Saturday, January 14, 2006


When the best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity, when the centre cannot hold, who fills the void? Who takes the place-holding position of the normal when the normal is so rotten that no one wants to be near it?

In the following two pieces, the first on the decline of mainstream Protestant church membership, and the compilation of pieces on the history of the Thule society we might begin to see that the centre, not holding a place between extremes, gives rise to extremes as the norm. For all the posturing and posing from the Left dhimmi fascists from the leadership and intelligentsia of our mainstream religious institutions, we see the numbers: people are fed up. People are increasingly disgusted by the antics of the higher-ups of the mainstream Protestant churches, and they are leaving to the point that in Canada if not elsewhere, the mainstream churches will disappear from the intellectual landscape within our life times. Given that as bad as they might be we must still weigh the import of their loss in light of what will come to hold their positions. The garbage dhimmi idiots of today's Anglican Church and the PCUSA are filth beyond the power of words to describe, but they are, or should be, the bulwarks against that which is far worse. Because they are not, I argue here on occasion that those responsible for this moral and social catastrophe should be hauled out of their Saabs and should be summarily hanged from the nearest lamposts for their crimes. Today such suggestions are intemperate, possibly even shrill; but tomorrow such calls might well be heeded by an enraged and irrationalist mob who pay no attention to the norms of civility and Rationality. Today what is rhetorical might well be seen as intellectually normal and morally imperative. The catastrophe of Left dhimmi fascism in the church establishment is the catastrophe of the coming blood-dimmed tide, as Yeats wrote. We might well face in our next few years, the Second Coming. No what we would assume as such, but the rise of the Mystery. First, some details on the decline of the Protestants.
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Membership decline in the United Church of Canada and Anglican Church of Canada:

Keith McKerracher, in a study created for the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) analyzed religious data from 1961 to 2001. During this interval, membership in the ACC dropped from 1.36 million to 642,000 -- a reduction of 53% 3 By itself, this is distressing news for the denomination. However the full picture of the decline is only evident when the rise in the total population of Canada is factored in. The population rose from 18,238,247 to 27,296,856 -- an increase of 50%. 4 Out of every 1,000 Canadians, the number of Anglicans dropped from 75 in 1961 to 23 in 2001 -- a drop of 69%.

McKerracher concluded that the ACC was losing about 13,000 members a year -- a `little over 2% yearly -- and "...is facing extinction by the middle of this century." 3

He also reported on the membership of the United Church of Canada (UCC), which is now approximately equal in size to the ACC. The UCC membership dropped from 1.04 million to 638,000 -- a reduction of 39%. Out of every 1,000 Canadians, the number of United Church members dropped from 57 in 1961 to 23 in 2001 -- a drop of 60%. The Rev. Harry Oussoren, executive minister of the UCC Support to Local Ministries, told Ecumenical News International: "Generally, not only across Canada but the entire Western world, we're aware of a trend that says that institutionalized religion is not central to peoples' lives, as is individualized religion." 3

McKerracher also reported data for the Presbyterian Church of Canada (membership loss 35%), and the Baptist Church (7%) and the Lutheran Church (4%).

http://www.religioustolerance.org/can_rel3.htm
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The anti-revolutionary reactionaries went into action during the French Revolution and they have not ceased since then to overthrow our Modernity. They have at times adopted some of our Modernist technical details such as industrialisation but as little else as have Muslims. Germany in particular has remained emotionally in the feudal era in spite of the facade of modern engineering and technical marvels. At heart, Germany is to this day a feudal state. In the 1920s it was more obviously so what it is today. Below we will see what that was. We will see not a revolutionary movement but a reactionary one, a movement in reaction to Modernity. It's greatest enemy was seen as the Communist movement, another totalitarian and feudalist movement. Both were movements toward Modernist primitivism. Both sought the return of Man to a state of nature. Here we'll focus on the fascist of the so-called Right. We might see in this the parentage of our current Left dhimmi fascism. We will see the rise of a small clique of pseudo intellectual Irrationalist anti-Modernists acting out a phantasy of the return to nature via the past as opposed to the same goal via the pseudo-futurity of Communism.

In this installement on gnostic fascism we will see the origins of our Left irrationalist pursuit of the Mystery religions, one that in the 1920s lead into the Nazis' willing arms.
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The Thule Society (German: Thule-Gesellschaft) was founded August 17, 1918, by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. Its original name was Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for German Antiquity), but it soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic propaganda.

The Thule Society was part of the Völkisch movement in Germany around the turn of the century. Like many other groups, it sought to find an ethnic and historical identity for Germany, which had only been united since 1871.

It had members from the top echelons of the Nazi Party, including Rudolf Heß and Alfred Rosenberg. Although Adolf Hitler himself was not a member, he received support from the group, and one of its members, Dietrich Eckart, actually coached him on his public speaking skills. Hitler later dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart.

Its press organ was the Münchener Beobachter (Munich Observer) which later became the Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer). The Thule Society is speculated to be closely connected to the Germanenorden secret society a.ka. the "Order of Teutons" (1912)

A primary focus of Thule-Gesellschaft was a claim concerning the origins of the "Aryan race". "Thule" was a land located by Greco-Roman geographers in the furthest north. The society was named after "Ultima Thule" — (Latin: most distant Thule) mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem Aeneid, was the far northern segment of Thule and is generally understood to mean Scandinavia. Said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, they placed Ultima Thule in the extreme north near Greenland or Iceland.

The Thulists believed in the hollow earth theory. Thule had among its goals the desire to prove that the Aryan race came from a lost continent, perhaps Atlantis.

Rudolf von Sebottendorf was deeply influenced by Sufi mysticism, other Eastern philosophies, and in particular, the writings of Madame Blavatsky. He used Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine to launch his own recreation of ancient Germanic myth, positing a coming historical moment in which he theorized that the Aryan race would be restored to prior glories by the appearance of a race of Supermen. Von Sebottendorf eventually became the prime mover behind the Thule Society, which was one of the most important precursors of the Nazi Party, although the Nazi Party itself, once it had become ascendant, obliterated the Thule Society. Sebottendorf was a Freemason in the Grand Orient of Turkey.

The Thule Society, which espoused ideas of extreme nationalism, race mysticism, virulent anti-Semitism, and the occult, was formed shortly after the end of World War I in Munich by von Sebottendorf. It attracted about 250 ardent followers in Munich and about 1500 in greater Bavaria. Thule agents infiltrated armed formations of the Communist Party in Munich and plotted to destroy the party, hatching plans to kidnap the party's leader, Kurt Eisner, and launching an attack against Munich's Communist government on April 30, 1919. The Thule Society also started its own newspaper, Müncher Beobachter, in 1918, and eventually approached the organizer Anton Drexler to develop links between the Society and various extreme right workers' organizations in Munich.

Drexler was instrumental in merging the Thule Society with a workers' party that he was involved with. The merged organization became known as the Munich Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), or in English, the German Workers Party. It was the DAP that Adolf Hitler was introduced to in 1919. By April 1, 1920, the DAP had been reconstituted as the National Socialist German Workers Party (abbreviated from German as N.S.D.A.P., referred to in slang as the "Nazi Party", and von Sebottendorf, who was accused of negligence in allegedly allowing the names of several key Thule Society members to fall into the hands of the Communists, resulting in the execution of seven members after the attack on the Munich government in April 1919, had fled Germany for Switzerland and then Turkey. He returned to Germany in January 1933, but fled again in 1934. He was an agent of the German military in Istanbul during the period 1942–1945 (while apparently also working as a double agent for the British military). Von Sebottendorf allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Bosphorus on May 8, 1945.

