Nazism: The blond beast Part 2
Whether or not Hitler was involved personally in homosexual
relationships, the evidence is extensive that he surrounded himself with
practicing homosexuals. Both Jorg Lanz Von
Liebenfels and Guido von List,
who influenced Hitler’s ideas, were also homosexuals.
Jonathan Katz, a Holocaust historian,
writes that most if not all of the founding members of the German Workers Party were either homosexuals
or bisexuals.55 Langer notes that Hitler’s personal bodyguards were “almost always
100 percent homosexuals.”56 SS Chief Heinrich
Himmler’s “pederastic proclivities” were captured on film by
Nazi film maker Walter Frenz.57 In
The Twelve Year Reich, Richard Grunberger
tells of a
party given by Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, which degenerated into a
homosexual orgy. 58
It is well known that the Nazis persecuted
homosexuals, as they did Jews, Gypsies and other “inferiors.” But as the
authors of The Pink Swastikademonstrate, homosexuality was widely prevalent in
the Nazi hierarchy. Though, their book has received rather severe condemnations
from other academics, who are more concerned with what they see as the
“anti-gay” bias of the authors, and who therefore fail to
comprehend the significance of their conclusions.
As openly gay columnist for the London Independent, Johann Hari, in an article
tiled “The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists,” dared to acknowledge,
“there has always been a weird, disproportionate overlap between homosexuality
and fascism.” As the authors of The Pink Swastika demonstrate, the Nazi persecution of homosexuals was reflective of a conflict that typically divides the
gay community, between “fems” and “butches.” As Hari further explained, the
Nazis “promoted an aggressive, hypermasculine form of homosexuality, condemning ‘hysterical women of
both sexes’, in reference to feminine
gay men.” 59
Effectively, the Nazis perceived the height of veneration of
the purported masculine virtues
to be
fulfilled through homosexual relations, a practice common in warrior societies
like ancient Sparta. Eva Cantarella, a classicist at the
University of Milan stated that, “The most warlike nations have been those who
were most addicted to the love of male youths.”60 Such societies are profiled in
The Sambia, by anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, who studied homosexuality in various
societies, and wrote that “ritual homosexuality has been reported by anthropologists
in scattered areas around the world [revealing a]… pervasive link between ritual
homosexuality and the
warrior ethos… We find these similar forms of warrior homosexuality in such
diverse places as New Guinea, the Amazon, Ancient Greece, and historical Japan.”61
According to the authors of The Pink Swastika,
the Nazi homosexuals “were militarists
and chauvinists in the Hellenic mold. Their goal was to revive the pederastic
military cults of pre-Christian pagan
cultures, specifically the Greek warrior
cult.”62 Plutarch, a Greek historian
of the first century AD, stated: “It
was chiefly warlike peoples like the Boeotians, Lacedemonians and Cretans, who were addicted to
homosexuality.”63 Cantarella notes that
Plutarch wrote of “the sacred battalion” of Thebans made up of 150 male
homosexual pairs, and of the legendary Spartan army, which inducted all
twelve-year-old boys into military service where they were “entrusted to lovers
chosen among the best men of adult age.” 64 Sparta was the inspiration for the
fascist state found in Plato’s The
Republic, and Plato had Phaedrus, in the
opening speech of the Symposium, praise homosexuality in the following manner:
For I know not any greater blessing to a
young man who is beginning life than a virtuous lover, or to the lover, than a
beloved youth. For the principle which ought to
be the guide of men who would live nobly – that principle, I say, neither kindred,
nor honour, nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well as love…
And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be
made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of
their own city… and when fighting at
each other’s side, although a
mere handful, they would
overcome the world.
Since the open homosexuality of the Greeks
was the ideal, German psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich in his 1933 classic, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, explained:
For the fascists, therefore, the return of
natural sexuality is viewed as a sign of decadence, lasciviousness, lechery, and
sexual filth… the fascists…
affirm the most severe form of patriarchy and actually reactivate the
sexual life of the Platonic era in their familial form of living… Rosenberg and
Bluher [the leading Nazi ideologists]
recognize the state solely as a male state organized on a homosexual basis. 65
Hitler was closely associated with homosexuals
Ernst Röhm, the founder of the Sturmabteilung(SA), and Rudolf Hess who was known in homosexual
circles as “Fraulein Anna.” 66 On June 30th 1934, Hitler had Ernst Röhm
arrested and shot on suspicions of disloyalty, being the most high-profile execution of the massacre known as “the Night
of the Long Knives.” Röhm’s execution was also the beginning of a massive
crackdown on homosexuals. According to German historian Lothar Machtan, however,
Röhm and the large numberof homosexual
figures within the SA were killed by Hitler to silence speculation about his
own homosexuality. A great number of the SA, also known as Brownshirts, were
homosexuals. “Theirs was a very masculine brand of homosexuality,” wrote
historian of homosexuality Alfred Rowse, “They lived in a male world, without
women, a world of camps and marching, rallies and sports. They had their own
relaxations, and the Munich SA became notorious on account of them.” 67 Louis
Snyder, prominent historian of the Nazi era related, “What was needed, Röhm believed, was a proud and arrogant lot
who could brawl, carouse, smash windows, kill and slaughter for the hell of it.
