Nazism and The New Age, Hitler and the Occult

Nazism and The New Age, Hitler and the Occult


by Hannah Newman -- freeway@netvision.net.il


http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/thenewage.html

"Creation is not finished. Man is clearly approaching a phase of
metamorphosis. The earlier human species has already reached the stage
of dying out.... All of the force of creation will be concentrated in
a new species... [which] will surpass infinitely modern man.... Do you
understand now the profound meaning of our National Socialist
movement?" (Adolf Hitler, quoted by Hermann Rauschning, _Hitler ma'a
dit [Hitler Speaks]_ p.147, translated in _The Occult and the Third
Reich_, Jean & Michel Angebert, p.178.)
"You'll think I'm crazy, but listen to me: Hitler will bring us to a
catastrophe. But his ideas, once they have been transformed, will
acquire a new strength." (Joseph Goebbels to his aide-de-camp, Prince
Schaumburg-Lippe, quoted in Angeberts, p.234)
Nazism and the New Age

While most Jews are sure that Hitler represented the Christian
community, his associates knew better. In this section we see not only
that Hitler rejected Christianity, but that there is also ample
research showing that Hitler founded far more than a political regime
- the Third Reich was an occult-based religious movement to usher in
the same New Age examined in this series. [For documentation besides
the Angeberts, see also D. Sklar, _The Nazis and the Occult_; Joseph
Carr, _The Twisted Cross_; Robert G.L. Waite, _The Psychopathic God -
Adolf Hitler_; Gerald Suster, _Adolf Hitler, The Occult Messiah_;
Trevor Ravenscroft, _The Spear of Destiny_.]

The Nazi President of the Danzig Senate, Hermann Rauschning (who
defected to the Allies and in 1939 wrote the book quoted above),
recorded statements made by Hitler which are unintelligible except
from a NA orientation. [The fact that Rauschning included quotes which
he admitted he did not understand only adds to the credibility of his
testimony, for these often turn out to be occultic references of the
kind meant to be understood by fellow-initiates alone.]

[One of the best sources I have seen is the Angeberts' book quoted
above. The strength of their work is ironically due to their positive
attitude toward the occult: it appears they rather admire the "Ancient
Wisdom" as expressed in Gnosticism, Catharism and other esoteric
movements, and they trace its threads through history with nostalgia
as well as academic interest. Their far-ranging documentation allows
them to conclusively show that Nazism was/is an initiation into the
classical Gnostic "path of enlightenment", but unlike me the authors
do not fault the "Ancient Wisdom" itself for the infamous results. On
the contrary, "the prime lesson to be learned is that the practice of
occultism and magic is fraught with danger and, therefore, not to be
entrusted to just anyone." (p.160) This book is valuable for its
uninhibited look at the many movements and occultists - including
unlikely names like Plato, Nietzsche, Goethe and Pythagorus - who
shared Hitler's dream of the Holy Grail and a new-age return of the
ancient Hyperborean godmen with their "sacred sciences". The English
publisher is MacMillan (1974), McGraw-Hill (1975) in paperback.]

Hitler turned against Christianity from his early teens and sought his
destiny in the occult. He later joined with associates who also
embraced those teachings, and together they built a state guided by
the same occultic principles and goals repeated in today's NA. And no
wonder, because he drew on the same esoteric sources as the NAers of
today. [How have so many scholars overlooked this all-important key to
understanding the Nazi mentality? In the words of the Angeberts'
English translator, Lewis A.M. Sumberg, nearly all historians missed
the "militant neo-Paganism" and "Gnostic racism" in Nazism
"because
they have brought conventional outlooks and methodologies to their
examination of an unconventional phenomenon." (_The Occult and the
Third Reich_, p.x) We must either re-assess the Nazi philosophy with
these roots exposed, or be forced to settle for theories which fail to
completely explain Nazi priorities. Its unconventional nature lay in
"magic thought allied to science and know-how" (Angeberts, p.179) -
exactly the hybrid being encouraged today by NA leaders like Peter
Russell. Sumberg's observation in 1974 about this blind spot among
historians fell mostly on deaf ears, which makes it more difficult now
- but more urgent than ever - to recognize that not only is Nazism not
dead, we are now surrounded by a "kinder, gentler" version of the same
philosophy, sprouted from the same roots and having the same
priorities.]

1. Hitler and the Occult

According to available sources (see above), Hitler first made contact
in 1909 with other occultists, the first of these being Goerg Lanz von
Lieberfels and Guido von List, after coming across their occultic-
racist magazine _Ostara_ in Vienna. (Sklar, p.5. For samples of the
typical copy published in _Ostara_, and how Hitler later echoes it,
see p.17-22) Besides his publishing activities, Lanz was known for
starting a society called the "Order of New Templars" which imitated
the traditions of occultic Grail lore. (Angeberts, p.237) Lanz would
later claim credit for influencing Nazi ideology - a claim which has
some merit considering that one of his books was found in Hitler's
personal library (now archived in the Library of Congress in
Washington, DC). As for List, he founded the "Armanen", a Germanic
pagan priestly order which apparently accepted Hitler into their
brotherhood; evidence is in another occultic book from Hitler's
library bearing an inscription from a comrade to Adolf, "my dear
Armanen brother." (Sklar, p.48) Books by List were found stamped with
the insignia of the SS Ahnenerbe (the Nazi Ancestral Research
division), indicating that his teachings were studied by SS
candidates. (As an aside, Angeberts note that the documents dealing
with the Ahnenerbe itself, which they identify as "the Nazi Occult
Bureau", are listed in the U.S. National Archives but for some reason
are not available to researchers - p.259-260) Both Lanz and List were
obsessed with blood purity, the Jewish threat, Grail legends and a
"new world order". Both embraced the swastika as a central symbol,
borrowing it from Hindu mysticism. [see comments below]

By 1913, Adolf had passed the novice stage in his occult pursuits.
(Carr, p.95) In 1918 (age 29) he claimed to hear voices announcing
that he was "selected by God to be Germany's messiah" (Carr, p.36);
later he made contact with an "ascended master" whom he identified as
Lucifer or "the beast from the pit". He eventually became convinced he
was the reincarnation of Woden (or, Woton). At some point, he
discovered two German occultists who eloquently expressed his own
understanding of Aryan religion and destiny: Richard Wagner [details
later] and Friedrich Nietzsche. These influenced Nazi thought so
heavily that the authors of _The Occult and the Third Reich_ name them
as "the two prime initiators of the Third Reich", (p.119) and devote
two entire chapters to documenting this claim. To these can be added a
third, who lived before Hitler and tried to weld Wagnerian and
Nietzschean thought into one work: the British occultist Houston
Stewart Chamberlain, who wrote in his epic _Foundations of the
Nineteenth Century_ (1900): "Every Mystic is, whether he will or not,
a born Anti-Semite." (Sklar, p.11)

Another occultist to influence Hitler's thinking was Dr. Karl
Haushofer, who was introduced to Hitler in 1924 while the latter was
in Landsberg prison. Haushofer, a Blavatsky disciple, combined a
dubious "science" called "geopolitics" with Eastern mystical texts and
_The Secret Doctrine_ principles, and claimed to have clairvoyant
powers. It was Haushofer who schooled Hitler in _The Secret Doctrine_.
(Carr, p.93) His geopolitical theories found their way into _Mein
Kampf_. (Sklar, p.62) It was also Haushofer who forged Hitler's
alliance with Japan basing his case on astrological predictions
(Sklar, p.69), and who gave him the "Lebensraum" concept. As the Nazi
conquest advanced, Haushofer applied his theories through prophecies
which overruled the military leadership in directing troop movements.
(Sklar, p.69) Besides Hitler, Haushofer had other prominent disciples:
Rudolf Hess, later to become Hitler's secretary; and Anton LaVey, who
gained notoriety in later years for his promotion of Satanism. LaVey
dedicated his work _The Satanic Bible_ in part to "Karl Haushofer, a
teacher without a classroom." (Sklar, p.63) Haushofer's fortunes fell,
however, when his son Albrecht conspired in the 1944 coup against
Hitler and was arrested; father Karl was sent to Dachau.

Hitler, like today's NA philosophers, firmly believed in the coming of
a new species of humanity. Like modern New Agers, he expected them to
be a literal "mutation" of homo sapiens, achieved by arriving at
"higher levels of consciousness". He also believed that the new
humanity would be free of "the dirty and degrading chimera called
conscience and morality," as well as "the burden of free will" and
"personal responsibility" which should rightly be borne only by the
few with the fortitude to make the awful decisions necessary for the
good of humanity. (Sklar, p.58)

Hitler's associate, Bernhard Forster (who happened to be Nietzsche's
brother-in-law) related to Hermann Rauschning how Hitler had
proclaimed that he "would bring the world a new religion,... the
blessed consciousness of eternal life in union with the great
universal life... when the time came. Hitler would be the first to
achieve what Christianity was meant to have been, [without] any fear
of death [or] the fear of a so-called bad conscience. Hitler would
restore men to the self-confident divinity with which nature had
endowed them." Forster then added his own opinion: "He drew his great
power from intercourse with the eternal divine nature." (Sklar, p.
54-55) [The reader should note the familiar "cosmic consciousness"
vocabulary here, more appropriate to the founder of a religion than to
a political schemer.]

