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Nazi mysticism is a quasi-religious undercurrent of Nazism; it denotes the mixture of Nazism with occultism, esotericism, cryptohistory, and/or the paranormal. Nazi mysticism generally ascribes a religious significance to the person of Adolf Hitler and to the Nazi mission. High ranking Nazi officials such as Richard Walther Darré, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg and others are also credited with an interest or involvement in mysticism.

However, speculative efforts to construct or derive a mystical Nazi philosophy from an interpretation of the pre-Nazi and non-Nazi traditions of Germanic mysticism (including those generically referred to as Ariosophy, such as Armanism, Theozoology and the Armanen-Orden) have been dismissed by some historians and are widely rejected by adherents of Germanic mystical movements.

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[edit] Overview

Nazi mysticism is a völkisch movement with roots in the real or supposed mystical ideas and outlook of Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis, supplemented in many cases by the ideas of actual or supposed precursors such as Arthur de Gobineau. Guido von List, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Theosophy and the Thule Society were important early figures and organisations whose alleged influence on historic Nazism is hotly contested but which have been appropriated by some postwar exponents of Nazi mysticism.

The SS had invented its own mystical religion (based very loosely upon upon imagery taken from Germanic tribal faiths combined with Christianity and "visions" from those figures in order to counter what they viewed as the Jewish-influenced religion of Christianity,[1]

Examples of Nazi mystical philosophies include Esoteric Hitlerism and the Tempelhofgesellschaft. Esoteric Hitlerism features the Nazis' race-specific pre-Christian “pagan” (including Hindu) mythologies, and the incorporation of Adolf Hitler into those mythologies.

There are many organisations, such as the Artgemeinschaft of Jürgen Rieger and the Armanen-Orden founded by Adolf Schleipfer in 1976, which represent significant developments of Germanic mysticism after World War II, but they do not necessarily all constitute forms of Nazi mysticism.

[edit] Central beliefs

Key concepts include the origins of the Aryan race (and its 'purest' branch, the Teutons or Germanic peoples), and the superiority of Aryans over all other races.

In Nazi mysticism various locations like Atlantis, Thule, Hyperborea, Shambala and the star Aldebaran have been proposed as the original homeland of the Aryan Übermenschen (supermen).

One other key belief is that the Herrenrasse (master race) has been weakened through interbreeding with those considered untermenschen or “lesser races”.

[edit] Early influences

(For analysis of pre-Nazi mystical groups see Germanic mysticism)

[edit] Vril Society

Main article: Vril

[edit] General Karl Haushofer

General Karl Haushofer (1869-1946) was a university professor and director of the Institute for Geopolitics at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, as well as a short-term student of Gurdjieff. He is believed to have studied Zen Buddhism, and to have been initiated at the hands of Tibetan lamas. Further, he worked closely with Adolf Hitler while he was imprisoned, writing Mein Kampf.

Haushofer claimed contact with secret Tibetan Lodges that possessed the secret of the “Superman," an idea that became central to the decision of the Nazi party to embrace an extreme form of eugenics. The notion of the Superman came into European thought via the German philosopher Nietzsche, though the Nazis grossly caricatured his ideas. The concept of the übermensch was also implicit in the writings of Louis Jacolliot, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

Haushofer was introduced to Hitler in 1923 by Rudolf Hess, and soon became one of the future Chancellor's many mentors. Hess was one of Haushofer's closest students.[3] Haushofer's influence took three main forms: direct occult instruction, introducing Hitler to the concept of "lebensraum" (living space), and persuading Hitler that the Soviet Union, not France, was the primary enemy of Germany and had to be destroyed.

Along with his Tibetan connections, Haushofer was also said to belong to a Japanese secret society. Some sources (see below), identify it as the Order of the Green Dragon. However, the History Channel program "Last Secret of the Axis" calls it the Black Dragons.

At the end of the war Haushofer committed ritual suicide.

