THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

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.