The Nazi sacred symbols and concepts - the swastika or "gamma cross",
the eagle, the red/black/white color scheme, and ancient Nordic runes
(one of which became the insignia of the SS ) - were all adopted from
occult traditions going back centuries, shared by Brahmins, Scottish
Masons, Rosicrucians, Manichaeans and others. (Angeberts give detailed
histories, p.194-200) The Nazi motto, "One Reich, One Folk, One
Fuehrer", reflected the standard 3-fold power circles of the occult.
(See a good example in Bailey's _Discipleship in the New Age_ II, p.
165, where the Great Invocation is to be explained on three distinct
levels.) The Reich was the psychic adepts of the Nazi Party, which
would build the bridge between the Folk (the masses which unite into a
cosmic Entity greater than its parts) and the Fuehrer (the initiates
in the elite leadership which unite with Hitler, the divine
incarnation). The outer fringe, the Folk, are taught what they can
handle: blind obedience, group service, a new history and identity.
The Party elite such as the SS are taught something different: psychic
knowledge, tapping into the "Vril Force", self-denial, brotherhood
mission, medieval lore, fearlessness of death. The innermost circle
was privy to the hard-core Gnostic teaching on the Grail, immortality
and godhood. Many neo-Nazi groups continue to pursue these topics with
devotion. But under it all was the invisible presence of "Unknown
Superiors" (Angeberts, p.178, quoting Rudolf Olden, _Hitler the Pawn_,
written 1936. Rauschning used the same term - p.233) who taught Hitler
himself and who were assumed by his associates to endow him with his
uncanny hypnotic power.

Concerning Hitler's relationship with these Unknowns, there is not
much known besides his reference to a guiding voice of "Providence".
However, we do have a vivid account related by an unnamed associate of
Hitler to Rauschning (both were not sure what to make of it), in which
Hitler wakes up in the middle of the night in total panic at some
unseen visitation: "Hitler was standing there in his bedroom,
stumbling about, looking around him with a distraught look. He was
muttering: 'It's him! It's him! He's here!' His lips had turned blue.
He was dripping with sweat. Suddenly he uttered some numbers which
made no sense, then some words, then bits of sentences. It was
frightening. He used terms which were strung together in the strangest
way and which were absolutely weird. Then, he again became silent,
although his lips continued to move. He was given a massage and
something to drink. Then all of a sudden, he screamed: 'There! Over
there! In the corner! Who is it?' He was jumping up and down, and he
was howling." (Rauschning, p.285-286) [Whatever the reader may
conclude about the Unknown Superiors, whether a figment of a sick mind
or real entities, please remember that both Nazi cosmology and NA
religion view(ed) them as real and independent beings - and also as
extensions of one's own untapped divinity. No provision is made in
either system for the possibility of ascended beings who first seduce
their channels and then torment them. Yet stories similar to the above
are not uncommon in NA circles. From those who leave the New Age after
such an experience, the verdict is uniform: the Guides are clever
deceivers with evil motives. For those who stay, the solution is to
blame oneself for the "bad trip" and blindly dive in deeper; this was
apparently Hitler's choice.]

Hitler's personal devotion to occult principles was proven ultimately
by his self-inflicted death. His choice of April 30 for his suicide
may well have been meant as a sacrifice; it was the eve of Beltane
(known in Germany as Walpurgisnacht), identified on popular Wiccan
websites as a Druid feast in honor of the deity Bel. In witchcraft,
this "power-point" day is regarded as a "great sabbat" equal in
potency to Halloween. According to Wiccans, Bel is derived from the
Canaanite Baal; but Helena Blavatsky goes farther in _The Secret
Doctrine_ (vol.2), reconstructing an astrological trinity of Bel/Baal
(sun-god, father), Christos (Mercury, son) and Lucifer (Venus, holy
spirit). [more on the Lucifer connection in "Gods of the New Age"] As
for Hitler's suicide itself, this was not a cowardly act from an
occultist viewpoint, but rather an honorable practice known among the
Druids, as well as among the Cathari "Perfects", those medieval
guardians of the Grail, who called it the rite of "Endura". A curious
requirement of the "Endura" was that it was always to be done by pairs
of intimate friends, a detail known by the Nazis (Angeberts p.28)
which makes sense of Hitler's joint suicide with his new wife Eva
Braun. Incidently, Hitler's associates Karl Haushofer and Goebbels
also killed themselves in ceremonial fashion along with their wives.
(Angeberts, p.275, note 11)

2. Hitler and Christianity

Not only did Hitler regard Christianity as a defective, failed
enterprise, he saw himself as replacing both its God and its Christ.
At one of the huge Nuremberg rallies hung a gigantic poster of
himself, with the caption stolen from the Christian gospel of John:
"In the beginning was the Word." German youth were indoctrinated from
infancy to pray to Hitler, who they were taught was sent from heaven
to protect them. (Sklar, p.56) Nazi-approved sermons in German
churches proclaimed, "Adolf Hitler is the voice of Jesus Christ." And
lest some readers [especially Jews] should conclude from this that
Nazi Christians viewed Hitler as the mouthpiece of the New Testament
Jesus, the statement is clarified to leave no doubt: "If Jehovah has
lost all meaning for us Germans, the same must be said of Jesus
Christ, his son.... He [Jesus] certainly lacks those characteristics
which he would require to be a true German. Indeed, he is as
disappointing, if we read the record carefully, as is his father [the
G-d of Israel according to Christian tradition]." ("What the Christian
Does Not Know About Christianity", quoted by Sklar, p.56)

In Hitler's words, Christianity "only added the seeds of decadence
such as forgiveness, self-abnegation, weakness, false humility and the
very denial of the evolutionary laws of survival of the fittest
[social Darwinism]," and would obviously be a handicap to the new
species which he was personally commissioned by the "masters" to see
properly birthed and nurtured. But Hitler perceptively placed the
ultimate blame where it is due: "Conscience is a Jewish invention. It
is a blemish, like circumcision.... There is no such thing as truth,
either in the moral or in the scientific sense. The new man would be
the antithesis of the Jew." (Sklar, p. 57-58) Nietzsche likewise
considered the Christian Bible nearly worthless because of its Jewish
origin: "In Christianity, seen as the art of sacred lying, we're back
with Judaism.... The Christian is but a Jew of more liberal
persuasion." (_Antichrist_, quoted in Angeberts, p.126) [Compare with
the NA view of how Judaism "defiled" Christianity.] In this context,
antisemitism was not a starting point for the inner Nazi society as it
was for the masses; Jew-hatred was the inevitable result of absorbing
these bedrock occult teachings.

The nurture of the new humanity included the need to "encourage the
growth of a violent, domineering, intrepid, cruel youth... nothing
weak or tender in it." (Angeberts, p.209, Rauschning quoting Hitler)
This reached its climax in SS training, and it corresponded to the
Nazi view of "pure" Gnostic, Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, which did
not teach compassion and gentleness, but Aryan duty and honor above
all (Angeberts, p.220-221). [This would seem confirmed by the presence
of Tibetan Buddhists in Hitler's Berlin, as well as Bailey's
prediction that Buddhism is destined to drop its image of gentle
pacifism.]

But there was an obstacle to sweeping away the Jew and raising this
cruel new generation, in the person of that "Jew of more liberal
persuasion", the Bible-believing Christian. Knowing that Christian
Germany would not easily accept an open return to paganism, Nazism
attempted to wean the masses from standard Christianity by removing
the Jewish-influenced "negative" parts, that is the Old Testament and
most of the New Testament, imposing gnostic meanings on key passages,
adding colorful pagan legend, and repackaging it in their 1920
platform as "positive Christianity" (Angeberts, p.202-203). [This term
is freely used today by many groups, some of them fervent NAers
offering the same package to naive Christians, for the same purpose.]

Hitler's vision of returning to "pure" pagan religion was echoed, or
more accurately anticipated, by psychoanalyst Carl Jung in 1923: "We
[Germans] need new foundations. We must dig down to the primitive in
us, for only out of the conflict between civilized man and the
Germanic barbarian will there come what we need: a new experience of
God." (Sklar, p.134) When esotericist Jakov Wilhelm Hauer founded the
Nordic Faith movment, Jung urged participation on the part of Germans
who were "intelligent enough not only to believe but to know that the
god of the Germans is Wotan and not the Christian God." ("Wotan",
essay by Jung - emphasis his, quoted by Sklar, p.134) The Nazis
reciprocated by making Jung President of the German Medical Society
for Psychotherapy in 1933, at which time he finally found a forum from
which to expound a belief he had held since 1918: the need to
distinguish between "German" and "Jewish" psychology. (The Society's
Dec. 1933 issue) In his view, such a distinction was not antisemitic,
it was liberating for both Aryans and Jews. (Sklar 136-137) When the
Jews were fleeing Nazi Germany in ever-increasing numbers, Jung
advised his followers in England to keep up their "negative feelings"
about Jews and resist allowing them to participate as colleagues, as
he also did. [See further details about Jung in Harvard Professor
Richard Noll's books.] As for the destruction being wreaked by the
Nazis, Noll notes that Jung viewed them as the necessary precursors to
the great "light", those whose task was to destroy to make "rebirth"
possible. [Compare with Bailey's assessment below.] It took until 1945
for Jung to finally denounce the Nazi extermination of the Jews, but
he never retracted his proposal for a "Germanic, Jew-free
psychotherapy". (Sklar, p.138-139)

To remove the "bad seeds" of Christian (that is, Jewish) thinking,
Nazi preparation of children for the new humanity would be diligent
from cradle to grave, centered around the notion that they were born
to die for their god, wmbodied in their Fuehrer. The education began
with revised fairy tales teaching new-humanity principles of heroes
struggling and dying to set their race free. Then group membership
started at age 10, followed by continuous reinforcement in group
settings for the remainder of their lives, "so that they shall in no
case suffer a relapse, and they don't feel free again as long as they
live," as Hitler bluntly put it. (Sklar, p.110) There was non-stop
activity which required passive participation, allowing no time for
reflection or discussion.