Straights, in his eyes, were not as adept in such behavior as practicing homosexuals.”
68 As Röhm admitted in his autobiography, “Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal
to me more than the good bourgeois
order.” 69 The officer corps of
the SA became the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), organized by Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler’s second in command. It was this branch
of the SS security service, that
controlled the concentration camps. Of the three SS divisions, notes Kevin E. Abrams, co-author
of The Pink Swastika, the
Sicherheitsdienstwas the most sadistic.70
The
Nazis were also heavily
influenced by Nietzsche, who was
also reportedly a homosexual, and from whom they appropriated the ideas of the
“Superman” and the “Will to Power.” Nietzsche
went insane because of syphilis which, according to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, he contracted at a homosexual brothel
in Genoa. 71 Nietzsche’s works, according to Rosemary Agonito, in History of
Ideas on Woman, were “peppered with attacks against women,” and he relegated
women to the role of breeders and sexual slaves. Men, on the other hand were to
be bred for war.72 Joachim Kohler wrote Zarathustra’s Secret, to make the case
for Nietzsche’s homosexuality. For
Kohler, explains his reviewer AC Grayling, “ Nietzsche’s swingeing attack on Christian
morality is the product of this repressed and unfulfilled erotic longing, and explains his ideal of the ‘
Superman’, who overthrows traditional pieties and life-denying inhibitions in
order to live passionately and supremely.” 73
Haushofer developed the doctrine of
geopolitics in the early 1920s, which drew on the theories of Halford Mackinder.
Mackinder’s Heartland Theory was enthusiastically taken up by the German
school of Geopolitik, of which Haushofer was the main proponent. According to
Haushofer, if Germany could control Eastern Europe and subsequently Russian
territory, it could control a strategic area to which hostile sea power could
be denied. Allying with Italy and Japan would further augment German strategic
control of Eurasia, with those states becoming the naval arms protecting
Germany’s insular position. Haushofer thus advocated conquering territory to
gain more Lebensraum, meaning living space, as a means of acquiring power. Hess
introduced Haushofer to Hitler in 1923, while Hitler was in prison for his failed Putsch,
and when Hitler became chancellor in
1933, he adopted Geopolitics as his policy for the Aryan race to conquer Eastern Europe, Russia, and
Central Asia.
But Haushofer’s theories also had an occult
basis. Pauwels and Bergier, authors of The Morning of the Magicans, claim that
Haushofer was also a member of the Luminous Lodge, a secret Buddhist society in
Japan, as well as the Thule Society.
Haushofer proclaimed the necessity of “a return to the sources” of the human
race in Central Asia, which formed the central core. Whoever could control
them, he believed, could control the world. He therefore advocated the Nazi
colonization of the area in order that Germany could have access to its hidden centers of power. The key would be finding
the forefathers of the Aryans, the guardians of the secrets of Vril.
For this purpose, as various researchers including Pauwels and Bergier claim,
after serving as a general in World War
I, Haushofer founded the Vril Society in
Berlin in 1918. It shared the same basic beliefs as the Thule Society and some say that it was its
inner circle. 74
Pauwels, a former student of Gurdjieff, in his book Monsieur Gurdjieff, asserted that Haushofer was one of the “Searchers After
Truth” that Gurdjieff speaks of in his
book Meetings with Remarkable Men, the story of his years in Central Asia. Haushofer
was apparently infl uenced by Gurdjieff’s teaching that men are asleep
and waiting for a strong leader to force them to wake up and become supermen.
Haushofer was supposed to have been with
Gurdjieff in Tibet, and it was
then that Gurdjieff supposedly advised
him to adopt the symbol of the swastika.
75 Dietrich Bronder in Bevor Hitler
Kamalso claimed that Haushofer met
Gurdjieff at least three times between 1903 and 1908 in Tibet, and was supposed to have
initiated Haushofer into the Tibetan
mysteries.
Gurdjieff also had alleged ties to British
intelligence, serving as a British asset in Central Asia and the Near East, and has been repeatedly identified with Lama
Dorjieff. 76 It is possible that
Dorjieff was also involved in a later plot to carve out a huge Mongol empire in Central
Asia, by the “Mad Baron” Roman von Ungern-Sternberg. During 1921, in an episode
that represented another strange chapter in the saga of the Great Game, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg established a short-lived
regime in Outer Mongolian during the Russian Civil War. A selfproclaimed
warrior Buddhist who dreamed of leading a holy war in Asia, the Baron adhered
to the “ Shambhala” myth, believed himself to be a reincarnation of
Kangchendzönga, the Mongolian god of war, and allegedly tried to contact the “
King of the World” in hopes of furthering his scheme. His encampment was a hive
of espionage activity, including Japanese, Russian, and German agents.