Prominent members of the Thule Gesellschaft were Dietrich Eckart, Gottfried Feder, Hans Frank, Karl Harrer, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and Julius Streicher. Adolf Hitler was not a member. He was more like a "visiting brother". Other members were Karl Fiehler, Michel Frank, Heinrich Jost, Wolfgang Pongratz, Wilhelm Laforce, Johann Ott, Hans Riemann and Max Seselmann. Two well-known aristocrats in the group consisted of Countess Heila von Westarp, a young woman who functioned as secretary, and Prince Gustav von Thurn und Taxis (both of these were among hostages abducted and executed by the illegal Communist government in Munich in 1919).

Thule Gesellschaft meetings were held in the still extant Munich luxury hotel Vier Jahreszeiten ("The Four Seasons").

A revived Thule Society is rumoured to have met during the time of the Wagnerfest at Bayreuth, Germany, in 1966.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society
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With the Irrationalist ground of ecology as anti-Humanism and the gnostic intelligentsia working against Modernity through the volkish movement, what would one expect but fascism? And what can we expect when our normative institutions fail so vividly? We have no moral centre, thanks ot the ugliness of our current moral authorities such as the Anglican and Presbyterian churches. Rather, we have ecology and mysticism and apathy and anti-Semitism and identity politics and entitlement. We have the irrational seeds of Germany sprouting unchecked across the West. Here's more of how the Nazis came to power.
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The Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society) was founded August 17, 1918, by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. He had been schooled in occultism, Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Rosicrucianism and much else, in Turkey, where he had also been initiated into Freemasonry.

Its original name was Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for German Antiquity), but it soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic propaganda.

A movement to promote Thulian ideas among industrial workers and to offset Marxism, was formed in August 1918 - the Workers' Political Circle with Thulist Karl Harrer as chairman.

From this came the German Workers' Party in 1919.

A year later this became the NSDAP under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. It had members from the top echelons of the party, including Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg, though not Adolf Hitler. Serbottendorff stated, "Thule members were the people to whom Hitler first turned and who first allied themselves with Hitler."

The swastika flag adopted by the NSDAP was the brain-child of another Thulist, Dr Krohn.

Its press organ was the Münchener Beobachter (Munich Observer) which later became the Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer). The Thule Society is known to be closely connected to the Germanenorden secret society.

The Germanenorden was a secret society in Germany early in the 20th century. Formed by several prominent German occultists in 1912, the order, whose symbol was a swastika, had a hierarchical fraternal structure similar to freemasonry. It taught to its initiates nationalist ideologies of Nordic race superiority, antisemitism as well as occult, almost magical philosophies. Some say that the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (later the Nazi Party) when under the leadership of Adolf Hitler was a political front, and indeed the organisation reflected many ideologies of the party, including the swastika symbol. The Thule Society, another secret society with similar ideologies and symbols was also closely linked to this.

With the victory of the Nazi Party, the occult tradition was carried on in the Third Reich mainly by the SS, who Reichsfuhrer, Himmler, was an avid student of the occult. An SS occult research department, the Ahnernerbe (Ancestral Heritage) was established in 1935 with SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers at its head. Occult research took SS researchers as far afield as Tibet. Sievers had the Tantrik prayer, the Bardo Thodol, read over his body after his execution at Nuremberg.

National Socialism and the Third Reich represented a major attempt by high esoteric Adepts to re-establish a Culture based on the Laws of Nature, against the entrenched forces of anti-Life. Nothing that ambitious had been tried since the founding of the American Republic by Masonic adepts.

The Thule Society inner circle beliefs ...
Thule was a legendary island in the far north, similar to Atlantis, supposedly the center of a lost, high-level civilization. But not all secrets of that civilization had been completely wiped out. Those that remained were being guarded by ancient, highly intelligent beings (similar to the "Masters" of Theosophy or the White Brotherhood).

The truly initiated could establish contact with these beings by means of magic-mystical rituals.

The "Masters" or "Ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with supernatural strength and energy.

With the help of these energies the goal of the initiated was to create a race of Supermen of "Aryan" stock who would exterminate all "inferior" races.

On April 6, 1919, in Bavaria, left wing socialists and anarchists proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet Republic. The brains of the revolution were a group of writers who had little idea of administration. Life in Munich grew chaotic. The counter-revolutionary forces, the whites, composed of various groups of decommissioned soldiers known as "Frei Corps", equipped and financed by the mysterious Thule Society, defeated the Bavarian Soviet within a matter of weeks.

Many other decommissioned soldiers waited out the turbulence in barracks, pfc Adolph Hitler among them. After the Bavarian Republic had been defeated by the Whites, in May, Hitler's superiors put him to work in the post revolution investigating commission. His indictments injected ruthless efficiency into the kangaroo courts as he fingered hundreds of noncommissioned officers and enlisted men who had sympathized with the communist and anarchists. He was subsequently sent to attend special anticommunist training courses and seminars at the University which were financed by the Reichswehr administration and by private donors from the Thule Society.

This led to an assignment in the intelligence division of the postwar German army, to infiltrate groups that could organize the working classes while the communists were weak. On a September evening, 1919, Hitler turned up in the Sternecker Beer Hall where members and friends of the budding German Workers Party had gathered. He quietly listened to the presentation by engineer Gottfried Feder, a Thule Society member, who talked about Jewish control over lending capital. When one of the other group members called for Bavaria to break away from the rest of Germany, Hitler sprang into action. The astonished audience stood by while his highly aggressive remarks and compelling oratory swept through the room. After Hitler had finished his harangue, party chairman and founder, Anton Drexler, immediately asked him to a meeting of the party's steering committee held a few days later. He was asked to join the committee as its seventh member, responsible for advertising and propaganda.

Back in 1912, several German occultists with radical anti-Semitic inclinations decided to form a "magic" lodge, which they named the Order of Teutons. the main founders were Theodor Fritsch, a publisher of an anti-Semitic journal; Philipp Stauff, pupil of the racist Guido Von List, and Hermann Pohl, the order's chancellor. (Pohl would drop out three years later to found his own bizarre lodge, the Walvater Teutonic Order of the Holy Grail.) The Order of Teutons was organized along the lines of the Free Masons or the Rosicrucians, having differing degrees of initiation, only persons who could fully document that they were of pure "aryan" ancestry were allowed to join.

In 1915, Pohl was joined by Rudolf Blauer, who held a Turkish passport and practiced Sufi meditation. He also dabbled in astrology and was an admirer of Lanz Von Liebenfels and Guido Von List, both pathologically anti-Semitic. Blauer went by the name of Rudolf Freiherr Von Seboottendorf. He was very wealthy, although the origin of his fortune is unknown. He became the Grand Master of the Bavarian Order and he founded the Thule Society, with Pohl's approval, in 1918.

After the Bavarian communist revolution of 1918, the Thule Society became a center of the counterrevolutionary subculture. An espionage network and arms caches were organized. The Thule Club rooms became a nest of resistance to the revolution and the Munich Soviet Republic.

