Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00593)

As described in the previous part of this research , a first 
reference to flying soucers in the SD, went along with the mention 
of an inventor in Philadelphia that was claimed to have develloped 
levitating vril-engines to build "air-ships" in relation to "Science 
and Theosophy" and story's in the Secret Doctrine about earlier 
planetary conditions that added further to the later UFO myths. 

The first ten years after the Arnold sightings in 1947 saw the growth 
of an interest in physical flying saucers (that we can hardly 
understand now, plagued as we are since then by more psychological 
tales of abduction and ancient gods.) Then, the search for an 
explanation generally started from the premise that what had been 
seen - and a lot of shiny, revolving flying-saucerish things were 
reported as really having been seen - were physically real. On that 
basis the choice was whether they were terrestrial or extra-
terrestrial, and for those who weren't prepared to believe in the 
reality of extra-terrestrial craft and their extra-terrestrial 
occupants, there was a further choice - were they friends or enemies, 
US or Soviet, and how could anyone tell?

Blavatsky mentioned in the SD a "central sun" in the Milky Way, "a 
point unseen and mysterious, the ever-hidden center of attraction of 
our Sun and system. ' As the energetic center of the galaxy or even 
the universe, this dark central sun represents the mass of potential 
energy prior to the Big Bang of modern cosmology. While the Jewish 
Cabala described its "black light," Eastern initiates of Aryan 
tradition regarded it as the source of "creative light" and 
the "center of Universal life-Electricity-"" Blavatsky thus 
emphasized a distinction between the Semitic and Aryan cosmogony: the 
former materializes and humanizes the mysteries of nature; the latter 
spiritualizes matter. Blavatsky's ideas were taken up by voelkisch-
theosophical authors in Germany before the First World War and after. 
Guido von List wrote of an invisible "primal fire" as the ancient 
Ario-Germans' notion of the highest divinity." Peryt Shou (1873-
1953), a German occult writer, had described humanity's heightened 
receptivity to the ultraviolet spiritual light of the "central sun" 
in the Age of Aquarius and related this to Germany's future in the 
troubled postwar era. 

One of those most responsible for popularising the Nazi-UFO myth was 
Wilhelm Landig in Vienna, and wenn asked by myself why he wrote 
about this he said to me that it was on orders of his current Fuehrer.
In the mid- I950s Landig was the Austrian representative of the 
European Social Movement (ESB), the fascist international 
organization founded at Rome and Malmoe (Sweden), which sought German 
alliance with a worldwide league of nonaligned nations, especially 
the Arab states, between the two superpowers. In 1953 Landig was in 
regular contact with Per Engdahl, the Swedish neo-Nazi kader, and 
Karl-Heinz Priester, a former Hitler Youth leader who had extenvve 
contacts in the German nationalist underground. 

In 1958 Landig ,lounded his own nationalist press, Volkstum-Verlag, 
whose logo featured an Ostrogothic eagle brooch dating from the reign 
of Theoderich the Great in the fifth century. In the same year he 
also began publishing his monthly inrernational news service Europa-
Korrespondenz, which adopted a nationalist and anti-communist line. 
It was speculated that Johannes von Leers, the former Reich 
propaganda ministry official who had sought refuge in Nasser's Egypt, 
was involved in the latter's funding." In 1970 Wilhelm Landig became
Austrian representative of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), 
founded in Taiwan in 1967 after a merger of the Asian People's Anti-
Communist League and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. This was 
arguably the most important far-right network in the world and 
accounts for Landig's highly informed international news service.
However, it was Wilhelm Landig's novels that ensured the revival of 
occult-nationalist themes among a younger generation of neo-Nazis in 
the 1990s. The ideas and interests discussed by the Landig group in 
the 1950s found permanent expression in Landig's trilogy of Thule 
novels. The first of these, Goetzen gegen Thule (1971), was begun in 
the late 1950s and incorporated the thought of Julius Evola and 
Herman Wirth. Theories of Aryan polar origins and Atlantis are mixed 
with powerful new nationalist myths of "the last battalion;' secret 
German UFO bases in the Arctic, alchemy, Grail myths and Cathar 
heresies, and a Nazi-Tibetan connection involving Himalayan masters 
and an underground kingdom in Mongolia. In this novel and especially 
in its successor, Wolfszeit um Thule (1980), a global Jewish 
conspiracy always lurks in the shadows, seeking to foil the revival 
of Nordic German rule, but its Judeo-Christian idols are powerless 
against the resurgence of the Black Sun. The last novel of the 
series, Rebellen fuer Thule (1991), is a wishful fantasy of right-
wing radicalism among German youth. A former SS officer, the hero of 
the second novel, is invited to lecture on the Atlantean heritage of 
the Aryans at a German secondary school. The pupils reject the 
liberal views of their despised left-wing history teacher and 
hungrily embrace the new nationalist myths of Thule.