Dorjieff’s disciple was Sternberg’s supply
officer, and Ferdinand Ossendowsky was also a key advisor, having joined the
baron’s army as a commanding officer
of one of the self-defense troops. Ossendowsky also briefly became Ungern von Sternberg’s
political advisor and chief of intelligence.Sukhe Batur established a Mongolian
Communist Provisional Government in Buryatia and led a Mongol army against
Ungern-Sternberg. He rallied his troops
by telling them that
by fighting to
free Mongolia from
oppression, they would be reborn in
the army of Shambhala. With the help of the Soviet Red Army, Sukhe Batur took
Urga (now Ulan Bator), the Mongolian capital, in late 1921. The People’s
Republic of Mongolia was founded in 1924. After the Japanese takeover of Inner
Mongolia in 1937, Japan also exploited the Shambhala legend for political
advantage. In an attempt to win the allegiance of the Mongols, it spread the propaganda
that Japan was Shambhala.
The
Thule Society also, alleged Bronder, was to have established contact
with the secret monastic orders of Tibet
through a small colony of Tibetan
Buddhists, which was established at Berlin in 1928. According to Pauwels
and Bergier, the Thule Society sought to make a pact with Shambhala, but only Agarthi agreed to offer help. Following
occult legend, much like the version reported by René Guénon, Haushofer
believed that following the global cataclysm, the Aryans then split into two groups. One went
south and founded a secret center of learning
beneath the Himalayas, also called Agarthi, the holder of the right-hand path
and positive vril. The other Aryan group tried to return to HyperboreaThule,
but founded instead Shambhala, a city of violence, evil, and materialism, and
the keeper of the degenerate left-hand path and negative forces. Already by
1926, explained the authors, there were colonies of Hindus and Tibetans in Munich
and Berlin, called the Society of Green Men,
in astral connection with the Green Dragon Society in Japan, to which Haushofer
belonged. The leader of the Society of
Green Men was a Tibetan lama, known as “the man with green gloves,” who
supposedly visited Hitler frequently and held the keys of Agharti. 77
Mel Gordon in Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyantdiscuss
the career of an occult figure in late Weimar
Berlin, sometimes referred to as the “Magician with the Green Gloves,” in the
service of the Nazis. He was not a Tibetan, but a Jew who went by the name of
Erik Jan Hanussen. Styling himself as
“The Man Who Knows All,” Hanussen
became famous for giving performances of his psychic abilities at La Scala in
Berlin, attracting the attention of people like Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann to Marlene Dietrich and
Peter Lorre. Born Hermann Steinschneider, it is claimed he was a supporter of
the Nazis despite his Jewish ancestry, which was an open secret. A devotee of
Asiatic and tantric traditions, he
enjoyed the company of Germany’s military and business elite, also becoming
close with members of the SA. In March
1932, when Adolf Hitler’s political future seemed doomed, Hanussen predicted a resurgence of the Nazi
Party. Dr. Walter C. Langer, a psychoanalyst, prepared a psychological
profile of Hitler
for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943,
according to which: “…during the early
1920’s Hitler took regular lessons in speaking and in mass psychology from a
man named Hanussen who was also a
practicing astrologer and fortune-teller. He was an extremely clever individual
who taught Hitler a great deal concerning the importance of staging meetings to
obtain the greatest dramatic effect.” 78
In 1932, Hitler’s mistress Eva Brown
attempted suicide. Additionally, Hitler’s own political prospects were fading,
and became suicidal himself. But his old friend Hanussen produced for him an
astrological chart, which predicted that an auspicious future lay ahead, but
that Hitler was impeded by a hex. It
order to rid himself of the spell, explained Hanussen, Hitler would have to
return to his hometown, on a full moon at midnight in a butcher’s backyard and
remove from the earth a mandrake, a man-shaped root known in European folklore
for its magical and medicinal properties. Hanussen performed a ritual, and set
off to collect the mandrake himself, returning on New Year’s Day 1933 with the
root and a prediction: that Hitler’s return to power would take place on
January 30, a date approximately equivalent to the pagan Sabbath of Oimelc, one
of the four “cross-quarter” days of the witches’ calendar. As unlikely as it
seemed at the time, Hitler was Chancellor of Germany on precisely the date
Hanussen had predicted.79
Hanussen also made a further prediction,
during a séance held at his “Palace of Occultism” in Berlin, that the
communists in Germany would attempt a revolution, marked by the
destruction (by fire)
of an important government building.
