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and completely lacking in evidence for a particular interest in Tibet. Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorf
(1875-1945), the founder of the Thule Society, is said to have explicitly spoken out against the
suggestion that the light came from the highlands of Asia.
We do not see it as our primary task here to historically prove the interweaving of the relevant SS
members (Hitler, Himmler, Harrer, etc.) in an occult Nazi — Tibet connection. Things were not as
cleanly rationalist and scientifically correct as the pro-Lamaist intellectuals would have it among the
SS. When for example, at the presentation of a gift to the Tibetan regent in Lhasa Ernst Schäfer
declaims, “Since the swastika is also the supreme and most holy symbol for us Germans, the motto of
our visit is: A meeting of the Western and Eastern swastikas in friendship and peace …” (quoted by
Brauen, 2000, p. 79), then an occult note in accord with the zeitgeist of the time is present.
There are certainly also other, non-fascist, authors who create an occult correspondence between
national socialism and Tibetan Buddhism via a esoteric interpretation of the “Hakenkreuz” (the
swastika), a Buddhist symbol par excellence: “The rightward hooked cross [signifies] a prayer
formula in Tibet”, writes Friedrich W. Doucet, “In its left-turned form — like the national socialist
swastika — it designates the orthodox Yellow Hats ... it is the Yellow Hats who supervise the spiritual
rules in the Tibetan ecclesiastical state and also exercise worldly power” (Doucet, 1979, p. 81).[2]
It is also certain that Himmler’s spiritual advisor, Karl Maria Wiligut (“Himmler’s Rasputin”), saw
the “SS Schäfer Expedition” as an extremely occult undertaking and at Himmler’s direction attempted
to exert an appropriate influence on the participants in the expedition. The SS standard bearer Wiligut/
Weisthor, who was one of Himmler’s personal staff, was accredited with mediumistic abilities and he
himself was convinced he was in contact with transpersonal powers. Wiligut/Weisthor was considered
to be the Schutz Staffel’s (SS’s) expert on runes and designed the legendary skull ring of the SS. His
megalomaniac overestimation of himself (there are authenticated statements from him to the effect
that he believed he was the “secret King of Germany”) and the fact that he was deprived of the right
of decision by his family led Himmler to discharge Wiligut from the SS in 1939 (Lange 1998, p. 271).
The German author Rüdiger Sunner quotes the report of a member of the “SS Schäfer Expedition”
over a meeting with Wiligut.[3] During the encounter (in 1937 or 1938?), the latter was in a trancelike
state and addressed his visitors in a guttural voice: “I telephoned my friends this evening … in
Abyssinia and America, in Japan and Tibet ... with all who come from another world in order to
construct a new empire. The occidental spirit is thoroughly corrupted, we have a major task before us.
A new era will come, for creation is subject to just one grand law. One of the keys lies with the Dalai
Lama [!] and in the Tibetan monasteries.” The visitor was not a little distressed, and goes on to report:
“Then came the names of monasteries and their abbots, of localities in eastern Tibet which I alone
knew about … Did he draw these out of my brain? Telepathy? To this day I do not know, I know only
that I left the place in a hurry” (Sünner, 1999, p. 50). In the 80s the Chilean Miguel Serrano took up
the speculation anew that the Dalai Lama plays a key role in the Nazi-Tibet connection. His “skill”,
this author says of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is “closely linked with that of Hitler’s Germany … on
the basis of not yet discovered connections. A few years after Germany, Tibet also falls” (Serrano,
1987, p. 366).
Wiligut also believed that Lhasa would form a geomantic quadrilateral with Urga (Ulan Bator), the
Egyptian pyramids, and Vienna. Miguel Seranno was later to expound similar ideas (in the seventies).
Himmler too was interested in geomantic ideas and it cannot be excluded “that he hoped for more