Journalist Karl Harrer was given the job of founding a political "worker circle". He realized that the workers would reject any program that was presented to them by a member of the conservative "privileged" class. Harrer knew that the mechanic Anton Drexler, who was working for the railroads, was a well-known anti-semite, chauvinist and proletarian. With drexler as nominal chairman, Harrer founded the German Workers Party in January 1919

The German Workers Party was only one of many associations founded and controlled by the Thule Society. The Thule was the Mother to the German Socialist Party, led by Julius Streicher, and the right-wing radical Oberland Free Corps. It published the Munich observer, which later became the National Observer. Hitler became the most prominent personality in the party. He caused Harrer to drop out, and he pushed Drexler, the nominal chairman, to the sidelines. He filled key positions with his own friends from the Thule Society and the Army. During the summer of 1920, upon his suggestion, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Worker Party (NASDAP). The new name was intended to equally attract nationalists and proletarians.

To go along with the new name his mass movement also required a flag with a powerful symbol. Among many designs under consideration, Hitler picked the one suggested by Thule member Dr. Krohn: a red cloth with a white circle in the middle containing a black swastika.

Hitler wanted to turn the German Workers Party into a mass-conscious fighting party, but Harrer and Drexler were hesitant, due in part to their woeful financial situation. The Thule Society was not yet supplying very much money and no one seemed to know how to build up a mass party. Hitler arranged two public meetings in obscure beer halls, and he drafted leaflets and posters, but there was no real breakthrough.

All of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when Hitler met Dietrich Eckart. Most biographers have underestimated the influence that Eckart exerted on Hitler. He was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief of an anti-Semitic journal which he called In Plain German. Eckart was also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an initiate, Eckart belonged to the inner circle of the Thule Society as well as other esoteric orders.

There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to Hitler by other Thulists - trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence, self projection, persuasive oratory, body language and discursive sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able to move the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a mass movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast audience.

One should not underestimate occultism's influence on Hitler. His subsequent rejection of Free Masons and esoteric movements, of Theosophy, of Anthrosophy, does not necessarily mean otherwise. Occult circles have long been known as covers for espionage and influence peddling. Hitler's spy apparatus under Canaris and Heydrich were well aware of these conduits, particularly from the direction of Britain which had within its MI5 intelligence agency a department known as the Occult Bureau. That these potential sources of trouble were purged from Nazi life should not be taken to mean that Hitler and the Nazi secret societies were not influenced by mystical and occult writers such as Madame Blavatsky, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Guido Von List, Lanz Von Liebenfels, Rudolf Steiner, George Gurdjieff, Karl Haushofer and Theodor Fritsch. Although Hitler later denounced and ridiculed many of them, he did dedicate his book Mein Kampf to his teacher Dietrich Eckart.

A frequent visitor to Landsberg Prison where Hitler was writing Mein Kampf with the help of Rudolf Hess, was General Karl Haushofer, a university professor and director of the Munich Institute of Geopolitics. Haushofer, Hitler, and Hess had long conversations together. Hess also kept records of these conversations. Hitler's demands for German "Living Space" in the east at the expense of the Slavic nations were based on the geopolitical theories of the learned professor.

Haushofer was also inclined toward the esoteric. as military attache in Japan, he had studied Zen-Buddhism. He had also gone through initiations at the hands of Tibetan Lamas. He became Hitler's second "esoteric mentor", replacing Dietrich Eckart. In Berlin, Haushofer had founded the Luminous Lodge or the Vril Society. The lodge's objective was to explore the origins of the Aryan race and to perform exercises in concentration to awaken the forces of "Vril". Haushofer was a student of the Russian magician and metaphysician Gregor Ivanovich Gurdyev (George Gurdjieff).

Both Gurdjeiff and Haushofer maintained that they had contacts with secret Tibetan Lodges that possessed the secret of the "Superman". The lodge included Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Himmler, Goring, and Hitler's subsequent personal physician Dr. Morell. It is also known that Aleister Crowley and Gurdjieff sought contact with Hitler....

In the latter half of the previous century, intriguing hints about Tibetan secret teachings had been carried to the west by Helena Blavatsky, who claimed initiation at the hands of the Holy Lamas themselves.

Blavatsky taught that her Hidden Masters and Secret Chiefs had their earthly residence in the Himalayan region.

As soon as the Nazi movement had sufficient funds, it began to organize a number of expeditions to Tibet and these succeeded one another practically without interruption until 1943. One of the most tangible expressions of Nazi interest in Tibet was the party`s adoption of its deepest and most mystical of symbols - the swastika.

The swastika is one of mankind's oldest symbols, and apart from the cross and the circle, probably the most widely distributed. It is shown on pottery fragments from Greece dating back to the eighth century b.c. It was used in ancient Egypt, India and China. The Navaho indians of North America have a traditional swastika pattern. Arab-Islamic sorcerers used it. In more recent times, it was incorporated in the flags of certain baltic states.

The idea for the use of the swastika by the Nazis came from a dentist named Dr. Friedrich Krohn who was a member of the secret Germanen order. Krohn produced the design for the actual form in which the Nazis came to use the symbol, that is reversed, spinning in an anti-clockwise direction. As a solar symbol, the swastika is properly thought of as spinning, and the Buddhists have always believed the symbol attracted luck.

The Sanskrit word svastika means good fortune and well being. According to Cabbalistic lore and occult theory, chaotic force can be evoked by revers- ing the symbol. And so the symbol appeared as the flag of Nazi Germany and the insignia of the Nazi party, an indication for those who had eyes to see, as to the occult nature of the Third Reich.

Wulf Schwartzwaller, The Unknown Hitler
http://www.crystalinks.com/thule.html
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The following is more of the asame, but we cannot insist enough that one pay attention to this history because we are repeating it today.
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The Thule Society (Thule Gesselschaft), the real inspiration of Nazism, was founded in August, 1919, in Munich, as an off-shot itself of the Germanen Order, under the initiative of a strange character named Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf. Among its most important members were also Max Amann, Anton Drexler, Dietrich Eckart, Hans Frank, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, and others who later became Nazi leaders. Adolf Hitler belonged to the Society as an "associate" or "visiting brother."

The emblem of the Thule Society depicts a German dagger over a sinistroverse swastika of curved legs inscribed in a circle.
The Thule Gesellschaft was a front for a whole web of secret societies which had similar racist and anti-Semitic occultist roots. ...
http://www.intelinet.org/swastika/swasti15.htm
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In most of Europe there was only insignificant resistence to the occult anti-Humanism of the Gnostic rulers. The French were what one might call passive partners in their own rape. Many of the members of Leon Blum's coalition socialist government turned to collaboration with the Nazis. They abanodononed Reason and the Enlightenment and Humanism for occultist phantasies. Below we have yet more of the same. This is our future if we do not resist the pull of the irrationalism of our time, if we continue to indulge in the phantasies of philobarbarism and nostalgia and mystic gnosis. I'm not psychic but I can see the future very clearly:
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Thule Society

From: http://www.crystalinks.com/thule.html
In late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Austria there were many flourishing esoteric orders which sought to establish a reborn Germanic identity and to reconnect the volk with its repressed archetypes.

One of the most significant of these Orders was founded in Germany in 1912 - the German Order. From this sprang the Thule Society whose driving force was Rudolf von Serbottendorff. He had been schooled in occultism, Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Rosicrucianism and much else, in Turkey, where he had also been initiated into Freemasonry.

Thule served as the recruiting and political action front of the German Order. Serbottendorff bought a failing Munich newspaper, the Beobachter which he renamed the Volkische Beobachter and it became the official newspaper of the NSDAP.