That was the
day before the infamous Reichstag
fire, which is widely considered to have been a
false-flag operation that provided Hilter the
opportunity to seize power and declare himself “Fürer.” But Hanussen was eventually
killed six weeks later in the purge of the Night of Long Knives, as some claim,
because he “knew too much.” 80
In 1937, in Geheime Weltmächte(“Secret World
Powers”), S. Ipares mentioned an occult hierarchia ordinis of
the Lamaist theocracy, who invisibly influence and control the East. In
the same year, Fritz Wilhelmy published Asekha. Der Kreuzzug der Bettelmönche(“Asekha:
The Crusade of the Mendicant Monks”), according
to which “Tibetan Buddhism… [is] openly
appointed to play a more than mysterious role in the great global hustle and
bustle of suprastate pullers of strings.” 81 Similarly, J. Strunk, in Zu Juda und
Rom. Tibet, Ihr Ringen um die
Weltherrschaft(“To Judah and Rome: Tibet,
Their Struggle for World Domination”) (1937) claimed to uncover a conspiracy of
an international ecclesiastical elite, formed from members of all the world
religions, with the living Buddha, the
Dalai Lama from Lhasa as their head: “What there are of organizations
and new spiritual currents running alongside and in all directions nearly always end up on the ‘roof of the
world,’ in a Lama temple, once one has progressed through Jewish and Christian
lodges.” 82
A 1933 book, Les Sept Tetes du Dragon Vert(“The
Seven Heads of the Green Dragon”) by Teddy Legrand, also makes mention of the
same society. “Teddy Legrand” was a pseudonym, the author’s real name being
Pierre Mariel, a journalist with ties to French intelligence, and a
self-proclaimed expert on the occult. So the novel seems to be a type of cryptic
autobiography. Under the name Werner Gerson, he would later write Le Nazisme:
Societe Secrete (“Nazism: Secret Society”), one of
the first books on Nazi occultism.Mariel was also a one-time French
grand master of AMORC and a member of
the Martinist Order, which he hinted was
responsible for the French Revolution and other later political upheavals, and
which might have had links to the Green Dragon. 83
The title is an allusion to the dragon of the
Book of Revelation, and the book presents the
Green Dragon, or simply “The Greens,” as an insidious international
cabal who seek world domination. The Green Dragon was behind the assassination
of Franz Ferdinand, the Bolshevik
Revolution and the murder of the Romanovs. At the time of the book’s plot, 1929-30,
the Greens are active facilitating the rise of the “The Man of the Two Z’s”
(double S-rune) under whose “sharp spurs,” according to the Orthodox Patriarch
in Istanbul, Basileus III, Europe would soon be made to tremble. Mariel also implies
that connected with this conspiracy was also
Rudolf Steiner, founder of the
Anthroposophical Society, through his connections to pan-German secret societies.
Mention is also made of Gurdjieff
and Annie Besant.
In the book, two brother spies are inspired
by their shared curiosity about an object supposedly found on the executed
Tsarina Alexandra’s body, which bears an enigmatic inscription in English:
“S.I.M.P. The Green Dragon. You were absolutely right. Too late.” They quickly
determine that the first element, which is accompanied by a six-pointed “ Kabbalistic” symbol of
the Martinists, stands for “Superieur
Inconnu, Maître Philippe,” referring
to Papus’ “spiritual master.”
As reported by Legrand, after the murder of
the Russian imperial family in 1918, a judicial investigator, Nikolai Sokolov,
concluded that German intelligence had been active in both the Tsarist and the Bolshevik camps. The Tsarina had apparently
adopted the symbol of the swastika as her personal signature, which
seems to
have been used to communicate with an organisation attempting to
support
them. The leader of the organisation, Boris Soloviev, was Rasputin’s
son-in-law
and also a triple agent for the German secret service. Soloviev
deceived the
Tsarist camp by pretending to work for their cause, while he actually delivering
them all to the Bolsheviks. Rasputin was
an agent in this scheme, receiving letters from his handlers in Sweden signed
“The Green.” Supposedly then, Maître Philippe had tried to warn the Tsarina of
the threat of the Green Dragon,
represented by Rasputin, who eventually
replaced him at the court.
During their quest, the two spies also sought
the assistance of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943), a real-life character
who was a Jewish adventurer of Hungarian origin, who for a time was a Christian
priest, as well as British Member of Parliament, convicted fraudster, German right-wing
politician and triple-agent, and Buddhist abbot in China. He was initiated to
the occult by Harold Beckett, an ex-Indian Army officer who allegedly had ties with Maître Philippe and Papus, after which Trebitsch-Lincoln went on
to join numerous secret societies
including the Freemasons, the OTO and Chinese triads.84 In 1925, Trebitsch-Lincoln underwent a “mystical
experience” in a hotel room in China, after which he embraced Theosophy. His revelation opened his interest
in Tibet and Buddhism, and he received initiation as
Dordji Den at a monastery outside Lhasa.
