THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

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