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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