85 It was there that he acquired the new name of Chao Kung, whose presence in Berlin was then known
to Hanussen, who publicly defended his reputation in the psychic’s newsletter. 86
Among the secrets Beckett supposedly revealed
to Trebitsch-Lincoln was that there are
only seventy-two “True Men” for each generation. These are identified with the Green Dragon or, more simply, “The Greens,”
who number precisely 72 conspirators,
who were, presumably, the “72 unknown superiors” of occult legend. They are
also considered the same as mentioned by
Walter Rathenau, a Jewish
politician who served Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.87 Just before he died, he
blamed the “seventy-two men who control the world,” as responsible for his assassination
on June 24, 1882, two months after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo which
renounced German territorial claims from World War I. All conspirators were
members of the ultra-nationalist secret Organisation Consul (OC), who hoped
that Rathenau’s death would bring down the government and prompt the Left to
act against the Weimar Republic, thereby
provoking civil war, in which the OC would be called on for help by the Reichswehr.
One of the assassins, Erwin Kern had argued that Rathenau had, in addition to
close ties with the Bolsheviks, had confessed to be one of the three hundred
“Elders of Zion” as described in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. 88
Trebitsch-Lincoln boasted that before the war
he had been “an active spy in Central Asia, working as a Buddhist monk.” 89 Trebitsch-Lincoln
himself was suspected of being the “Man (or Lama) with the Green Gloves.”
90 According to Trebitsch-Lincoln, who
also went by the name of “Lama Dorji Den,” the society of the Green Men, the
parent of the Thule Group, originated in
Tibet. 91 In 1939, Edouard Saby
published Hitler et les forces occultes, in which he depicts Hitler as a medium, a magician and initiate,
and also refers to the connection with Tibet: “Wasn’t it Trebitsch-Lincoln, the friend
of the Tibetan Badmaiev, who initiated Hitler, by revealing to him the doctrine
of Ostara, a secret school of India,
where the lamas teach the supremacy of the Aryan?” 92 The Mongol Dr.
Piotr Badmaev, a practitioner of Tibetan herbal medicine, was an
associate of Lama Dordjieff,
Ukhtomskii, Bokii, Nicholas Roerich and
Blavatsky’s cousin Sergei de
Witte, in St. Petersburg at the court of Nicolas II, whom they envisioned as
the “White Tsar of Shambhala.” 93
Trebitsch-Lincoln’s troubled history with the
British government is interpreted as merely serving as an elaborate cover, as
he remained a secret British agent for many years, and perhaps for the
remainder of his life. To René Guénon, Trebitsch-Lincoln was an “agent of the
Counter-Initiation,” a representative of
dark occult influences associated with
Aleister Crowley, calling them “brothers,” as both double-agents of the British
and Germans. 94 Guénon made note of
later links between Trebitsch-Lincoln and British agents in Central Asia. As
late as 1937, French writer Robert Boucard referred to Trebitsch-Lincoln as an
agent of SIS alongside T. E. Lawrence
and Gertrude Bell. 95
Trebitsch-Lincoln was associated with a
Russo-Polish Jew named Salomon (Shlomo) Rosenblum, but better known as “Ace of
Spies” Sidney George Reilly, who was the
role model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Reilly was employed by Scotland Yard,
the British Secret Service Bureau and later the
SIS, but he was also alleged to have spied for at least four nations.
Reilly hinted of his connections to
international business and finance as the “Occult
Octopus.”96 An intelligence report of April 1918 concluded that Reilly was “a shrewd
businessman of undoubted ability, but without patriotism or principles and
therefore not to be recommended for any position which requires loyalty…”97 Nevertheless,
in May of that year, the SIS hired him to undertake the Ambassadors’ Plot, an
endeavor to depose the Bolshevik
Government of Russia and assassinate Vladimir
Lenin.
Trebitsch-Lincoln and Reilly were employed
by international financier and arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, the infamous
“Merchant of Death,” who operated a private intelligence service. It is not
known whether he was Greek, Jewish, or Russian. But the British gave him an
Order of the British Empire and a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath for his
special services. French investigative
journalist Roger Menevee, was convinced that not only was he a key British
agent, but also a leader of an “International Oligarchy” which dominated the
world’s economy. 98 Zaharoff was intimately connected with future Prime
Minister David Lloyd George, for whom
Trebitsch-Lincoln also performed intelligence work. According to Donald
McCormick, a “triangular association” existed among Zaharoff, Lloyd George and
Trebitsch-Lincoln based on the fact that “each knew a secret about the other.”
99 Zaharoff ’s infl uence reached its peak during the World War I, as “Allied statesmen and leaders were obliged to
consult with him before planning any great attack,” according to T. P.
