THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

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.]