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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