And what did Christian leaders think of Hitler? Although many
Christians eventually bought into "positive Christianity", apparently
there was enough opposition to necessitate an early purge of that
community. Before launching his "final solution", Hitler made an
effort to remove all churches and pastors who showed the least
resistance to policies already in operation. For example, refusal by a
church to sponsor a Hitler Youth chapter was sufficient grounds to
close it down. Leaders whose integrity would not yield to political
expediency, who could not be discredited by scandal, and who had the
potential to influence Christians at large, were imprisoned
indefinitely (Dietrich Bonnhoefer for example). Although Hitler did
not close down many Catholic churches, especially where local support
was strong, he vented his rage on Pope Pius XI, who had issued an
encyclical condemning him as "a prophet of nothingness". ("Mit
Brennender Sorge", March 14, 1937, translation posted by Paul Halsall
of Fordham University) The Nazi government lodged a harsh protest with
the Vatican shortly afterward (April 12, 1937 - see Georg May,
_Kirchenkampf oder Katholikenverfolgung_, p.582). [I would suspect
that the most damaging statements in "Mit Brennender Sorge" for the
Nazis were those which exposed their "religious war" against the
legacy of Judaism found in Christianity. Pius XI flatly equated Nazism
with "aggressive paganism", condemned the removal of the Old Testament
from churches and schools as an act of someone who "blasphemes the
name of God", and reaffirmed the Jewish Bible as "sacred books" which
"record the story of the chosen people, bearers of the Revelation and
the Promise". The Catholic leader summarily rejected the anti-Jewish
dogmas of "race and blood [and] the irradiations of a people's
history" as "false coins [which] do not deserve Christian currency".
See the end of the next entry, 2a, for related observations.]

2a. Hitler and the Popes

Piux XI and his successor Pius XII have long been subjects of
controversy for their publicly ambivalent statements regarding the
Jewish genocide taking place in their times. However, in the eyes of
the Third Reich, Pius XI had already gone too far with his encyclical,
and Nazi General Ludendorf was convinced that Cardinal Eugenio
Pacelli, then the Vatican Secretary of State and soon-to-be Pope Pius
XII, was behind the wording of this document and "behind all the anti-
German activities of Rome's policy". (Pinchas Lapide, _Three Popes and
the Jews_, p.120) When Pius XII came to power in 1939, he appeared to
adopt a more diplomatic tone, making his position much harder to
identify. Yet the so-called "Silent Pope" came under attack in Nazi
political cartoons published in _Der Stuermer_, which showed the
pontiff kissing rabbis. (reported to me by German researcher Robert
Jesolowitz, who has them on file)

[It is not my aim here to evaluate whether Pius XII did or did not do
enough to oppose the Holocaust. There are many published papers which
come to conflicting conclusions, but the prevailing opinion today is
that Pius XII failed abysmally by remaining silent in the face of Nazi
genocide. For open-minded readers, I recommend a documented rebuttal
from the Catholic side, which ironically relies on the research of
several Jewish scholars, especially Israeli historian Pinchas Lapide.
My goal here, however, is to show the disproportionate Nazi response
to what Pius XII did say, and to suggest motives for it.]

In what most historians consider a vague protest, Pius XII referred to
"those hundreds of thousands who, without any fault of their own,
sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked for
death or progressive extinction" (Christmas Message 1942). Vague or
not, his message was received loud and clear by the Nazi leadership.
Himmler's deputy Reynhard Heydrich responded with: "The Pope has
repudiated the National Socialist New European Order... He is
virtually accusing the German people of injustice toward the Jews and
makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals." (quoted by
Lapide, p.137) In Italy, the editor of _Regime Fascista_ wrote: "The
Church's obstruction of the practical solution of the Jewish problem
constitutes a crime against the New Europe." (Michael Schwartz, _The
Persistent Prejudice: Anti-Catholicism in America_, p.246) [Besides
the obvious Nazi assumption that Catholics were heeding a covert call
from the Pope for resistance, note the familiar phrase "New European
Order", its only difference being on a regional scale rather than
today's global goal.]

[It can be - and usually is - argued that Pius XII did not do enough,
given his vast resources and global influence. On the other hand,
Lapide shows that he did substantially more than other leaders who
were not caught in Hitler's hammer-lock, and certainly more than the
U.S. government which turned away Jewish refugees even though
immigration quotas left room for over one million between 1933 and
1943. (Documentation of American inaction bordering on the criminal is
available in _While Six Million Died_, by Arthur D. Morse.) This sense
of perspective is often lost by over-reliance on the 1963 German
drama, "Der Stellvertreter" (performed as "The Deputy" in London that
same year), which repeats Heydrich's charge of "war criminal", only
this time presenting the Pope as an accomplice for the Nazi side by
his "silence". Aside from the fact that the charge itself is
debatable, I have yet to see anyone portray then-President Roosevelt
as a similar "war criminal" for his refusal to get involved at a much
lower risk.]

[Four points about "The Deputy" which reflect on the NA-Nazi
connection: (1) This play focusing on Pius XII to the exclusion of
many other silent "Deputies" was introduced by playright Rolf Hochhuth
as a "fantasy", yet it has come to be regarded by many as a definitive
"work" on the Holocaust Pope. In sharp contrast, many students of the
Holocaust have never heard of Pinchas Lapide's assessment of Pius XII,
based not on fantasy but on solid research. (2) This belated
initiative to elevate Pius to "war criminal" status did not come from
the Jewish community but from post-Nazi Germany, where no small number
of unrepentant war criminals were able to continue their lives - and
their occultic beliefs. (3) "The Deputy" was strongly criticized by
Lapide, who said that world Jewry did not endorse this view of
Holocaust history. For some reason, few Jews are aware of this
disclaimer, let alone in agreement with Lapide. Point (2) conveniently
serves the NA divide-and-conquer strategy toward Jewish-Christian
relations, manipulating this painful history of the Church failing the
Jews while covering up their own designs against both groups. Points
(1) and (3) show the unapologetic history revision commonly seen in
the New Age framework - not merely a retroactive application of create-
your-own-reality, but disinformation with an agenda.]

[But here is a Point (4), which is perhaps the most telling: One of
the earliest records of Pius XII denouncing the Nazi movement dates
back to April 1935, when Pacelli was still a Cardinal: "These
ideologues are in fact only miserable plagiarizers who dress up
ancient error in new tinsel." (address at Lourdes to 250,000 pilgrims)
By recognizing the return of the "ancient error" which the Church had
repeatedly battled in the past - occultic Gnosticism - this pope
declared himself a formidible enemy in the arena most important to the
Nazis: the ancient cosmic-religious War of Light against Darkness. I
would submit that his evident knowledge of the occult roots of Nazism
disturbed Hitler and his fellow-initiates far more than anything Pius
did later, for they were in the process of burying all such traces
[see below]. The yet-stronger statements in "Mit Brennender Sorge" two
years later probably intensified Nazi fears that their cover was about
to be blown. This is the best explanation for the hysterical tirades
reportedly directed personally at Pacelli by Hitler, and even a plot
in 1940 to kidnap him. The threat from this pope did not end with the
Third Reich, because the real "War" was - and is - still in progress.
On the contrary, Pius XII was so highly esteemed that at his death
(1958), Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir eulogized him in the name
of the Jewish State, and the Israeli public called for a forest of
860,000 trees to be planted in honor of the estimated number of Jews
saved by this Righteous Gentile. Surviving Nazi guardians of the
Gnosis must have realized that Pacelli's continuing influence on the
Jewish people could do great damage to the future of the Plan if they
ever came to comprehend his analysis of Nazism. This is the only
reasonable explanation for the total reversal of his reputation within
five short years, after unknown parties financed and heavily promoted
the reconstructed pseudo-history of Pius XII on the stages of Europe.
The ploy succeeded: today, not many Jews are interested in anything
this Nazi "deputy" had to say.]