A movement to promote Thulian ideas among industrial workers and to offset Marxism, was formed in 1918 - the Workers' Political Circle - with Thulist Karl Harrer as chairman. From this came the German Workers' Party in 1919. A year later this became the NSDAP under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

Serbottendorff himself stated: "Thule members were the people to whom Hitler first turned and who first allied themselves with Hitler."

The Thule society was active in efforts to overthrow the Barvarian Communist Government. Their propaganda effort was aided by a journalist, poet, and occult student Dietrich Eckart, who was the major intellectual influence on Hitler in the early years. The swastika flag adopted by the NSDAP was the brain-child of another Thulist, Dr Krohn.

With the victory of the Nazi Party, the occult tradition was carried on in the Third Reich mainly by the SS, who Reichsfuhrer, Himmler, was an avid student of the occult. An SS occult research department, the Ahnernerbe (Ancestral Heritage) was established in 1935 with SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers at its head. Occult research took SS researchers as far afield as Tibet. Sievers had the Tantrik prayer, the Bardo Thodol, read over his body after his execution at Nuremberg.

National Socialism and the Third Reich represented a major attempt by high esoteric Adepts to re-establish a Culture based on the Laws of Nature, against the entrenched forces of anti-Life. Nothing that ambitious had been tried since the founding of the American Republic by Masonic adepts.

The Thule Society inner circle had the following beliefs
Thule was a legendary island in the far north, similar to Atlantis, supposedly the center of a lost, high-level civilization. But not all secrets of that civilization had been completely wiped out. Those that remained were being guarded by ancient, highly intelligent beings (similar to the "Masters" of Theosophy or the White Brotherhood).

The truly initiated could establish contact with these beings by means of magic-mystical rituals.

The "Masters" or "Ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with supernatural strength and energy.

With the help of these energies the goal of the initiated was to create a race of Supermen of "Aryan" stock who would exterminate all "inferior" races.

On April 6, 1919, in Bavaria, left wing socialists and anarchists proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet Republic. The brains of the revolution were a group of writers who had little idea of administration. Life in Munich grew chaotic. The counter-revolutionary forces, the whites, composed of various groups of decommissioned soldiers known as "Frei Corps", equipped and financed by the mysterious Thule Society, defeated the Bavarian Soviet within a matter of weeks.

Many other decommissioned soldiers waited out the turbulence in barracks, pfc Adolph Hitler among them. After the Bavarian Republic had been defeated by the Whites, in May, Hitler's superiors put him to work in the post revolution investigating commission. His indictments injected ruthless efficiency into the kangaroo courts as he fingered hundreds of noncommissioned officers and enlisted men who had sympathized with the communist and anarchists. He was subsequently sent to attend special anticommunist training courses and seminars at the University which were financed by the Reichswehr administration and by private donors from the Thule Society.

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After the Bavarian communist revolution of 1918, the Thule Society became a center of the counterrevolutionary subculture. An espionage network and arms caches were organized. The Thule Club rooms became a nest of resistance to the revolution and the Munich Soviet Republic.

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The German Workers Party was only one of many associations founded and controlled by the Thule Society. The Thule was the "mother" to the German Socialist Party, led by Julius Streicher, and the right-wing radical Oberland Free Corps.

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All of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when Hitler met Dietrich Eckart.... Eckart was also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an initiate, Eckart belonged to the inner circle of the Thule Society as well as other esoteric orders.
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From "The Unknown Hitler" by Wulf Schwartzwaller, Berkeley Books, 1990
http://www.meta-religion.com/Secret_societies/Groups/ThuleSociety/thule_society.htm
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Goya sums it up" "The sleep of Reason gives birth to monsters." We are losing our moral direction when the moral authorities such as the institutional churches of the West go insane. I, not a believer in the first place, am outraged by the moral decay of the moral authorities of our time and places. Where goeth those who are disgusted believers? Who will be the new priests and the new moral authorities?
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Beat me, dhimmi, eight to the bar la-la

On a confessional note I will admit to great ignorance of the Anglican Church. My background is too specific to allow for knowledge of such regionalism as the Church of England, and my interests in it since are restricted to knowledge of English literature as informed by Anglicanism. T.S. Eliot is an interesting poet, but his religion leaves me wondering what happened to an American who should have been one of our greats. Even so, even with his repugnant anti-Semitism and his anti-democratic postures, his (to me) alien religious beliefs, he is a worthwhile thinker and writer. In fact, compared to the same institution today, the Anglican Church, I find myself in some sympathy with Eliot and his class snobbery and social pretensions. I think I quite like him compared to the Anglicans of today. Yes, bigot and snob and racist that he was, yes, I prefer him to today's Anglicans. Seems that many Anglicans feel the same way I do.

It is a fair question to ask why I, a self-confessed atheist, would dwell on the drop in Anglican Church attendance and membership, why I would think this is a bad thing. I have little or no sympathy for the church, given what I know of it from reading Eliot. But here I am deploring the collapse of Anglicanism in Canada, a nation I am visiting for an extended period, a place I'm not any real part of, and one which I hope to vacate at the earliest chance. And still I'm concerned.

I'm not at all concerned about the Anglican Church, as one might imagine, but am concerned by the trend in disgust the public shows in its social institutions; more, in the division in the Western world between those who idolize the barbarism of the age and those who, in reaction, idolize an hysterical reaction to it. I find myself in the latter camp out of sheer frustration with the former. We will lose our position of revolutionaries in our Modernist time if we fall into reactionary Irrationalism in reaction to reactionary goofiness. One is hardly better than the other, but yes, the fundamentalist war-mongrels, such as I have been called, seem to have a slightly better grip on the nature of things than do the flakes of the Left dhimmi fascist establishment.

If we do not salvage our Modernity in time, we will find ourselves in the unhappy position of the Wiemar Germans, watching as the Nazis form up in the shadows. Left Irrationality is not a good thing, not even if C.G. Jung looks cute and cuddly and grandfatherly. Jazz vespers at the Anglican Church is not a good thing if it sells truth for tinsel. If the whole of our Modern revolutions is going for a pop song, then we must find something better than either side proposes currently. Frankly, I prefer the established course of Rationalism.

Below we have an editorial from a Canadian law professor on the state of the Anglican Church today in Canada. Tomorrow we'll follow with more from this writer, though I might have to type it out manually, in which case it'll be shortened drastically.
Declining Spirits

The Self-Inflicted Wounds of the Anglican Church

by Ian Hunter

The collapse of the Anglican Church in Canada has been swifter than its detractors predicted, more abject than its adherents can credit. StatsCan reported recently that in the decade 1991–2001, the Anglican Church lost more than 150,000 members approaching 10 percent of its total membership. Worse, this is only formal membership; the drop in actual church attendance has been far steeper. And since 2001, the pace of decline has accelerated.

I take no pleasure in writing this. I am a long-term Anglican, baptized and nurtured within that church, albeit now casting about for some more secure denominational anchorage in which to face the oncoming tempests.

Why? What precipitated it? Three developments, I suggest, all rooted in a desire to obey the “spirit of the age” as seen by a certain sort of churchman, a spirit the people who have hitherto filled the pews are far less inclined to follow.

Banality & Duplicity

First came a revolution that began in the 1960s with the promise of “relevance” and petered out in the nineties with the reality of mind-numbing banality. This is most clearly seen in the rejection of classic Anglican worship for new forms that (their advocates energetically claimed) better met the needs and desires of “the modern person.” For centuries, the defining feature of Anglican worship was that it was “common”; I do not mean that it was low or meretricious but that it was universal. One could worship anywhere in the English-speaking world and expect worship to be conducted in a language that conveyed the numinous.