O’Connor. 100
American intelligence regarded Trebitsch-Lincoln as the organizer of the Kapp
Putsch, a coup attempt in March 1920 aimed at undoing the results of the German
Revolution of 1918–1919 and overthrowing th Weimar
Republic.101 Guido Preparata, author of Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and
America Made the Third Reich, believes that the British used Trebitsch-Lincoln
as “an agent steeped in counter-insurgency tactics and disinformation to
thwart, expose and burn all the monarchist conspiracies against the Weimar Republic.”102 Preparata refers to a
British report which suggests that Trebitsch-Lincoln was sent to Germany by then
Secretary for War Winston Churchill. The
same report claims that when the right-wing Kapp plot began to fail, Trebitsch-Lincoln
switched to “working to bring about
Bolshevism in Germany.” Although US military intelligence reports
declared that Trebitsch-Lincoln “was and still is an English agent,” he was
also reported to be “actively engaged in the ‘Red Movement’” and “working in
the interest of the Soviet Government in Austria and Hungary.” 103
In 1938, British officials in China determined that Trebitsch-Lincoln was on his way to Lhasa, claiming simultaneously to
be the reincarnations of the Dalai and
Panchen Lamas. 104 Trebitsch-Lincoln is also known to have collaborated with
the Abwehr’s station in Shanghai, which in 1941 informed Berlin that Chao Kung
had long been a member of the “Grand Council of Yellow Cap Lamas” who exercised great influence in
Tibet and India. 105 Trebitsch-Lincoln even
won the confidence of
the Gestapo’s local
representative, SS Colonel Joseph “The Butcher of Warsaw” Meisinger, who he convinced he could rally
the Buddhists of the East against any remaining British influence in the area. Meisinger urged that the
scheme receive serious attention, and sent him to Berlin, where Heinrich Himmler was enthusiastic for it, as was
Rudolf Hess, but it was abandoned after his flight to
Scotland in May 1941. Haushofer,
therefore, apparently acquainted Hitler with the teaching of the Society of the
Green Dragon, and taught him the techniques of
Gurdjieff ’s Fourth Way, which were ostensibly
based on the teachings of the Sufis and the Tibetan Lamas. Under the influence of Haushofer, Hitler authorized the creation of the Ahnenerbein 1935,
thatsponsored expeditions to locate the Aryan forefathers in Shambhala and
Agartha. The 1939 expedition was said to have gone to Tibet with the
specific purpose of setting up
vital radio contact between the Third
Reich and the lamas in 1939, and Blavatsky’s
Stanzas of Dz yan were used as a code for all messages between Berlin
and Tibet during the World War
II.106 Pauwels and Bergier argue that
Hitler sent the expedition out of his desire to
find Agarthi, which he had been made aware of from his relationship with “the man with the green
gloves.”
Ernst
Schäfer, a German hunter and biologist, participated in three
expeditions to Tibet, in 1931, in 1934–1935, and in 1938–1939, supposedly for sport and
zoological research. Among the expedition was Dr. Bruno Beger. Beger, a member of
Himmler’s personal staff, who was the actual “expert” who pushed forward the racial studies of the Ahnenerbe. 107 In 1939 he went to Tibet as a member of the SS Expedition. He
measured the skulls of more than 400 Tibetans in order to investigate a
possible relationship between the Tibetan and
Aryan “races.” In 1943, Beger was
sent to Auschwitz where he took the measurements
of 150 mainly Jewish prisoners. In 1971
Beger appeared in a German court and was sentenced to three years
imprisonment on probation for his national socialist crimes.
Beger was also connected to the current reigning Dalai Lama XIV, later to go on the CIA payroll, and who was revered as
representing a special connection between
the Nazis and Tibet. 108 Acting as the young Dalai Lama’s personal tutor until the early
50s, and teaching him about all the “wonders” of Western civilization, and
introducing him to the English language as well, was former SS officer, Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber, competition
skier, geographer, and author. 109 Harrer is best known for being on the four-man climbing team that made the
first ascent of the North Face of the
Eiger in Switzerland, and for his books, including Seven Years in Tibet (1952), which
was the basis of two films of the same title, the
first in 1956 and the second in 1997, starring Brad Pitt in the role of Harrer. A strong friendship developed
between Harrer and the Dalai Lama that would last the rest of
their lives. 110 After joining the SS in 1938,
Harrer received instructions to climb
Nanga Parbat in the
Himalayas after
an official meeting with
Adolf Hitler. After returning to Europe
in 1952, Harrer was cleared of any
pre-war crimes and this was later supported by Simon Wiesenthal. In his memoir,
Beyond Seven Years in Tibet, Harrer called his involvement with the Nazi Party a mistake made in his youth when
he had not yet learned to think for himself.