3. Hitler and the Mufti

And what about Islam, the third monotheistic religion? While Hitler
ranted against Christianity and Judaism, expressing "a violent feeling
of anger at the idea that some Germans were able to be taken in by
theological doctrines devoid of any depth," he contrasted these hated
teachings with "those of Confucius, of Buddha and of Mohammed" which
provided spiritual "sustenance". (Angeberts, p.246) In this context,
Hitler's friendship with Haj Amin al Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem -
which included asylum in 1941, the honorary rank of SS Major and an
acceptable racial "genealogy" - can be understood as more a sign of
respect than political expedience. There were even cases of Nazis
relocating to Arab countries and converting to Islam. (p.275-276 note
14) In this opinion, Hitler had the backing of the Thule Society,
whose founder Sebottendorf praised Islam for having a "vitality
greater than that of Christianity" which flowed "from a torrent which
nourished everything" - that same "thread of lost knowledge" which was
the goal of the Nazi quest. (Angeberts, p.165-166) [This raises other
ideas for why Hitler's Mein Kampf is so popular among some Moslems;
besides the expected political admiration for brute force, there may
also be a consensus of spiritual worldviews.]

4. The Nazi Mentality - Group Mind

The Nazi goal was group-think, or the eradication of private
conviction and dissent. As stated above, the "burden" of free choice
and decision-making could be entrusted only to the few with the
enlightenment and courage to implement the new age without flinching.
For the masses, it was enough that they submit to the leadership,
which would weld them into one entity through a common psychic
experience. [Today this would be called a guided group "light
experience", practiced by most NA channelers on their followers. See
the parallels in the "Transformation" Section.]

[Eerily, this group-think is the stated goal and the practical outcome
of the UN-sponsored World Core Curriculum, as well as the American OBE
(Outcome Based Education) which incorporates the WCC into US public
schools. Alice Bailey disciple Robert Muller, author of the WCC,
presents planetary group-think as the proper goal for all enlightened
individuals. The first principle of the WCC Manual clearly states that
"the group idea, group good and group understanding" are to "replace
all limited, self-centered objectives, leading to group
consciousness". The UN Global Governance Commission goes farther,
branding "some assertions of particular identities" as nothing less
than "intolerance", a cardinal sin in the New Age. (See the massive
report by the Commission on Global Governance, "Our Global
Neighborhood", and search for the "Core Value" of "mutual
respect".)
Obviously, someone at the top will have to bear the "burden" of
dictating the parameters for group-think. Yet the question of who will
wield this immense power over the rest of mankind, and whether they
might abuse it, is never brought up - seemingly not worth troubling
ourselves about. The New Age global forum known as "Planetary
Initiative for the World We Choose" is an example of those who have
donned the mantle of choice for the group, as is the "State of the
World Forum", but as usual the question is never answered how the "We"
who "choose" were themselves chosen.]

Hitler's contention that free will is a burden to the masses was
confirmed by the popular reaction. Said one young Nazi to the press in
the glory days of the Reich: "We Germans are so happy - we are free of
freedom." (Sklar, p.152) For many, it was a relief not to be saddled
with personal convictions and responsibility for what was happening,
as a perceptive professor reflected after the war: "I suppose we were
grateful. Who wants to think?" (see _They Thought They Were Free_,
Milton Mayer)

On the other hand, cultivation of personal will and initiative is a
noble duty incumbent on the high-level occult initiate destined to
lead the pliant, group-conscious new humanity. Hitler was obsessed
with the potential of the human will. So was Helena Blavatsky:
"...that mysterious and divine power latent in the will of every man,
and which, if not called to life, quickened and developed by Yogi
training, remains dormant in 999.999 men out of a million." (Sklar, p.
51) It was likely this fascination which lay behind the title of that
definitive Nazi propaganda piece in 1934, _The Triumph of the Will_.
[The reader will remember that "Will" is not a mere human effort but
is deified in NA as an attribute of Sanat Kumara.] A German youth
interviewed by a French writer in 1937 explained the Nazi triumph of
will not in militaristic but in gnostic terms: "I am studying the
conception of the world.... We refuse to think and to be; we refuse to
stand by helplessly under the determinism of the so-called laws of
matter. What we want is inside, an inner structure.... We shall not
let anyone stop us from building before God and before men that which
must be built!" The writer then remarked on the similarity of Nazi
sentiment to the (as he thought) extinct French Templar philosophy.
(Alphonse de Chateaubriant, quoted in Angeberts, p.175)

5. New Age Leaders Commenting on the Nazi Experiment

And what is the opinion in the NA community to this infamous
historical figure who so closely resembles them? Ambiguous, to say the
least. When pressed to comment publicly about Nazism, most will say
the politically correct thing and applaud the fact that "the monster"
Hitler failed. [It takes a bit of sleuthing to find out what they say
to one another.]

New Age references to Hitler are sometimes veiled in positive
generalities. Examples are Alice's husband Foster Bailey, and David
Spangler, a Findhorn leader (a NA community in Scotland where the goat-
god Pan is worshiped). F. Bailey tactfully does not name Hitler but
describes a disciple who tried to put the Plan of the New Age gods
into action "on a regional scale in the Rhine River valley" (_Running
God's Plan_, p.14). Spangler, dedicated to "anchor the Plan on earth"
by establishing other NA communities like Findhorn, distances the New
Age Aryans from Nazi Aryans only in that the "blond, blue-eyed
Germanic race which Hitler spoke of" was unnecessarily narrow - the
Aryans "are actually a more wide-ranging and ancient super-race".
(quoted by Constance Cumbey, _Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow_, p.107)
As an avowed disciple of Bailey and Blavatsky, he can be assumed to
hold the same views about need to safeguard the "purity" of the Aryan
race.

Then there is the schizoid response to Hitler - condemning his
brutality while justifying his philosophical premises. This describes
Alice Bailey (_The Externalisation of the Hierarchy_ II, p.122-127),
who called Nazism a "peculiarly distorted blend of Fascism and
Communism", yet included it in "the great world ideologies" birthed by
the "Shamballa force" (a flow of energy from the Hierarchy directed at
the world). Says Alice, "The objective [of the Hierarchy] was to
stimulate the free will of the masses; the result upon them has been
relatively good." And what prompted the "masters" to trigger these
beneficial ideologies, including Nazism? "It was the acuteness of the
situation and the wide extent of the cleavage." Which cleavage is
that? "The cleavage between the two groups... the forces of
materialism and... the energy of light." The forces of materialism are
known to Bailey as the "Dark Forces", which "work to preserve that
which is ancient and material... and feed... separateness." The Jews'
insistance on retaining their chosen-people identity "made it possible
for the forces of separativeness and hate to use the Jewish race";
therefore, the Jews are the tools of the Dark Forces.
(_Externalisation_ II, p.76-77) Here it took a bit of effort to piece
the picture together, but later Bailey is more outspoken: "Hitler, who
lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist;
Stalin and Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of
certain little-understood energies.... We call these people dictators,
demagogues.... But all these leaders are... being used to engineer
great and needed changes and to alter the face of
civilisation." (_Externalisation_ II, p.134-5) So then, according to
this channeler whose teaching is energetically promoted by the UN,
Hitler was empowered by the Hierarchy to continue the ancient and
honorable War against Darkness, personified by the Jews -- precisely
what Hitler himself claimed. [See more Bailey comments on the "beauty"
of World War II in general, in the "Views on Jews" section.]

It is no wonder, then, to find New Age factions which openly applaud
the Third Reich. Savitri Devi Mukherjee, a French convert to Hindusim
who became an influential mystical leader in the West, firmly believed
that Hitler was an "avatar" (divine manifestation), a being in natural
harmony with the Hindu tradition. She considered him the embodiment of
twin mystical light sources, "the sun and the lightning." [See
_Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-
Nazism_, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke] Devi's book about her human idol
(_The Lightning and the Sun_) bears the dedication: "To the god-like
Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European
of all times; both Sun and Lightning: ADOLPH HITLER, as a tribute of
unfailing love and loyalty, for ever and ever." [capitals in original.
It is likely that the tribute, "the Man against Time", referred to
Hitler's reversal of the swastika's direction from the Hindu
orientation which symbolized harmonic movement with the sun, to the
opposite direction, that is, against time.] Devi, now deceased, still
has a following in India, known as the "Hindutva" movement.

Naturally, Devi's book is heavily promoted by neo-Nazis such as
Canadian Ernst Zundel, as are her tapes, "for serious students of the
occult". Zundel himself follows the time-honored Nazi obsession with
occult and psychic phenomena, particularly UFOs. Another major neo-
Nazi center in New Zealand offers a book catalog which contains as
many titles on the occult as on politics - dealing with runes,
Atlantis, Norse religion, magicians, and Hitler-as-god.

David Icke's rebuttal from a page on his web site.

I am the one saying this is NOT a Jewish plot and that Jewish people
as a whole have been victims, not perpetrators of it

I think the "New Age" is part of the problem, not the solution, and
that people need to think for themselves and not look to gurus of any
kind to tell them what they should think and believe. Therefore, the
last thing I can be is a New Age guru.

