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The Rainbow Swastika - Nazism and the New Age
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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.
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 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
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