issues. Lanz von Liebenfels wrote in 1934 “Hitler is one of
our pupils.” 34 Hitler loved Wagner, especially
his occult-themed operas, like The Ring Cycle, Parsifal, Lehengrinand Rienzi, with the libretto written after Bulwer-Lytton’s novel.
When the Thules met Hitler in 1919, many believed him to be the
prophesied redeemer. 35 While there is
no proof that Hitler belonged to
the Thule Society, according to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the
organization’s “membership list… reads like a Who’s Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in
Munich” It included Hermann Göring, Karl
Haushofer, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Dietrich Eckart and his protégé Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologue of the
Nazi party and early publicist of the Protocols of Zion, who established their
status at the core of the Nazi philosophy. 36
Dietrich Eckart, a member of the inner circle of the Thule Society, expressed his anticipation of
List’s prophecy of a “German Messiah” in a poem he published in 1919, months before he met Hitler for the first time. In the poem, Eckart refers to “the Great One,” “the Nameless One,” “Whom all
can sense but no one saw.” In 1919, when
the Thule Society spawned the German
Workers Party, Eckart was one of its
founders. Eckart met Hitler in that same year, and announced: “He is the one…” 37 In 1920, Hitler became the head of the German Workers Party, then renamed the
National Socialist German Worker ( Nazi) Party. It was at the suggestion of Dr.
Friedrich Krohn of the Thule Society, he
adopted the Hakenkreuz in a white
circle for the central design of the Nazi Party flag. 38
Hitler described Eckart as “the spiritual founder
of the Nazi Party” and dedicated Mein
Kampfto him. 39 Starting in 1920,
Eckart, as well as another member of the Thule society, Alfred Rosenberg, met
with Hitler in 1902 at Wagner’s house in Bayreuth, and became his constant
companions. Eckart and Rosenberg believed it was possible to tap the hidden
forces of Thule by making contact with the Great Ones of the Ancient World, who
would place at their disposal forces to enable Germany to achieve world
supremacy.Eckart purportedly initiated
Hitler and began to train him in methods for harnessing Vril to create a
race of Aryan supermen.40 When Eckhart died in 1923, he boasted: “We
have given him the means of communicating with Them.” 41 It was
Eckart who was widely quoted as saying on his deathbed, “ Hitler will dance,
but it is I who plays the tune… Do not mourn for me, for I will have influenced
history more than any other German.” 42
In 1923, when Hitler and Rudolf Hess were
imprisoned after the Munich Putsch, they were visited by Eckart’s friend,
Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), another
major influence on Hitler’s thinking.
As a German general, Haushofer had
been a military advisor to the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
According to Dietrich Bronder’s 1964 Bevor Hitler Kam, Haushofer was among the
several Nazi leaders of Jewish ancestry, along with Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s
deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Haushofer’s wife
and children were categorized as mischlinge, a term used to denote persons
deemed to have only partial Aryan ancestry. With Hess’ help, Haushofer’s son,
Albrecht, was issued a German Blood Certificate. Many consider
Hess to have been a double agent recruited
by Haushofer for the infamous Soviet “Red Orchestra” network, and to have been assisted
in his famous escape from Germany by the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS),
commonly known as MI6, along with Aleister
Crowley and his friend Ian Fleming,
author of the James Bond novels, and Hess’ Freemason contact, the Duke of
Hamilton, who was also a friend of Albrecht Haushofer.43According to Hess,
Haushofer was “the magician, the secret master” of the Thule group. Pauwels and
Bergier conclude, “that Hitler must have been the medium, and Haushofer the
magician.” 44 Rauschning also concluded that Hitler was such a medium: “It was
in this way, beyond any doubt, that Hitler was possessed by forces outside
himself—almost demoniacal forces of which the individual named Hitler was only
the temporary vehicle.” 45 Hitler
combined the theories of Haushofer and those of Alfred Rosenberg to form the basis
of Mein Kampf. Under the influence of Haushofer, Hitler authorized the
creation of the Ahnenerbe, the
scientific institute of the SS, that
regarded itself as a “study society for Intellectual Ancient History.” Founded
in 1935, the Ahnenerbe’s goal was to research the anthropological and cultural
history of the Aryan race, and later to
experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and
mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.