The best personal example of neo-Nazi ideology merged with NA thought
is David Icke, former BBC commentator turned Green Party activist and
"son of the godhead" guru, whose seminars are crowded with NAers and
neo-Nazis alike. Likewise the British magazine _Rainbow Ark_ and the
Australian periodical _Nexus_, which Icke recommends to his followers.
(For a good overview of Icke, see "From Green Messiah to New Age
Nazi", _Left Green Perspectives_, Jan. 1996.) [Note the quotes by
Icke, many of which are almost verbatim Bailey teachings.] Also worthy
of mention is the "New Acropolis", ostensibly a NA philosophy club to
outsiders, but a Fascist group known by insiders to be imitating the
Third Reich.

Reasons for Hitler's failure to usher in the new humanity are given by
various NA sources: he was premature; he did not coordinate with the
"Hierarchy" but tried to build a rival power base [see below for
confirmation]; his vision for mankind wasn't global enough; he was
blocked by the "old order". If any of Hitler's NA critics detected any
weakness in him toward the Christianity which they are working to
eliminate, they have yet to mention it.

[Here it's appropriate to speculate why prominent New Agers in recent
decades have refused to follow the Baileys (and by implication the
spirit guide "DK") in rationalizing the Nazi war on the Jews. On the
contrary, many are hard at work to perpetuate the memory of Nazi
brutality in the Holocaust, even emphasizing their savage treatment of
the Jews. There are two possible explanations: (1) The high-profile
NAers are not necessarily high-ranking NAers, particularly in the
entertainment industry - they may be uninformed about the NA doctrines
of human evolution and Jewish karma, and honestly believe that New Age
thought could never sanction Nazi antisemitism. (2) High-ranking
NAers, who know the true roots of Nazism, are promoting the evil of
the Nazi-brand Final Solution in order to more effectively contrast
the benevolence of their own Solution - something like the "good cop /
bad cop" strategy where two interrogators pretend to be on opposite
sides to manipulate the suspect into trusting the "good guy" to
protect him from the "bad guy". Or call it reverse camouflage: next to
pitch black, gray can look fairly white.]

6. The "Missing" Link: The Thule Society

The same year Hitler had his New Age revelation, Baron Rudolf von
Sebottendorf, an avid fan of Helena Blavatsky, founded the "Thule
Society", a spiritist group which borrowed heavily from HPB's _The
Secret Doctrine_. Thule in occultic, Greek and Viking lore was the
capital of an ancient ice-island called Hyperborea (known in Hindu
legend as the "White Isle"), inhabited by superhumans with psychic
powers who eventually founded the Aryan race. After an unexplained
disaster, survivors of Hyperborea took refuge first in the
"West" [meaning west of India, perhaps Babylon?], then in the Gobi
desert, and later in Tibet; their spirit mentors retreated to a hidden
spiritual center called "Asgard" (variously located in space or in a
subterranean city). [Fans of the TV series "Stargate" will recognize
this as the name of the benevolent alien race which offers hidden
knowledge to the SG-1 team in times of need.] In Scandinavian myth,
Asgard was the abode of the gods, connected with earth by a rainbow
bridge. (Angeberts, p.280 note 43) These beings, headed by one known
in Hindu/Buddhist tradition as "the Lama of lamas" or "King of the
world", can only be contacted on the spiritual plane. The symbol of
this "Master" is the swastika, "symbol of the central power of the gem
of Heaven". (Angeberts, p.96, quoting J. Marques-Riviere, _In the
Shadow of the Tibetan Monastaries_) [Note the similarity to the NA
history of the "White Lodge" retiring to "Shamballa". I would also
guess that the "gem of Heaven" is a symbolic reference to Lucifer's
stone, or the Grail.] The Thule mythology was apparently embraced long
before the Thulists by Nietzsche, who began his final work,
_Antichrist_, with the words: "Let us see ourselves for what we are.
We are Hyperboreans." (Angeberts, p. 124)

The goal of Thule members was to break the barrier of the "small self"
- consisting of physical reality and (upon promotion to their inner
circle) moral constraints - so as to merge with the "divine self" in
the unseen spirit realm. (Sklar, p.33) That in turn allowed the
initiate to reach the "universal energy fields" (Carr, p.108) which
would "awaken the sleeping powers within" and access superhuman
psychic abilities which had once belonged to the proud Aryan race.
Attainment to this new level would lead to their thousand-year mastery
over the earth. Thulist powers were embodied in pagan deities,
specifically Woden/Woton; their symbols were the swastika (an ancient
"rune" symbolizing the sun, the moving wheel of life and the process
of transmutation) and the red eagle (which Sebottendorf defined as the
symbol of the death-to-life experience - Sklar, p.40). Thule
discipline required blind, unquestioning obedience to the enlightened
master in whatever he may ask, which would create conditions for
personal transformation. (Sklar, p.46) Sebottendorf called this the
"Fuehrerprinzip" ("the Fuehrer principle"), and he concocted a formal
response by which to salute such a god-man: "Sieg, Heil!" ("Glory,
Hail!") (Sklar, p.34) Thule initiates fervently awaited someone worthy
of that title to whom they could submit. When Hitler joined the
Society, Thule member Dietrich Eckart prophesied that the day had
come; he began introducing him in Munich occult circles as "the long-
awaited savior". To Alfred Rosenberg he said: "I believe in Hitler;
above him there hovers a star." (Sklar, p.53) Eckart was following his
own mission revealed to him in a seance: that when "Lord
Maitreya" [none other!] would soon make his appearance as a German
messiah to "lead the Aryan race to final victory over the Jews", he,
Eckart, was charged with the responsibility of "nurturing" him. (Carr,
p.110)

The Thule Society considered the Jew ("Juda") their cosmic enemy. As
early as 1920, Sebottendorf advocated a "Final Goal" of "cleaning out
the Jews once and for all", using "the most ruthless measures,
including Sammellager [concentration camps] and sweeping out the
Jewish vermin with an iron broom." (Sklar, p.57) [Readers will
recognize the same terms made infamous by later Nazi propaganda.]

Thule did not stop with a war of words, however. Society members were
implicated in the assassination of then-President of Bavaria, a Jew
named Kurt Eisner. When police arrived to arrest suspects,
Sebottendorf threatened to ignite an anti-Jewish pogrom. Whether due
to expedience or to Thule's wealthy backers, law-enforcers backed
down. (Sklar, p.42) One year later (1919), the Thule Society
established a political arm, the NSDAP, an acronym for the rather
cumbersome name later shortened to the "Nazi" party. Sebottendorf
wanted the new party run by his "Fuehrer principle", but he was
overruled in favor of elected leaders. Shortly thereafter, Thule
absorbed several beleagured occult groups such as the Germanen Orden.
Interestingly, Sebottendorf attacked certain kindred groups,
specifically Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophists and the Freemasons -
denouncing the former as a corrupted version of the truth, and the
latter as Jew-ridden. [Since there was little actual difference in
doctrine, the likely motive was either to discredit Thule's closest
occult competitors, or to eliminate those considered too "weak", that
is, too compassionate to carry out the necessary purge for the new
humanity. Hitler later adopted the same strategy - see below.] Thule
also joined forces with the "Free Corp", a paramilitary group
comprised of demobilized soldiers who knew no other life. When the
Thule Society finally disbanded, the NSDAP and Free Corp (by now known
as the Storm Troopers) continued, marching under the Thule sign of the
swastika.

Thule Society members or supporters who became key Nazi officials
included: Max Amann (Editor of Nazi Party publications), Hans Frank
(governor of Occupied Poland), Anton Drexler (founder of the German
Workers' Party), Gottfried Feder (co-founder of the Nazi Party), Karl
Harrer (first chairman of the NSDAP), Rudolf Hess (Hitler's Minister
of State), Dr. Heinz Kurz (SS leader), Feiedrich Krohn (designer of
Nazi insignia), Ernst Roehm (leader of Storm Troopers), Alfred
Rosenberg (Foreign Services chief, propagandist, author of _The Myth
of the Twentieth Century_), Julius Streicher, (Gauleiter of
Franconia), and of course Hitler himself (as a "visiting brother").
[list supplied by Sebottendorf, _Before Hitler Came_, quoted in
Angeberts, p.169] Dietrich Eckart, a leading Thulist who died in 1923,
deserves posthumous Nazi membership; among his last words was this
proclamation: "Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it is I who will call
the tune." (Carr, p.87) Eckart took credit for initiating Hitler into
Blavatsky's _Secret Doctrine_ and for putting him in contact with "the
powers"; Hitler later dedicated _Mein Kampf_ to Eckart.

7. Why would Nazis attack fellow-occultists?

According to research (see _Adolf Hitler, The Occult Messiah,_ Gerald
Suster), Hitler was devoted to Theosophy and kept a copy of
Blavatsky's _The Secret Doctrine_ by his bedside. Yet from the 1920s,
his thugs ruthlessly attacked and killed adherents of Theosophy,
Anthroposophy, Freemasons and others who shared the same occult
doctrines. He banned their groups from the Third Reich, and publicly
denounced occultists Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley. He ignored
astrologers, seance mediums, fortune tellers and similar groups, until
1942 when they also were banned. This has led historians to assume
that Hitler was simply anti-occult, a conclusion that fails to explain
all the evidence to the contrary.