References:

  1. Michael FitzGerald, Storm Troopers of Satan (Robert Hale, 1990)
  2. Michael FitzGerald, Adolf Hitler: A Portrait (Spellmount, 2006)
  3. Michael FitzGerald, Storm Troopers of Satan (Robert Hale, 1990)
  4. James Webb, The Occult Establishment (Richard Drew, 1981)
  5. Dusty Sklar, The Nazis and the Occult (Dorset Press, 1977)

[edit] Hitler's WWI experience

[edit] Hitler and Germanic Paganism

In 1915, while serving in the German Army on the Western Front, Hitler wrote the following esoteric poem mentioning the pre-Christian Germanic deity Wotan: [2]

"Ich gehe manchmal in rauhen Nächten
Zur Wotanseiche in den stillen Hain,
Mit dunklen Mächten einen Bund zu flechten -
Die Runen zaubert mir der Mondenschein.
Und alle, die am Tage sich erfrechten,
Sie werden vor der Zauberformel klein!
Sie ziehen blank - doch statt den Strauß zu fechten,
Erstarren sie zu Stalagmitgestein.
So scheiden sich die Falschen von den Echten -
Ich greife in das Fibelnest hinein
Und gebe dann den Guten und Gerechten
Mit meiner Formel Segen und Gedeihn."

Which can be translated as:

"I often go on bitter nights
To Woden's oak in the quiet glade
With dark powers to weave a union -
The moonlight showing me the runic spell
And all who are full of impudence during the day
Are made small by the magic formula!
They draw shining steel - but instead of going into combat,
They solidify into stalagmites.
Thus the wrong ones separate from the genuine ones -
I reach into a nest of words
then give to the good and fair
With my formula blessings and prosperity"

Many scholars argue that Hitler had no intention of instituting worship of the ancient Germanic gods. Hitler stated in Hitler's Table Talk that

"It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund." and in Mein Kampf stated that "The characteristic thing about these people [modern-day followers of the early Germanic religion] is that they rave about the old Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes, spear and shield, but in reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined. For the same people who brandish scholarly imitations of old German tin swords, and wear a dressed bearskin with bull's horns over their heads, preach for the present nothing but struggle with spiritual weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every Communist blackjack."

[edit] Hitler's mystical experiences

Hitler claimed that during his time served in WWI he had a religious awakening, specifically at the time he was in the hospital temporarily blinded from an enemy gas attack--October 1918.[citation needed] Another famous incident happened during that time as well; a mysterious "voice" had told him to leave a crowded dugout during a minor barrage, and he did just that. Moments later a shell fell on that particular spot. Hitler saw this experience as a message that made him believe that he is a uniquely illuminated individual who has a "special" task to fulfill in his life. This experience along many others are mentioned in more detail at this link.

On 28 September 1918 Hitler came into the sights of a British soldier, Henry Tandey, who decided on a whim not to shoot him because he was wounded. By a supreme irony Tandey became the most highly decorated private soldier in the British Army in WWI, with above all a Victoria Cross for bravery at the battle at Marcoing where he encountered Hitler. The incident is known because Hitler subsequently recognized Tandey's photo in a newspaper report of his VC and kept it. In 1937 Hitler requested and received a copy of a painting of Tandey from his regiment, as well as a copy of his service record. The painting was on display in Hitler's Bergof retreat where it was noticed by Neville Chamberlain when he came to obtain the Munich Agreement. For more details see Henry Tandey.

[edit] Hitler and the Esoteric 1923-1933

[edit] Hitler's alleged possession

Hermann Rauschning, one of Hitler’s top aides, claimed in his book Hitler Speaks[4], that Hitler was possessed by demons and that his moods were very random in a confusing and incomprehensible manner[5]. Another prominent figure who also claimed this is Sepp Dietrich.

[edit] Artur Dinter

In 1927 Hitler fired the Gauleiter of Thüringen, Artur Dinter, from his post because he wanted to make too much a religion of Aryan racial purity. In 1928 Dinter was expelled from the party when he publicly attacked Hitler about this decision.[6]

[edit] Esoteric Hitlerism 1933-1945

[edit] Origin

The founder of Esoteric Hitlerism was Heinrich Himmler, who, more than any other high official in the Third Reich (including Hitler) was fascinated by Aryan (and not just Germanic) racialism and certain forms of Germanic Neopaganism. Himmler has been claimed to have considered himself the spiritual successor or even reincarnation of Heinrich the Fowler, having established special SS rituals for the old king and returned his bones to the crypt at Quedlinburg Cathedral. Himmler even had his personal quarters at Wewelsburg castle decorated in commemoration of him.

[edit] Prayer to Hitler

In Nazism, Adolf Hitler was occasionally compared with Jesus, or revered as a savior sent by God.