The Ahnenerbewas incorporated into the Schutzstaffel,
known as the SS, by Heinrich Himmler in 1937. Strong similarities connect
the Thule society with the infamous SS.
Although it began under the control of the SA ( Sturmabteilung), or
Brownshirts, in 1929, a series of internal struggles advanced Himmler, an avid student of the occult, to
the post of SS commander. Himmler became the second most powerful man
in Nazi Germany and among those most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As
supreme leader of the SS, Himmler consulted
seers, fortune-tellers, amassed the largest private library of witchcraft outside of the Berlin University,
and immersed himself in the legends of
Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of
Henry I the Fowler, the first king of Germany, and was in regular mediumistic communication with him, and held annual mystical
celebrations around his grave. 46 In
Himmlers’ opinion Henry I protected Germany from invaders from the “East,” as popularized in Richard Wagner’s
Lohengr in opera.
The SS also adopted the racial guidelines of Liebenfels’
Ordo Novi Templi (ONT) for admission into the order. 47 The SS also
incorporated the swastika and the skull and bones, but the most famous symbol
was the double S-rune, an
emblem
derived from the doctrines of Ariosophy,
being Sol, the eleventh rune of the Armenen runic system “revealed” to Guido
von List, and stood for victory.
Himmler was inspired to adopt the rune
symbols by occultist Karl Maria Wiligut,
who was also associated with the ONT. Once diagnosed as a schizophrenic and
megalomaniac, Wiligut allegedly
possessed of an “ancestral memory” that allowed him to recall the history of
the Teutonic people all the way back to the year 228,000 BC. It is said that Wiligut
introduced to Himmler the German
medievalist Otto Rahn, who became a full
member of the SS in 1936. From an early age, Rahn became interested in the
legends of Parsifal, the Holy Grail,
Lohengrin and the Nibelungenlied. Rahn came to Himmler’s attention for his book linking the castle of Montségur
and Cathars with the Holy Grail, Crusade Against the Grail, which became
required reading for SS
officers. In 1936, Rahn undertook
a journey on behalf of the SS to
Iceland, and in 1937 he published Lucifer’s Servants, a travel journal of his
quest for the Gnostic and Cathar
tradition across Europe, which he portrayed positively as preserving the Luciferian
tradition. The book is thought to have inspired a character in the 1989 Steven
Spielberg film, Indiana Jones and
the Last Crusade, where finding the Grail first required
locating the “Grail Diary” of an old archeologist.
Himmler used the Renaissance castle at Wewelsburg in the north of Germany as a Grail
castle to serve as the central cult-site of the SS. He reportedly imagined the
castle as a focus for the rebirth of the knights of the Round Table where he officiated at a kind of coven of
twelve appointed SS officers as his
followers, and even installed a round table, coats of arms for his SS
“knights” and performed pagan ceremonies exalting his movement. The number
twelve is a major theme of two mythologically-designed rooms in the North Tower
created in 1938 –
1943: the Obergruppenführersaaland the Gruft(vault).
The axis of this tower was to be the actual “Center of the World” (Mittelpunkt
der Welt). Twelve pedestals were in the vault, and a swastika ornament in its zenith and a preparation for an eternal flame lie on this axis. The
focal point of the Wewelsburg complex was the Obergruppenführersaal, referring
to the original twelve highest-ranking
SS-generals, called Obergruppenführer. It was a stone-lined chamber with
twelve pillars and niches, in which
Himmler had installed an oaken Arthurian round table to seat the twelve.
A twelve-spoked sun wheel was embedded in the floor, whose axis consisted of a circular plate of pure gold, which was to symbolize the center of the
castle and thus the entire “Germanic
world empire.”
The term Black Sun represents the “nocturnal
Sun” of the ancients, identified with Saturn, or Kronos, and worshipped as the
malevolent aspect of the dying-god, like
the lion-headed god of Mithraism. It is
known in alchemy as Solniger, the first state
of the alchemical process. In the Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky occasionally mentioned the mystical
“Central Sun” as “a point unseen and mysterious, the ever-hidden center of
attraction of our Sun and system.” To Wiligut, this invisible or burnt out Sun,
which he called “Santur,” symbolizes an opposing force or pole. According to
Emil Rüdiger of the Edda Society, founded by Thule member Rudolf John
Gorsleben, a fight between the new and
the old Suns was decided 330,000 years ago and Santur had been the source of
power of the Hyperboreans.