Why? Because the Liturgy would have been based on Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer. Shakespeare knew the prayer book; it appeared 15 years before his birth, and his plays and sonnets resonate with its phrases and cadences. Even as late as 1962, the Canadian Book of Common Prayer was dedicated (in the Preface) “to the reverent and seemly worship of Almighty God.”

But what had satisfied worshipers for centuries was seen as inadequate in the 1970s. Trendy priests (often under pressure from trendy bishops) abandoned the Prayer Book for a green book infelicitously called The Book of Alternative Services (BAS). The green book featured politically correct prose, a palsy-walsy approach to the Almighty, and liturgies written by and for the tone deaf. In most Anglican churches, the green book soon became the Only Book of Services. The dumbing-down of theology evident throughout the BAS sat easily with graduates from almost all the Anglican seminaries, institutions where ideology had come to trump theology.

The precipitate decline in Anglican attendance coincides with the coming of the BAS. Parishioners, who had once come to church hungry for transcendence, now found enforced jollity and egalitarian claptrap the order of the day. They voted with their feet.

A second cause of decline was the duplicity of Anglican bishops over the residential schools litigation. From the beginning, everyone who considered the issue realized that most of the claims of physical and sexual abuse and cultural genocide were spurious. Yet it suited the bishops to pretend that they were all genuine, in order (a favorite phrase) “to show solidarity with our native sisters and brothers in Christ.” Put simply, the church subordinated the truth to political correctness. That was disillusioning.

The duplicity of the bishops was evident from the moment that Archbishop Michael Peers made his first public apology (the first of many) at Minaki, Ontario, in 1993: “I am sorry, more sorry than I can say,” he said, “that in our schools so many were abused physically, sexually, culturally, emotionally.” At the time the primate said that, there was no proof of any systemic physical or sexual abuse, or of “cultural genocide.” Nor has there been since.

Few, if any, of the teachers who worked in residential schools were sadists and/or pedophiles. They were “missionaries”—a word the contemporary church disowns. The memory of those missionary/teachers was collectively defamed by church “leaders,” but few cared about that. So sweeping was the church’s assumption of collective guilt that it put itself in an indefensible legal position, unable to distinguish valid from bogus claims. As a result of an agreement reached with the federal government this spring, the Anglican Church is now faced with $25 million in legal liabilities.

Parishioners implored Sunday after Sunday to dig deep in order to pay the church’s legal bills are unlikely to be very enthusiastic about its life. In my own diocese (Huron) there is a $5-million bailout campaign underway called “Huron Grace Works”; to date, it has raised less than half a million dollars. Some parishioners continue to attend church but do not contribute; still more, I suspect, just stopped attending.

Comical Bishop

The third cause of the Anglican collapse has been the almost comical performance of Bishop Michael Ingham of the diocese of New Westminster in British Columbia. Bishop Ingham decided to bless same-sex unions. The fact that this is inconsistent with Scripture, not to mention 2,000 years of consistent church teaching, did not deter him. Nor did the fact that he was flouting the direction given to all bishops at the last Lambeth conference (the gathering of the world’s Anglican bishops, last held in 1998), as well as the direction given by the heads of the world’s Anglican churches at their meeting in Brazil. Just one day after the Brazil direction was issued, Ingham proceeded with same-sex blessings.

No sooner had Ingham authorized same-sex blessings than a Vancouver priestess proceeded to perform one in her church. So has a priestess in Toronto; her bishop, Terence Finlay, while avoiding any condemnation of her action, has promised to call her in for “a chat.”

The unilateral nature of Bishop Ingham’s action was denounced by 13 “conservative” bishops (“conservative” is media-speak for “orthodox on sexual matters”), roughly one-quarter of Canadian bishops. And it led to eight (now ten) parishes in New Westminster walking out—in effect, declaring unilateral independence—and seeking alternative episcopal oversight from Yukon archbishop Terrence Buckle. How this will ultimately play out remains to be seen.

How important a factor the New Westminster schism will prove to be in the ultimate demise of Canadian Anglicanism is difficult to say. Bishop Ingham’s ham-fisted tactics, including threats to revoke the licenses of orthodox priests within his jurisdiction and a public warning to Bishop Buckle not to set foot in British Columbia on pain of ecclesiastical charges, have made Ingham a cartoonist’s delight and provoked criticism even from some liberal bishops not unsympathetic with his political agenda.

A dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London once remarked: “He who marries the spirit of the age will soon find himself a widower.” In its present sorry state, the Anglican Church of Canada exemplifies the truth of this remark.

Ian Hunter is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of biographies of Robert Burns, Hesketh Pearson, and Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Reposted Letter

I'm trying to delete some kinks in the bog, and that's lead to deleting some things that would have stayed otherwise, including the letter folowing, which I now repost for your enjoyment. I believe one might have to copy and paste the url to go to David's site. Regardles, the comment, as are all, is much appreciated here.
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I have been desultorily following your site for some time. Though I am opposed--not diametrically--to many of your positions, I still find what you have to say is engaging. Your documentation is above average for Blog Sites--most do not even give attribution to quotations one may find on these sites.

A question about this entry: What do the killings at Salem have to do with the rest of the article? Seems to me to be a non sequitur.

Your voice at times is shrill, so much so that I need to turn down my speakers while reading your site. Still, as I said, I find it thought provoking and interesting, even revelatory.

I have reviewed your site on mine at: www.angelfire.com/art3/dwhiting3/Erato/

My site is far less rigorous, more eclectic than yours. Perhaps a reflection of the measure of organization in my thoughts.

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Gnostic Fascism 3

The Left's relationship with the fascism of Islam is incoherent on the face of it. So let's stop taking it at face value. Let's continue to look at the roots of Left dhimmi fascsism and our modern predicament. Something is totally wrong and philosophically muddied here, and few seem able to clarify it. That's partly because we have a problem with the definition of our terms, thinking that Left and Right are different postions, whereas they are in effect not.

In the texts below we'll see the political origins of the Nazi party. Within those origins we'll also see --if we care to look-- the origins of our current society and our responses to Islam as a threat to our Modernity.


Earlier we have seen the origins of the seating arraingments that gave us the political terms Left and Right. The Right were the reactionaries who resisted social change in the French Revolution; the Left were those who demanded chance in power from the established estates and transfer to the bourgeiosie, eventually to the lumpen-proletariate. We have seen how, over the course of the centuries, political power has accumulated in the hands of the Left in our Western lands, and how there is a constant struggle on the Right to regain it. But we have also seen how the Left has become the Right, and conversely, how the Right has become the Left to the point there is no further difference. The old feudal communalism is now the new Left communalism of neo-feudalism. "Extremes meet."


We automatically assign the Nazis a place on the extreme Right in political terms. But where oh where do we assign gnostic occultism? Is it Left or Right or something altogether different? We argue that gnostic fascism is both and neither, but is part and parcel of both Left and Right. This gnostic fascism is a hatred of life and society and all that exists, and it is an elitist hatred, one held by those who would destroy life altogether as we know it, sending the few survivors back to a state of primitive pastoralism at best. It is a higher form of insanity, one that very intelligent people are often drawn to. We argue that our Left dhimmi fascsist compatriots are soaked in it, usually without conscious awareness of it.