A prayer recited by orphans at orphanages runs as follows:[3]

Führer, mein Führer, von Gott mir gegeben, beschütz und erhalte noch lange mein Leben
Du hast Deutschland errettet aus tiefster Not, Dir verdank ich mein tägliche Brot
Führer, mein Führer, mein Glaube, mein Licht
Führer mein Führer, verlasse mich nicht

This translates roughly as:

Leader, my Leader, given to me by God, protect me and sustain my life for a long time
you have rescued Germany out of deepest misery, to you I owe my daily bread
Leader, my Leader, my belief, my light
Leader my Leader, do not abandon me

[edit] Ahnenerbe

The Ahnenerbe Society, headed by Dr. Hermann Wirth, was the ancestral heritage branch of the SS was dedicated primarily to the research of proving the superiority of the 'Aryan race' but was also involved in occult practices. Founded in 1935 by Himmler, the Society became involved in searching for Atlantis and the Holy Grail.

[edit] SS Research and expeditions

A great deal of time and resources were spent on researching or creating a popularly accepted “historical”, “cultural” and “scientific” background so the ideas about a “superior” Aryan race could prosper in the German society of the time. Mystical organizations such as the Thule Society and others were created, usually connected with elite SS corps, and adopting specific rituals, initiations and beliefs.[4]

A German expedition to Tibet was organized in order to search for the origins of the Aryan race[citation needed]. To this end, the expedition leader, Ernst Schäfer, had his anthropologist Bruno Beger make face masks and skull and nose measurements. Another expedition was sent to the Andes.

Similar expeditions were organized in the pursuit of semi-mythical objects believed to bring power or granting special powers to their owner, such as the Holy Grail and the Spear of Destiny[citation needed].

[edit] Pendulum usage and astrology in the Third Reich

For more information on Pendum dowsing see Pendulums for divination and dowsing.

During the Second World War in Germany and Britain, occult practices and astrology, etc were utilised in the belief that they would benefit each side of the conflict, mainly by use in Germany and Britain. [7] [8] [9] In Germany, the Germanic revivalism unit of the SS employed numerous astrologers and occultists. Three of the more well known mysticists used in the Third Reich by Walter Schellenberg and ultimately Heinrich Himmler, whom had a great deal of interest in Germanic mysticism and revivalism, were Ludwig Straniak (1879-1951), Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet, who both were pendulum users, and astrologer Wilhelm Wulff.

One of the most well known Astrologers in the Third Reich, next to Wulff, was Karl Ernst Krafft.

The use of astrology in the Third Reich, along with Nazi mysticism and pendulum dowsing, is a greatly interesting and highly regarded subject to many.[citation needed] Several books have been published on this subject alone. However, one of the most fascinating, because it is told from a first person perspective, is that of Heinrich Himmler's astrologer Wilhelm Wulff, entitled Zodiac and Swastika.

Adolf Hitler ordered the location and rescue of Il Duce (Mussolini) by any means necessary. This was done through the power of the pendulum as revealed in Peter Levenda's Unholy Alliance:

"Nevertheless, a "Master of the Sidereal Pendulum" succeeded at last in locating Mussolini on an island west of Naples. To do this seer justice, it must be recorded that at the time Mussolini had no apparent contact with the outside world. It was, in fact, the island of Ponza to which he had been transferred at first. In other words, the "Master of the Sidereal Pendulum" had success- fully located the most famous Italian prisoner of the twentieth century ... and with no more than a decent meal, a few drinks, a good smoke, and a pendulum swinging over a map of Italy. It will be remembered that one of Hitler's closest friends was the "Master of the Sidereal Pendulum" Dr. Gutberlet. Whether or not it was this same "Master" who worked on the Mussolini problem is not revealed."

Additionally, in his book Zodiac and Swastika, Wilhelm Wulff reveals that one of his first major assignments after being arrested by the Nazis was to locate Mussolini who had disappeared after his ouster from power in 1943. Wulff claims to have provided the correct answer — about fifty miles southeast of Rome — at a time when no one else knew. According to Wulff's own account in Zodiac and Swastika, he pinpointed Mussolini's location on the same island of Ponza, which had been identified by the "Master of the Sidereal Pendulum".

Astrology and pendulum dowsing played a major role in the event.