It was in the period 1951 to 1955 that Erich Ralik, a member of 
Wilhelm Landig's circle, published his articles in Mensch und 
SchicksaL He was certain that postwar sightings of flying saucers 
related to German craft. He devoted careful analysis to George 
Adamski's account of a cigar-shaped mother ship, from which a saucer 
flew forth in November 1952. Ralik concluded that German flying 
saucers were now operating ftom secret polar bases in the Arctic. The 
flying disks were an important part of a German plan to create an 
extraterritorial state prior to a renewed attack on the Allied 
enemies after 1945. As we shall see, Nazi ufologists in the late 
1980s would recycle Halik's articles and match Adamski's photographs 
with new "discoveries" of wartime SS designs."

Nazi-UFU circles believed that spiritual contact could be made with 
the Blue Island, the hidden polar center. Meditation exercises where 
undertaken in order to tune in and claimes where made that esoteric 
circles of the SS had sought the favor of this spiritual world 
center.These SS were particularly interested int he Cathar tradition 
and directed their quest toward the Arctic and Tibet. (Information 
obtained from personal conversations of myself Brigitte M. with 
W.Landig)

In 1955 a book published in South Africa gave more details of 
the "Miethe disk". Known as the V-7, it had no rotating parts and was 
driven by twelve adJustable jets, five rearward for forward flight 
and the other seven for directional steering. With a range of 13,000 
miles, the V-7 was able to reach 1,500-2,000 miles per hour. One of 
these craft was flown from the V-rocket base Peenernfinde and crashed 
on Spitsbergen. Another fell into Russian hands.

The first connection between postwar flying saucers and Nazi 
fugitives in the Southern Hemisphere was made by Michael X. Barton in 
a couple of sensanonal books published in Los Angeles. His first 
book, "We Want You: Is Hitler Alive", was based on the U-530 and U-
977 stories in the "Police Gazette " of the early 1950s. Barton 
claimed that Hitler was in Argentina, where UFOs were being developed 
in secret underground installations by German scaentists, and he also 
alluded to the existence of neo-Nazis in West Germany and Lincoln 
Rockwell's American Nazi Party in the United States. However, these 
UFOs were allegedly modeled on the silent "electro-magnetic" 
bellihaped flying saucers built of copper at Vienna by Viktor 
Schauberger, an -Austrian inventor, in 1940. Barton's second 
book, "The German Saucer Story"

1968, described the Schriever-Habermohl and Bellonzo-Schriever-Miethe 
disks, concluding that German scientists were now busy assembling 
large-size :Mng disks in underground factories, comparable to the 
wartime facilities in Nordhausen and Bleicherode, in remote areas of 
South America, South Africa and possibly Antarctica."