Below we'll see the background of the formation of the Nazi party and some of the key figures involved in that party. They are neither Left nor Right, they are gnostic. We begin with Guido von List. Think, if you will, of those teenage girls who hang crysals from their bedstands and who play with runes to tell each other who'll find a date and who'll stay home. It's all innocuous. Right up till the time it no longer is. We'll come to that. For now, here's some background.
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Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List (October 5, 1848 - May 17, 1919), author of Secret of the Runes, was an occult and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic mysticism and runic revivalism in the late 19th, early 20th Century.


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Ideology

List claimed that the Hermionen mentioned in Tacitus was a Latinized version of the German Armanen, and named his religion the Armanenschaft, which he claimed to be the original religion of the Germanic tribes. His conception of that religion was a form of sun worship , with its priest kings as legendary rulers of ancient Germany. List claimed that the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria-Hungary constituted a continuing occupation of the Germanic tribes by the Roman empire, albeit now in a religious form, and a continuing persecution of the ancient religion of the Germans and Celts.
He also believed in magical powers of the old runes. In 1891 he ... sent an article concerning the alleged Aryan proto-language to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Its highlight was a mystical and occult interpretation of the Runic alphabet. Although the article was rejected by the academy, the article would later be expanded by List and become the basis for his entire ideology. At that point, it is known from secondary source material than List turned to non-academically based sources of inspiration, which allegedly involved mind-altering substances.

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Among his ideological followers was Lanz von Liebenfels. List's racial religious beliefs would strongly influence Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS in Nazi Germany. List's concept of renouncing Christianity, a Semitic religion intertwined with Judaism, and returning to the pagan religions of the ancient Europeans would also influence Neo-Nazism and White Supremacism strongly.

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Influence

A look at the signatories of the first announcement concerning support for a Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft (Guido von List Society), circa 1905, reveals that List had a following of some very prestigious people and shows that the man, his ideology and his influence had widespread and significant support, including public figures in Austria and Germany.


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List's influence continued to grow after the official founding of the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft on March 2nd, 1908.


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As the list demonstrates, the growth of nationalism within Germany during the late 19th-early 20th century, culminating in the Third Reich of Nazi Germany, provided an ideal audience of people who were already predisposed to accept List's ideas and unidentifiable personal gnosis of the Armanen way.

The register shows that List's ideas were acceptable to many intelligent persons drawn from the upper and middle classes of Austria and Germany.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_von_List
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One could survey people on the street for years and never find one person who's ever heard of Guido von List. In his day he managed to enlist the elite of Germnan and Austrian society to fund his occultist practices and spread his gnostic ideologies. If it were a simple past time for the idle rich it wouldn't make a bit of difference to us. Unfortunately, it makes a great difference to us. Consider von List as similar to a movie star today who joins a cult in Hollywood and induces his friends and hangers-on to join him and spread his message around the nation. Imagine that his cultish ideology is one of violent racism and hatred of society. Being a clever and manipulative guy he'll dress it up in fineries and sell it as a wonder. Von List managed to do quite well at selling his idea that the special few should rule the many, ridding themselves of the Jews, finding new lands to conquer for the sake of planting racially pure German peasants on the land, and calling it all a mystical insight. In a nation already and for over a century primed for Irrationalism, von List's work was easy. He had a follower of some talent who carried on where von List ended.
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Adolf Josef Lanz (aka Jörg Lanz), who called himself Lanz von Liebenfels (July 19, 1874 - April 22, 1954) was a former monk and the founder of the right-wing magazine Ostara, in which he published anti-semitic and folkish theories.

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Lanz became a monk in the cistercian order in 1893, assuming the name Georg and living in the Heiligenkreuz monastery. In 1894, he claimed to have been "enlightened" after finding the tombstone of a knight templar, and began developing his theories of "blue-[eyed]-blond aryanism" and "lower races". He left the monastery in 1899;....

In 1904, he published his book "Theozoologie" (" theozoology") in which he advocated sterilization of the sick and the "lower races" as well as forced labour for "castrated chandals", and glorified the "aryan race" as " Gottmenschen" ("god men"). Lanz justified his neognostic racial ideology by attempting to give it a biblical foundation; according to him, Eve, which he described as initially being divine, involved herself with a demon and gave birth to the "lower races" in the process. Furthermore, he claimed that this led to blonde women being attracted primarily to "dark men", something that only could be stopped by "racial demixing" so that the " aryan-christian master humans" could "once again rule the dark-skinned beastmen" and ultimately achieve "divinity"....


As a student of Guido von List ... Lanz also founded the " Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft " ("Guido von List society") in 1905 and the "Ordo novi templi" ("Order of the New Templars") in 1907, which were supposed to "further the racial self-confidence by doing pedigree and racial research, beauty contests and the founding of racist future sites in underdeveloped parts of the Earth"

Since Hitler's rise to prominence in the 1920s, Lanz tried to be recognized as one of the ideological precursors to Adolf Hitler. After Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, Lanz hoped for Hitler's patronage, but Hitler rather wanted to cloak the origin of some of his ideas and possibly was embarassed by this early connection. Hence, Lanz was banned him from publishing and his writings, most notably copies of Ostara, were removed from circulation....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanz_von_Liebenfels
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We'll see more of von Liebenfels below. Let's turn to a revisionist historian for a quick review of a book on the Nazi's occultist bent.
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism ... his subtitle, "The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935," refers to a body of ideas which once had a substantial following in the German-speaking world. The ideas centered on the writings of two Austrians, Guido von List (1848-1919) and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954). Ariosophy is used by the author as a generic for this "lore of the Aryans" that was expounded by the two men.

Guido von List (the aristocratic von was self-assumed) was raised a Catholic but early took interest in Nordic paganism, which he coupled with a profound attraction to nature. An ardent rebel against modernity, which he associated with the spreading metropolis of fin-de-siècle Vienna and all its decadent ways, List's happiest moments came on rambles through the Austrian countryside, and he began his literary career with newspaper pieces on the rural scene, depicted as highly spiritualized. He was concerned to furnish an ideological backdrop to the pan-German movement led by such nationalist politicians as Georg von Schoenerer and Vienna Mayor Karl Lueger.

Later, List worked out what was essentially a clairvoyant reconstruction of the distant past, elaborating a vast mythology of an ancient Wotanist priesthood, the Armanenschaft. They supposedly held sway in Europe until the Christian conversion, but now were confined to clandestine status, perpetuating the ancient Aryan lore through a small élite, among whom he numbered himself.
Adolf Josef Lanz also was born in Vienna, of middle-class Catholic parents. Like List, he assumed an aristocratic pedigree and the pompous Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels moniker, although his claim to this title was never disproven. He was inspired by List and became one of the older guru's early backers, but Lanz's Ariosophical interests were different. As a young man he had entered a Cistercian abbey as a novice monk, and although he left after a time, he remained enthralled by medieval Catholicism.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p121_Grimstad.html
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In our current Western world where science is seen as a failed programme we see many people turning to obscurity and irrationality for meaning. Often they do not understand the roots of the ideas they pursue, at least one hopes. As we see below, there is nothing Left nor Right in the ideas of gnosticism. It is outside the paradgm of politics as we know it today in the West. But what we see below is certainly ordinary to us if we've watched television or read a magaizne since 1966.
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The Myths of Thule and Vril

The first element of Nazi occult beliefs was in the mythic land of Hyperborea-Thule. Just as Plato had cited the Egyptian legend of the sunken island of Atlantis, Herodotus mentioned the Egyptian legend of the continent of Hyperborea in the far north. When ice destroyed this ancient land, its people migrated south. Writing in 1679, the Swedish author Olaf Rudbeck identified the Atlanteans with the Hyperboreans and located the latter at the North Pole. According to several accounts, Hyperborea split into the islands of Thule and Ultima Thule, which some people identified with Iceland and Greenland.