Architect Ludwig Straniak was also employed by the German military. He had a special gift for map pendulum dowsing. Straniak would dangle a pendulum over a given map and locate things. As a test, leaders of the German Navy requested him to locate the Pocket Battleship Prinz Eugen, then at sea. The Navy provided him with charts and were reportedly amazed that he had pinpointed the warship even through it was on a completely secret mission off of the coast of Norway. This impressed the Navy leaders enough to take the workings of the occult unit of the SS more seriously.

After the war Germany was demonised and the occult seen as a Nazi practice. Post-1945 German mysticism was virtually driven underground [5]. Germanic spiritualism was revived to a large extent by Karl Spiesberger (Fratur Eratus) and by 1955 the Armanen runic system and Pendulum dowsing had once more become very much traditional in German speaking circles as it was before the war. Other notable German pendulum dowsers of which a great deal of pendulum material has been derived from are the works and practices of not on, but mainly Spiesberger and Straniak, are Dr. E. Clasen, Dr. K.E. Weiss (ß), Rud. Vöckler, Von Reichenbach, Professor Karl Bähr, Friedrich Kallenberg 1911-1934, Professor DR. Leopold Oelenheinz, and Professor Hellmut Wolff (30/3/1906-22/3/1986). [6]

Other than popular Western astrology there is also a school of thought regarding Germanic Runic Astrology and its usage in divination within the northern tradition of Odinism.

[edit] Prominent pendulum dowsers used in the Third Reich

[edit] Prominent astrologers used in the Third Reich

[edit] Esoteric Hitlerism Since 1945

[edit] Savitri Devi

With the fall of the Third Reich, Esoteric Hitlerism took off as Hitler, who had died at the end of the war, was now able to be deified. Savitri Devi was the first major exponent of post-war Esoteric Hitlerism[7]. She connected Hitler’s Aryanist ideology to that of the pan-Hindu part of the Indian Independence movement[8], and activists such as Subhas Chandra Bose.[9] For her, the swastika was an especially important symbol, as it symbolized the Aryan unity amongst the Hindus and Germans (and was also a symbol of good fortune for the Tibetans).[citation needed]

Savitri Devi[10] integrated Nazism into a broader cyclical framework of Hindu history. She considered Hitler an avatar of Vishnu (the final avatar before Kalki) and called him “the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times”[11], having an ideal vision of returning his Aryan people to an earlier, more perfect time, and also having the practical wherewithal to fight the destructive forces "in Time". She saw his defeat —and the forestalling of his vision from coming to fruition — as a result of him being "too magnanimous, too trusting, too good", of not being merciless enough, of having in his "psychological make-up, too much 'sun' [beneficence] and not enough 'lightning.' [practical ruthlessness]”[12]; unlike his coming incarnation:

“ "Kalki” will act with unprecedented ruthlessness. Contrarily to Adolf Hitler, He will spare not a single one of the enemies of the divine Cause: not a single one of its outspoken opponents but also not a single one of the luke-warm, of the opportunists, of the ideologically heretical, of the racially bastardised, of the unhealthy, of the hesitating, of the all-too-human; not a single one of those who, in body or in character or mind, bear the stamp of the fallen Ages.[13] ”

[edit] Miguel Serrano

The next major figure in Esoteric Hitlerism is Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat. He wrote both The Golden Ribbon--Esoteric Hitlerism and Adolf Hitler, the Last Avatar.

He believes that Hitler was in Shambhala, an underground centre in Antarctica (formerly at the North Pole and Tibet), where he was in contact with the Hyperborean gods and from whence he would someday emerge with a fleet of UFOs to lead the forces of light (the Hyperboreans, sometimes associated with Vril) over the forces of darkness (inevitably including, for Serrano, the Jews who follow Jehova) in a last battle and thus inaugurating a Fourth Reich.

Serrano follows the Cathar Gnostics in identifying the evil creator of this world, the Demiurge with Jehovah, the god of Judaism. Gnostics believe the Demiurge is evil because he created the world to entrap our souls in matter.

He also connects the Aryans and their Hyperborean gods to the Sun and to the esoteric Black Sun and the Allies and the Jews to the Moon. He had a special place in his ideology for the SS, who, in their quest to recreate the ancient race of Aryan god-men, he thought were above morality and therefore justified.