Coinciding with the Schäfer
expedition of 1934 –
1935 was another conducted by Nicholas
Roerich in search of Shambhala,
in inner Mongolia, Manchuria and China,
organized by the US Department of Agriculture. 111 Heinrich Müller, who was in
charge of a Gestapo section of the Nazis, claimed that Roerich was known to the Gestapo under the code word “Lama,” and that
he had contacted the Nazi regime in 1934
to ascertain whether they were interested
in supporting his undertakings in Inner Asia. 112 Harvey Spencer Lewis was keen
on making Roerich a legate of AMORC on his expedition to Tibet, which
apparently Roerich never was, in spite of
his close relationship with Lewis. Nevertheless, AMORC claims to this day that Roerich communicated certain occult
techniques from Tibet which were since
integrated in their Rosicrucian teachings. Lewis boasted of the correspondence
he received from Roerich’s second expedition. 113
According to several Theosophical accounts, Roerich’s mission was to return the “ Chintamani” stone, a
wish-fulfilling jewel from both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. According
to Roerich, the stone was brought to
earth by emissaries of the star Sirius.
To the Roerichs’ the gem was known to the alchemists of the West as the “philosopher’s
stone,” which was also identified with the
Holy Grail. According to the Roerichs,
it magically appeared and disappeared at pivotal movements in history to be
handed to the righteous ones who would guide humanity to a better future. Roerich related that it had at one time been
in the possession of King Solomon, Tamerlane, Ghenghis Khan and Akbar the
Great, among whom it was known as the “Treasure of the World.” It held the
power to endow its possessor with the ability to see into both the past and the
future, and to assume the position of “ King of the World.” Supposedly, a piece
of the Chintamani was entrusted to the founders of the League of Nations in order to support their
project of establishing world government. But when the League was
dissolved, Roerich was chosen to convey
the stone back to Shambhala.
In Shambhala: In Search of a New Era, Roerich also hinted at a similarity between
Shambhala and Thule, and mentioned the association of Shambhala with the
underground city of Agharti, reached
through tunnels under the Himalayan mountains.
Roerich was first exposed to mystical Buddhist teachings and heard of
Shambhala in St. Petersburg, Russia, during his involvement with the
construction of the Buddhist temple under the guidance of Lama Agvan Dorjieff, the Russian agent who has been identified with Gurdjieff.114
One of Roerich’s followers was a young
Russian Theosophist, Vladimir Anatol’evich Shibaev, an agent for the Communist
International (Comintern) working with Indian nationalists. Shibaev introduced
the Roerichs to other Soviet
officials and encouraged
their plans to
move to India
as a first step towards
their Great Plan. London’s MI5 kept a
close eye on Shibaev and his
relationship with Roerich. 115 When the
Roerich’s moved to New York in October
1920, evading the scrutiny of British intelligence, they secured support from a
number of wealthy Americans. One such benefactor was Wall Street broker Louis Levy Horch who helped found the Roerich Museum. Though a successful businessman with important
connections in American politics, Horch was also an undercover operative for
the Cheka, the Bolshevik
secret police (later renamed OGPU, NKVD and eventually KBG). The
head of the OGPU’s “Special Department” was G. I. Bokii, a former member of Papus’
Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix ( OKR+C), the “inner circle” of the Martinist Order, and devotee of Tantric sex
rituals.
During the Stalinist purge trials, Bokii confessed to having been part of a Masonic lodge in 1909 that had been founded
by Gurdjieff and that included Nicholas
Roerich and his wife. 116 Bokii was an
associate of Aleksandr Barchenko, also a
former member of the OKR+C, and a former
student of Gurdjieff. Bokii had put Barchenko in charge of a special laboratory
within the Moscow Institute of Experimental Medicine to study hypnosis, telekinesis,
remote viewing, ESP, with the aim of making use of them for intelligence purposes.
Bokii was also a member of the Edinoe Trudovoe Bratstvo( ETB), founded by
Barchenko. The Lodge’s name bears a striking similarity to an earlier group
formed by Gurdjieff’s followers, the
Edinoe Trudovoe Sodruzhstvo(“United Labor Fellowship”), and at least one
prominent member of ETB, was a devotee of
Gurdjieff. The ETB, whose primary aim was establishing direct contact
with Shambhala, included numerous other current or former Chekists and British
double-agents, like Yakov Blumkin and Konstantin Konstantinovich Vladimirov.117
The ETB lasted until it was disbanded by Stalin in the late 1930s, following
charges leveled against Bokii, Barchenko and their associates, that their
occult activities were part for treasonous plots associated with British
intelligence in the Far East.