The Nazi relationship to the Thule Society in particular begs for an
explanation. By 1933, when occultist Sebottendorf sought to revive
Thule, he found himself roundly rejected by the Nazi party he had
nurtured. He retaliated by writing a book, _Bevor Hitler Kam_ (Before
Hitler Came), claiming credit for Thule's role in launching Hitler
into leadership. The book was apparently popular and sold well, until
the Nazis confiscated all available copies and sent the author into
enforced retirement. Thus Nazi origins in the occultic Thule Society,
as well as Nazi plagiarism of many Theosophical and Thule terms, were
buried; to this day they remain relatively unknown to many students of
the Holocaust.

One explanation is camouflage. Hitler seemed determined to keep his
occult roots hidden from the general public; the groups and
individuals he targeted for early elimination were those who knew of
those roots and who might expose him (thereby challenging his control
of the "Plan"). This would explain why the Nazis burned every
available copy of Sebottendorf's book which proclaimed those roots,
and why Rudolf Hess's defection to the West in 1941 prompted Hitler to
outlaw all remaining occultists in the Third Reich, such as
astrologers, mediums and even parlor magicians. (Carr, p.88-100)

Such actions can be also be understood as attempts to eliminate
competition. Hitler recognized occultic power in each of the banned
groups which could compete with his own occult enterprise, and
eliminated them from the field. He considered Steiner a particular
threat, making him the first target. [According to Angeberts, Steiner
was an avowed practitioner of "white magic" who viewed Hitler as a
tool of "black magic" - p.160. Since they both believed they
manipulated the same Force, this equality would have suggested to
Steiner the possibility of thwarting Hitler, a direct threat which
Hitler in turn would have recognized.] This would make sense of the
fact that he confiscated (rather than burned) all the books of the
outlawed groups, and is the only explanation for his treatment of the
Thule founder to whom he owed so much. Heinrich Himmler confirmed this
when he defended the official Nazi policy banning astrology: "We
cannot permit any astrologers to follow their calling except those who
are working for us." (SS astrologer William Wulff, _Zodiac and
Swastika_, quoted by Sklar, p.2) While Himmler fell back on the
traditional esoteric rationale, "It is not for the broad masses", who
would misinterpret the occult secrets, the fact that recognized adepts
were also disenfranchised betrays more of an attempt to clear the
field.

Hitler did make one exception, however; his 1942 law banning secret
societies and confiscating their assets specifically exempted the "old
Prussian" Freemason lodges, otherwise known as the Bavarian
Illuminati. This group followed the Nazi racial purity ideal far more
closely than the "humanitarian Freemasonry" (as the Angeberts
distinguish the different streams), and in fact the Bavarian sect
shared Hitler's disdain for the other branches of Freemasons, not to
mention for the Jews as well. (p.157) [This would imply another reason
why Steiner and the Freemasons, as "humanitarian" strains of
occultism, were ruthlessly attacked by both Thulists and Nazis: they
were considered too compassionate to do what was needed to usher in
the New Age.]

8. Gnostic-Nazi-New Age Convergence

The one esoteric legend in particular which captivated the Nazis was
the Quest for the Holy Grail. While popular mythology presents the
Grail as the cup Jesus Christ used at his last supper, occult groups
dismiss this materialistic interpretation as a "blind" to preserve for
initiates the Grail's true meaning: the quest for the divine bloodline
or racial purity (See _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_, Michael Baigent,
Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln), which would bring with it supermortal
Knowledge and immortality. Alternately, the Grail was defined in
gnostic symbolic style as the "philosopher's stone", the "third eye"
or the spiritual "crown" of Lucifer which fell from his forehead when
he lost his place in heaven (Angeberts, p.264 note 14). In real terms,
that "seeing eye" is the Knowledge of self-as-god which Lucifer
exhibited, and which he offered mankind in the Garden of Eden. Hitler
saw in Wagner's _Parsifal_ a detailed parable of the Nazi calling as
"a religious brotherhood of templars to guard the Holy Grail, the
august vessel containing the pure blood". (Hitler to Rauschning,
quoted in Angeberts, p.155) The Grail defined here as the "vessel"
refers to the racially pure body which holds the blood that can absorb
god-knowledge. [See more about Wagner's Luciferism in the "Gods"
section.] The racially inherited god-consciousness idea appears in the
Gnostic teaching of a divine lineage descended from Jesus Christ (not
a Jew but a Gnostic initiate) who didn't actually die on the cross,
and who achieved a singular level of Aryan racial purity and
corresponding god-consciousness (his Jewish identity was dismissed as
an Oriental fiction). In search of this holy blood which contains the
coveted god-knowledge, every member of the SS was screened for purity
of Aryan lineage, and was taught his duty to father as many racially
pure children as possible. Himmler believed that if conception took
place in an Aryan cemetery, the resulting child would receive the
spirit of "all the dead heroes" buried there; accordingly, lists of
Nordic cemeteries were published in the SS periodical _Das Schwarze
Korps_. (Sklar, p.114)

Gnosticism had another, lesser-known influence on Nazi religion, which
also appears in New Age thought: the Jewish God (as they mispronounce
it, "Jehovah") is not the Most High and only God, but a "demiurge"
pretending to be such. Blavatsky agreed that the Gnostics "were right
in regarding the Jewish God as belonging to a class of lower, material
and not very holy denizens of the invisible world." (quoted in Sklar,
p.144) (For more evidence on the gnostic roots of New Age, see Stephan
Hoeller's "The Hermetic-Gnostic Roots of Theosophy", sold on tape by
the Theological Society.) In Blavatsky's understanding, "only angels
of a low hierarchy" could have created "those wretched races, in a
spiritual and moral sense, which grace our globe." [Not shy about
contradicting herself, Blavatsky also identified the Jewish God as
Cain, son of Eve by Satan.] The "moral wretchedness" referred to is
Jewish enjoyment of everyday life (everything from meals to sex) and
their continual thanksgiving for every material blessing. This
attitude was feared and hated by the gnostics, who considered the body
and the physical world a prison which the mind must reject and
transcend through meditation and magical rites, and escape to the
"real" or spiritual world. The "spiritual wretchedness" is the Jewish
"Old Testament", rejected by gnostics as evil, which teaches that the
Creator of heaven and earth is the Most High God. Since materialism is
evil, and "Jehovah" created the physical world, He must be evil as
well: not merely a usurper of the title "God", but in fact Satan. [For
more details, see the "Gods" section.] The Jews who persist in
spreading their teachings (in their Bible) are the tools of Satan, and
their influence in the world is deadly to human souls. Hitler
reiterated this gnostic doctrine: "The Jew is the anti-man, the
creature of another god. He must have come from another root of the
human race." (Sklar, p.146) [compare with Bailey's similar assessment]
Hitler was also known for his severely simple lifestyle, voluntarily
shunning material pleasures, physical appetites and a meat diet - all
classic Gnostic elements of "purification from the world".

The NA cosmology placing the Jews in alliance with cosmic Evil neatly
reinforced the Nazi pursuit of racial purity: not only was the Aryan
race threatened with defilement on a genetic level, but on a spiritual
level as well. Both NA and Nazism clearly borrowed from the
Zoroastrian teaching (originating in Persia in the 6th c. BCE and
experiencing a comeback through NA endorsement) and the Cathari, both
of whom taught that Moses was an evil magician who received his law
from "the god of Darkness", and that this "Devil caused the Deluge".
(Angeberts, p.262 notes 24,25) The gnostic themes of the Grail quest
and the cosmic struggle between Light and Darkness were portrayed in
Richard Wagner's _Parsifal_, a favorite opera of Hitler. Being an
occult initiate, Hitler was aware of the gnostic message behind "the
absurd externals of the story [Parsifal], with its Christian
embroidery... [the real message was] pure, noble blood, in [whose]
protection and glorification the brotherhood of the initiated have
come together." (Sklar, p.146, emphasis mine) Gnosticism also
clarifies some otherwise unintelligible proclamations, like those by
Nazi apologist Alfred Rosenberg: "The earth-centered Jew lacks a
soul"; and "[The continuing existence of the Jew] would lead to a
void, to the destruction not only of the illusory earthly world but
also of the truly existent, the spiritual." These statements, and also
his insistence that "The denial of the world needs... to grow so that
it will acquire a lasting predominance over affirmation of the
world," (Sklar, p.147-148) only makes sense to a Gnostic. [The
Theosophy studied by Rosenberg as a Thulist was his likely source -
see similar statements.]