[edit] Tempelhofgesellschaft

The Tempelhofgesellschaft was founded in Vienna in the early 1990s by Norbert Jurgen-Ratthofer and Ralft Ettl to teach a form of Gnostic religion called Marcionism. The group identifies an "evil creator of this world," the Demiurge with Jehovah, the god of Judaism. They distribute pamphlets claiming that the Aryan race originally came to Atlantis from the star Aldebaran (this information is based on "ancient Sumerian manuscripts"). They maintain that the Aryans from Aldebaran derive their power from the vril energy of the Black Sun. They teach that since the Aryan race is of extraterrestrial origin, it has a divine mission to dominate all the other races.

[edit] Mysticism in modern Neo-Nazism

Mystic influences often appear in modern Nazi music [10], particularly references to artifacts such as the Spear of Longinus.[citation needed] Some northern European neopagan organisations and groups, on the other hand, have stated explicitly that Neo-Nazism and its Ásatrú connections are certainly not to be considered common or ‘mainstream’ with their adherents. Organizations such as the Theods, the Ásatrúarfélagið, and the Viðartrúar are notable in their disavowal of any connections.[citation needed]

[edit] Nazi mysticism and modern pseudoscience

The writings of Miguel Serrano, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, and other proponents of Nazi mysticism have spawned numerous later works connecting Aryan master race beliefs and Nazi escape scenarios with enduring conspiracy theories about reptilian humanoids[citation needed], hollow earth civilizations[citation needed], and shadowy new world orders[citation needed].

The book Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival, by Hypnerotomachia Poliphili scholar Joscelyn Godwin, discusses pseudoscientific theories regarding surviving Nazi elements in Antarctica. Arktos is noted for its scholarly approach and examination of many sources currently unavailable elsewhere in English-language translation.

Godwin and other authors including Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke have also discussed Hitler’s purported Antarctic reptilian companions (sometimes seen to be Hyperboreans[citation needed]) as well as the connections between Nazi mysticism and Vril energy, the hidden Shambhala and Agartha civilizations, and underground UFO bases.[citation needed]

[edit] Critiques of Nazi mysticism as a historical concept

The use of runic symbology, the Germanic mystical revival, and the existence of an official Nazi government department for the study of the Germanic ancestral heritage (including paganism) have been thought to lend credence to the idea that there was a mystical component to Nazism. The role played by mysticism in the development of Nazism and its ideals was identified by outsiders at least as early as 1940, with the publication of Lewis Spence’s Occult Causes of the Present War (London: Rider & Co., 1940). In the book, Spence identified a neopagan undercurrent in Nazism (for which he largely blamed Alfred Rosenberg), which he equated with “satanism”; he further connected Nazism to the Illuminati.

Some scholars argue, conversely, that the interest of Hitler and other Nazis in paganism and the occult has been overstated and exaggerated. Over-emphatic authors on Nazi occultism are referred to as crypto-historians by Oxford scholar Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Regarding Nazi occultism he states in the concluding chapter of The Occult Roots of Nazism that:

"Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant literature existed, based on wholly spurious 'facts' concerning the powerful Thule Society, the Nazi links with the East, and Hitler's occult initiation. But the modern mythology of Nazi occultism, however scurrilous and absurd, exercised a fascination beyond mere entertainment. Serious authors were tempted into an exciting field of intellectual history: Ellic Howe, Urania's Children (1967, reissued as Astrology and the Third Reich, 1984) dealt with the story of Hitler's alleged private astrologer, and James Webb devoted a chapter to 'The Magi of the North' in The Occult Establishment (1976). By focusing on the functional significance of occultism in political irrationalism, Webb rescued the study of Nazi occultism for the history of ideas."

Authors Stephen McNallen, Dr. Stephen Flowers, Ph. D. (translator of The Secret King), and Michael Moynihan have argued that Nazi mysticism is a distortion and misrepresentation of Odinism.[14]

[edit] Suppression of non-Nazi occultism

The totalitarian State of the Nazi party had a tendency to suppress all independent religious groups. This does not only apply to establish churches in the 3rd Reich, but also to Freemasons and Rosicrucians. Hitler would later openly ridicule many German mystics, particularly practitioners of Freemasonry, Theosophy, and Anthroposophy.[citation needed] According to their private writings,[15][16], the leaders of the Nazi Party in Germany did not wish to encourage forms of paganism which did not serve to further their goals of promoting pan-Germanic ethnic consciousness.

