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Hitler’s belief inevolution rested in aphilosophy whichcame from readingbooks likeTheozoology.“In Germany,they [theGestapo] came first for theCommunists, and Ididn’tspeak up because Iwasn’t aCommunist. Then they camefor the Jews, and Ididn’tspeak up because Iwasn’t aJew.Then they came for thetrade unionists, and Ididn’tspeak up because Iwasn’t atrade unionist. Then theycame for the Catholics, and Ididn’t speak up because IwasaProtestant. Then they camefor me, and by that time noone was left to speak up.”—Martin Niemoller,German Pastor before WorldWar Two“How fortunate for thosein power that the peoplenever think.”—Adolf HitlerHitler’s Hit ListInVienna from1900to1918,arenegadeCatholicmonk,Adolf1Lanz (nom de plume Lanz von Liebenfels), gave the Manichaeancosmologyasecularform.Inpreachingtohissect,TheNewOrderof Templars, in his monthly journal Ostara and in his bookTheozoology,Lanztaughtthatinthebeginningtherehadbeentwo2earthly races: the Aryan Heroes (Asings) and the Animal People(Apes).TheAryansweretheearthlyequivalentoftheManichaeanlight; they had been adivinerace endowed withsupremely intelligent,electronicminds,blond,blue-eyedbeauty,andcreativity.The Animal People were the worldly counterparts of theManichaean darkness; they had been ademonic race cursed withstupidity (except in the art of deception, in which they excelled),gorilla-likeugliness,andtheurgetodestroy.Atsomeearlytime,theApesbegantoenvyandhatetheAsings.Theyponderedmethodsofdestroying the Aryans and decided to attack the superior racethrough miscegenation. Conveniently, the Aryan women had afatalsusceptibilitytotheApes.(LanzinsistedthatthestoryofthetemptationofEveinGenesiswasanesotericaccountofherseductionby one of the monsters.) After several centuries of such interbreeding,the original Asings and Animals disappeared. Now theearth was populated by mixed races, which could be ranked ashigher or lower according to the proportions of Aryan and Apebloodthattheypossessed,approximatelyasfollows:SpeciesBloodMixtureNordic (blond,blue-eyed).....................................ClosetopureAryanGermanic (brown hair, blue-eyed or,less desirable, brown-eyed). .............Predominantly AryanMediterranean (white but swarthy) ..... Slight Aryan preponderanceSlavic(white but degenerative bone structure). HalfAryan, half ApeOriental....................................................Slight Ape preponderanceBlack African.......................................................Predominantly ApeJewish (fiendishskull)...............................................ClosetopureApe—from The Hitler Movement, p. 1071 Manichaeanism: areligiousphilosophytaughtfromthethirdtoseventhcenturies A.D. by the Persian Manes (or Manichaeus) and his followers,1combining Zoroastrian, Gnostic Christian, and pagan elements, and basedon the doctrine of the contending principles of good (light, God, the soul)andevil(darkness,Satan,thebody).2Aryanism: belief in the past existence of the hypothetical Aryan racesupposedly possessing asuperior civilization. (Aryan has no validity as aracial 2 term, although so used notoriously by the Nazis to mean “aCaucasianofnon-Jewishdescent.”)41Creation Science Evangelism •29 Cummings Road •Pensacola, Florida 32503