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The Rainbow Swastika - Nazism and the New Age
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occultism and magic is fraught with danger and, therefore, not to be entrusted to just anyone." (p.160) This book is valuable for its
uninhibited look at the many movements and occultists - including unlikely names like Plato, Nietzsche, Goethe and Pythagorus - who shared
Hitler's dream of the Holy Grail and a new-age return of the ancient Hyperborean godmen with their "sacred sciences". The English publisher
is MacMillan (1974), McGraw-Hill (1975) in paperback.]
Hitler turned against Christianity from his early teens and sought his destiny in the occult. He later joined with associates who also embraced
those teachings, and together they built a state guided by the same occultic principles and goals repeated in today's NA. And no wonder,
because he drew on the same esoteric sources as the NAers of today. [How have so many scholars overlooked this all-important key to
understanding the Nazi mentality? In the words of the Angeberts' English translator, Lewis A.M. Sumberg, nearly all historians missed the
"militant neo-Paganism" and "Gnostic racism" in Nazism "because they have brought conventional outlooks and methodologies to their
examination of an unconventional phenomenon." (_The Occult and the Third Reich_, p.x) We must either re-assess the Nazi philosophy with
these roots exposed, or be forced to settle for theories which fail to completely explain Nazi priorities. Its unconventional nature lay in
"magic thought allied to science and know-how" (Angeberts, p.179) - exactly the hybrid being encouraged today by NA leaders like Peter
Russell. Sumberg's observation in 1974 about this blind spot among historians fell mostly on deaf ears, which makes it more difficult now -
but more urgent than ever - to recognize that not only is Nazism not dead, we are now surrounded by a "kinder, gentler" version of the same
philosophy, sprouted from the same roots and having the same priorities.]
1. Hitler and the Occult
According to available sources (see above), Hitler first made contact in 1909 with other occultists, the first of these beingGoerg Lanz von
Lieberfels and Guido von List, after coming across their occultic-racist magazine _Ostara_ in Vienna. (Sklar, p.5. For samples of the typical
copy published in _Ostara_, and how Hitler later echoes it, see p.17-22) Besides his publishing activities, Lanz was known for starting a
society called the "Order of New Templars" which imitated the traditions of occultic Grail lore. (Angeberts, p.237) Lanz would later claim
credit for influencing Nazi ideology - a claim which has some merit considering that one of his books was found in Hitler's personal library
(now archived in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC). As for List, he founded the "Armanen", a Germanic pagan priestly order
which apparently accepted Hitler into their brotherhood; evidence is in another occultic book from Hitler's library bearing an inscription from
a comrade to Adolf, "my dear Armanen brother." (Sklar, p.48) Books by List were found stamped with the insignia of the SSAhnenerbe (the
Nazi Ancestral Research division), indicating that his teachings were studied by SS candidates. (As an aside, Angeberts note that the
documents dealing with the Ahnenerbe itself, which they identify as "the Nazi Occult Bureau", are listed in the U.S. National Archives but
for some reason are not available to researchers- p.259-260) Both Lanz and List were obsessed with blood purity, the Jewish threat, Grail
legends and a "new 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 asLucifer
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.]
The Nazi sacred symbols and concepts - the swastika or "gamma cross", the eagle, the red/black/white color scheme, and ancient Nordic
runes (one of which became the insignia of the SS ) - were all adopted from occult traditions going back centuries, shared by Brahmins,
Scottish Masons, Rosicrucians, Manichaeans and others. (Angeberts give detailed histories, p.194-200) The Nazi motto, "One Reich, One
Folk, One Fuehrer", reflected the standard 3-fold power circles of the occult. (See a good example in Bailey's _Discipleship in the New Age_
II, p.165, where the Great Invocation is to be explained on three distinct levels.) The Reich was the psychic adepts of the Nazi Party, which
would build the bridge between the Folk (the masses which unite into a cosmic Entity greater than its parts) and the Fuehrer (the initiates in
the elite leadership which unite with Hitler, the divine incarnation). The outer fringe, the Folk, are taught what they can handle: blind
obedience, group service, a new history and identity. The Party elite such as the SS are taught something different: psychic knowledge,
tapping into the "Vril Force", self-denial, brotherhood mission, medieval lore, fearlessness of death. The innermost circle was privy to the
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