Rudolf von Sebottendorff had been involved in the Thule Society and the Germanenorden. In January 1933 he published Bevor Hitler kam: Urkundlich aus der Frühzeit der Nationalsozialistischen Bewegung (Before Hitler Came: Documents from the Early Days of the National Socialist Movement). Nazi authorities (Hitler himself ?) understandably disliked the book, which was banned. Sebottendorff than managed to flee to Turkey. Supposedly he had been the leader of the Germanic Neopagan group Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft.[17]

In 1936 the runemaster Friedrich Bernhard Marby, a follower of Guido von List's occult "ariosophic" Armanenschaft was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He was released from the Dachau concentration camp in 1945.[18]

Other occultists imprisoned during the Third Reich were Peryt Shou [11], Siegfried Adolf Kummer [12], Rudolf John Gorsleben [13], Werner von Bülow, Franz Bardon[19] and Wilhelm Wulff.

Being a current or former member of an Odinist organisation disqualified anyone from holding rank or office within the NSDAP.[citation needed] Many other members ended up in the concentration camps, although as far as can be told only one member was actually killed.[citation needed] The full focus of the state was not aimed at religious groups until June 9, 1941 when Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the security police, banned a large number of spiritual practices. The organisations were dissolved, their property confiscated, and many of their leaders arrested.[20][21]

The persecution of occultists was mainly due to the influence and recommendations to Himmler by Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's personal occultist. Wiligut identified Irminism as the true ancestral religion, claiming that Guido von Lists Wotanism and runic row was a schismatic false religion. Himmler, on Wiligut's recommendation, had many of List's followers and non-official Nazi occultists imprisoned in concentration camps.

It has been claimed that Aleister Crowley sought to contact Hitler, but evidence is slim.

In an article entitled "The Wiligut Saga" featured in the book, The Secret King, Adolf Schleipfer points out the differences between Wiligut's beliefs and those generally accepted within Odinism.

Stephen A. McNallen goes as far as to say:

“ ...the compelling reason for you to own The Secret King is to use it to defend Asatru from the lie that 'Hitler was a pagan' or that 'Asatruar trace their roots to Nazi Germany.' The Secret King proves conclusively that this is not the case. It is a powerful weapon for the truth.[22] ”

In November 2006, Dr. Stephen E. Flowers held an 80 minute lecture on this subject at a Woodharrow Institute convention. [23]

[edit] In popular culture

Main article: Nazi mysticism in popular culture

Representations of the Ahnenerbe and Nazi mysticism are common in fantasy fiction, and they have become part of the background several conspiracy theories.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Aside from general books on the Third Reich, the following would be of use.
    Levenda, Peter. "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult" 2002.
    Heinrichsdorff, Dr. Wolff. "Westfalia Landeszeitung" January 9, 1938.
    Ravenscroft, Trevor. "The Spear of Destiny" 5th Edition, 1988.
  2. ^ John Toland Adolf Hitler ISBN-10: 0345338480 ISBN-13: 978-0345338488
  3. ^ From the German Wikipedia, at [1].
  4. ^ Erich Halik (Claude Schweikhart) - 'Um Krone und Gipfel der Welt", Mensch und Schicksal 6, no. 10 (1 August 1952) pp 3-5
  5. ^ http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/karlspiesberger.htm
  6. ^ http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/karlspiesberger.htm
  7. ^ See her "Hitlerian Esotericism and the Tradition" (http://library.flawlesslogic.com/souvenirs_10a.htm)
  8. ^ See her "Hitlerism and Hindudom" (http://library.flawlesslogic.com/hindudom.htm). Originally published as "Hitlerism and the Hindu World" in The National Socialist, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 18-20.
  9. ^ On Bose's collaboration with the Third Reich, see Ranjan Borra, "Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian National Army, and the War of India's Liberation" (http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bose_1.htm and http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bose_2.htm). Originally published in the Journal of Historical Review, 3, no.4 (Winter 1982), 407-439.
  10. ^ See "Don’t Call Me 'Mrs. Devi'" (http://www.savitridevi.org/mrs_devi.html) for an explanation on why it is a mistake to refer to her as "Devi” for short.
  11. ^ From the dedication to her book, The Lightning and the Sun.
  12. ^ The Lightning and the Sun, unabridged edition, p. 53 (http://www.savitridevi.org/lightning-03.html).
  13. ^ The Lightning and the Sun, unabridged edition, p. 430 (http://www.savitridevi.org/lightning-16.html).
  14. ^ http://www.runestone.org/RS32/books/index.htm, http://www.runestone.org/lep4.html, http://www.angelfire.com/wy/wyrd/odinvsnazi.html
  15. ^ Hitler's Table Talk, page 61, translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, 1953
  16. ^ Mein Kampf, chapter 12
  17. ^ Renewal, 1995
  18. ^ Invisible Eagle by Alan Baker, see: [2]
  19. ^ Franz Bardon Biography, http://www.merkurpublishing.com/franz_bardon_bio.htm
  20. ^ Hitlerism vs. Odinism
  21. ^ Asatru Historical Time Line
  22. ^ Review of The Secret King by Stephen A. McNallen, (http://www.runestone.org/RS32/books/index.htm).
  23. ^ "The Myth and Reality of Occultism in the Third Reich" lecture by Dr. Stephen E. Flowers, November 12th, 2006. http://www.woodharrow.com/lectureseries.html .