The second ingredient was the idea of a hollow earth. At the end of the seventeenth century, the British astronomer Sir Edmund Halley first suggested that the earth was hollow, consisting of four concentric spheres. The hollow earth theory fired many people's imaginations, especially with the publication in 1864 of French novelist Jules Verne's Voyage to the Center of the Earth.

Soon, the concept of vril appeared. In 1871, British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in The Coming Race, described a superior race, the Vril-ya, who lived beneath the earth and planned to conquer the world with vril, a psychokinetic energy. The French author Louis Jacolliot furthered the myth in Les Fils de Dieu (The Sons of God) (1873) and Les Traditions indo-européeenes (The Indo-European Traditions) (1876). In these books, he linked vril with the subterranean people of Thule. The Thuleans will harness the power of vril to become supermen and rule the world.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) also emphasized the concept of the Übermensch (superman) and began his final work, Der Antichrist (The Antichrist) (1895) with the line, "Let us see ourselves for what we are. We are Hyperboreans. We know well enough how we are living off that track." Although Nietzsche never mentioned vril, yet in his posthumously published collection of aphorisms, Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power), he emphasized the role of an internal force for superhuman development. He wrote that "the herd," meaning common persons, strives for security within itself through creating morality and rules, whereas the supermen have an internal vital force that drives them to go beyond the herd. That force necessitates and drives them to lie to the herd in order to remain independent and free from the "herd mentality."

In The Arctic Home of the Vedas (1903), the early advocate of Indian freedom, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, added a further touch by identifying the southern migration of the Thuleans with the origin of the Aryan race. Thus, many Germans in the early twentieth century believed that they were the descendants of the Aryans who had migrated south from Hyperborea-Thule and who were destined to become the master race of supermen through the power of vril. Hitler was among them.
The Thule Society and the Founding of the Nazi Party

Felix Niedner, the German translator of the Old Norse Eddas, founded the Thule Society in 1910. In 1918, Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff established its Munich branch. Sebottendorf had previously lived for several years in Istanbul where, in 1910, he had formed a secret society that combined esoteric Sufism and Freemasonry. It believed in the creed of the assassins, deriving from the Nazari sect of Ismaili Islam, which had flourished during the Crusades. While in Istanbul, Sebottendorf was also undoubtedly familiar with the pan-Turanian (pan-Turkic) movement of the Young Turks, started in 1908, which was largely behind the Armenian genocide of 1915-1916. Turkey and Germany were allies during the First World War. Back in Germany, Sebottendorff had also been a member of the Germanen Order (Order of Teutons), founded in 1912 as a right-wing society with a secret anti-Semitic Lodge. Through these channels, assassination, genocide, and anti-Semitism became parts of the Thule Society's creed. Anti-Communism was added after the Bavarian Communist Revolution later in 1918, when the Munich Thule Society became the center of the counterrevolutionary movement.

In 1919, the Society spawned the German Workers Party. Starting later that year, Dietrich Eckart, a member of the inner circle of the Thule Society, initiated Hitler into the Society and began to train him in its methods for harnessing vril to create a race of Aryan supermen. Hitler had been mystic-minded from his youth, when he had studied the Occult and Theosophy in Vienna. Later, Hilter dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart. In 1920, Hitler became the head of the German Workers Party, now renamed the National Socialist German Worker (Nazi) Party.
http://www.berzinarchives.com/kalachakra/nazi_connection_shambhala_tibet.html
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Hitler did not spring full-grown from the Earth and dupe the German people by giving speeches. He did not trick the German people into racism, anti-religion, into genocide and world conquest just because he was a great toast-master. Nor did he come to power through the backing of a group of rich industrialists who intended to manipulate him for their own ends. Hitler came to power because German society was generally irrationalist and its elite was gnostic. Germany got exactly what they wanted.


What do we want? We want weekend seminars on yaga and UFOs, vegetarianism and whale saving; we want multi-culturalism and affirmative action for special groups; we want knowledge of things hidden from all but special people, self-help books and runes and crystals and tarot cards and ouija boards and jazz vespers; we want mystical experiences and drugs and large screen television. We want peace and plenty and religions that are all one with the universe and science fiction. We want a world where everything is natural and all people are brothers and also where all men are different because we respect the differences of others. We are awfully confused about what we want. And we get confusion. We get Islam. We get UFOs. We get screwed.

Next we'll turn to more detail of the rise of the Nazi party, and from that we might see where this confusion leads to if we are not consicous of our paths.
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Gnostic Fascism (2)

Was Hitler a Christian? Was the Nazi movement some variation on Christianity? Wouldn't things have been OK if the German people had followed a more natural and spiritual path to religion? What if they'd been interested in spirituality like C.G. Jung? What if they'd been Gnostics rather than Catholics and Lutherans? What if they'd been Sun worshipers, nudists, vegetarians, UFO watchers, or had spent their time reading Jules Verne novels for their ideas? What if they'd been out hiking in the grand scope of Nature saving the whales?

The average German was a genocidal peasant in the war that makes Germans to this day reviled, whether polite people admit that or not. The average German was a traditional small minded peasant, a little bigot, a shop-keeper, a bully whose uniform and firearm gave him delusions of grandeur when he got a chance to kill. and he did. He was an ordinary man, a killer, a monster. And he might have laid awake at night phantasizing forever if not for a small group of men and women who made his phantasies come to vivid and colourful life in the flesh. those who made his visions possible were not the average Christian bigot, the leaders of Germany were Gnostics of the lowest sort. They created a nightmare world based on a science fiction approach to the world of the living, and millions of people died because these maniacs indulged in unrestrained phantasies based on lunacy. Today, in a world of computers and the highest of high tech science, we are also living in a world of magic, or of a world many think is so. Below we will begin to look at what happens when people in power lose sight of Modernity and delve into Irrationality as philosophy, smart people, rich and powerful people, and even those like those today who live in the suburbs and have nice jobs and wear clean clothes and look like you or I. The Irrationalists are those who will, if the circumstances arise, become the worst that the worst can be-- again. They aren't Christians. They are Gnostics.

We have looked at ecologists. In them we have seen Irrationalism. We have seen those who feel that the life of a chicken is as valuable as that of a man. We have seen the German origins of ecology, and we have seen how Germans evolved ecology into an anti-Humanist ideology that morphed into genocide. How could it have been otherwise?

We have looked at Herder and Fichte, at Irrationality as epistemology, that man is nothing outside his blood-group, a splinter that is not part of the tree, not of root nor branch. That man without his racial group is not a man. Ein Volk.

We have seen philobarbarism and the celebration of the primitive, adulation of the savage, delight in the violent and insane.

We have seen the ummah, the collective, the community, the whole as opposed to the man being that which is the Good. Ein Reich.

We see daily the moral vacuity of the West's Left dhimmi fascists and the waves of hysterical joy they feel in the sight of those who adore the great leaders, Kim Il Sung, Chairman Mao, Che, Stalin, Lenin, Mohammed-- bin Laden. Ein Fuhrer.