In 1933,
Sebottendorf published Before Hitler Came, claiming responsibility for inspiring Hitler in his occult Aryan
doctrines. But Hitler rejected the work,
which was confiscated in its second printing, and Sebottendorf was arrested and sent to a
concentration camp, and eventually returned to Turkey. Nevertheless,
he worked as
an agent of German military intelligence in Istanbul between 1942 –1945, while also apparently working for the British military. His German handler, Herbert Rittlinger,
later described him as a “useless” agent (eine Null), but kept him on largely,
as it would appear, because of an affection for “this strange, by then
penniless man, whose history he did not know, who pretended enthusiasm for the
Nazi cause and admiration for the SS but who in reality seemed little
interested in either, much preferring to talk about Tibetans.” 48 Sebottendorff’s body was found dead in the Bosphorus
in 1945, apparently as the result of a suicide.
As revealed by Richard B. Spence in Secret
Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult, in the 1930s,
Crowley was recruited by MI6 or the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) to spy on
German occultists with political links to the emerging Nazi Party and Marxists
revolutionaries. One of Crowley’s possible targets was Theodor Reuss, who began
working for German counterintelligence on the Dutch border. According to his
Jewish homosexual lover, Victor Neuburg, Crowley confided to Aldous Huxley when
they met in Berlin in 1938 that Hitler was a practicing occultist, and also
claimed that the OTO had helped the Nazis to gain power.49 One member of Hitler’s inner circle claimed that several
meetings took place between Crowley
and Hitler, a claim repeated by
René Guénon. In a letter to Julius Evola, his leading heir in Traditionalism, who would become the chief
philosopher of post-war occult
fascism, Guénon suggested
that Crowley “had probably gone to
Berlin to assume the role of Hitler’s
secret advisor.”50 Crowley famously wrote in a 1933 article for the Sunday
Dispatchthat “before Hitler was, I am.” Crowley later boasted that Hermann
Rauschning’s Hitler Speaks—a book
intended to reveal Hitler’s nihilism,
fanaticism, warmongering and unstable personality—that Hitler seemed to be quoting from his own The
Book of the Law. 51 Crowley’s propensity
for fascism is evident in the claims of
the Liber LII: Manifesto of the O.T.O., which lists as predecessors of the OTO many of the leading occultists of
history, and includes among recent personalities, his hero Sir Richard Francis Burton,
as well as Nietzsche, Richard Wagner and his patron “Mad King Ludwig” of
Bavaria, and also Franz Hartmann, Eliphas
Lévi and Papus.
As Peter Levenda points out in Unholy Alliance,
it is likely that the homosexuality of the
Nazi hierarchy was inherited from sexual practices promoted by
Aleister Crowley. Historian Frank Rector
records that the German Workers Party,
the forerunner to Hitler’s Nazi Party, “was founded at a gay bar in Munich
called the Bratworstglockl.” 52 Details of the rampant homosexuality within the
upper ranks of the Nazi party are
detailed in the Pink Swastikaby Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. Among their
numerous sources is Jewish historian Samuel Igra, who in 1945 published
Germany’s National Vice, which called homosexuality the “poisoned stream” that
ran through the heart of Nazism. Igra,
who escaped Germany in 1939, claims that
Hitler “had been a male prostitute in Vienna at the time of his sojourn
there, from 1907 to 1912, and that he practiced the same calling in Munich from
1912 to 1914.” 53 Desmond Seward, in
Napoleon and Hitler, says
Hitler is listed as a homosexual in Viennese police records.54 Although
there were at least four women,
including his own niece, with whom
Hitler had sexual relations, as noted by historian Robert G. L. Waite as
well as Walter Langer, his sexual encounters with women included his coprophilic
perversion as well as other extreme forms of masochism. Langer, a psychiatrist,
was commissioned by the Allies in 1943 to prepare a thorough psychological
study of Hitler. His report, undisclosed
for 29 years, was published in 1972 as The Mind of Adolf Hitler. Langer writes that Hitler was certainly a coprophile, a person
who is sexually aroused by human excrement. One shudders to think what horrors
Hitler would have been subjected to as a youth during his Sabbatean upbringing
that could have sproduced such
perversions.
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