[edit] Literature

[edit] Primary

The Secret King
The Secret King

[edit] Secondary

  • The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1985, ISBN 0-85030-402-4. New York University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8147-3060-4)
  • Odinism and Christianity under the Third Reich by John Yeowell, published by the Odinic Rite in 1993.
  • Invisible Eagle: The History of Nazi Occultism by Alan Baker
  • Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda, (May 1, 2002, ISBN 0-8264-1409-5)
  • Nazis and the Occult by Dusty Sklar
  • Hitler and the Occult by Ken Anderson
  • Zodiac and Swastika: Astrologer to Himmler's Court by Wilhelm Wulff
  • Occult Reich by J.H. Brennan
  • The Occult Understanding of Hitler and the Nazis by Cyril Scott
  • Unknown Sources: National Socialism and the Occult by Hans Thomas Hakl & Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (Translator)
  • The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail by Jean-Michel Angebert
  • Hitlers Visionäre. Die okkulten Wegbereiter des Dritten Reiches [[[Hitler's Visionaries]]. Nazism's Occult Roots] by Eduard Gugenberger [15]
  • Astrology and the Third Reich: A Historical Study of Astrological Beliefs in Western Europe Since 1700 and in Hitler's Germany, 1933-45 by Ellic Howe
  • Astrology: A Recent History Including the Untold Story of its Role in World War II by Ellic Howe (1968)
  • Astrology and Psychological Warfare During World War II by Ellic Howe (1972)
  • The Unknown Hitler: His Private Life and Fortune by Wulf Schwarzwaller (National Press Books, 1st edition, 1988, ISBN 0-915765-63-2; Berkeley Books, 1990)
  • Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Christopher Hale (Wiley 2003. ISBN 0-471-26292-7)
  • Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: Pictorial/documentary: The Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934-1945 by Stephen Cook (Kressmann-Backmeyer, 1999)
  • Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1998. ISBN 0-8147-3110-4
  • Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin, 1996, ISBN 0-932813-35-6
  • Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2001, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4)
  • Spence, Lewis: Occult Causes of the Present War; 1940, Rider and Co, London.
  • The Occult Establishment by James Webb
  • Storm Troopers of Satan by Michael FitzGerald
  • Das Ende des Hitlermythos by Josef Greiner
  • Himmler's Black Order 1923-45 by Robin Lumsden
  • Himmler's Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition into Tibet by Christopher Hale
  • Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman--Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine by Abir Taha
  • Reich Of The Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & The Cold War Allied Legend by Joseph P. Farrell
  • Satan and Swastika: The Occult and the Nazi Party by Francis X. King
  • Himmler's Castle by Stuart Russell, J A Bowman (Editor)
  • Hitler and his God: The Background to the Hitler Phenomenon by Georges van Vrekhem, Rupa & Co. ISBN 81-291-0953-0
  • Hitler: Black Magician by Gerald Suster, ISBN 1-871438-82-9.
  • Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant by Mel Gordon
  • Hitler: The Occult Messiah by Gerald Suster (1981)
  • Schwarze Sonne (book) by Rüdiger Sünner
  • The Spear of Destiny: The Occult Power Behind the Spear Which Pierced the Side of Christ by Trevor Ravenscroft
  • The Mark of the Beast: The Continuing Story of the Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft

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