9. Other New-Age Threads Preserved in Nazism

Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler first entered the Thule Society
orbit as a fighter in the Free Corp, by which time he was already a
devoted occultist. He was especially fascinated with reincarnation and
karma (individual and racial); he became convinced that he was the
reincarnation of King Heinrich I the Fowler (10th c), who spoke to him
in his sleep. (Sklar, p.85) He was similarly obsessed with legends of
the medieval order of Teutonic knights (a secret brotherhood which
required Germanic racial purity for eight generations), the meaning of
ancient Nordic runes, the Hindu/Buddhist idea of sacrificial
detachment from the consequences of daily life, and the precepts of
the _Kautilya Arthasastra_, a cynical, amoral Hindu philosophy
utilizing deceit. (Sklar, p.91) When he was given command of the SS,
he molded his Black Guards after a combination of all these. He
required his officers to read the mystical research of SS Colonel and
Ahnenerbe member Otto Rahn: _Crusade Against the Grail_ (1933) and
_Lucifer's Court in Europe_ (1936). [Both are available in German and
French only, far as I know.] Himmler's nickname, the "Black Jesuit",
stems from his slavish imitation of the (equally secretive)
brotherhood of Jesuit priests, whose literature he avidly studied
(Sklar, 86-87, citing Nuremberg Trials witness Walter Schellenberg).
He made use of the time-honored Jesuit practice of "spiritual
Exercises" - intensive visualization to create personal and group
reality. (Sklar, p.88) [The explanation that visualization is not a
powerful, time-honored occult manipulation of others, but merely a new
psychological self-help exercise, is promoted only to deceive the few
who still have scruples against occult practices.]

Himmler, like his Thule fellows and like most NAers today, denied the
existence of objective reality. Not surprisingly, he went on to
advocate "freeing" science to pursue research unhampered by notions of
provable truth - especially science dealing with ancient origins.
[Leading evolutionists are only recently beginning to admit that their
research is similarly "free" of objectivity, even proposing that
Darwinism might be better classified as philosophy or myth than as
science. See my sample list of quotes.] This attitude was shared by
the Nazi leadership, and led their rejection of valid astronomy and
physics in favor of occult-based pseudo-theories such as the "doctrine
of eternal cosmic ice" concocted by Hans Hoerbiger, a mechanical
engineer. It was Dietrich Eckart who introduced his protege Hitler to
Hoerbiger's work, and its similarity to Thule mythology on new ages
birthed from ice was immediately recognized. Hoerbiger himself
declared war on "objective science" as "a pernicious
invention" (Angeberts, p.183), advocated substituting the
"uselessness" of mathematics with a mystical "knowing" of the
universe, and targeted Albert Einstein as an archenemy (emphasizing
the latter's Jewish origin no less than his pernicious scientific
work). Hoerbiger's cause was taken up by the Hitler Youth, and later
by the SS Ahnenerbe, and Storm Troopers became fanatic supporters who
disrupted meetings of conventional astronomers with shouts and
threats. (Sklar, p.75-77) It was Hoerbigerian weather forecasting
(continuing after his death in 1931) that fixed 1941 as a mild winter,
convinced the Nazis to leave behind heavy winter gear for the invasion
of Russia, and sent them into a record-breaking cold front which
marked a turning point in the war. Even after the disaster, no one
admitted the bankruptcy of Hoerbiger's theory. (Amazingly, works
praising his theories continued to be published as late as 1952 - see
Angeberts, p.277 note 14) On the contrary, Hitler blamed the German
people for the defeat in Russia: "The nation has proved itself weak,
and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides,
those who remain after the battle are of little value; for the good
have fallen." (Sklar, p.81) [This follows the pattern of the "ascended
masters" themselves, who invariably blame their devoted servants when
things go wrong.]

True to Hitler's vow, "We shall wash off the Christian veneer and
bring out a religion peculiar to our race" (Sklar, p.147), SS soldiers
underwent occult initiations and ceremonies, to replace their
Christian faith and names with ancient Germanic names and worship
rites (Hitler being their incarnate deity), and to harness latent
spiritual forces believed to reside in the Aryan psyche. (Sklar, p.
100) [This was not an abrupt change, since these SS candidates had
grown up in 1920s Germany, where the occult, psychic phenomena and
paganism were quite trendy. Presumably their parents, school teachers,
civic leaders and other role models had already contributed to the
next generation's conditioning by their own immersion in Eastern
mysticism and spiritism. The implications for today's youth, who are
being raised on an even more potent and invasive brew of the same, are
unmistakable.] Secrecy, a total dedication that erased all other
loyalties, unquestioning obedience, isolation from 'common society', a
sense of self-sacrifice, a place in an exalted and ancient line of
"guardians" [as the black-cloaked, Force-wielding Jedi Knights were
described in "Star Wars"], and a strict observance of hierarchal
status were the methods of fostering unity - all of them borrowed from
occult societies.

But under it all, the abject fear was instilled in SS men of being
found unworthy of their exalted status, especially through the sin of
independent thinking. The group-think to which they had been subjected
since early childhood sank to new depths to minimize the chances of
such a mishap. A required achievement for SS candidates was
Kadavergehorsam, or "dead-body [unfeeling, robotic] obedience". In
merciless drills, they were trained to disregard their own emotions
and consciences by performing acts of brutality on self and others
usually associated with satanic cult rituals. (See descriptions in
Sklar, p.96-100) (Such practices in satanism are meant to produce an
altered state of consciousness and, as they believe, to channel the
natural horror response into psychic energy which empowers spells.) In
the resulting numbness, they could carry out the most horrific orders
without thinking, and walk among sickening sights without flinching.
Himmler firmly believed in the holiness of this ultimate devotion, in
which the SS suffered and sacrificed more than their victims. For him,
the unsung "glory" of the SS was "to have stuck it out... and to have
remained decent fellows." As for Himmler himself: "I try to reach a
compromise in my own life; I try to help people and do good, relieve
the oppressed and remove injustices wherever I can. Do you think my
heart is in all the things which have to be done simply from reasons
of state?" The extreme sacrifices of the SS, he said, were required in
part by German racial Karma; an individual "oughtn't to think of
himself". (Sklar, p.90-91) [Undoubtedly, many NAers will view
themselves in precisely the same light when they are required to take
part in necessary future purges. The view is already prevalent in NA
that individual human rights must give way to humanity's rights, and
this includes inflicting pain as well as enduring it.] It was also
German Karma, Himmler said, that they be "saved" by "a figure of the
greatest brilliance" - meaning not Hitler, but the spirit "incarnate"
in him and possessing him. (Sklar, p.157)

An inner circle of SS officers took on the roles of Teutonic knights,
complete with coat-of-arms, and met regularly at Himmler's Wevelsburg
fortress for deep meditation, week-long visualization sessions (Sklar,
p.88) and contacts with disembodied spirit masters. The very insignia
of the SS was loaded with occult meaning; the twin lightning bolts
were an ancient Nordic power rune. [Savitri Devi also focused on the
imagery of twin cosmic light sources in her adoration of Hitler.] The
Ahnenerbe branch of the SS invested huge sums in trips to Tibet to
search for an ancient Aryan clan, (Angeberts, p.95) and exhaustive
efforts were made to harness supernatural powers for the Nazi war
effort: everything from pendulum divination and ESP to yoga and Zen
Buddhism was investigated. (Sklar, p.101-103) Himmler was certain that
his British adversaries were doing the same kind of research, and
possibly with more success. (In reality, the British were aware of the
high regard Himmler and others had for astrology, and commissioned
astrologer Ludwig von Wohl to predict what kind of advice they were
getting from Nazi stargazers.) Hitler's strict vegetarianism was a
matter of principle because of reincarnation of souls into animal
bodies. (This was not only Hindu and Buddhist belief but Cathar as
well - Angeberts, p.238) In fact, Nazis were seen to show great
respect for animal life even while slaughtering human beings (see note
6 by Angeberts' translator, p.281). [This peculiar devaluation of
humans below animals is a pillar of Hindu life as well, where the
sacred cows and cobras of India fare far better than the luckless
human born to a low caste. In the West animal rights are threatening
to eclipse human rights as well, reflected in the "Earth First"
mentality.]

Yet another ancient belief adopted by the Nazis was the dualist cycle
of the universe - a cosmos full of energies at polar opposites
carrying on a continual battle, colliding to bring temporary balance
and transmuting to a higher state of being, evolving into a new
polarization, renewed battle, and on endlessly. Fire and Ice, Light
and Darkness, Matter and Spirit, Good and Evil, the human races all
followed this spiral path. Each "new world order" could not proceed
without the destruction of the "old order"; therefore destruction is
as healthy as the following restructure. This cosmology was shared by
many cultures: the Zoroastrians of Persia (who greatly impressed
Nietzsche), the Hindu writers of the Veda, the Greek gnostics
(particularly Pythagoras, who carried the concept from Egypt), the
Manachaeans (gnostic Christians), the Cathars, Nordic legends
(Angeberts, p.68ff) and Germanic lore tranmitted mostly through Wagner
(p.154). It is also a pillar of Theosophical teaching and of Alice
Bailey, who clearly approved of Hitler's role in destroying the old
order and "establishing of a new world order", as Hitler described it
in Bailey's own words. (Angeberts, p.155)

A tactic especially interesting to Jews which was shared by both
Nazism and NA is faulting the Jews for rejecting Jesus as their
Messiah. Like Hitler, no NA leaders accept Jesus's claims as recorded
in the New Testament, yet they make much of the fact that the Jews did
not either. While Hitler drew on Martin Luther's vitrolic condemnation
of the Jews for stubbornly rejecting Jesus, Alice Bailey simply adds
this rejection to her tally of the Jews' karmic debt: "Christ came to
bring an end to the Jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and
passed away as a religion... In the rejection of Christ as the
Messiah, the Jewish race has remained symbolically and practically in
the [astrological] sign of Aries, the Scapegoat [actually Aries is a
ram, as noted elsewhere in her book, but the purpose for this
"mistake" is self-evident]... they will repeat their ancient sin of
non-response to the evolutionary process. They rejected that which was
new and spiritual in the desert [by making the golden calf at Sinai];
they did it again in Palestine 2000 years ago; will they do it again,
as opportunity is offered to them?" (Alice Bailey, _The Reappearance
of the Christ_, p.81)

[Here we have a masterful "catch-22", for if the Jews reject Maitreya
as a false messiah, they will "remain the Scapegoat" and be removed
from the new humanity as they deserve. If they accept him, they will
accept his assessment that past karma requires their annihilation -
first spiritual erasure and then physical death. The only question is
whether they will go out in submission or in rebellion, but go they
will...]