George W. Bush, regardless of what we might think of him, is not Hitler returned. Only idiots would make such a statement, and there is no shortage of such people. The American government is not a replay of Nazi Germany. Fools say so but they are truly fools. The West is not the cancer of Humanity. Only sick people write such crap, and she is dead.

No, we do not have to interest ourselves in those who rant that Christianity is evil and that Islam is the religion of peace. Those who make such claims are so stupid that they are not worth the bother of dismissing.

Those who are the real danger, the ones who menace the world of Humanity, it is not the Right wing religious bigots such as your favorite blogger here: the real threats to our Human race are the flaky yoga practitioners, the crystal mystics, the tarot card readers, the environmentalists, the animal rights activists, the Ouija board readers. And if you read the history and stop referring to what you assume is true without ever thinking about what you think is true, then, dear reader, you will see the history of fascism unfold before your scaly eyes, and you will know that our Modernity is under threat from Wicca girls and neo-Druids and sea kelp eating sissies.

Not Christians. Not some conspiracy of rich fat cats. Not evil multinational polluters. Not even the Joooos. The threat of full-blown fascism, the road to Auschwitz, that track is being lain by tie-dyed counter-culture yuppies in Mercedes and SUVs. Not Christians. No, but by Presbyterians and Anglicans and numerous others of the same sort and style. We've been here before, and you might recognise this road if you look at the signposts flashing past.
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"The Führer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian; he views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race."—Joseph Goebbels, in his diary, December 28, 1939.

"Christianity is the prototype of Bolshevism: the mobilisation by the Jew of the masses of slaves with the object of undermining society." —Adolph Hitler, 1941

This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race.
Adolph Hitler, 13th February 1945.

Jesus was most certainly not a Jew. The Jews would never have handed one of their own people to the Roman courts; they would have condemned Him themselves. It is quite probable that a large number of the descendants of the Roman legionaries, mostly Gauls, were living in Galilee, and Jesus was probably one of them. His mother may well have been a Jewess. Jesus fought against the materialism of His age, and, therefore, against the Jews. Paul of Tarsus, who was originally one of the most stubborn enemies of the Christians, suddenly realised the immense possibilities of using, intelligently and for other ends, an idea which was exercising such great powers of fascination. He realised that the judicious exploitation of this idea among non-Jews would give him far greater power in the world than would the promise of material profit to the Jews themselves. It was then that the future St. Paul distorted with diabolical cunning the Christian idea. out of this idea, which was a declaration of war on the golden calf, on the egotism and the materialism of the Jews, he created a rallying point for slaves of all kinds against the elite, the masters and those in dominant authority. The religion fabricated by Paul of Tarsus, which was later called Christianity, is nothing but the Communism of to-day.
Adolph Hitler, Table Talk, night of November 29-30, 1944

The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.
Adolph Hitler, Table Talk, 11th-12th July, 1941

Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless — A negro with his taboos is crushingly superior to the human being who seriously believes in transubstantiation.
Adolph Hitler, Table Talk, 13th December 1941
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Look: 16 women were hanged or died in prison during the Salem witch hunt trials;

Look: 8 men were hanged or died in prison during the Salem witch hunt trials.

http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/victims.html

http://www.witchway.net/times/times.html

Did you know that? What other nonsense do we think is true even if we never looked into the facts? What do we assume is true even when we haven't got the slightest idea of what we're on about? In coming posts we'll look at the assumptions we have regarding our Modernist world, and we might find that much of what we think is true is truly bullshit through and through. First we'll look at Nazis. We'll start our look at Nazis by looking at Deiter Eckart.
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Dietrich Eckart (March 23, 1868 - December 26, 1923) was one of the early key members of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and one of the participants in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Eckart was also the first to coin the term "Drittes Reich" ("Third Reich").

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Eckart initially started to study medicine in Munich, but quit in 1891 to work as a poet, playwright and journalist. He moved to Berlin in 1899, where he wrote a number of plays, often with autobiographical traits; however, despite becoming the protegé of Graf Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler, the artistic director of the royal theatres, he was never successful as a playwright, a failure for which he blamed society.

Later on, he developed an ideology of a "genius higher human", based on earlier writings by Lanz von Liebenfels; he saw himself in the tradition of Arthur Schopenhauer and Angelus Silesius, and also became fascinated by Mayan beliefs. Eckart also loved and strongly identified with Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, but never had much sympathy for the scientific method.

Moving back to Munich, Eckart joined the Rudolf von Sebottendorff's mystic right-wing Thule Society in 1913 and became politically active; in 1915, he also wrote the nationalist play "Heinrich der Hohenstaufe", in which he postulated a claim to world leadership for the German people.

Later on, between 1918 and 1920, Eckart was the editor of the anti-semitic periodical Auf gut Deutsch, which he published with the help of Alfred Rosenberg and Gottfried Feder. A fierce critic of the newly-formed Weimar Republic, he vehemently opposed the treaty of Versailles, which he viewed as treason, and propagated the so-called Dolchstoßlegende, according to which the Social Democrats and Jews were to blame for Germany's defeat in World War I.

Eckart was involved in the founding Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( German Workers' Party) together with Gottfried Feder and Anton Drexler in 1919, which later on was renamed Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP); he invented and published the NSDAP 's own periodical Völkischer Beobachter, and also wrote the songtext " Deutschland erwache" (Germany awake), which became the anthem of the Nazi party. Eckart soon met Adolf Hitler

as well, during a speech he gave before party members on August 14, 1919; he exerted considerable influence on Hitler in the following years, who later on described him as his "fatherly friend". Few other people had such great influence on Hitler in his lifetime.

On November 9, 1923, Eckart was involved in the Nazi party's failed Beer Hall Putsch; he was arrested in Landsberg prison along with Hitler and other party officials, but released again soon due to illness. He died of a heart attack caused by a morphine addiction in Berchtesgaden on December 26, 1923.

Hitler later on dedicated the first volume of "Mein Kampf" to Eckart, and also named the Waldbühne in Berlin "Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne" when it was first opened for the 1936 Summer Olympics....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart
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Common stupidity leads most people today to parrot the cliches that after WWI the French tortured the Germans so badly with the Treaty of Versailles that the Germans, out of sheer desperation, were held like putty in the hands of a spell-binding orator who tricked them into doing things they would otherwise never have done or even dreamed of.

We have seen the history of the Left dhimmi fascism we now live with, and that history is one of reaction against the French Revolution of 1789 and the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century and beyond. None of this sprang up the day Hitler came to town. Common wisdom tells us that Hitler came to power as a puppet of a group of industrialists who intended to use him for their own ends. In our next installment we'll look at some of those who are the group of industrialists who tried to use Hitler for their own ends and who were eventually bested by him. These were not "hard-headed business men" hidden in smokey back rooms making deals. Once we see who some of these "industrialists" are and what motivated them, then we might come to a clearer understanding of why Germany grew into its Nazi persona, and from there we might get a glimpse of what it means to us in our societies of Left dhimmi fascism.

When we examine the ground from which Hitler grew we will see not a young man born as a Catholic who carried on in form, but we will see a man possessed by the spirit of gnosticism surrounded by a gnostic cult of true believers in the evil of man, the world, and creation, those who believed only in their own superiority and their right to guide like Plato's philosopher kings, the superior pure blooded peasants of the mystic German soil.

Like it or not we will see in this much of what today we think of as perfectly normal and very much to the good, repackaged as it is for our Modern times.

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