It was Bokii and Barchenko who were charge of
the OGPU’s effort to exploit the services of Nicholas Roerich. Roerich’s
expeditions began in 1925, attended by OGPU agents. According to his wife
Helena, they were also under the guidance of one of one of Blavatsky’s “ Mahatmas,” Master Morya, or Master
Allal Ming. Roerich’s Ascended Masters instructed him that, among other
illustrious persons, he was a reincarnation of the 5th Dalai Lama Lozang Gyatso (1617-1682), the first Dalai Lama to wield effective political power
over central Tibet. He initiated the construction of the
Potala Palace in Lhasa, and was known for unifying the country under the
leadership of the Geluga, the “Yellow Hat” sect, and a secular ruler, the prince
of Tsang. Since there was a dispute about the legitimacy of the 6th Dalai Lama,
Roerich could claim to be the continuation of the true lineage. 118 According
to Markus Osterrieder, the opening of the archives of Roerich and his wife Helena Ivanova revealed
the messianic ambitions of their “spiritual geopolitics.” As Osterrieder
explains:
It cannot be denied that they seriously
interpreted themselves and their “mission” as part of some larger spiritual
Plan that ultimately should serve the advance of human evolution, especially
since Master Allal Ming warmed them up by revealing their illustrious previous incarnations,
thereby freeing vanity and arrogance—a phenomenon that occurs not exclusively
in esoteric circles, but finds
a especially fertile grounds among adepts—and politicians. 119
Only a
small inner circle of confidants in New
York were initiated in the full
extent of the Roerichs’ plans. Their ultimate objective, usually referred to as
the “Grand Plan,” like Dorjieff and
von Ungern-Sternberg, was to establish a
pan-Buddhist, transnational “New Country” spanning from Tibet to southern Siberia, including
territory that was then governed by China, Mongolia, Tibet, and the Soviet Union, to be ruled by
the Panchen Lama, the spiritual leader
of Tibet, who had been forced to flee
the country in 1923 because of disagreements with the then Dalai Lama, the country’s secular leader.
This “New Country” was conceived as the earthly expression of the invisible
Kingdom of Shambhala, “the Holy Place,
where the earthly world links with the highest states of consciousness.” 120 It
was prophesied that the Panchen Lama’s
return would signal the beginning of a new age.
Roerich informed the Soviets that he had letters
from the Mahatmas for Stalin, and that their task was to “unite
Buddhism with Communism and to create a
great Oriental Federation.” Drawing on
Dorjieff’s expectations, Roerich
mentioned the prophecy that Tibet would
be freed from foreign invaders [the
British] by protectors coming from the north [the Soviets]. The Soviets
surmised that it was Roerich’s mission
to retrieve the Panchen Lama from exile in Mongolia and then liberate Tibet from the British. As Lachman explains in Politics and the Occult:
Although the Soviets later regarded Roerich as an American spy, and the British
thought of him as a Russian agent, getting the
Panchen Lama out of Mongolia and into
Tibet was something practically everyone involved in the new Great Game
wanted. Yet none of the players wanted others to get credit for it, and the
British were especially concerned that
Roerich’s real aim was to use Tibet’s spiritual leader as a rallying point for
a Soviet-backed revolution. 121
Hearing that Roerich’s expedition was nearing
the Tibetan border, the British counseled the Dalai Lama not to allow him to reach
Lhasa. The expedition was detained by the
government for five months, and forced to live in tents in subzero conditions during which five members of the
expedition lost their lives. In March 1928 they were allowed to
leave Tibet, and made their way south
and settled in India, where they founded
the Himalayan Research Institute.
Roerich then set out again on a second expedition,
this time with the support of the Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who became
his close associate. Wallace too was a member of the Theosophical Society. According to
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “Wallace’s search
for inner light took him to strange prophets… It was in this search that he encountered
Nicholas Roerich, a Russian émigré,
painter, theosophist. Wallace did Roerich a number of favors, including sending
him on an expedition to Central Asia
presumably to collect drought-resistant grasses.” In a letter to Roerich Wallace stated, “The search —whether
it be for the lost word of Masonry, or the Holy Chalice, or the potentialities
of the age to come—is the one supremely worthwhile objective. All else is karmic duty. But surely
everyone is a potential Galahad? So may we strive for the Chalice and the
flame above it.” 122
It is widely suspected that it was Roerich who inspired Wallace to add the Great Seal
of the United States, first designed in 1782, on the reverse side of the dollar bill,
featuring an unfinished pyramid
and the Illuminati symbol of the
All-Seeing Eye.123 Wallace proposed the idea to President Roosevelt in 1934. According to Wallace, in a letter dated
February 6, 1951:
Roosevelt as he looked at the colored
reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the ‘All-Seeing Eye,’ a Masonic representation of Great Architect the
Universe. Next he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new
order of the ages had been laid in 1776 (May 1st, 1776, founding of the Illuminati) but would be completed only under
the eye of the Great Architect. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason.
He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather than a coin. 124
With Wallace’s help, the Roerichs were also
able to gain President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s support for Roerich’s Pact, for which Roerich was nominated for the Nobel Prize. The
Pact was signed in the White House in 1935 with the participation of FDR. Roosevelt himself had become a member of
the high grade Scottish Rite in 1929, and was appointed as Honorary Grand
Master of the New York Order of DeMolay in 1934 at the White House. In 1942,
inspired by James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon, modeled on Roerich’s quest for Shambhala, but named in the novel as Shangri-la,
a utopian lamasery in the mountains of
Tibet whose inhabitants enjoy longevity, Roosevelt named his new retreat
in the Catoctin Mountain Park, Camp Hi-Catoctin [today’s Camp David], by the same name. 125
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