Knowing that Christians are susceptible to such reasoning, today's
NAers have become adept at using "Christian" arguments against the
Jews. Christians coming from an environment that never mentioned Alice
Bailey will recognize the eerie similarity of Bailey's quote above to
the widespread Christian doctrine known as "Replacement Theology", the
belief that the Jewish dispensation ended with Christ and that the
failure of Jews to accept him cost them their place as G-d's chosen
people. But the Christian linkage is maintained on the NA side for its
PR value only; it rallies support among Christians for their own
goals, while they work for the end of both the Jews and the
Christians, as did Hitler. [A case can be made that the very existence
of this as a "Christian" theology may be due to NA infiltration into
Christian leadership. Only someone who is indifferent to the survival
of Christianity could support such a belief, because if Replacement
happened to the Jews, there is no guarantee that it won't happen next
time to the Christians! Precisely the argument that NA uses.]

Besides all the above common ground, there is universal reverence in
NA and Nazism for Tibetan Buddhism. Blavatsky and other Theosophists
considered the Tibetan Himalayas the home of the Hierarchy themselves.
According to some opinions, Hitler sent SS officers to the Himalayas
not only to seek out the source of the Aryan race, but if possible to
make contact with "Asgard" and consult directly with the "ascended
masters". A colony of Tibetan Buddhists flourished in Berlin
(Angeberts, p.215). The translator of Angeberts' work, Lewis Sumberg,
notes that the Russian troops entering Berlin in May 1945 found "the
corpses of a thousand men of Himalayan origin, in German uniform, but
carrying no papers or identification." (p.281-282) [One wonders what
today's Dalai Lama might be conveniently forgetting in relation to his
community's Nazi affiliations, each time he proclaims the Tibetan
Buddhist's identification with the suffering of the Jews.]

A virtually unknown component in Nazism is the glorification of
homosexuality as a path to higher consciousness and superhuman power.
In accordance with widespread occult practice dating back to the
Greeks, promotion in the SS brotherhood was conditional on adopting
"warrior" or super-masculine homosexuality. The homosexuals who were
despised and were sent to the camps were exclusively the effeminate
kind. [See _The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party_, Scott
Lively & Kevin Abrams, on line via the Web. I recommend an annotated
version, an interesting blend of the original, somewhat flawed text
with a reader's hostile comments; the end result is a welcome
correction of minor points and an unintentional confirmation of the
authors' main contentions.] It is interesting to note the rising
popularity of "warrior" images in entertainment (both male and female-
Amazon types) which combine occult powers with subtle homosexual or
anti-heterosexual attitudes. [A good, blatant example is the cheesy
"Xena" TV series newly arrived on Israeli TV - read the character
histories.]

10. Nazi and American Eugenicists Working Together

The agreement among eugenicists from these two vastly different
societies (for more details, see the eugenics section) reveals yet
another thread borrowed from ancient occult-based societies both in
the East (India) and West (classical Greece). While the Nazis were
open about the necessity of "blood purity" to elevate the human race,
Americans were more circumspect, veiling their goal of "racial
thoroughbreds" in more acceptable social/humanitarian terms -
undesirables in the U.S. were ostensibly targeted because they were
"uneducated and poor", not because they were racially inferior. The
Nazis understood the restrictions to which their U.S. colleagues were
subjected and did not protest. They closely followed the writings of
Madison Grant, associate of American Birth Control League director
Stoddard, who advocated the ancient Spartan practice of infanticide as
a natural weeding-out process. The Nazis publicly thanked both Grant
and Stoddard for "awakening in Germany the movement for the
preservation and increase of the Nordic race." The U.S. League
likewise took a great interest in ongoing Nazi developments, and
published an article in May 1933 entitled "Eugenic Sterilization, an
Urgent Need", by Ernst Rudin, Director of Genetic Sterilization and
founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. A group of American
eugenists sat as guest judges in the German "eugenic courts" in the
1930's, and returned with highest recommendations: "The [Nazi]
sterilization law is weeding out the worst strains in the Germanic
stock in a scientific and truly humanitarian way." (Lothrop Stoddard,
1940, after spending 4 months in Germany) [For excellent source
material, see Professor Stefan Kuhl's _The Nazi Connection: Eugenics,
American Racism, & German National Socialism_]

11. Never in a Vacuum...

Countless historians and sociologists have tried to analyze how Nazism
became the new value system for a civilized, humanistic people
seemingly overnight. The fact is that Nazi doctrine was introduced to
an entire generation of Germans raised on magic, cosmic mythology,
medieval lore, tales of secret guardians of the Ancient Wisdom and
mystical god-men. The titles being published and devoured were
reminiscent of today's blockbuster movies in the science fiction,
mythology and "world disaster" genres: _Ulysses' Bow_, _The Great
Dream_, _The Seventh Ring_ (an actual end-of-the-world novel), _The
Star of the Alliance_. (See Angeberts, p.253-255 for a list of German
bestsellers between 1896 and the 1930s.) Astrology, Theosophy,
experiments in "animal magnetism", clairvoyance and other ESP,
combinations of "white" sorcery and science, seances, and other occult
pursuits were widespread and trendy. Some were involved purely for
entertainment or psychological manipulation, but others took it quite
seriously as a door to enlightened knowledge and spiritual power. The
reasons for this stampede away from reason and into mysticism have
been attributed to a complex environment: the upheaval in German
society and economy, an inner emptiness and fatalism which stifles
personal initiative, an erasure of moral and spiritual boundaries
which leaves youth with nothing to believe in and nowhere to belong,
disintegration of traditional family authority, a social devaluation
of personhood which makes one ashamed of having private values and
goals at variance with the group. (Sklar, p.150) [I would propose that
all these conditions are not the cause for the abandonment of rational
thinking, so much as the result of a society accepting theosophical
principles like Karma and Group Mind.]

What happens then is inevitable. Out of the chaos and apathy (the
destruction of the old order) rises a mass movement (a new order). It
feeds on the loss of individual thinking, but in return promises a
secure, responsibility-free place in the Group Mind where thinking is
done for you. It removes all rights to family autonomy, but guarantees
a lifelong brotherhood; outlaws all religions except its own, but
provides ego-friendly answers for all life's questions. It requires
you to die, but offers a Supreme Opportunity to give up your life with
honor and dignity, and a sense of intrinsic value as a tiny cog in the
Vast Plan. It's better than being lost and lonely. And after all,
there is no real death, nor is there any particular reason to hang
onto this life; why not pay the karma sooner than later? At the head
of the movement is an enlightened individual who apparently has a
direct connection with that which the whole society has been seeking:
Asgard, home of the Hierarchy across the Rainbow Bridge. And he
declares that the time has come for the new humanity, for a return to
our long-lost god consciousness, and he has been "overshadowed" and
sent to guide us there. Only first, there is a "virus" that must be
removed from the body of humanity so that it does not endanger the
pure "seeds". And now you have a Cause to fight for - a personified
yet dehumanized Darkness on which to vent your righteous rage as Sons
of Light.

[Thus a whole generation of German youth was prepared to receive a NA
messiah and obey his every command. How did it happen that a
vulnerable society at its lowest point had the misfortune to cross
wires with a loser, an obscure little man, and inexplicably welcomed
him hysterically as an "avatar" - a divine channel? And how did he
proceed to turn the "Shamballa force" loose across a continent and rip
through the Jewish community, with millions to help him and no one to
stop him? Was it just a ghastly conjunction of random social trends?
If so, we are witnessing an eerie repeat coincidence - the same
occultic atmosphere, and another mass movement based on the same
foundations, calling for unity against the same "virus". This time it
is on a far wider scale and has a global media-driven culture to
accelerate its spread. At this point, the movement appears to be
securely entrenched; only its "avatar" is lacking. And all this within
two generations of the last nightmare encounter. The evidence suggests
that we should not only acknowledge the familiar face of this
movement, but stop viewing it as a "repeat" and recognize it as a
continuation of something that never really went away.]

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Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, is an English language documentary
regarding the occult influences and history of the Nazi Era, (pre,
during and post) in Germany. New evidence has suggested that Nazism
was not just a political movement but an occult religion with Hitler
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and another documentary on the new age which mentions Hitler
Gods of the New Age 1984

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