During the 1970s, Wilhelm Landig and Ernst Zundel, blended these 
stories, hints and suggestions into a powerful and elaborate myth of 
Nazi resurgence. In novels and nonfiction works they described how, 
during the war, the Third Reich had succeeded in establishing secret 
bases in the Arctic and Antarctica. Naval convoys had brought labor, 
expertise and material to the icy wastes of the polar regions, where 
huge underground factories were built to produce the flying saucers 
for continued hostilities in the event of a Nazi defeat in Europe. 
The remoteness and inhospitality of the polar regions, surrounded by 
pack ice and stormy seas, is juxtaposed with a technocratic utopia.

Here, throughout the postwar era, SS and Luftwaffe officers and 
soldiers live and work under strict discipline, while their ever more 
advanced saucers fly covert sorties across the world. The fearful 
nature of the Third Reich and the burden of its defeat are thus 
deflected in a science fiction vision of German technical and racial 
superiority as the huge saucers rise above the brilliant white snows 
of an icebound Shangri-La.

Between 1971 and 1991, the Black Sun theme inspired by the Secret 
Doctrine developed from Landig's signature of eclipsed Nazi power at 
Thule to the Wewelsburg SS sun wheel, identified as the symbol of 
Agartha, a secret Himalayan realm embedded in Nazi, Tibetan and 
Theosophical myth. Charged by these exotic references to remote or 
hidden centers of power and initiation, the Wewelsburg Black Sun has 
become an esoteric symbol among younger neo-Nazis from Austria to the 
international scene since the 1990s. Arun-Verlag in Engerda. (in the 
former German Democratic Republic) has published further editions and 
a film s,cript of McCloud's book, while the Nation Europa book mail-
order catalog offers Black Sun stickpins and a wristwatch with a 
Wewelsburg sun wheel face. Kadmon (a pseudonym for Gerhard Petak), an 
industrial musician in Vienna, publishes Aorta (1991-95), a 
periodical devoted to pagan traditions and the neo-fascist avant 
garde. His music label, Allerseelen, has released a CD, Gotos=Kalanda 
(1995), adapted from Theosophist Wiligut's cycle of poems presented 
to Himmler in 1937. 

the SS, and the adoption of other ceremonial designed to bestow a 
traditional aura upon the SS ideology of elitism, racial purity, and 
territorial conquest. Wiligut's ideas were similar to those of Guido 
von List, the runic occultist and Ariosophist close to Lanz von 
Liebenfels, and Wiligut had links with members of the ONT from as 
early as 1908. His introduction to Himmler was effected by Richard 
Anders, an SS officer who was also an ONT brother. Mund was delighted 
to find a further source of SS esotericism and produced a biography 
of Wiligut, which was published by Landig's Volkstum-Verlag. 11
Wiligut also provided a further source for the myth of the Black Sun.

In one of his Halgarita. mottos, a series of cryptic religious 
revelations written for Himmler in the 1930s, Wiligut described an 
ancient sun called Santur. Wiligut's contemporary adepts, Emil 
Rfidiger and Werner von Bfilow, interpreted this heavenly body as a 
second sun that shone 230,000 years ago upon the Hyperboreans in the 
North Pole and promoted their spiritual development. Santur still 
orbits in the vicinity of our planet today as an extinct star, thus 
invisible, but as a Black Sun it still emits a powerful 
intelligence." Wiligut's reconstruction of a prehistoric 
Germanic "Irminist" religion was at least partially inspired by Guido 
von List's Armanism, the ancient faith of the Ario-Germans, which 
reflected a kind of Germanized Theosophy in the Voelkisch-occult 
underground of the era prior to the First World By tracing 
Wiligut's own inspiration back to this period, one discovers an even 
earlier source for the Black Sun in Theosophy, which had been highly 
influential in German esoteric circles since the turn of the century.


Besides to the above I also hope Daniel (including every body else 
of course) will more extensively respond to the recent posts I have 
placed on the subject of The Voice of the Silence, Keely, the SD and 
I have all taken care they have been spell-checked and carefully re- 
written including by the English editor I have started to hire for my 
web page now. 

Bri.